Samosa Pair
$6 play money
Two fried pastries filled with spiced potato and peas. On the ChowChow Feast menu it costs $6 in play money, which puts it in the Snack tier ($1 to $14). It is one of the small, cheap things that make an order feel real.
No payment, no address, no delivery. This is a game.
Key facts
- Cuisine
- Indian
- Menu section
- Indian
- Price tier
- Snack ($1 to $14)
- Play-money price
- $6
- Main ingredients
- pastry, potato, peas, spices
- How it is served
- Two fried triangular pastries, one broken open, with green and brown chutneys
History, tradition and origin
Leavened flatbread baked against the wall of a clay oven came to India from Central Asia and Persia and was served at the Mughal courts. Triangular fried pastries have the same origin and gained their potato filling in India. Vegetable fritters in chickpea batter are the snack of the rainy season, eaten with tea.
Food economy and industry
Clay ovens need high heat and skilled hands, so this bread is mostly restaurant food, while simpler flatbreads are made at home daily. Street snack sellers are a large part of India's informal economy. Chickpea flour is a staple ingredient, and India grows most of the world's chickpeas.
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