Viral Dosa Video: Street Vendor’s Unconventional Batter Tossing Amuses Internet

Viral street food videos can shock us for different reasons. Apart from bizarre food combinations, unusual techniques also grab our attention. Just a few weeks back, a video showing a roadside vendor picking deep-fried fritters from hot oil, with his bare hands, went viral (Read full story here). Now, another kind of cooking method has garnered interest online and it involves the ever-popular dosa. This time, it is not a strange filling or shape that has Instagram users at their sarcastic best. Rather, it is the way one vendor chose to spread dosa batter. Technically speaking, “throw” would be a more accurate description than “spread.”
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In an Instagram reel shared by a video creator @food.india93, we see a roadside vendor making rava dosas. Right from the start, one realises that his technique is far from conventional. He is seen tossing small quantities of batter into the air such that it falls onto the hot tawa to form narrow columns. He continues doing so until the entire tawa is covered with the batter. The vendor goes on to add oil, butter, veggies and other fillings to the dosa. He finally cuts and folds the dosa before serving it. “Amazing Skills of Making Rava Dosa,” says the caption. Watch the video below.

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The reel has received 1.9M views so far. According to the caption, the location is Tamil Dosa Cafe, Malviya Nagar, Jaipur. In the comments, people were stunned by this method of making dosas – but for all the wrong reasons. Apart from criticising the wastage of batter, Instagram users took to making sarcastic comments about the vendor’s “skills.” Read the reactions below.
“Half of it ended up on the cameraman.”
“What skills?? He spills most of it tossing it.”
“Cameraman with umbrella”
“With the wasted batter he can make 2 dosas.”
“Style ke chakkar me 30 % wastage.”
“Amazing skills of being messy.”
“I guess pouring it wasn’t an option.”
“I can already see video remixes of this.”

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