It is at all times fascinating to match meals that resemble one another in a single facet however are in any other case fairly totally different from one another. Many of those meals ‘doppelgangers‘ have comparable shapes however come from reverse elements of the world. Sometimes, a single nation could boast a number of variations of the identical dish. For occasion, the well-known moon-shaped festive candy in India is understood by many names: karanji in Maharashtra, nevri in Goa and Karnataka, somas in Tamil Nadu, garijalu in Telangana, pedakiya in Bihar, gujiya in Gujarat and so forth. In the savoury class, consider how usually we use the phrases dumplings, momos, wantons, and many others. interchangeably.
Recently, a Tweet by Madhura Rao (@madhurarrao) went viral due to an identical purpose. Posting the image of a plate of meals, she requested, “Can you guess which part of India I’m currently in?” The plate contained 4 dishes: three dry objects and a gravy of some sort. Take a have a look at the tweet under:

Looking at this image, are you able to guess which a part of India I’m at present in? :)) pic.twitter.com/SngtQf72e5— Madhura Rao (@madhurarrao) February 12, 2023

Comments quickly began pouring in, with contradictory solutions:

“That’s Idiyappam or Noolputtu unless I’m wrong. A staple here in Kerala. But you could get these in places like Dilli haat too.”
“The leaf envelope in Bengal would be Machher Paturi (fish baked in leaf) and in Maharashtra/Gujarat patrani machhi.”

‘कुरडई’ (white one) and ‘पातोळ्या’ (in a turmeric leaf) from Konkan, Maharashtra?— Sameer Patankar (@sameer_patankar) February 12, 2023

This seems very near idiyappam from Kerala, nevertheless it might be a variant from one other state— Abhi.rup (@notworldlywise) February 13, 2023

northeast India or south India— Climate Change, Migrate and Environmental Refugees (@Climate33112880) February 13, 2023

Turns out, she was in Mangalore! Rao added a remark to make clear every dish. She defined, “On the plate, you see muudo (rice cake steamed in screw pine leaves), shevai (rice noodles), chicken sukka (stir-fried chicken with lots of fresh coconut and spices), and coriander-based chicken curry. Hell of a welcome meal, this one.”
The tweet has 223.1K views and 1,800 likes to this point. Were you capable of establish the dishes appropriately? Let us know within the feedback what was your guess.