India

Egg Dosa: an illustration of egg, onion, cilantro and pepper.

Egg Dosa

A raw egg cracked onto a fermented rice crepe at the one second the underside sets, smeared thin so it cooks into the surface as a skin, not a filling. A South Indian griddle move off the cart.

Dabeli: an illustration of potato and butter on bread.

Dabeli

Bite into a dabeli and four things land on the same beat: soft potato, bursting pomegranate, peanut salt, sev crackle. No sequence, everything at once or not at all.

Dabeli Classic: an illustration of potato and chutney on bread.

Dabeli Classic

A boxed spice mix is why a dabeli in Pune tastes like one in Mandvi. The classic is a strict stack: sweet potato under masala peanuts, sev, onion and pomegranate, on a Kutch blend sold by the case.

Crispy Frankie: an illustration of onion, chutney and lemon on naan.

Crispy Frankie

The everyday Mumbai frankie cooked a stage past comfortable: the egg-finished roti driven on the tawa until it crackles instead of bends. Same trademarked roll a chain dates to 1969.