Prior to 2005/2006, one would be hard-pressed to find North Indian chaats in Singapore or Malaysia - those street foods were simply from a different food culture, and totally different from the Tamil/Sri Lankan-dominated type of street foods we get in Singapore/Malaysia.
I get to relish those chaats only when Iβm on business trips to Mumbai, Delhi or any of the Indian cities.
Then, with the wave of Indian professionals, mainly IT professionals, coming to work in Singapore/Malaysia in the mid-2000s onwards, chaats (together with other North Indian foods) became more widely available.
But, even Penang today where pani puri has become quite common-place, there are good, and there are bad, and I do mean very bad pani puris offered by those who simply wanted to jump on the bandwagon.
These ones from DβChat Masala were the best Iβd had in a long time!
