Dosa Sambar being prepared at Bhikaji Cama Place in Delhi: south Indian meal for office goers

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Batter is poured onto the pan, and a dosa is lined up for patrons of an outdoor food stand at Bhikaji Cama Place in New Delhi. The round dosa is patted down with a ladle. Special Masala Dosa and Plain Dosa are the order of the day! The stuffing is added in - masala and potato for the former and nothing more than the batter-prepared pancake for the latter. It is unfortunately served on a thermocol plate. When will India stop using thermocol which simply does not disintegrate or get recycled? Spread out on a frying pan sitting on a gas stove burner, dosa rice-based batter is evenly spread and then widened into a thinner and wider circle. The lower points start browning and then the cook turns the pancake over., and keeps jabbing it with the tongs. Yet again he turns it over, to brown it equa