Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Panipuri

Panipuri

Original - A panipuri containing ragada, a mixture of chick peas, Indian spices and herbs. Panipuri is a popular street snack across India. It is a hollow, fried and crisp Indian bread made from a dough of atta and is usually filled with water mixed with tamarind, chilli, chaat masala, small pieces of potato and onions. Literally, panipuri means "water in fried bread".

Reason

An image of great encyclopedic value. Shows the extent of usage of spices and herbs in Indian cuisine and gives a great visual description of panipuri, a popular street snack across India. Colorful, well-focused and high-resolution image.

Articles this image appears in

Panipuri, Cuisine of India

Creator

Tawheed Manzoor from Flickr

• Support as nominator --Enigma Blues (talk) 11:05, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose, it could be higher resolution... but what bothers me most is the crop. Great picture, though... just not FP in my opinion. gren グレン 13:13, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Too tight framing, enc suffers. --Janke | Talk 13:27, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose it's a good encyclopedic subject and would make a great FP except for the framing issues. Cat-five - talk 20:09, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. Subject cut off, unappealing background. Looks tasty, though. Spikebrennan (talk) 14:09, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. Usually panipuris are not green.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 14:11, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 05:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)