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//Almost all you need to know about Paan.

Wondering how many of you know about Paan... So just thought I'd ask here... Normal Paan's are good to taste... the tobacco ones are the ones that cause a strange effect to you.. I've tried both, and currently eat normal ones... have you ever tried any??






Paan is a type of Indian digestive, which consists of fillings wrapped in a triangular package using Betel leaf (Piper betle) and held together with a toothpick or a clove.


Paan is chewed as a palate cleanser and a breath freshener along with the Areca nut. It is also commonly offered to guests and visitors as a sign of hospitality and eaten at cultural events. Paan filling is generally a mixture of various spices, fruits, and sugar. Paan makers may use mukhwas or tobacco as an ingredient to their paan fillings. Although most types of paan contain areca nuts as a filling, many other types do not. Some other types include what is called sweet paan, where candied fruit and fennel seeds are used.


"Paan" is often mistakenly translated in the English language as "Betel nut", a misnomer, which originated in the fact that the betel leaf is chewed along with the areca nut, the seed of the tropical palm Areca catechu. Supari or adakka is the term for the nut in many Indic languages.





Varieties


Paan is available in many different forms and flavours. The most commonly found include:

* Tobacco (tambaku paan): Betel leaf filled with powdered tobacco with spices.
* Betel nut (paan supari, paan masala or sada paan): Betel leaf filled with a mixture consisting of a coarsely ground or chopped betel nuts and other spices.
* "Sweet" (meetha paan): Betel leaf with neither tobacco nor betel nuts. The filling is made up primarily of coconut, fruit preserves, and various spices. It is also often served with a maraschino cherry.
* "Trento" (olarno paan): It is said that it tastes like beetles but has a minty after taste. Eaten along with fresh potatoes, it is served in most Indian restaurants.



For more info on types of Paan click here:
[code]http://www.paan.com/types_paan.htm[/code]
(Magai , Banarsi , Kolkatta Paan [types of leaves] - link for pics)






[code]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHfh0xxTg00[/code]




Here in this video is the famous mucchad paan wala, in mumbai. He even has his website link given on the wikipedia page. And don't mind about him putting that sugary stuff with his hands, his hands are clean. All paan walas have clean hands and make very good paans.



Links:
(Google Image Search for Paan...:
[code]http://images.google.co.in/images?gbv=2&hl=en&q=paan&start=18&sa=N&ndsp=18[/code]
PAAN Wikipedia Link
[code]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paan[/code]


-Qfunk.

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I just figured this thread is useless....

please can any mod delete it??

If not, then please could you edit/remove the [code] [/ code] tags, so that the links appear instead...?? thanks.

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NOOOO don't delete it. I found it interesting myself. I love cultural exchange. I love different types of food anyway. Indian food is one of my personal faves and the tandoori method of cooking is especially liked. Curries and lamb dishes also. I die for naan bread....
And anything natural herbal is of interest to me. Qfunk please keep feeding us info and share your customs and lifestyle with those of us who have not got to India yet. I will share about being an American Redneck woman....LOL YEEEEHAAAWWW!

Thanks caprice... I'll try and post more of indian stuff... I know I can post a lot of easy recipes and other stuff...

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GREAT as I love Indian food but can't cook it. Luckily my neighbor is Indian and I have Indian nurse friends here. The physician who saved my life recently is Indian. A brillia\\
nt neurosurgeon.
We have really good Indian food in the bay area. If ever in Florida look me up. My grandkids are mostly mixed race. Puerto Rican and Korean. Interesting kiddos if I say so myself. But we need a recipe sharing thread. I will post "LBJ Dip"....Lyndon Baynes Johnson's favorite crock pot dip. Straight from Lady Bird Johnson's cook book....LOL I have good SOUTHERN recipes. Because "TEXAS is a whole nother' country" Where I am from is Texas....lost in Florida now.
I have recipes for Cuban food also and Korean.

Great! There's a recipe section on this forum, and I think I'll post some indian recipes within a week... If I can find something easy, with terms that can be understood.. for eg.: you won't understand what's kali mirch (pepper), namak (salt) and adrak (ginger)...

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Post on and I do like spicy.....hotter the better.....we from Texas honor the jalopeno pepper. My guy is from Maryland and don't like spicy food....but does love spicy women......Kind of nerd/geek meets flamboyant spicy southern woman....works well for us...I love Thai food....Vietnamese food also. I have even been going to an Ethiopian restaurant lately. I have a passion for fine foods of all cultures,,, My daughter in law makes me Korean Kim Chi......hot as hell and scrumptious. All cultures inhabit Florida.....Lucky me to live in this cultural mix and taste and exchange. Philipine food is pretty good also.....our parties with nurses home cooking at the trauma center I used to work at were an international feast.

Just posted a thread in the food and drinks section:

How to make Bhang Lassi (Marijuana Drink)

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Hey, does anyone know why caprice got banned??

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My guess would be she pissed someone off. Either that or starting topics that are sure to fuel a heated conversation. Back to your thread dude. That stuff looks really good but why on earth would anyone eat a tobacco leaf? I have never had indian food but i've eaten with arabs during ramadan and their food is great. So I need to get an indian cook book or something as im tired of mexican chinese and italian foods. It's all we ever eat and I think a change in food would be great. Got anymore recipes?????

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