A restaurant in Madurai has been trending after their mask parottas become viral. This restaurant, called Temple City, has extended its love for parotta into the realm of creating awareness about COVID-19, by making parottas in the shape of masks.
They say that their motive was to create awareness for wearing masks in public. With the district currently under a complete lockdown due to the surge in the number of COVID-19 positive cases, the restaurant’s owner, Mr. Kumar, says that any and all awareness was important for the public right now. Since the lockdown relaxation has been done from this week, they said that they had to keep reminding customers to wear masks and even gave them out for free in multiple instances.
Temple City’s parotta master, S. Sathish, says that they replicated the design of a surgical mask using the traditional veechu parotta. “We folded it in a particular way and crafted the handles. All the ingredients are the same. It was a success on our very first try,” he says.
“A parotta is sold for ₹50 and dosa is sold for ₹40, there is a good response from the customers, we also provide them food only if they wear masks,” said the owner of the shop. The local shop near the Mattuthavani bus stand also provides free kabasura kudineer and other herbal drinks which is said to boost immunity.
Notably, this is the same restaurant that became viral after selling the coronavirus shape dosas and bondas.