Bengaluru Tapioca Chips

Bengaluru Tapioca Chips are thin wafers of tapioca fried to a golden, glassy crisp and seasoned simply with salt and a little spice. They are light, clean and dangerously snackable, the kind of crisp that empties from the bowl before you have consciously decided to keep eating. Tapioca gives them a distinctive brittle crunch that sets them apart from the usual potato crisp, and the seasoning is kept restrained so the chip itself stays the star. Good for the lunchbox, the road trip, the film at home, or simply standing at the counter telling yourself this is the last handful.

Origin Story: Tapioca, known across the south as kappa, is a beloved staple from Kerala through Karnataka, and tapioca chips are its crisp, portable form. In Bengaluru they have long been a fixture of snack shops and tea tables, sold loose by weight and disappearing fast. The appeal is honesty, a humble root vegetable turned into something irresistible with little more than good oil and salt. Patang keeps ours just as straightforward, decent tapioca, clean frying and only as much spice as the chip actually needs.

Taste and Texture: A brittle, glassy crunch with a clean, mild flavour and a gentle savoury edge from the seasoning. There is nothing loud about it, which is exactly why it is so easy to love and so hard to put down.