bunny chow
noun
(In South Africa) a takeaway food consisting of a hollowed-out half loaf of bread filled with vegetable or meat curry.In my family no Durban holiday was complete without sitting on the beach eating a bunny chow, inhaling quickly over curled tongues to cool our mouths....
- Izza, your evening of bunny chows with chutney sounds divine.
- We spent the past weekend down in KwaZulu Natal, home of millions of restless Zulu warriors, bunny chows, and humidity.
Origin
Probably from Hindi banyā, from Gujarati vaniya, denoting one of a Hindu caste of merchants, + chow in the sense 'food'.