India, April 25 -- It's a story that has all the ingredients needed for a social media storm: The wife of India's biggest star, India's most famous and popular chef, YouTube and Instagram influencers, and their instant knee-jerk judgements, and yes, paneer.

Paneer?

You bet! Paneer is the star of this story!

What seems to have happened is this. A social media influencer went from celebrity-owned restaurant to restaurant, checking the paneer to see if it was truly paneer. (You mean there's something like fake paneer? Yups, but we shall come to that!)

He concluded, on the basis of a pseudo-scientific test, that every restaurant served the real thing except for one associated with Gauri Khan. Naturally, that became his headline and it was...