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Jenny Pinto
Sep 25, 20207 min read
Calcutta Chinese by Amit Chaudhuri
An extract from Amit Chaudhuri's book Calcutta: Two Years in the City Chinese food has long been Calcutta’s favoured foreign cuisine: it...
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Jenny Pinto
Sep 21, 202018 min read
How Chinese became India's favourite food
Photograph/ Wikimedia Growing up in the 70s in Bombay (as it was then called), a typical family trip to the movies, would begin with...
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Jenny Pinto
Sep 21, 20202 min read
Chinese food you will not find in China
Even if you leave aside the outliers like Shezwan dosa and Chinese pav bhaji, today the Indian Chinese menu boasts dishes found nowhere...
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Jenny Pinto
Sep 21, 20206 min read
"Have you eaten" ?
Despite claims of authenticity you will hear from numerous new, often pricey, Chinese restaurants all over India today, you have to visit...
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Jenny Pinto
Sep 21, 20202 min read
Wok Talk
In every Chinese kitchen, there’s a specific utensil for each technique, but the wok reigns supreme and for good reason. To call the wok...
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Jenny Pinto
Sep 21, 20202 min read
FanT’sai and Cou Gan
Many people of the Chinese community in India have been here for at least 3 generations and they love their dal, roti and curries, but...
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Jenny Pinto
Sep 21, 20203 min read
Food as cultural anchors
The food that Indians and Chinese eat and their cooking techniques may be very different, but one of the most distinct similarities...
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Admin
Sep 11, 20201 min read
Chinese, Indian or Indian-Chinese?
Ashis Nandy said of cricket that it is a quintessentially Indian game accidentally invented in England. Given the popularity of Chinese...
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