Steemit Engagement Challenge / S19W4 - "My city special bites ."
Many decades ago in the year 1969, I had the taste of Chinese Indian food at Peiping on Park Street of Kolkata. At that time it was owned and run by Chinese people. The owner sold the restaurant to Panjabi family and it was again closed down for several years and reopened in 2016. Some of the dishes were Chilli Chicken and Chop Suey,
In the ancient time Chinese came to Kolkata. They were engaged in Leather tannery business. They used to sale food to Chinese people only in China Town of Tagra area. They started preparing Chinese food with local spices like cumins, red chilli, chili flakes to make it very hot and tasty and a new fusion Indian Chinese food was born. The Schezwan and Manchurian types of Chinese food is not available anywhere in the world other than India. Nowadays all types of food like Taiwan, Korean, Italian are available in Kolkata.
I visited the second Chinese restaurant in Kolkata in 70s called New Embassy which also closed two years ago and it was known for authentic food.
In 90s I used to visit a joint called Jim's Kitchen. There chilli prawn is famous. They were located at a offbeat place so they opened their second outlet near New market.
In between I also had Mughlai foods. A Muslim is known by his food. One of the famous dish is biryani which is available with potato only in Kolkata. Wajid Ali Shah who was last Nawab of Awadh exiled to Kolkata by East India Company. He only introduced Mughlai food in Kolkata. There are many restaurants called Royal India, Aminiya, Siraj, Arsenal famous for biriyani. Sabir is also known for chicken rezala and tandoori roti.
Zaranj is the first Afghani restaurant in Kolkata.
There are also many restaurants like Sagar, Ambar who have best chef for North Indian non vegetarian cuisines. One of my favourite starter is fish finger with mayonnaise sauce.
If I don't mention the local street Nepalies and Sikkimis food like momos and dumpling that will be injustice to their flavour of healthy and mouth watering traditional food. Even a start up called Wow momo is serving excellent momos having various chain outlets throughout India.
a portion of chicken momo burger and fried chicken momo with Schezwan sauce
I have not yet visited a place called DHAMSA (a tribal musical instrument) where recipes of West Bengal tribal foods are prepared and served by tribal people and provide you a real ambiance of tribal village.
Actually Bengali, the local people are fishetarians. There's nothing like home made fish items such as Illish macher paturi, Rui macher kalia, vetki sorshe, chital macher muitha, kagji macher chachari, chingri malikari and many more.
pabda tomato fish curry
Test of Kolkata
There are pise hotels (where manu was so affordable what could be paid by coins) prepare all fishes and homely items.
South Indian foods are also very popular in Kolkata. Some of the restaurants are Madras Tiffin, Ananda and Mission cafe etc.
One of the most popular vegetarian restaurant run by Iskon called Gobindas serve delicious unlimited thali (plater).
There are several five star hotels also serve continental food in their restaurants.
Sweets of Kolkata is world famous. Kolkata rasogolla and sweet curds is not the last but best desert of India.
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@impersonal
Your area offers a very wonderful view here a unique recipe in terms of food and drink as I see the fish here especially very well fish and tomato test very wonderful. Yes and there is no doubt that Calcutta test is very good. White rice and fish etc. A good menu prepared here is very good. India is my neighboring country. I will definitely take this Calcutta test
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Allways wellcome dear
Beberapa makanan yang anda tampilkan memang terlihat enak pastilah jadi makanan special dan viral di kota anda ..
Siapa yang bisa menolak makanan lezat??
Smoga sukses di kontes ini
Salam
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আমি কখনো কলকাতা যায়নি, তবে হ্যাঁ কলকাতার খাবার ওয়াল্ড ক্লাস, বিশেষ করে রসগোল্লা মিষ্টি। কলকাতা থেকে মোগলাই খাবারটি প্রসিদ্ধ হয়েছে। আপনি কলকাতা শহরের বিভিন্ন ধরনের খাবার সম্পর্কে আমাদের জানিয়েছেন। আপনি ঠিকই বলেছেন বাঙালি হল মাছ প্রিয় একটি জাতি। আপনার উল্লেখ করা মাছের আইটেম গুলোর মধ্যে আমার চিংড়ি মাছের মালাইকারি সবচেয়ে বেশি পছন্দের । আপনার জন্য শুভকামনা রইল।
আপনাকে অসংখ্য ধন্যবাদ আমার প্রতিবেদনটি পড়ে এত সুন্দর একটা মন্তব্য করার জন্য। ওয়াজেদ আলী সাহের ২০২ তম জন্মদিন গত ৩১ জুলাই পালিত হলো কোলকাতায়। তিনি কলকাতায় আলু বিরিয়ানি ছাড়াও গুলৌটি কাবাব এবং নিহারির প্রবর্তক। https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/oudh-1590-celebrates-wajid-ali-shahs-202nd-birthday-at-the-revamped-deshapriya-park-outlet/cid/2037943
Burger ayam itu terlihat sangat lezat, apalagi burger ayam tersebut telah menjadi makanan khas di Kota tempat anda tinggal pasti rasanya sangat lezat sekali, saya jadi ingin mencobanya
Thank you and you are most welcome.
The restaurants in your city seem to have a history, Indian and Chinese food can be enjoyed together even in different years,
In my area, getting dishes from other countries is very difficult because it is far from the city, Indian and Indonesian tongues are not much different because the spices used are the same, I just saw the photo and I was very tempted...
I hope you are successful in this contest, friend... 👍
Thank you for visiting my post and sharing your views.
You are welcome my friend... 👍
Dishesh looks tasty, Kolkata Chhangani Kachori wala, humesha trending mai on Youtube.
Thank you for visiting my post and lip smacking words.
Nice post🤗
Welcome 🙏🏾
Kolkata, uhm.. banyak makanan unik di sana, Anda pasti sangat bahagia.
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Hello dear @impersonal!
Finding out about Kolkata special mixture of Chinese and Indian food is amazing. I was particularly interested in your mention of Jim Kitchen famous chili prawns. Are there any other foods from that you particularly enjoy? I appreciate you sharing this delightful culinary post. Best wishes.
There are several recepie. One fuchka (panipuri) is very crunchy and mouth watering.
Yes its must be. But I can only test this in my dream 😜
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