The starter that started it allChilli chicken · Kolkata
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Kolkata's Chinese kitchens

Indo Chinese food took shape in Kolkata, where a Chinese community, many of them Hakka, settled and opened eateries around Tangra and Tiretta Bazaar. Cooks adapted their food to Indian love of chilli, garlic and gravy.

The fusion that came before the word fusion.

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