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Tangra Chinatown, situated in the eastern part of Kolkata (Calcutta) India, is one of the Chinatowns in the city that still has the largest number of Indian Chinese living in the area as compared to any other city in the rest of India. The significan

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  • Kim Fa Chinese Restaurant

    Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 06:00 in food, restaurants

    Kim Fa Chinese Restaurant is one of the oldest and well known restaurants in Tangra Chinatown area. It is still one of the favorite Chinese food restaurants for a lot of Chinese living in the area. Its Chinese food is more oriented towards the authen...

  • Hong Kong Tintorettor Jishu Shooting, Shopping and Eating

    Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 05:48 in food, places, indian news

    According to Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Chinese food on China’s shores wasn’t quite as delicious as its Calcutta counterpart. Now if he mean the Chinese food in Calcutta to be the Tangra style Chinese food, it is because the Chinese food that most C...

  • Tangra Chinatown

    Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 15:12 in food, places, restaurants, schools, leather tanneries

    Tangra is a district in the east of Calcutta. It traditionally housed a large number of leather tanneries. It is in this district that a significant number of Hakka Chinese has settled down with the majority of them specializing in leather related wo...

  • People on a roll despite recession

    Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 11:48 in food

    Most Indians and Indian Chinese have tasted the rolls in Calcutta and definitely like it despite it being not so healthy. Egg roll, chicken roll, mutton roll, paneer roll are fast foods which are quite popular in Calcutta/Kolkata. Even though the eco...