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Street food of Kolkata is the food sold by hawkers and street vendors from portable market stalls in the streets of Kolkata, India. It is one of the major characteristics of the city, which makes Kolkata the "City of Joy". Kolkata's street foods include Indian street food as well as Chinese, Mughlai, British, and even European foods. [1]
Under PMGKAY, 1121 metric tonnes of food grains were distributed in seven phases from April 2020 to December 2022 at a cost of Rs 3.9 lakh crore. [18] The Central Government, under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY), has decided to continue providing free food grains till December 2028.
A kati roll (sometimes spelt kathi roll; Bengali: কাঠি রোল [1]) is a street-food dish originating from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. [2] In its original form, it is a skewer-roasted kebab wrapped in a paratha bread, although over the years many variants have evolved all of which now go under the generic name of kati roll.
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[3] [6] Kolkata today boasts the only Chinatown in the country, a neighbourhood known as the Tiretti Bazaar. [2] This being said, nearly every city in India has these adapted "Chinese" foods, whether found in restaurants or hawked by roadside vendors, as the greasy, spicy, stir-fried food has become wildly popular throughout the country. [6]
In the 19th century, the Bengal Cub's food and drink was spoken of favourably in a number of travelogues and cookbooks. [36] [37] The club's head chef was a French cook, who later became the private cook of the Nawab of Oudh. [38] Food historian Colleen Taylor Sen credits the Bengal Club with pioneering and popularising the masala omelette. [39]
Tiretta Bazaar, also known as Chinatown, [1] [2] [3] is a neighborhood near Lalbazar in Central Kolkata. It is usually called Old China Market. The locality was once home to 20,000 ethnic Chinese Indian nationals, but now the population has dropped to approximately 2,000. [4] Most of the Hakka Chinese people in the area moved closer to Tangra.
It was founded by St. Mother Teresa on her 42nd birthday in 1952, [5] two years after she established Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. Men's ward at Kalighat, Home of the Pure Heart, Nirmal Hriday. St. Mother Teresa opened this free hospice in 1952, next to the famous Kalighat Kali Temple in Kalighat Calcutta. [6]