We travel during vacations and visit various beautiful places. We go out and eat in all kinds of restaurants in whichever city we are in. My husband, Soumitra and friends,Rita and Ratri and their families are my regular companions at these restaurants. Its company that makes the food taste good and I then I love to try to cook the same dishes at home for my husband and others of my family.
In kolkata, Tangra is one place we love, as we have a special liking for "chinese". This place wont delight you at the first glance. Despite the setting , the noise, the smell of food around, raises my hopes instantly.
I can confidently say, you will never go hungry in kolkata. Tuck into some lip-smacking chinese delicasies at Golden Joy or Wing waah or China Haus or Beijing . This is good news for chinese food lovers, as you can look forward to a simple dining experience at any of the various places in the china town of Kolkata .
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| Chinese dinner at our place |
Menu : Fried Rice, Dry chilly chicken, Mixed Chowmein and Szechuan gravy noodles.
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| Chinese Fried Rice |
Ingredients :
Cooked Rice 3 bowlsChicken 1/2 bowl(boiled &chopped )
Prawns 1 bowl(tiny ones preferred)
Small Diced Carrots 1/4 th bowl(boiled)
Green Peas 1/4th bowl(boiled)
Spring Onions 2 tbsp
Chopped Garlic 2 tbsp
Eggs 3 nos
Vegetable Oil 4 tbsp
Soya Sauce 2 tsp
White Vinegar 2 tsp
Green Chillies 2 tsp(d'seeded & chopped fine)
Salt& Pepper to taste
Method :
Prepare rice and keep in the refrigerator to cool. I use "chamarmani "rice for this fried rice.Heat oil in a Wok/Kadhai in high flame. Add garlic, chillies, carrots, green peas and stir well for a minute.
Add prawns and stir well till the prawns turn red.
Push ingredients aside and make a well in the middle of the wok. Add a teaspoon of oil in the centre and break eggs into the oil.
Once eggs are semi-cooked, add rice and push ingredients into it.
Add spring onions. Stir evenly and press rice to separate grains from one another.
Add seasonings (soya, vinegar ,salt, and pepper).
Fry the rice for another 3 minutes and then remove to a serving dish.
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| Chinese Chilly Chicken Dry |
Ingredients :
Chicken Breasts 2Corn Flour 5 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Red Chilli Paste 2 tbsp
Soya Sauce 1 tbsp
Vinegar 1/2 tsp
Egg Yolk a little
Oil 2 cups
Green Chilli,sliced 4
Spring Onions 2Chopped
Green Capsicum 1 chopped into fine strips
Tomato Ketchup 2tbsp
Water 1/2 cup
Black Pepper powder 1/4 tsp
Ginger-garlic Paste 2 tsp
Method :
Chop the chicken breast pieces with the help of a sharp knife and put in a bowl.Add cornflour, salt, red chilly paste or red chilly powder or red chilly sauce, soya sauce, vinegar and egg yolk.
Mix everything well and keep aside to marinate for an hour.
Heat two cups of oil in a wok and fry the marinated chicken for 3-4 minutes and remove to a dish. Frying longer will make the chicken pieces hard.
Thereafter heat 1 tbsp oil in another pan. Put sliced green chillies, chopped spring onions, chopped capsicum and stir fry on high gas flame. Add tomato ketchup, red chilly paste, soya sauce, water, salt (all sauces have salt in them so add just a little and after tasting adjust ), black pepper powder, Ginger-garlic paste and mix well.
In a small bowl mix water to 2 tsp cornflour and make a paste. Add this to the vegetables.
Lastly add the chicken pieces. Let the masala coat the chicken pieces well.
Serve this dry dish hot.
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| Chinese Haka Chowmein |
Ingredients :
Noodles,boiled 200 gram
Onion,chopped 2
Carrot,chopped 1/4 cupCabbage,chopped 1/2 cup
Oil 1 tbsp
Capsicum,chopped 1/2 cup
Green Chilly Sauce 1 tbsp
White Vinegar 1 tbsp
Soya Sauce 2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper Powder 1/4 tsp
Egg,scrambled 4
Chicken Breast,chopped 1,boiled
Method :
Boil 7 cups of water. In the water add 1 tsp salt & 1 tsp oil. When the water boils add200 grams of noodles and boil till soft.When the noodles are soft drain the water .Wash with cold water 2-3 times. Rub oil & leave on a strainer to dry.Heat 1 tbsp white oil in a wok. Put 2 onions chopped and chopped carrots (cut diagnally& then into thin strips) Add 1/2 cup carrot, Green capsicum1/2 cup chopped into thin strips and stir fry on high flame. In a bowl mix1 tbsp green chilly sauce,1 tbsp white vinegar and 2 tsp soya sauce. Stir fry the vegetables and then add1 tsp salt,the mixed sauces, 1/4 tsp pepper powder and then add the noodles. Add chopped cabbage, scrambled eggs, chicken and toss all well for 5-7 minutes. Put gas flame off. Serve.
Add chilli and garlic if you want the chilly garlic flavour to your noodles. It is a great variation.
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| Szchewan Gravy Noodles |
Ingredients :
Noodles,boiled 200 gramsWater 7cups
Red Chilly Paste 2 tbsp
Tomato Ketchup 2 tbsp
Soya Sauce 1 tsp
Sugar 1/4tsp
Oil 1 tbsp
Garlic,grated 1 tsp
Ginger,Grated 1/2 tsp
Red Chilli 2
Szechuan Pepper corns 8-10
Celery Stems,chopped 2 tsp
Spring Onions,chopped 1
Carrot,chopped into thin strips 1
Chicken Breast,chopped into small pieces 1,boiled
Salt 1 1/2tsp
White Pepper Powder 1/4 tsp
Corn Flour 3 tsp
White Vinegar 1 tbsp
Method :
Take 200 grams of noodles. Boil 7 cups of water in a pan and add the noodles when the water boils. In the water add1 tsp salt and 1 tsp refined oil.Boil for two minutes only. When noodles ares soft drain the water. Wash under cold water2-3 times.Rub oil &leave in the strainer to dry.
In a bowl mix all sauces together. First put 2 tbsp red chilly paste, 2 tbsp tomato ketchup,1 tsp soya sauce, 1/2 tsp sugar. Mix all well and keep the bowl aside.
In a wok, heat 1 tbsp oil. Add fresh grated ginger-garlic to the oil. Stir &then mix2 red chillies, 8-10 szechuan peppercorns, 2tsp chopped celery stems. Stir fry& then add 1 spring onions,chopped fine. Fry this for1 minute & then add chopped chicken boiled, carrot.You may add other vegetables of your liking as well.
Add 1/2 tsp salt & the boiled noodles& the bowl of saucesand 1/2 tsp white pepper powder.Stir& mix .Add 1 1/2 cups of water and let it come to a boil.
Add 3tsp cornflour to3-4 tbsp water and prepare cornflour paste. Add this and let it boil.When thickput gas off & add 1 tbsp vinegar.Serve.
This is my take on chinese. Do try them out and advice me.These are a few I make among others, that my family enjoys.
Good food is not available in the early hours in Kolkata unless you visit the Terreti Bazar, where you can get authentic Chinese breakfast made by the people who are Chinese in origin yet Indians. This is one of the most famous street food places in Kolkata that is pocket friendly and stomach friendly as well.
Pork which is commonly eaten in China but not eaten in India, is also used in some of the food stalls and freshly cut pork is sold here. This food is safe and the best Chinese street food sold in Kolkata so there's no need to worry about upset tummies.
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| Rajlaxmi sampling the chinese street food of Kolkata |
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