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Kolkata, India
6 dishes to eat in Kolkata, what is in them, and where they belong.
Skewered meat wrapped in a paratha with onion and lime — invented here, exported everywhere.
Freshwater fish in a light mustard-and-turmeric gravy, eaten with rice. The everyday Bengali meal.
Mutton slow-cooked until the gravy clings, usually with luchi.
Chhena balls in syrup, and sweetened yoghurt set in clay pots. The city's sweet shops are institutions.
Kolkata's sharper, tamarind-heavier version of golgappa, assembled and handed over one at a time.
The Hakka community's cooking, which is where chilli chicken and Manchurian actually come from.
