Wo Ai Chi
“‘Chow mein’ – What? What’s that?” This was exactly the reaction from two of my Chinese friends, Hao Tong and Mei Shuangqingzi, when they heard this word. And thus I came to know there is nothing called Chow mein, Momo, Fied rice in their dictionary ( read in China ). Funny, but true it is! Being a Kolkatan and growing up seeing so many Chinese food joints around, it is really tough to believe that all these ‘Chinese’ foods are not ‘Chinese’ at all. In China they have noodles, dumplings, rice. But those are pretty different from ours. To be precise, they are absolutely different from the foods we have here in so called famous ‘Chinese’ restaurants. But, be it genuine Chinese or Indian version of Chinese, we don’t have any problem in exciting our taste-buds with those salty, overtly oily ‘chow mein’ or those white rice turned into ‘fried rice’ by simply frying or even the half-baked momo. Also, in the context of the recent incidents ( read Doklam ), whatever...