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The photograph was taken at Terreta Bazar, named after Edward Terreta a Venetian by birth who was a political refugee from Italy who eventually ended up in Calcutta to work for the East India Company. It was surprising that in the past he had some connection with the legendary Giacomo Casanova. Ultimately during Warren Hastings Hakka Chinese immigrants started settling in this part of the city. Well Calcutta has two china town another one is at Tangra. Tangra may be the most well-known Chinatown in India, but Kolkata’s Tiretta Bazaar has the distinction of being the very first. The neighbourhood of Tiretta Bazaar in central Kolkata is one of the oldest continuously running marketplaces in the city around which the Chinese community first settled when they migrated to the city in the late 18th century. Every day the streets of Tiretta Bazaar in central Kolkata are filled with vendors selling fresh vegetables and fruits, not unlike any other local bazaar in the city.
What sets it apart is the availability of Chinese breakfast foods like steamed buns, and hot dumplings, wontons and momos, served steamed or fried for as little as Rs 50 per serving. The breakfast vendors save the best they have to offer for Sundays, a tradition that has carried on in the market of Tiretta Bazaar for decades, when the spread of the Cantonese-style breakfast foods are larger and the crowds even bigger.
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