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A saucy tale from Kolkata’s Chinatown

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ddletter29 - IMG20240621135701 and IMG20240619180302: A view of the array of Pou Chong's sauces. Credit: Debarshi Dasgupta

The sauce firms have loyal customers beyond Kolkata - beyond India, even.

ST PHOTO: DEBARSHI DASGUPTA

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The two golden dragons, coiled around the pillars at the gate, are hard to miss.

They stand out amid an unruly overhead tangle of power lines in a noisy and congested neighbourhood in the eastern Indian metropolis of Kolkata, surrounded by drab multi-storey concrete buildings.

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