Chicken Manchurian – born in Mumbai
Despite its name, Manchuria never met this dish. Chicken Manchurian was created in the 1970s by Nelson Wang, a Chinese-Indian chef in Mumbai. He swapped out Indian masala for ginger, garlic, soy sauce, and cornflour and an entire cuisine was reborn. Today, Manchurian (veg, chicken, paneer) is the soul of “Indo-Chinese” dining, but in China itself, the dish doesn’t exist