Inventing Chicken Manchurian
Chef Nelson Wang created Chicken Manchurian in 1975
Witness History · BBC World Service
December 27, 20228m 58s
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Show Notes
Chef Nelson Wang created his signature dish Chicken Manchurian in 1975. It was the birth of modern Indo-Chinese cuisine which went on to become hugely popular around the world.
He went on to open China Garden, a Chinese restaurant in Mumbai that would draw in Bollywood's glitterati.
Nelson's son Edward Wang, who is also a chef, speaks to Reena Stanton-Sharma.
(Photo: Chicken Manchurian. Credit: Paul Yeung/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)