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Inventing Chicken Manchurian

Chef Nelson Wang created his signature dish Chicken Manchurian in 1975. It was the birth of modern Indo-Chinese cuisine.

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)

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