West Bengal · Culinary Guide
Hooghly
An authoritative guide to the city's essential dishes, notable restaurants, and definitive street food.
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West Bengal · Culinary Guide
An authoritative guide to the city's essential dishes, notable restaurants, and definitive street food.
Dishes locals love — click any dish to explore where else it's popular across India.
Sweetened thick yogurt, served in earthen pots, available at local sweet shops, rupees 40-80
Bengali sweet made from chhena (paneer), various flavors, available at any sweet shop, rupees 15-30 per piece
Deep-fried flatbread with spicy potato curry, popular breakfast, local eateries, rupees 60-100
Fried pastry filled with lentils, served with vegetable curry, breakfast staple, street stalls, rupees 40-70
Staple Bengali meal, various fish preparations, local restaurants, rupees 150-300
Spongy sweet dumplings in sugar syrup, iconic Bengali dessert, sweet shops, rupees 10-25 per piece
Traditional bitter-sweet mixed vegetable curry, served with rice, local Bengali restaurants, rupees 120-180
Prawns cooked in coconut milk gravy, rich and flavorful, specialty restaurants, rupees 250-400
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