How About Noodles, Chop Suey as 'Prasad'? Then You Must Visit This Temple in Kolkata!

KOLKATA: India is a land of various cultures, communities and lifestyles. From malls to mandirs (temples), diversity can be seen everywhere. Talking about temples, prasad is a something everyone cherishes to savour - may be it is out of reverence or out of taste, but prasad attracts hordes to devotees to temples - the greatest example of it is the Golden Temple in Punjab's Amritsar where tasting the famous "langar" always remains on the top of every visitor's priorities.

In India, different types of prasad are handed out in religious places. For example, the Azhagar Kovil, Madurai Temple serves dosas as prasad or the Khabees Baba Temple in Uttar Pradesh that hands out liquor as their prasad. Just like that, another temple in the "City of Joy" Kolkata gives noodles and chop suey as prasad to its visitors.

Located in Kolkata's famous Tangra area which is also known as the China Town, it is a Chinese Kali temple. A mix of Tibetian and East Asian culture in Tangra can be seen in and around the shrine which has been maintained and protected by the people living in the area.

Similar things can be felt in the Kali temple as well where they have tried to hold on to the Indian culture and at the same time tried to infuse a Chinese flavour by serving noodles, chop suey, rice and vegetable dishes as prasad which is first offered to Goddess Kali.

The Chinese Kali temple was built around two decades ago in Tangra with the help of Bengali and Chinese people. Earlier, the site was worshipped by Hindus for sixty years where two granite stones smeared with vermilion were kept underneath a tree. Mythologically, a 10-year-old Chinese boy had fallen sick and he was not getting cured by anything. One night his parents laid him under a tree in the area and prayed for several nights and the boy slowly started recovering. Since then, the site has been an important part of the community.

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