Which fish is more tasty hilsa or chingri?

May 15, 2016 10:18am CST
In Kolkata, the crowd is divided into people liking hilsa or ilish fish and people liking chingri fish. Chingri is a variety of prawns in Bengal. The interesting thing is hilsa or ilish is the most expensive fish in Kolkata. And it is one of the fishes which had bound the two parts, West Bengal and Bangladesh. Before Lord Curzon divided Bengal in 1910, East Bengal and West Bengal was part of united Bengal and India. So ilish is popular in Kolkata, entire west bengal and entire Bangladesh. Chingri has many varieties in Bengal, Galda chingri, bagda chingri, chapra chingri, etc. It is a mixture of prawns, shrimps and varieties of this categories of fishes. If they are cut, blood will not come out. Both ilish and chingri are delicious.
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