I had the same question, which led me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_cuisine#Hakka_cuisine_in_South_Asia https://en.wikipedia

I had the same question, which led me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_cuisine#Hakka_cuisine_in_South_Asia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakka_cuisine#Hakka_cuisine_in... Apparently there was a large wave of Hakka immigration into India, where they developed a kind of fusion cuisine, which they brought with them when later moving to Canada.