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Londoners are used to seeing food trucks and gourmet coffee carts on street corners, but a man enthusiastically mixing puffed rice, spices, chopped vegetables, lime and mustard oil in a steel tumbler while chanting jhalmuri fresh jhalmuri is a sight that stops people in their tracks.

That man is Angus Denoon, a former British chef who has become a social-media sensation for selling Kolkata’s iconic street snack, jhalmuri, on the streets of London.

Multiple Instagram posts capturing Angus in action have gone viral in recent weeks, with viewers mesmerised by his theatrical mixing style and near-perfect Kolkata-style Hindi and Bengali inflections. One reel celebrating his journey reads, “Kolkata’s jhalmuri magic made a Britisher fall in love — so much that he’s been

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