The smell of goat roasting at a food stall drew us for supper at a wooden table.
As I dined at food stall after food stall, in search of my personal favourite, I was surprised to see very few non-Asian faces.
The makeshift food stall where she helps her parents is almost next door to the offices of Bihar's ruling parties, the Janata Dal (United) and Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP).
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Although Chunam Kumari's photograph was used by Unicef on its posters, she continues to work 12 hours a day at her father's ramshackle roadside food stall in the capital, Patna, cleaning creaky wooden tables, washing utensils and serving up cheap meals.
Two days later, in the capital of Khartoum, we walked the streets, rode a city bus to the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, chatted with dozens of Sudanese, and, after dark, found a street-food stall for a meal of goat, eaten with our fingers as per local custom.
Whatever hawker centre you visit, to enjoy the best food find the stall with the longest queue - and join it.
Some 40kg has already been sold to the public through Hungarian Food Ltd's market stall in Preston and the Taste of Hungary shop in Liverpool.
All this is food for thought for those conservatives who have been lulled into complacency by the stall of cap and trade.
"When it was lunchtime, I would see the stall-holders bring out their tables, bottles of Champagne, red wine and copious amounts of food, which they'd eat and drink in an atmosphere of laughter and shouting, " he says.
They tuck with aplomb into a street-food supper of kushari (a local snack-food staple of pasta, lentils, tomato sauce and fried onions), bought in steaming ladlefuls from a little stall in the capital's old city.
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