It was a mellow February morning and we were gathered at the famous Sunday morning Chinese Breakfast Market located in central Kolkata. There was no lack of enthusiasm as resident Kolkatans as well as visitors from abroad wandered about, sampling the freshly prepared soups and dumplings, baos and suimais, etc. But what most did not realise is that the number of Chinese stalls has sharply declined over the past decade. And those still operating are mostly run by senior citizens who set up these stalls more by way of habit than for monetary gains. The market seemed to present in a nutshell the bleak future of the once flourishing Chinese community who had called Kolkata home.