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@signintoconfirm6168

9 ай бұрын

How about no. .. Also, to save people time: it is chicken tikka masala. And nobody cares.

@h.l.malazan5782

9 ай бұрын

"De-industrialization bad! Mmmm, this foreign cuisine is our national dish! Diversity!" Really? This is the alternative from your straightforward racist? Is there any version of you that acknowledge the existence of human history before the last two hundred years. There can be no other way besides your way, right?

@DungTran-li2wn

9 ай бұрын

Restaurants in britain are aimed at britons? Wow. Shocking.

@heisenberg19989

9 ай бұрын

Moti mahal invented butter chicken.... I guess Which is a tandoori chicken based dish.

@poppinc8145

9 ай бұрын

Why are you using the Indian government's version of the map which has India controlling Gilgit-Baltistan and literally bordering Afghanistan, which is neither true nor do any other country recognize India's territory as such?? At least come back to the real world.

As an American, I feel like Indian food is to the UK what Mexican food is to the US

@alliedatheistalliance6776

9 ай бұрын

A Mexindian restaurant would be fire. And by that I mean it would be hot af, and delicious. Tikka con carne to start with.

@bradley8575

9 ай бұрын

Indian and Asian food is very popular in the US too

@Nitzpitz

9 ай бұрын

Yes, and Indonesian food to the Dutch

@fad23

9 ай бұрын

This analogy makes sense to me. Some argue that burritos were invented in the American southwest.

@fad23

9 ай бұрын

I feel like Chicken Tikka Masala there is analogous to Pad Thai for American Thai restaurants.

Britain: colonises India India: colonises British food Resistance is futile.

@rustyhowe3907

9 ай бұрын

It really gives a new twist on "getting a taste of their own medicine" in the most literal (and highly humorous) sense.

@sakurakou2009

9 ай бұрын

​@@rustyhowe3907india give them best food, british give them death and famine, how is this taste of their own medicine ☠️

@sushonfire

9 ай бұрын

And now, Indian origian PM in UK ❤❤❤ Revange taken 😂😂😂

@helenswan705

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for this comment but I am not agreeing. I feel so sad that so many Indian Pakistani bangladeshi jamacan Middle Eastern and Chinese/far Eastern people who have made it over to the UK (always wonder why they want to, specially now) have been obliged to go into catering, not their original occupations. And then, obliged to pander to the very narrow UK tastes, the standard menus you will see from cornwall to Scotland because . . . well you can fill in the reasons for yourselves.

@globalcitizenn

9 ай бұрын

No it’s still Britain has colonised Indian food. They’re now claiming a very Indian Chicken Tikka Masala is a British dish. That’s colonisation.

As an Indian, I'm more amazed than offended about a new dish emerging from Indian cuisine mixing with British influence. I'd like to try chicken tikka masala myself once 🤤

@ionfreak83

4 ай бұрын

Similar to Hong Kong where its cuisine are influence by both Cantonese and British style because of its colonial past.

@stalfithrildi5366

4 ай бұрын

There's also a fight going on between Birmingham and Glasgow about which one invented the Balti

@jugo1944

4 ай бұрын

It's good. I like goat curry more tho

@devonbotney2762

4 ай бұрын

It is usually my go to dish (I'm american) but I know that chicken makhani and some other curry is there for me to try. I might branch a bit more

There was a Gordan Ramsay episode where he went to turn around an Indian restaurant on the ropes. The first thing he realised was that there were so many versions of curry dishes, that not even their cooks and staff could tell them apart when they were asked to taste them.

It's important to know that India itself has more than 100 million Bengalis, and their own cuisine is not the same as the cuisine from Sylhet. It is a lot more dessert oriented with more focus on the sauce and gravy rather than the spice mixture of the fish itself. Pilau is cooked sweet as well.

@arnavranka4510

9 ай бұрын

We need to stop Bangladesh from claiming the Bengali identity for themselves. People of Bangladesh are Bangladeshi, not Bengali. They do not follow Bengali culture, and follow and Arab religion.

@OscarOSullivan

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Satyakisil9711

@GobbiExists

9 ай бұрын

@@arnavranka4510in my opinion, your opinion is too extreme, but I agree with your main opinion of Bangladeshi people should not be the only people claiming the Bengali identity. I should actually try different types of bangla food someday when I have the chance :)

@arnavranka4510

9 ай бұрын

@@GobbiExists Read my comment again, whenever Sheikh Hasina loses in Bangladesh.

@zhozhoe

9 ай бұрын

There are Sylhetis in India as well. Ever heard of Silchar? And most Tripura Bengalis are originally Sylhetis.

Jamaican Food would probably be heaven for British people since most of it is a mixture of British and Indian foods

@Anonymoose66G

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, British people love Jamaican food, it's less common in The UK compared to Indian, Bengali, Pakistani, Chinese, Thai, but still known and loved.

@tomh2121

9 ай бұрын

@@Anonymoose66GIndian food is everywhere while Jamaican food is more common in cities with Caribbean communities like London, Manchester and Birmingham

@Anonymoose66G

9 ай бұрын

@@tomh2121 Yeah.

@harry.flashman

9 ай бұрын

i eat jerk fried rice and curry goat gravy everyday on my way home from work. its definately my favorite food.

@BBWahoo

9 ай бұрын

Do brits like Mexican food?

I love takes like this. It's so important to realize that the restaurants in your area are shaped by the customers in that area. Family restaurants often don't have the budget for massive advertising campaigns to sway public opinion. People say that the #1 reason restaurants fail is because of location. What that really means is that the only way for new cuisines and new food to show up in your area is if people go out and support those locations, if your town only has simple crappy restaurants, it's because those are the only sort of restaurants that can be successful in your town.

@drbarnowl

8 ай бұрын

The saddest part of this is that sought-after locations mean higher rents, which mean the landlord gets a bigger slice of whatever your restaurateur brings in and prices are largely dictated by this overhead. In my town, there's a lot of council-owned properties in the centre of town, and I'd honestly love them to devote a swathe of them to "pop up" restaurants that can make themselves a name before branching out into their own premises.

@mirta000

4 ай бұрын

Places with crappy restaurants have a population that can't afford to eat out.

This would not have been out of place on the BBC. I feel like I've watched a fair few documentaries like this on TV. Nice work!

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

YO SOO TRUE then made fun of on Monty..

Clicked on this video thinking I'd get a lot of b-roll of drunk British lads eating Indian food, but instead I got a fantastic, insightful rabbit hole of how the homogenization of Indi- no Bengali food is harming the industry. Thank you Andy. I will purposely veer away from tikka masala and try and go for the chef menu.

@Dani-ln6sp

9 ай бұрын

A wild Hoog appears, neat!

@mefisto05s.20

9 ай бұрын

Lol! American selling sushi doesn't make sushi American food

@saeefrayhan9717

9 ай бұрын

been binge watching hoog and fern for days, nice that you appear now.

@kindofanmol

9 ай бұрын

Bengal is literally a state in India so its still Indian food. Always will be.

@munemshahariar2503

9 ай бұрын

​@@kindofanmol UK is mostly sylhet Bangladeshi .. soo there's that

As a North-East Indian, I have eaten Chicken tikka masala probably once or twice in my life. That would be case for majority of Indians. I am from Assam and we eat lots fish, chicken, duck, mutton and pork dishes. Pork with ghost pepper and bamboo shoot is a delicacy here. Fish tenga(Sour fish curry), Alu pitika(smashed potatoes with mustard oil, onion and chilli), Dali bota(soaked lentil paste with chilli, black pepper, salt) Khar(alkaline dish made with papaya, water gourd etc.) are some of the best tasting dishes here. Hope foreigners get the chance to eat foods from all parts of India.

@MajimaEnterprises

9 ай бұрын

That sounds interesting. I'll have to look for an Assamese restaurant now because I'm intrigued.

@suhanaahmed4960

9 ай бұрын

as a sylheti from bangladesh, we eat smashed potatoes too (aloo borta) and fish tenga. so good !

@BlackDoveNYC

9 ай бұрын

I wish all these were available everywhere. They sound like they are really good.

@sonurejuven3209

9 ай бұрын

Northeast Indian pork food is heavenly 😋

@helenswan705

9 ай бұрын

I love the sound of all these things I have never heard of! Even though I am UK vegetarian. If only we stopped saying 'Indian' as if it was one thing. Even in a land as small as ours, English is not the same as Welshor Scots or Irish. Even N and S English are different. We are so ignorant.

I'm not British and I don't eat meat, so I think it's pretty interesting to see the trend in the UK of always ordering the same dish and compare it to my own habits. I'm in the US. Every time I go to an Indian restaurant, I order chana masala if I'm eating there for the first time. Chana masala isn't even my favorite, but I've found that the flavor of the chana masala will tell me what to expect from the rest of the menu. I usually order something different the second time I visit.

@chipsthedog1

4 ай бұрын

I judge a restaurant on its tarka dal, well judge is a little harsh but usually if I enjoy that dish chances are I will enjoy other things on the menu and it is mad how one dish can be so different depending on where you get it.

@nahor88

4 ай бұрын

@@chipsthedog1 It's unfortunate that most restaurants were started by Bangladeshis, cuz they're just a slice of what South Asian food has to offer. So many Westerners assume "this is what Indian food is". To your latter point, no two curries are the same, even if they're called the same thing. It's hard to convey this to people unless they just visit India and experience that for themselves. Even Gordon Ramsay didn't understand that until he did a docuseries across India.

@Shiruvi

4 ай бұрын

i do the same with italian places, my first choice is always the plain and simple pizza. if they can't handle bread, tomatoes and cheese it doesn't bode well for the rest of the menu. as for indian food i always check the paneer personally.

@Cantetinza17

4 ай бұрын

In California they have vegetarian choices that are so good.

@ernesto8290

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I can definitely relate. I do the same with cocktails, if I ask for what I consider a basic drink, the Manhattan, and from there I can infer whether or not too continue or just order beer or something on the rocks.

>it's not overpowering >eyes went watery in an instant, immediately grabs a bottle of water

As an Indian with significant exposure to Bengal, Bengalis and Bengali food, let me state for the record that typical British Curry House staples are a far cry to everyday bengali Food. British Curry House Food is just that - simply British - made by Bangladeshi Britons for fellow Brits. It’s a beautiful thing!

@just_a_memer_lol

8 ай бұрын

biriyani crying in the corner

@rutvikrs

8 ай бұрын

It's Punjabi cuisine tbf

@AYBIOM

8 ай бұрын

In the UK the food served is Punjabi but food like biryani, halim, korma, nihari, baklava, etc. is Mughali Cuisine and belongs to Bangladesh and India @@rutvikrs

@nicktecky55

8 ай бұрын

Exactly, it's even called BIR food for short. (British Indian Restaurant) It is especially true when it comes to CTM.

@johnnyw525

7 ай бұрын

It is indeed a beautiful thing! There's a reason it became the most popular takeaway... it awakened dormant British palettes! Thank you

Chicken tikka masala is also popular in the US now. The whole impact of Indian food in the UK is similar to Chinese and Mexican food impact on the US. Every small town and evensny villages have at least one Mexican and one Chinese restaurant.

@dunnowy123

9 ай бұрын

Yeah thats accurate. I'd say in parts of Canada, especially Ottawa and Montreal, Lebanese shawarma takes the role that Indian food does in the UK

@harry.flashman

9 ай бұрын

Is Jamaican food popular in U.S. and Canada?

@Homer-OJ-Simpson

9 ай бұрын

@@harry.flashman Jamaican food Probably in parts of Canada because there are some decent size immigrant populations in some areas. In the US I would say NYC & parts of FL do have decent number of restaurants due to the Jamaican population. Outside of that, in the large cities they tend to be not popular but also not unpopular. You won't find them everywhere but people do love Jamaican Jerk Chicken and the curry goat but the restaurants have a more niche audience. I'm in Chicago and my food app, I can find a few jamaican restaurants that deliver to me. So not anywhere near on par as Mexican/Chinese nor the next tier of Indian but EVERYONE knows Jamaican food and its easier to find then say food from every country except maybe 10-15 countries?

@iroseland

9 ай бұрын

While Chicken Tikka Masala is pretty easy to find over here. Tech worker visas have been really good to the US in the shape of really good, and very representative food from all over India. Just go to Devon street in Chicago, but be sure to be hungry. As for me, I am more of a Ghobi Aloo kind of guy.

@somerandomperson6511

9 ай бұрын

Like 80% of the Chinese restaurants are the same too, the food tastes the same and they have the same things and often even similar prices, it may as well be one big chain (but I still love it)

Ayo that's crazy, I randomly found my track 'back in Singapore' at 1:18 in this video. Thanks for the support on my WEI songs, Faultline!

Talking about tomatoes and chilies always adds a new dimension to food history considering they've only been available outside of the Americas for about 500 years now, imagine what kind of foods their introduction displaced a few centuries ago, in a way you could describe indian/bengali food imported to the uk as indian/bengali/"american" fusion

@madewithloveduh

4 ай бұрын

underrated comment

@mintpaintome

4 ай бұрын

by this logic, a lot of italian food is italian/american then. Something I'm not too sure italians would like hearing :^)

@suhridguha2560

4 ай бұрын

Most food on the planet is fusion food tbh

@OmniversalInsect

4 ай бұрын

@@suhridguha2560 Most culture on the planet is at least somewhat fused as well.

@suhridguha2560

4 ай бұрын

@@OmniversalInsect yeah true

People always rely on stereotypes instead of properly understanding places, Thanks for this video explaining this

@anathardayaldar

9 ай бұрын

Most American towns have a "chinese takeout" that does not specify what area of china they are from. And it seems like they all get their menus from the same printing company. You have to drive to a city center to get anything "regional". I image that's what indian food choice is like in the UK.

@arifshahabuddin8888

9 ай бұрын

@@anathardayaldar Chinese food in the U.S. is an American cuisine. The items found on an American menu is unlikely to be found in any menu in the Far East. Indeed, every country with a sizeable ethnic Chinese community will have restaurants serving food unlike any found in other countries. This was my experience in the Caribbean, the UK, even India. As for the origins of Chinese food in America, it's basically Cantonese (Guangdong). The vast majority of Chinese immigrants came from there. The Chinese Exclusion Act kept more Chinese from immigrating until the 1960s. Hence, Chinese-American food was really Cantonese-American food. More recently, at least in the American northeast, there has been a strong influence of Fuzhou and very many of the restaurants are owned and/or staffed by Fujian immigrants. So, the printing company that prints out all of those menus is an American company.

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

Like all Brits eat eels

It's like how Pad Thai, and Thai food in general, has become so popular in the US. Though the reason Pad Thai became so popular is a different story. Basically as Thai food gained steam in the US, the Thailand government took note of this. And so in the early 2000s, they launched a program that would train Thai chefs and send them abroad to open new restaurants with the aim of promoting Thailand as a destination to visit through their cuisine. As part of that campaign, the government also attempted to standardize Thai restaurants and their menus, in hopes of making dishes like Pad Thai as synonymous with Thai culture as say, the Big Mac is with McDonald’s. A surprise to no one, this tactic worked. It's also like how fortune cookies have become synonymous with Chinese culture...despite the fact fortune cookies aren't actually Chinese in origin. They were brought to the US by Japanese immigrants! Originating in Edo-period Japan, cookies very similar to the modern fortune cookie were made called the 辻占煎餅/tsujiura senbei. They were made with miso and sesame, different than the modern ones. But like the modern ones, it had fortunes inside called tsujiura or omikuji. These cookies are still sold in Japan today. It switched to a Chinese-American staple during WWII because of Japanese internment.

@cloroxbleach9222

8 ай бұрын

oh my god its avery the cuban american

@robmartin5448

8 ай бұрын

at this point you have to be a chatbot gpt

@cloroxbleach9222

8 ай бұрын

@@robmartin5448 I've seen Avery every now and then continuously since like 2019 though, highly doubt they're AI

@TankEngine75

8 ай бұрын

Yeah I've seen a Video on that Thai Food Program, I live in Malaysia (which borders Thailand) and there's so many Thai Restaurants here, I'm willing to bet a good portion of them are apart of that program

@TankEngine75

8 ай бұрын

​@@cloroxbleach9222I keep seeing them in comments too, I doubt they are an AI

There's a 4th sector of Indian food you should consider: Traditional "Café Style". It's where the restaurant would make vats of curries and reheat them to order. The curries in these places taste homemade. You actually showed footage of the former legendary Sweet & Spicy 9:18 which was your traditional café style Indian restaurant!

@drbarnowl

8 ай бұрын

Absolutely : if you're in Manchester, there's a good selection of these, including the iconic "rice & three" places that will serve you rice and three curries for under a tenner, like This & That in the Northern Quarter.

@selectionn

7 ай бұрын

reheated food sounds pretty mid but ok

@joonseokim2364

7 ай бұрын

is there a benefit of them being premade and reheated? Wouldn't it taste better if it was made fresh? Just a question tho👍.

@midoriioyama9548

7 ай бұрын

I often make curries at home, and they taste better the next day because the flavors have more time to marinate. @@joonseokim2364

@ddacoe0

6 ай бұрын

interesting!

As a French guy, I find it similar to the way "Chinese" food is seen in my country. The first "Chinese" restaurants you could find in France were in fact run by Vietnamese people (which makes sense as Vietnam was a former French colony and many Vietnamese people emigrated here). So for example one of the staples of "Chinese" restaurants in France is nem (filled with pork, chicken, shrimp or vegetables) which is a truly Vietnamese dish, close to the Chinese egg roll but not the same. They marketed their restaurants as "Chinese" even though they mostly made Vietnamese food. And then when Chinese people emigrated to France and opened Chinese restaurants they had to make nem because it's what French customers would expect to get.

As a Pakistani, my first experience with British Indian Restaurants came in a few years ago. The first thing the owners told me was that they were actually Pakistani and put "Indian Restaurant" in the name as it's what the British had come to love and would get confused if they were offering "Pakistani food". Secondly, the palate it's developed for is so clearly different from a typical Pakistani restaurant you'd eat from in Pakistan. Way more saucy, the sauce is usually much thicker, and less spicier as well. But it works! Fantastically! I love it! So I am definitely a fan of "White People Indian Food" lmao

@abhij2228

9 ай бұрын

pakistani food is Indian food.

@jarjarbinks3193

9 ай бұрын

It is Punjabi/Mughalai cuisine. Almost all Indian restaurants in both the UK and the US serve Punjabi/Mughalai fare.

@mangopudding5979

9 ай бұрын

Je alous and in secure pakeee😂. You just cant handle that Brits love Indian food. No wonder, you came up with such comment. Only some pakeee restaurants call their retaurants as Indian. Brits clearly know what Indian cuisine and what Pakeee cuisine is. Indian cuisine is light years ahead of Pakeee cuisine. Brits also eat South Indian cuisine, so they know what is Indian cusine and what is Pakeee cuisine.

@mangopudding5979

9 ай бұрын

​@@jarjarbinks3193wrong.

@jarjarbinks3193

9 ай бұрын

​@@mangopudding5979 I have been to both the US and UK. Indian restaurants there mostly serve what is referred to as Punjabi and Mughalai dishes in India. Food like Chicken Tikka Masala, Butter Chicken, Paneer Butter Masala, Naan etc. In fact, that is what most native European and American customers order/prefer as well. Yes, there are restaurants that serve Dosa in the US, but they are NOT all that sought after by locals. Moreover, South Indian food like Dosas don't work well for carry-outs as they are good ONLY when eaten fresh off the griddle.

As an American who has lived in India (mostly Uttarakhand) and visited the UK, I find that the chicken tikka masala I've had isn't that far removed from the standard butter chicken. Of course, no two butter chicken recipes are quite the same, but I don't find chicken tikka masala to be all that foreign to foods more traditional to the subcontinent, or at least a particular style of food there. What we get in Indian restaurants in the US and what I've experienced of South Asian food in the UK tends to gravitate towards a sort of pan-North Indian set of curry dishes, as sort of an at least somewhat Mughal-derived style (in my understanding anyway). In Uttarakhand, many restaurants of this type are operated by Punjabi Sikhs, but I can't guarantee that's the same elsewhere. Not quite what you'd get at the typical bhojnalay or dhaba or in most people's homes, but certainly something you can find pretty much all over the place. I enjoy this cuisine for what it is and chicken tikka masala as a diasporic dish, although I do long for momos, noodles, and thukpa as well as a nice, simple thali.

@escalocity

9 ай бұрын

Never had Chicken Tikka Masala, but I think I can relate it now that you have mentioned that it is similar to butter chicken. Obviously home cooked food from North and central India is not all Curries, you don't eat so many spices everyday. Generally it is more like Thalis you get at bhojanalaya. Daal, Sabji, Phulkas and Rice with curd or Raita.

@ChaosPod

9 ай бұрын

@@escalocity Same, I've never had Chicken Tikka Masala, but I do like butter chicken, and out of the Indian food I've tried I like it the best!

@csr8924

9 ай бұрын

Even within uttrakhand we have two divisions and different dishes from both regions. People have such different pallets with change of the geography and culture around them, it's amusing.

@mangopudding5979

9 ай бұрын

Thats not Mu ghal derived.

@aashishjain3506

9 ай бұрын

Oh nice, you have been to both the UKs then. Uttarakhand and United Kingdom.

It might be advantageous for these restaraunts to give small samples to their customers so they can get a taste of the other items on the menu. I'm Canadian and love Indian food but have never had chicken tikka masala!

@myrtlealley

8 ай бұрын

It's easy to try other dishes when your place has a lunch buffet

@ibrahimhassen1784

6 ай бұрын

​@@myrtlealleythat or if not try the non veg Thali which usually has the chicken Tikka masala..

@redf7209

5 ай бұрын

I'd never be able to make my mind up. I just promise myself to come back again to try what i missed.

I grew up in a family that owned a curry house. Thank you for putting the respect on the Bengali contribution!

I had a housemate from North India for a year, and the food she would make is so drastically different from the curry shops around me, and it really gave me an appreciation for places that have the ability to make their own authentic food.

Indian cuisine is vast. I actually urge all Brits to try out Malabar curry cuisine since that region has much longer history with non-vegetarian food (especially sea food). Also Malabar is where much of Indian spices originated and consequently where you'll find the most diverse offerings.

@harry.flashman

9 ай бұрын

We need a full length docu series or books explaining the history of this food.

@callistine8559

9 ай бұрын

Kerala cuisine ftw

@sandipkrmunda

9 ай бұрын

Malabar cuisine is a dwarf compared to Bengali cuisine(Greater Bengal). This is because of the vast Geography, long and complicated History, and sheer demographics in the region. It is the only region that touches the Himalayas on one end and touches the sea on the other end, there are old alluvial plains leading to the plateau, one of the largest fertile river basin systems of the world, the largest delta/mangrove forest, and scattered hill tracts.

@artman12

9 ай бұрын

It’s not “Malabar cuisine”. It’s Kerala cuisine as Malabar only encompasses the northern districts of Kerala. The cuisine from the Malabar districts are not really famous for seafood as the speciality here are other meat dishes like Thalassery Biryani. The central and southern districts of Kerala, especially Alappuzha and Kottayam, are more known for seafood curry dishes.

@baldwinivofjerusalem47

9 ай бұрын

@@callistine8559 Fr it tastes so gooood!

This was fantastic! I'm from the USA, and while we also love Chicken Tikka Masala, I had a few friends who introduced me to multiple types of Indian food relatively early on. I love this little bit of history into this famous/infamous dish! Kind of reminds me of Xiran Jay Zhao's defense of "Chinese American" food. It's an adaptation of humanity - it should be celebrated, but also used as a gateway for people to experience other foods and cultures.

@LavitosExodius

4 ай бұрын

Also American here yes we love Chicken Tikka Masala but honestly it's either Chinese Food or the Tex-Mex fusion that we love like the UK loves Indian food.

People like chicken tikka masala because it's easy to eat for someone who is not used to Indian food and it's usually somewhere between really good and ok. A lot of Indian dishes are overwhelming with the spice, powders and herbs. If you like CTM, try korma. It's a cashew cream sauce that I learned to like more than CTM.

@nahor88

4 ай бұрын

The funny thing is, there are a lot of regional cuisines in India that are on the blander side, and don't use such an overwhelming array of spices. A lot of South Indian dishes are fairly straightforward, using just a couple spices and otherwise relying heavily on coconut, lentils or tamarind for flavor. However, there is a much higher percentage of Indian migrants from the North in the Western Hemisphere compared to the South. I would go to Indian restaurants with my non-Indian friends, and they'd ask me how "authentic" the naan, Chicken Korma and Rogan Josh is, and my answer is "I have no fucking idea, I didn't grow up on this food".

@Laeiryn

2 ай бұрын

korma chicken is fkn amazingggg

I got so obsessed with british indian restaurant food that I got a job washing their dishes just so I could learn from the chefs. Once they realised this, they got me cooking the staff meal of chicken curry every Fri/Sat night. What a responsibility! I learnt a lot - but they got me learning what they wanted me to, and who was I to argue. It was hard work and low pay but they treated me like a brother. An amazingly supportive work environment. They kept encouraging me to take a break and eat more food. Legends.

@apoorv_mc

9 ай бұрын

Daam, you must host some dinner sometimes

@garywheeler7039

9 ай бұрын

Darn, take a break and eat more food, how "unamerican"(!)

@NickIrvineFortescue

9 ай бұрын

@@apoorv_mc yes true, when people come over I love to cook Indian/Bangladeshi/Nepali food for them. Chicken curry on the bone is the one I do best, and is the one I cooked for the staff

@NickIrvineFortescue

9 ай бұрын

@@garywheeler7039 yes it was different to most of the jobs I've had in England. It was a lot of work but I felt they actually cared about me as an employee. The fact they fed all their staff daily is testament to that also

@johndoe-vc1we

9 ай бұрын

Hard to find good labour. They try to hold on to who they get

So the Chicken Tikka style which is from the northern state of Punjab was the most popular Indian dish that was labelled as "generic Indian food" and is served by mostly Bengali restaurant owners from Bangladesh... that is a crazy south asian fusion right there... Personally my favourite Indian food dish is Pav Bhaji which is from the state of Maharashtra and has some Portuguese influence as well from the use of Pao (which means bread in Portuguese).

@savioblanc

8 ай бұрын

The Portuguese also introduced chilies and potatoes to India. So the entire dish is "Portuguese introduced but with Indian spices"

@jpdemer5

7 ай бұрын

@@savioblanc The same is true of lamb vindaloo.

@savioblanc

7 ай бұрын

@@jpdemer5 all vindaloo, which is a Portuguese dish, which went from tangy vinegary to spicy vinegary due to the introduction of Indian spices, then became spicy, more saucy when Indian chefs introduced it to the British

@whorcruxed

7 ай бұрын

​​@@savioblancI travelled to Goa (former Portuguese colony) last year and we wanted to try some local food. We asked the waiter about Vindaloo and his exact statement was 'khatta, meetha aur spicy' (transl: sweet, sour and spicy). I was so confused, I thought he's asking me how I want my dish to taste like among them because usual Indian dishes don't combine these flavours together. When we were served and I had my first bite, I couldn't believe it was exactly 'sweet, sour and spicy'. I didn't know it's a Portuguese dish, I thought maybe it's a coastal dish.

@savioblanc

7 ай бұрын

@@whorcruxed awesome. It's essentially a Portuguese dish, adapted to Indian tastes and in its original form, primarily made with pork

Really great video. The production was so tight I thought I was watching some professional network television mini-doc until I started poking around looking for more info after the video. Amazing work!

I have a 'go to' dish when I try a new Chinese/Asian restaurant. It's a simple dish that you find on most menus. If the chef/cook can make this simple dish tasty, I usually want to eat there again. When I go back I start ordering my way through the menu trying most everything they make over time.

@jzhou3704

7 ай бұрын

What dish is it?

@suitandtieguy

6 ай бұрын

What is it?

@potssnpanns8418

4 ай бұрын

my go to is usually pork fried rice if they got it

As a British Pakistani it’s pretty cool to see the country I was born and raised in have such love for a cuisine I grew up with. Shoutout chicken tikka masala

@pinklady7184

9 ай бұрын

Irish here. Pakistanis in my town were the first people who introduced me to basmati rice, biryanis, kormas, etc.

@shashankdixit8949

9 ай бұрын

​@@pinklady7184all those dishes and things are indian by the way it's just pakistan doesn't have there own different cousine

@ea3414

9 ай бұрын

@@shashankdixit8949 avg Indian. Always going on about how varied India is but completely blind when it comes to Pakistan

@SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi

9 ай бұрын

​@@ea3414He is right though. Those are Indian staples. We use Basmati rice for every occasion. If you check the stores in the UK all those are imported from India. India accounts for over 70% of the world's basmati rice production. Pakistan really doesn't have any role in it.

@surajprakash3181

9 ай бұрын

its fine i think it is not right to separate pakistan when it comes to indian dishes, essentially pakistan and india are part of same land so to alienate them from INDIAN dishes is not so right, remember the border was created only in 47, before that it was one land for thousands of years@@shashankdixit8949

Very interesting. Here in the Netherlands we have roughly the same kind of situation with what we call "Chinese", but it's actually more like a Dutch-palate adjusted Indonesian cuisine. The concept of a "Chin.Ind.Spec.Rest" (Chinese Indonesian Specialties Restaurant) is something that actual books have been written about.

@whome9842

8 ай бұрын

I'm curious about what even is "Dutch-palate adjusted Indonesian cuisine". I don't even know what Dutch people like or dislike.

@perhapsyes2493

8 ай бұрын

@@whome9842 I cant exactly explain Dutch tastes, but our "Chinese" is generally a lot less spicy, more oily, more sweet than the original.

@tessie7e777

8 ай бұрын

The best food I had in my two month whirlwind tour of Europe in 1988 was the Indonesian food I had in the Netherlands. 😊

@nad4243

8 ай бұрын

Now I wonder how those indonesian food could be labelled as chinese considering china and indonesia is very far away from each other

@Rossy167

8 ай бұрын

@@nad4243Chinese Indonesian food is its own thing inside of Indonesia, as there’s a Chinese minority population there. It bears similarity to Chinese dishes but is influenced by Indonesian ingredients and cooking styles, especially as the Chinese Indonesian population has diverged quite a lot culturally from China. Indonesian food in general has lots of different types as it’s a huge set of islands. I’m not sure how to describe Chinese Indonesian, only that it’s a little less rustic and more approachable than say Padang food, another popular Indonesian style. Chinese Indonesian dishes are among my favs as a British guy, especially their noodle soups and their versions of nasi campur (basically just a catch all for rice with assorted stuff).

I absolutely will not stop ordering chicken tikka masala, under any circumstances.

As an Indian. All the information you've presented is very well researched and very true. Not only is your research great, but your style of explaining is very nice. Good job, I subbed.

I’ve heard the story about the chef in Scotland before, and it does make sense to try and modify a traditional recipe to make it more palatable to a different region. I’d even say it’s essential to simplify the menu, like Chipotle does with Mexican, and to offer alternatives like boneless chicken that can be eaten with a knife and fork rather than the traditional hands. I’m Bengali-Canadian and I really enjoy all your videos, please keep it up!

@alliedatheistalliance6776

9 ай бұрын

As a Scot, I also love the disrespect of it as well. 'Add some ketchup, these savages love ketchup'. And he was right

@tehfiredog

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, everything about it makes perfect sense... "Damn Brits want gravy on everything so that's what I'll give em" but with too much self respect to have it taste bad just feels properly organic.

As an Indian myself, I've really learnt a lot from this video, keep up the good work!

@thepalebluedot4171

9 ай бұрын

Yeah , you did learn about the East Pakistani airforce/military fiercely fought with the Pakistani airforce/military ...🤣🤣

@phabove7

8 ай бұрын

@@thepalebluedot4171 : Spot On. Not mentioning India made it hillarious.

Excellent video! Well, researched, well written and well edited! Subscribed! Keep it up!

"from which Indian city is Chicken Tikka Masala from?" "Edinburgh"

@stuartmacdonald9289

9 ай бұрын

I think it was actually invented in Glasgow.

@pronoydutta614

9 ай бұрын

It's an Indian dish. You get it everywhere here. You also get 100s of other dishes, which is why it isn't considered special.

Top video. I'm a British Bengali, my dad who came here in the 1960s and has spent the last 50+ years cooking up curries. Personally I've always been frustrated by how curry houses have always been referred to as "Indian," I always felt it diminishes the impact Bengalis have had on British culture and lexicon. In regards of the decline of the curry house, I felt it would have been worth mentioning both the long hours and poor pay of this work which has meant second and third generations of British Bengalis have no interest in working in the restaurant industry . I recall not seeing my dad much growing up because he was always working and we didn't have much growing up, I didn't much have in material possessions, we never went on holidays but I'm not going to say I was in poverty, we had a mortgage and I never went hungry but it was just about getting by. If this was now, then I'd be in poverty city with the stagnation of wages since 2008. I will defend British cuisine, fish and chips are top tier, I love yorkshire puddings and beans on toast is proper struggle meal. Is it mild AF? Yes but I still enjoy it. (Though I do put curry power in bakes beans)

@nabilalhami1681

9 ай бұрын

I mean British Bengals can be classified into British Bangladeshis and British Indians (who can trace their ancestry from West Bengal of India). Which one are you?

@sakshamrai1803

9 ай бұрын

Yeah well Bengalis are also Indian. Bangladesh doesn’t have a monopoly over Bengali identity. You can clarify in front of the shop that you are from Bangladesh, however don’t say that Bengalis are not Indians. And no offence, but Indians did fight a whole for the sake of Bangladesh’s liberation.

@harry.flashman

9 ай бұрын

Its a brilliant video. Very educational, now I know.

@JRCSalter

9 ай бұрын

I also put curry powder into baked beans. Good choice.

@sassythesasquatch4425

9 ай бұрын

I hate it when Bangladesis use “Indian”. Stop hiding under Indian when you dont even like Indians. 🤣 i have to avoid so many restaurants as its not Authentic Indian food.

Very nice episode 🎉 Thanks for all the hard work devoted ❤

Indian people became doctors, lawyers, or even a PM, rather than the graft of running a restaurant. Great documentary, great quality, well researched.

As a Bengali, with connections in Bangladesh, it's great to see this. Nobody believed me when I told that the whole of UK is actually eating Bengali cuisine or derived a lot from it. I wasn't being elitist, it was an observation. Its great now that there's this well researched video.

@BruceWayne_notBatman

8 ай бұрын

almost none of the dishes they serve are Bengali, most dishes they serve originated in northern present day pakistan or India, they are just run by Bangladeshi bengali immigrants, and that is a fact this video was not able to get across the audience. so technically, you would be wrong

@BruceWayne_notBatman

8 ай бұрын

Because many popular curry house dishes like vindaloo and butter chicken are of west and north indian origin. Tikka masala too is heavily inspired by something that would be served in the punjab region. Bengali dishes are very different, and something im not sure your palette is used to

@basu_104

8 ай бұрын

@@BruceWayne_notBatman your writing is incoherent or you're tying very hard to put me down. "Bengali dishes are very different, and something im not sure your palette is used to" - how do you know that bro? Have you met me or my family? would you shut up if i gave you the cv of all my family members that were chefs? how the heck do you assume my palate is not used to bengali food when I've started the sentence with "As a bengali and roots in bangladesh" lol next, i'll repeat what i said: "the whole of UK is actually eating Bengali cuisine or derived a lot from it." Note the word derived. here's what it means in this context: like every culture has their own set of spice mix, we bengalis do too. the preparations in uk reflect a very close resemblance to the spice mix that bengalis use. and bengali spice mix is very unique jsut like say south or north cultures. so its very easy to distinguish if the tikka is "adulterated" with bengali mix or mallu mix. If you are still refusing to belive this, then maybe you need a lesson on what are considered as common in bengali spice mixes and then search for the spices used in uk for preparing punjabi dishes. OR do you want me to post the ingredients for you? my point will always be that uk citizens consume bengali spice mix disguised as a punjabi/pakisthan dish. and yes, this is totally happening due to the massive influx of Bangladeshis. that has nothing to do if the original dish was from punjab or wherever. if these same bangladeshis served tacos, they would still use the bengali spice mix. just like americans use their own mix for the tacos that are clearly labelled as mexican tacos. Stop trying to attack me personally to compensate for your lack of knowledge and basic courtesy.

@basu_104

8 ай бұрын

@@anivesh I consider it incoherent if someone says my palate is not used to some good when I've mentioned that I am born and brought up in that culture. Lol Theres nothing called "Bengali spice mix", definitely. Certainly not same as any other belt. I used it as a colloquial term to refer to the unique herbs and spices we mix. Don't be dense. How else would I refer to the unique blend every community has? Bengalis use spices that northern people don't use, again, Punjabis don't use spices that the southern belt uses. If you still think every state doesn't have a unique spice, let me know, I'll write it out. No problem. Hold back your assumptions before that. And yes Bengali food is far way from this, and Bengali food is far more than this too.

@rutvikrs

8 ай бұрын

Name one Bengali word in those dishes. Also Bangla food has plenty of fish which are minimal in these curry houses. They are making Punjabi Mughlai fusion

I loved this video! You touched on a lot of very sensitive topics!! I love that you brought light to the wonderful Bangladeshis and their influence. I would love you to do a video about food in the UK that is Punjabi! Punjabis are a huge part of the South Asian UK population. Also if you found people willing to do so, a video about where WE eat out would be soooo great..

This video exceeded my expectations and I think you make some excellent points. I do believe that people getting stuck in their culinary comfort zones is a much broader issue than for "Indian" restaurants though. Few other types of restaurants will regularly revamp the menu either, whether they be ones with an ethnic identity or just something more generic like McDonalds. And the term Bengali people does not necessarily mean Bangladeshis. Bengal isn't just Bangladesh, it's also the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. So Bengali people in India have the same food and culture as the Bangladeshis. It is just that religion is different. Bengali Indians mostly practice Hinduism. This is what Chinese food is to the US. And American Chinese food is very much not authentic, except in big cities with huge populations of immigrants who want a taste of home. The reason that is, is the same reason why British Chinese food isn't either. Because most Americans and Brits won't eat the real deal. Chinese immigrant cooks in the West in the early 20th century weren’t on a mission to bring the authentic tastes of their own country to the US and Europe. They were out to make a living, and in the restaurant business, that means meeting people’s demands. Over time, people in the UK and US who grew up eating that food create associations with it, and it becomes what they want, when they eat Chinese food.

@stringargs

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, growing up I hated "Chinese" food in the UK because it was really dumbed down for a Western palate. Now I'm lucky enough to go to a local Cantonese place that serves authentic food and it's amazing.

I don't really know how this video came across my home page, I'm not subscribed to you, I'm not British, and I'm not a massive fan of Indian food, but I am so thankful for the algorithm in this case. This video was so well made and informative but yet entertaining. Keep up the good work, this really was a quality video.

@richardcgs2001

9 ай бұрын

Although American, I adore Indian food and have indulged in it for some forty-odd years. I like chicken vindaloo, mutton kadai and mutton rogan josh, as nonveg options, and chana dal, chole bathure and aloo bharta (eggplant) as veg options. I like jeera/zeera rice and puri and lotcha porotha bread. I favor north Indian (except Rajastani where they routinely, to my taste, spoil dishes with sugar) and Pakistani especially Punjabi cuisine. In the main, I am not into South Indian, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan cuisine. Moreover, dishes like tikka chicken masala, butter chicken and (any) korma I do not order; I find them too saucy/creamy and grossly underspiced. I absolutely detest how many Indian chefs in Bahrain gratuitously add copious amounts of sugar to curries so much so that I need to warn the waiter in advance not to do so on pain of my returning the dish unpaid for. Accordingly, I tend to prefer Pakistani restaurants whose chefs, at least in Bahrain, do not exhibit a tendency and are not wont to add sugar. Routinely, I bring my own chilis to enliven dishes. While I would not bother with chicken tikka masala, not all synthetic dishes are bland and rendered anodyne for the British palate. I did sample in the UK, at the insistence of British colleagues, fal and tinderloo, which, I did enjoy. In Chicago, there was a cluster of Indian restaurants on Devon street in the far north of rhe city. In my university days, I used to order vindaloo but telling the waiter no tip unless I am writhing on the floor in agony after the meal. (Accordingly, I tipped very infrequently.)

Tip for anyone who wants to explore a Bangladeshi dish at any of these Curry Houses. Go there and ask if the Chef is from Bangladesh, if so ask him to make you a "Chicken Jhal Fry", "Chicken/Lamb Korma". The first one is spicy and the second one is sweet. These two are authentic dishses that you can find anywhere in Bangladesh. If you are into beef then order "Beef Rezalah". If you are vegan then ask for "Bhorta Bhaji".

@samvishal3450

7 ай бұрын

This video is about Indian restaurants.

@xenon6947

7 ай бұрын

@@noggintube There is stigma attached to Pakistani and Bangladeshi as men from these countries are engaged with Grooming Gangs . 1000s of girls are affected by grooming gangs however police hands are tied on these cases.

@edwardliu111

5 ай бұрын

@@samvishal3450 Mate, did you not watch the bloody video?

@handles_are_a_bit_rubbish

4 ай бұрын

Kormas are a standard dish at any regular Indian place.

this video is just so good. absolutely amazing the production value of this video is

I lived/worked in Hong Kong for a number of years. There is an area called Tsim Sha Tsui in which is sprawling labyrinthine complex of 16-storey buildings providing cheap dormitory accommodation to travellers. It is populated primarily by Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi traders on the lower floors, various 'guest-houses' and, best of all, a plethora of South Asian restaurants covering all regional cuisines. The two I used to go to regularly were the Khyber Pass and and the Sheri-Punjab. Their main clientele was south Asian so the food was authentic. Having travelled widely in Asia when I was much younger I can attest to that authenticity.

In reality, you can copy + paste these trends (including the 'old school' 'premium' and 'new wave') and customer preferences with every single food that isn't of that country. This is how dishes evolve in reality. Tempura isn't Japanese for example. Curry was introduced to Japan by the British. Fried chicken was introduced to Korea by Americans during the Korean War and like curry houses in the UK, Korean fried chicken shops are everywhere in South Korea. This has even occurred in India with historic Indian-Chinese food with the Chinese immigration to Kolkata in the 1700s. Here in Australia, you had this timeline resulting in that 'old school' 'premium' and 'new wave', particularly with Chinese food, and in the major cities, you can get highly regional food like you pointed out with subcontinent food in the UK.

@alliedatheistalliance6776

9 ай бұрын

British food is the only one that isn't popular with anyone else. You will never find a chip shop outside the UK, except as a novelty or targeting British visitors.

@episode6691

9 ай бұрын

@@alliedatheistalliance6776 I can't think of that many immigrants which are british that go to fuckin india or something lmao. These shops are opened because of immigrants. These immigrants go to western society, not the other way around.

@holeeshi9959

9 ай бұрын

@@alliedatheistalliance6776 you may want to visit Boston, Massachussetts, they are actually really proud of their Fish and Chips.

@MajimaEnterprises

9 ай бұрын

Yeah. Authentic Chinese food is great. Used to eat it regularly when I lived in Manchester. Now I'm living back in my hometown and nowhere around here serves it. Once you've had authentic Chinese food, eating the Anglicised version of Chinese food just feels wrong, so I tend to go for the Thai curries instead because a lot of Chinese takeaways serve them nowadays. Obviously these Thai curries aren't authentic either, but they're better than the Anglicised Chinese dishes that are jam packed full of sugar, salt and MSG.

@MonsterJuiced

9 ай бұрын

​@alliedatheistalliance6776 this is how much a dunce you really are. Japan has a whole culture around British food. They try their best and no it's not just fish and chips either. British food is hearty, beefy, potato stew type foods. Roast chicken, sausages, yorkshire pudding, gravy, dumplings. Beefs steak, cheeses, Seasonings. Stuffing. Etc etc.. we have a rich and dense cuisine and you're just ignoring all of that. Other countries do inspire from our cuisine don't pretend that somehow Britain is just shit and other countries don't like anything strictly British because that is absolutely wrong on so many levels.

I loved the way the history of the countries was covered to give context to the evolution of cuisines!

Kinda the same for Chinese restaurants as well. They usually serve dishes that would either be heavily customized or completely new creations. Although, from very anecdotal evidence, I think people are also keen on getting proper dishes lately.

@KhiemNguyen-ly1wz

4 ай бұрын

Seriously, especially those Chinese buffet places in America. It's honestly downright disgusting at times. They're a disgrace to proper Chinese cuisine

@stringargs

4 ай бұрын

@@KhiemNguyen-ly1wz It used to be grim here in the UK too - all "Chinese" dishes were orange food colouring and sugar, and because people didn't know any better that's what they thought it all was. Now we're seeing more authentic Szechuan, Cantonese, Tibetan and Mongolian places pop up and it's opened people's eyes to how delicious the food really is.

Thank you for highlighting this up feeling really good ❤❤ 🇧🇩🇧🇩

It would be interesting to see a restaurant experimenting with giving a choice of menus off the bat, a chefs menu with all the staff favorite dishes, a regulars menu with all the bestsellers, and an trials menu with all the dishes the chefs and cooks are testing out or which are meant to challenge the palette.

As a British Sri Lankan this video speaks a lot to me, thanks for making this amazing video!

My favourite restaurant in Leicester is Kayal, which is Keralan, and offers dishes completely different to the standard Indian (or not) restaurants in town. But I enjoy it all, it's great when cultures mix and match, and produce something new.

the curry house is dying out because it's just way more expensive than it used to be a curry will set you back at least 15 quid these days, and that's WITHOUT sides like naan, bhajis, drinks

It's not hard to believe when they used to rule India

@Homer-OJ-Simpson

9 ай бұрын

Except UK rules 25% of the planet and yet only Indian seems to be very popular throughout the UK. You can’t find others but just not near the same scale

@Mr.DISRESPECT

9 ай бұрын

@@Homer-OJ-Simpson there's a common saying, you can find an Indian in every corner of the world. which is in fact true

@I.____.....__...__

9 ай бұрын

@@Homer-OJ-Simpson Because only reverse-colonized the UK, the other commonwealth countries weren't overpopulated enough to backflow to Britain.

@I.____.....__...__

9 ай бұрын

@@Mr.DISRESPECT Indeed. I live in a nook/cranny where nobody lives on the outskirts of my city and they are here now.

@praddumnvats6759

9 ай бұрын

@@I.____.....__...__ yup gonna completely anhilate the natives of British isles.

I am someone from Sylhet, Bangladesh (The place mentioned in the video). Currently living in Germany for half a decade. I sort of felt proud seeing the video. I have so many relatives living in the UK who own a restaurant. Nice video, cheers!

I was sharing an apartment in Munich with a girl from South London in the mid-90s and when we first went out to a Indian restaurant she went nuts over the food and said she never tasted Indian food as good as that in London. Like many Indian restaurants in Munich, it was a restaurant run by Punjabi Sikhs, not Bengalis. Maybe that's the reason.

Love your production quality and the research.

I am not surprised. 🤣 if you look at Chinese food being serve in the U.K. and over the world, There is no sweet and sour chicken, chop shey and fortune cookies. They are Chinatown’s invention. As a matter of fact, there is a story have been circulated around regarding the invention of Choy Shey. The story goes as Chinese takeaway usually close very late at night. One night as the takeaway come to a close, a few drunk people come in and demand for food. However, all the foods are gone. The chef come up with an idea to Savage whatever in the food waste bin and create a dish from there. As a matter of fact, the term Chop Shey means put whatever available to combine the food in one dish. So, I am not surprised Chicken Tikka Masala is a British invention. 🤣

@thefutureisnowoldman7653

9 ай бұрын

True Western don't want to eat dog

@chanshuwun

9 ай бұрын

@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 What a stereotype think all Chinese eats dogs? Do you know the history of dog eating culture in China and Korea?

@thefutureisnowoldman7653

9 ай бұрын

@@chanshuwun Yes it's a very popular dish in both countries especially the south. Even today there's massive factories where you torture dogs to death.

@chanshuwun

9 ай бұрын

@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 Why I am not surprised your ignorant. It is not very popular anymore. It is even illegal to eat dogs and cats from where I am from. Throughout history, there is only one type of dog are meant to be slaughtered for consumption, they were raised just like chickens and ducks. It was meant to be food. Only nowadays people just ate all kind of dogs, which is absolutely mad. My family has two dogs that was raise as pet was stolen and poisoned to be slaughtered for food.

@thefutureisnowoldman7653

9 ай бұрын

@@chanshuwun I stand corrected. I'm sorry about your dogs

Can't believe how many interviews you did and that you even filmed in whitechapel! This is the deep dive the country needs.

I really love the veg samosas, gobi manchurian and chana aloo curry. As a vegetarian person, Indian Restaurants saved me so many times.

@LiLGhettoSmurfOG

4 ай бұрын

I'm not a vegetarian but indian is one of the few places I feel like I'm not compromising by getting something with out meat. I like some of the meatless dishes even more.

Not so strange, that Brits adopted Chicken Tikka Masala as the national dish.. Pizza (Italian) and Hamburgers (German) are the two dishes associated with the US. Speak of, I have eaten Indian food in a lot of cities and countries, and best meal I ever had was in Krakow.

Chx Tikka is big here in the US but honestly, Kadai Paneer is my favorite Indian dish. Chicken Tikka was one of my favorite starting out but now it is one of the last dishes I would eat, there are just too many other delicious options to choose from.

This video was so good, the videography was great, the editing was phenomenal and the story telling was so on point! Keep up what your doing

very nice video! informative script, nice shots, clean infographics, good editing!

Love the fact that ad section said paying my bill

Love this. I live in Scunthorpe, where, post-war, many of those immigrants you speak of came to work in the steel industry, and also many set up 'Indian' restaurants (although I believe a lot were of Pakistani heritage; because of your video here I'd have to fact check that). We still have a good number of those restaurants here, and to be honest, you can't get a bad curry in any of them. They're all pretty great. However, I do think the one thing you missed in respect of the 'decline' you speak of is home cooking. I know back in the day, when I was in my early 30s (I'm near 60 now) and ordering Indian food for home delivery was hurting my pocket, 'cos I was hard up at the time, so I started to learn to cook these dishes at home. This was helped by an increasing number of 'celebrity' chefs focussing on 'Indian' cuisine, and I soon found it wasn't that difficult to replicate the British version of such cuisine. Notably, in the first place, using many of Patak's sauces and, even more so, their pastes. And then came TV chefs such as Anjum Anand (whose cook books I still own and revere) whose recipes tended toward a more 'authentic' idea of what real Indian food might be. And now we have the likes of Chetna Makan, following other 'Masterchef' contestants, and also amazing youtube channels where Mums and and Grand-Mums present incredible recipes for us home cooks to try out. I was never a Tikka Masala chap myself, but I have been guilty of reverting to Jalfrezi on so many occasions. Although I love any curry with fish, notably King Prawns. My home cooked faves are Keralan Chicken; various vegetable curries (Chetna again), and homemade Kormas that are not overpowered with sugar and coconut. Yeah, I do wonder how much working class folks like me, and other home cooks, put a dent in the market. It's so much fun to do too. Especially if it's your favourite kind of food. Here in Scunthorpe, the trade still looks good, but, I don't know, I'd have to ask the proprietors. That would be interesting. I rarely go to restaurants now because of aforementioned home cooking. But I am will do soon, just to try that chef's menu. I'm intrigued by that. Anyways, loved this work you did, and you got a new subscriber here. Cheers. :)

Very interesting that most “Indian” restaurants are from a specific region of Bengal/Bangladesh. Here in Canada, I find that most Indian restaurants are based on Punjabi cuisine (both India and Pakistan). Thanks for the interesting video.

@rourib.dutt20

9 ай бұрын

The Brits resided in Bengal and made Calcutta the capital of India for hundreds of years. What can you expect 😂

@SamDy99

9 ай бұрын

@@rourib.dutt20 Cringeeeeeeee

@rourib.dutt20

9 ай бұрын

@@SamDy99 what cringe? It's a known fact. The Britishers loved Calcutta more than anything in India. That's they constructed only our city on the lines of London as the capital of British Raj and other cities as Presidency Towns.

@peace163

9 ай бұрын

​@@rourib.dutt20the restaurants in UK are mostly owned by the sylheti bengali people from Bangladesh not kolkata.

@rushikesh3443

9 ай бұрын

@@peace163 but they cook indian food, mainly North Indian, they don't cook aloo bhorta

As a Bengali I deeply appreciate that you talked about the history of Bangladesh :)

@khanch.6807

4 ай бұрын

​@@Neel71 Bengalis are from West Bengal. Bangladeshis are from Bangladesh. Very similar culture but different history and governments. It's like how Canada is America-Lite.

@Anna-pm3fq

4 ай бұрын

@@khanch.6807people in west-bengal and Bangladesh are both Bengalis. The difference in nationality. You could be an Indian Bengali or a Bangladeshi Bengali.

@DipakBose-bq1vv

7 күн бұрын

There are great differences between Hindu Bengalis and Bangladeshis. Bangladeshis have different religions, different language, different culture, different foods, different linages. Please do not call them Bengalis. They are Bangladeshis.

@gamingofthelegend3907

4 күн бұрын

@@DipakBose-bq1vvI call my self Bengali even though I’m Muslim

Excellent video. Very informative and researched. Well Done!!

I'm from Bangladesh but whenever I go to an Indian restaurant I order chicken tikka masala with naan because we don't eat that at home😭

Indian food is absolutely blowing up in the USA. America's minority population embraced Indian food immediately as they share a love for spicy food. Many people from all over the continent of India brought their cuisine to the States so we have massive variety. In my town New Delhi style was the most popular, whereas Boston had many Bengali owned restaurants. In Seattle many south Indian restaurants dot the landscape.

@AncientBert

9 ай бұрын

California checking in. We cook a curry meal once every week as the whole family loves Indian food. One can find a plethora of recipes on the Internet and there are specialty stores for the occasional rare ingredient.

@thomasbloxham247

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, and Mexican food is exploding in the UK too, it's just really really bad. Only the VERY best indian restaurants in the US are better than fine, whereas in the UK you can go to any indian restaurant anywhere in the country and get a feast.

@rebeccahicks2392

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasbloxham247 Exactly. Indian food and Mexican food as regards the UK and USA are mirror images of each other. Well established and good (though not necessarily on the level of the way it is in India itself or Mexico itself) in the UK/USA, and growing but not really very good in the other place---probably due to people seeing it online and being curious, but that not translating into having the right ingredients or skills.

@bigmofarah9084

8 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it. Haven't been to the US for about five years now but even back then Indian food seemed to be the target of a lot of jokes and have a bit of an image problem. Now they see what the reat of us do - India is a land of incredible flavours and cookery.

@cute_axolotl

8 ай бұрын

@@thomasbloxham247 I don't know if that's true. I've been to plenty of Indian restaurants in the US that were good quality, especially now that the South Asian population in the US is growing even more.

That was well researched and put together. What amazed me is how the Balti Triangle had diminished to a shadow of its former self. I used to eat there all the time when I was in Brum and the no frills late night feasts were delicious. I travelled to Sri Lanka and experienced some really hot spicy food and ate sambals for breakfast. These days I live in Australia and can honestly say the curry houses are so bad that I only eat Thai and Vietnamese food these days.

@stringargs

4 ай бұрын

Used to eat at places in the Balti Triangle years ago and they were great, tasty hot dishes with proper family naans and newspaper covering the table. Went last year and all three of my old haunts were awful sugary slop, really sad. There's a growing Vietnamese food scene here in the UK though and the food is really good, so I'm with you mate, at least you're getting your spice kick

An ancestor of mine marketed a curry powder to the UK. His company's name was "Carter[s".

In New Zealand we love Indian food aswell but its Buttered Chicken that is the most popular in the country with cheese and garlic naan bread🤤 we understand its been "westernized" full of cream and crap but it taste so good😅 love it!! Cheers from New Zealand 🍻

@wondertriplover

7 ай бұрын

god i love curry leaf butter chicken 😋

this channel is so underrated holy!!!! the quality and production on every video is amazing as well

There may be 10,000 Indian restaurants in the U.K, but 90% of them are owned/operated by non-indians. These same restaurants mostly only serve one of 2 hyper regional cuisines that do not represent indian food.

Thank you! That was a respectful, interesting, and open-minded dive into something that other people quite obviously take for granted. I am from south Louisiana and many people have this warped idea that all our cuisine has to offer is HOT, HOT, HOT spices, blackened fish, and a couple of mass-market oddities that aren't that great: think canned gumbo "soup" and "Cajun spice" potato chips. NOPE. Asking the chef to prepare what they might serve to their own families and friends (e.g. for a holiday meal or birthday party) can give you a much better idea of any cuisine. I myself am hyper-sensitive (bordering on allergic) to hot peppers. No cayenne, no jalapenos, no red chili flakes, no Tabasco sauce, etc. for me. There are still many, many traditional Louisiana foods that I can enjoy. In fact, our so-called "Holy Trinity" of seasoning for Louisiana cuisine is a combination of onions, celery, and bell peppers -- no hot peppers required. Fried catfish, boiled shrimp, soft-shell crab, Crawfish Étouffée, fried cornbread balls (hush puppies), white pork and rice sausage (boudin), and desserts like bread pudding with rum sauce or treats like French Market donuts (beignets), are just a few of the many, many treats we eat around here that don't require being doused in hot peppers and burned. Come visit tome time and enjoy!

I have heard about the chef in Glasgow inventing the Chicken Tikka Masala, the customer ordered a Chicken Tikka which is chunks of marinated and cooked chicken on wooden skewers. The customer found it too dry for him, so he sent it back to the kitchen, the chef was thinking of a way to make a sauce for the dish and he saw a can of Campbell's condensed cream of tomato soup. The chef removed the chicken from the skewers and added them to the soup with some garam masala spice powder, it was then presented to the customer and he enjoyed it so much that he asked what the dish was called, the chef thought for a moment and said it is Chicken Tikka Masala, a culinary legend was born.

It’s very difficult for the British to get rid of three habits 1. Addiction to Chicken tikka masala 2. Buggery in public schools 3. Drinking warm beer

@leigh7507

9 ай бұрын

Just for foreigners information - the lager is served cold - the ale is served room temperature (which is never warm in the UK because its a cold island)

@sunnyboynfs

9 ай бұрын

Who tf drinks warm beer? It tastes like piss.

@leigh7507

9 ай бұрын

@sunnyboynfs it's ale not lager and it's never actually warm. Have you lads never been to UK or Ireland?

@sunnyboynfs

9 ай бұрын

@@leigh7507 Nope

@leigh7507

9 ай бұрын

@sunnyboynfs that's fair. If you've not been then we can't expect you to know about ale, stout, all those things. I think most of the world only knows lager in terms of beer

I have spoken to the owner of Moti Mahal, and no they did not invent Chicken Tikka Masala. The restaurant is known to have invented the Tandoori Chickeken, and the Butter Chicken (which is also a tomato based dish). Also Boti really means a piece of boneless lean meat. Even when it is cooked in a Kebab.

@globalcitizenn

9 ай бұрын

Chicken Tikka Masala is just Butter Chiken with leftover Chicken tikka Peppers and onions instead of just Tandoori chicken. It’s a very similar sauce,

@KindredBrujah

8 ай бұрын

Butter Chicken and Chicken Tikka Masala are really very similar. I'd wager most palates couldn't discern the difference if they didn't know in advance which was which.

@einsteinwallah2

8 ай бұрын

sourabh mookherjee: he is talking about balti which he at least once pronounces bolti ... where does he talk about boti? ... about balti also his information may be wrong ... there is a place called baltistan

@utkarsh2746

7 ай бұрын

Tandoori chicken is just chicken cooked in a tandoor with any marinade of your choice. No one restaurant could have invented tandoori chicken bro.

@sourabhmookherjee4218

7 ай бұрын

@@utkarsh2746 actually there was something called the 'Afghani chicken'. Sometime in the 40s, Moti Mahal spiced it up with Indian spices and called it tandoori chicken.

I really enjoyed this deep dive into British Indian food! When i lived in the uk one of the things that surprised me the most is how you could find an Indian restaurant pretty much anywhere. It was a huge contrast from Spain, where i had only seen Indian restaurants in huge cities. The food also stood out to me because it wasnt that different (contrary to Chinese, Spanish Chinese cuisine has different dishes that in England) to what i was used to. I love a good tikka masala (is really the only microwable Indian dish that you can find here in supermarkets), but my favourite is definitely chicken korma and also butter chicken!

It wasn't one way traffic. It was the British and the Portuguese that took chillies, tomatoes, potatoes, Ram fruit, chikoos and other foods and spices to the Indian subcontinent, changing its food forever. And before the British and the Portuguese, it was the Persians and the Arabs bringing garlic, coriander, and other flavours.

I might get curry this weekend, but being in the US, it's more likely to be Thai than Indian!

Really interesting how this phenomenon is mirrored in the US with American-Chinese food. Thanks for the video.

I do always get chicken tikka masala! There used to be a local Indian restaurant that did a buffet on the weekends, and I loved it because it would force me to try out different curries and different proteins or vegetables in those curries at low "risk" (read: having an entire plate or pot of food that I don't really care for).

When me and my friends ordered tikka masala here in sweden the guy went to the kitchen and came back with cups with other dishes and spoons so we could taste the other stuff none of us dared to order. real helpful

The British took chicken tikka & mixed it with makhani gravy which is generally used in multiple dishes including butter chicken and called it a new dish. Its like making shepherd's pie with some garam masala &call it an Indian dish.

@edclarkey3054

9 ай бұрын

I mean chillies are what makes the curries really spicy are from South America and other things like potatoes, tomatoes

@ranfak

9 ай бұрын

@@edclarkey3054exactly, all their chillly , tomato , potatoes came from America, so can we say that Indian food are actually American and not Indian 😂. but I know indian will again try to make different narratives

Here in Canada I think the vast majority of Indian restos are Punjabi rather than Bengali. Also South Indian, Tamil, options are very popular for vegetarians. That downplays the Hakka (?) places serving that wild blend of Chinese food spiced in an Indian style. Interesting that our country has a very different option on Indian food, also never heard of chicken tikka masala until English cooking and restaurant shows were brought here. Oops I left out the Trinidadian and Guyanese restaurants that are also Indian influenced, my personal favourite being the trini roti shops and the awesome snack , DOUBLES.

@revcrussell

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, butter chicken is clearly a better dish than tikka masala. I do think that we have more Punjab influence in Canada or at least North India.

@mangopudding5979

5 ай бұрын

What do you mean by different take on Indian food?

I like how the American calls it "tiki masala". You mix that tikka masala up with Polynesian influence and that gets you a whole different world of possibilities.

Great content Andy. It was fab meeting you at the Photography and Video Show. We talked about types of Indian foods and Sony cameras if you recall. If you're ever in the Brighton area, would love to catch up and talk photography. All the best.

I'm in the US and a few years ago near where I worked had Indian Lunch buffet.... was the best idea ever since it expanded my horizon on Indian food as opposed to just ordering one thing. People probably order CTM because it's what they know. If they knew better, or didn't have to commit to however much a whole dish costs ($15, £25, or more) I'm sure some may change their meal of choice over time.

Being a South Asian, my favourite Indian dish is nihari, followed closely by haleem. Palak paneer and malai kofta are vegetarian dishes I love. Samosas and singharas (these are found both in my native Bihar as well as in Bengali cuisine discussed in the video) are my favourite snacks. Jalebi is my favourite mithai (sweet), influenced by zalabiyya from the Arab lands. Chicken tikka masala is more of a British concoction, just like General Tso’s chicken is more American than Chinese. These are fascinating insights into how diaspora communities are able to reinvent themselves when faced with the prospect of an uncertain economic future in their adopted country. Still, when I shall go next time to see my folks in the U.K., I shall ask for the chicken tikka masala. As they say in Urdu, “Majboori toh hai.” There is a helplessness, a compulsion. I’ve had a frozen version of chicken tikka masala from Bombay Kitchen (not that bad), but I would like to have Britain’s national dish in Britain. It might not be authentically Hindustani, but it is authentically Inglistani (English, i.e. British) to me. Chicken tikka masala zindabad! (Long live chicken tikka masala!)

@aasifazimabadi786

9 ай бұрын

@@mo_N15 I am an Indian Muslim, and many of my relatives became Muhajirs by moving from Patna to Karachi. Nihari is Mughlai, meaning that it is both Indian and Pakistani. Haleem is Hyderabadi, originally confined to an elite South Indian Muslim subculture, but it is Pakistani too because of the Muhajir legacy. I have eaten nihari in Delhi itself when going Nizamuddin masjid, just after Fajr (the most traditional time to have it). Nihari is native to Delhi, but I’m not going to say that it is only Indian even if all of Delhi remained within India after Partition. I have a tendency to use “Indian” in a very broad sense (i.e. Indian subcontinent), and for that I am sorry. Still, dividing the foods into arbitrary Indian and Pakistani categories can be very complicated because of the cultural overlap, unless people want to get communal. Are not Indian Muslims Indian too however? Do they eat Pakistani food while living in India? Probably not. It might be easier to separate Bengali foods (e.g. rosho gulla, jhol mach) from non-Bengali foods along linguistic lines, but even then, there will be some overlap.

@aasifazimabadi786

9 ай бұрын

@@mo_N15 So, I am dealing with a Hindu nationalist here.

@aasifazimabadi786

9 ай бұрын

@@mo_N15The idea that India is a vegetarian paradise is BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) propaganda. India has plenty of non-veg dishes. Many of what you have been calling "Pakistani" dishes are also eaten in India, and not just by the Muslim minority. Yes, there is a Hindu taboo against beef (and certain parts of Gujarat, U.P., and some stricter Hindus in some villages abstain from meat in general), but lamb, chicken, and mutton are eaten. Most Punjabis in India are Hindus and Sikhs, but many of them are meat-eaters. Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was a fascinating (though rare) exception. South Indians generally are far more likely to eat meat as well. Some West Bengali Hindus might call themselves vegetarian, but they love eating fish. Gujarat, despite being near the sea, has a stricter definition of vegetarianism. People in neighbouring Maharashtra do like eating fish, however. In the cities, meat eating is far more common than it might have been a century earlier. It is the Jain religion that prohibits the consumption of meat altogether, and while there are quite a few Hindus that have adopted this stance, I think it would be safe to say that at least half of them consume meat on some occasion. That still means that a lot of Hindus are vegetarians, but a lot of them also eat meat dishes, which are not exclusively Pakistani, Muslim, or from Goa and its Catholic subculture, or the other Christian communities, primarily in Kerala and the Northeast. You are Moroccan; that's fascinating. I live in the U.S. and my family get couscous from the supermarket. Sometimes, instead of basmati rice or naan, I will opt to have couscous with my kofta (beef / chicken, not the malai kind). I also like taboule. Inshallah, I will visit your country someday, not just for the food, but for the architecture, the history, and so much more. Assalam Alaykum.

@aasifazimabadi786

9 ай бұрын

Good point; glad to see you preserve your Berber (Amazigh) heritage. Mashallah. In America's there's this brand called "Near East" (made by Armenians) that boxes various Middle Eastern and North African grains. I guess I made tabouleh "Moroccan" in my mind by association. I shall, remember, next time, Inchallah, that tabouleh is Lebanese. Thank you for the correction; I appreciate it.@@mo_N15

@aasifazimabadi786

9 ай бұрын

Love and peace to you as well. So sorry for the misunderstanding. You are a smart person, and I appreciate this conversation.@@mo_N15

So well done. Great job. Enjoyed the segment.

I think Germany has a similar situation going on. Doener Kebap has become the most standard german dish to get. In german fashion it's something you can eat on a walk. The origins are clearly turkish and it is very much a turkish (certain part of turkey mind you) dish, but it's also smothered in sauce, has kraut in it, is less garlicy than something proper would be and most of all is served in a bun, so you can eat it with your hands. Of course there are a lot of typical german foods as well, but they also tend to be somewhat regional, making the Doener (and maybe the Pizza) the most widely accepted default dish.