I’ve had Chinese food in India and can confirm it absolutely slaps
Presumably if we want to complete the cycle then British food in China is better than British food in the UK.
I couldnt recreate Indian curries with recipes til I found out there’s Indian recipes and then there’s BIR (British Indian Restaurant) recipes and yeah BIR is pretty delicious (prob all the sugar)
I think only conclusion we could make is that Indian food in london CAN be better than India food. To prove the original point you’d have to eat at every restaurant in both places, score them and average the scores.
I’ve had “Indian” food in the UK, it’s designed for Western (White man’s?) palette. The spices are toned down a lot, every gravy dish feels milky, and the varieties are limited/restricted to a handful of items that don’t even deserve to be called “Indian”.
There were times where I wasn’t sure which part of India the dishes were from, it’s a mix of South Indian, North Indian, and West Indian without doing justice to any at the same time.
The British butchered and looted the flavours as much as they did the sub continent and it’s people! Lol!
Oh yeah Indo-chinese cuisine is 🤌
Except it’s not true.
Isn’t Indian food in the uk closer to Bangladeshi or Pakistani food anyway?
Some Indian food is great in London.
Most food in India is great.
I’d actually love to try Chinese food in India.
I went to an Indian (well actually the chef and staff were Bangladeshi but they had called it an Indian restaurant) restaurant while I was in Japan and the biggest difference was they used sticky rice and they didn’t have any very spicy options. The chef came out and spoke with us about the changes he made to the menu for the Japanese palette.
I think authentic food is overrated. Local variations and authentic food can both be just as good depending on what you want.
Both those cuisines are better in London.
Indo-chinese food is amazing
They’re both right imo. India absolutely smashes Chinese food, to the point it’s by far the best I’ve ever had (worst is a toss up between Sweden and Germany).
Jain didn’t get the memo. It was a marketing gimmick. He was promoting his new phone
Ffs everything doesn’t need to be taken so seriously
To be fair, I don’t get diarrhoea from Indian food in London unlike India.. that’s unless it’s super spicy 🥵
For real though, Indian food from Tesco in the UK is better than 95% of Indian food from restaurants in my home, Berlin.
When I went back home and couldn’t get anything that was as good as the cheap Tesco meal sets or even the Thursday Wetherspoons Masala, it really made me miss it.
indo chinese is one of the best tasting foods ever.
I ate street food in Varanasi when I was a 22 year old backpacker. Was something like 7 pence for a samosa. I got so sick I thought I was going to die. Tasted fucking incredible though.
I actually think he’s partly right.
The proper north Indian places here have better meat dishes than in India, a few veg dishes is better here than there.
I don’t mean the Indian food you’d get in a curry house but the proper places like in Southall, Hounslow and Leicester.
Except the Indian version they run the ingredients through their dirty toes, marinate it in polluted corpse and sewage filled river water and let it sit in the sun for 4 days to let flies lay their eggs in it.
Who the f is Carl Pei and why does his hot take matter?
My husband is from India so I often travel there and stay with my in laws and being fed real South Indian food and well I don’t like it
I do like the British version of Indian food better though
Best Chinese I ever had was in the Netherlands, German Chinese comes second and the British Chinese sucks
British pizzas are awful as well and so are the British doner kebabs, much prefer the German ones
I work with people from lots of nationalities, they almost always have a low-level fear that they’ll struggle to find food they’ll enjoy whilst in the UK.
They always find food they enjoy.
Not only restaurants – which sometimes do prompt a ‘this is better than at home’ – but also the variety of ingredients available in the UK means people can cook their cultural meals for themselves with little if any compromise.
It’s time to drop the dull idea that food in the UK is awful.
People just don’t understand the concept of “some” these days huh.
Also, birds are heavier than horses.
couldnt pay me to eat in India tbh
If someone in London cooks an authentic Indian dish, it would absolutely taste better than it would have if they’d cooked it in India. Because the quality of ingredients (especially poultry, meat and vegetables) is indisputably superior in the UK. And it’s not particularly difficult to find Indian spices in London.
Source: myself, an Indian who’s lived here for almost a decade.
Perhaps I’m reading into it but what Akash might mean is that in India they (we) localise Chinese food to make it to our tastes… Kinda like a chicken tikka / korma a dish more a more international pallet. (British Indian food) Meaning the bloke prefers it like in the post.
Boy I need to get out more typing this out on a Saturday afternoon 😅
Is he praising London Indian food with what looks like a Chicken Tikka Masala…
Indian food in London is not even the best in Europe let alone India.
Some people know as much about food as a blind person knows about colours
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I mean it could be
Less chance of food poisoning at least
I feel they confused “better” with different.
I’ve had Chinese food in India and can confirm it absolutely slaps
Presumably if we want to complete the cycle then British food in China is better than British food in the UK.
I couldnt recreate Indian curries with recipes til I found out there’s Indian recipes and then there’s BIR (British Indian Restaurant) recipes and yeah BIR is pretty delicious (prob all the sugar)
I think only conclusion we could make is that Indian food in london CAN be better than India food. To prove the original point you’d have to eat at every restaurant in both places, score them and average the scores.
I’ve had “Indian” food in the UK, it’s designed for Western (White man’s?) palette. The spices are toned down a lot, every gravy dish feels milky, and the varieties are limited/restricted to a handful of items that don’t even deserve to be called “Indian”.
There were times where I wasn’t sure which part of India the dishes were from, it’s a mix of South Indian, North Indian, and West Indian without doing justice to any at the same time.
The British butchered and looted the flavours as much as they did the sub continent and it’s people! Lol!
Oh yeah Indo-chinese cuisine is 🤌
Except it’s not true.
Isn’t Indian food in the uk closer to Bangladeshi or Pakistani food anyway?
Some Indian food is great in London.
Most food in India is great.
I’d actually love to try Chinese food in India.
I went to an Indian (well actually the chef and staff were Bangladeshi but they had called it an Indian restaurant) restaurant while I was in Japan and the biggest difference was they used sticky rice and they didn’t have any very spicy options. The chef came out and spoke with us about the changes he made to the menu for the Japanese palette.
I think authentic food is overrated. Local variations and authentic food can both be just as good depending on what you want.
Both those cuisines are better in London.
Indo-chinese food is amazing
They’re both right imo. India absolutely smashes Chinese food, to the point it’s by far the best I’ve ever had (worst is a toss up between Sweden and Germany).
Jain didn’t get the memo. It was a marketing gimmick. He was promoting his new phone
Ffs everything doesn’t need to be taken so seriously
To be fair, I don’t get diarrhoea from Indian food in London unlike India.. that’s unless it’s super spicy 🥵
For real though, Indian food from Tesco in the UK is better than 95% of Indian food from restaurants in my home, Berlin.
When I went back home and couldn’t get anything that was as good as the cheap Tesco meal sets or even the Thursday Wetherspoons Masala, it really made me miss it.
indo chinese is one of the best tasting foods ever.
I ate street food in Varanasi when I was a 22 year old backpacker. Was something like 7 pence for a samosa. I got so sick I thought I was going to die. Tasted fucking incredible though.
I actually think he’s partly right.
The proper north Indian places here have better meat dishes than in India, a few veg dishes is better here than there.
I don’t mean the Indian food you’d get in a curry house but the proper places like in Southall, Hounslow and Leicester.
Except the Indian version they run the ingredients through their dirty toes, marinate it in polluted corpse and sewage filled river water and let it sit in the sun for 4 days to let flies lay their eggs in it.
Who the f is Carl Pei and why does his hot take matter?
My husband is from India so I often travel there and stay with my in laws and being fed real South Indian food and well I don’t like it
I do like the British version of Indian food better though
Best Chinese I ever had was in the Netherlands, German Chinese comes second and the British Chinese sucks
British pizzas are awful as well and so are the British doner kebabs, much prefer the German ones
I work with people from lots of nationalities, they almost always have a low-level fear that they’ll struggle to find food they’ll enjoy whilst in the UK.
They always find food they enjoy.
Not only restaurants – which sometimes do prompt a ‘this is better than at home’ – but also the variety of ingredients available in the UK means people can cook their cultural meals for themselves with little if any compromise.
It’s time to drop the dull idea that food in the UK is awful.
People just don’t understand the concept of “some” these days huh.
Also, birds are heavier than horses.
couldnt pay me to eat in India tbh
If someone in London cooks an authentic Indian dish, it would absolutely taste better than it would have if they’d cooked it in India. Because the quality of ingredients (especially poultry, meat and vegetables) is indisputably superior in the UK. And it’s not particularly difficult to find Indian spices in London.
Source: myself, an Indian who’s lived here for almost a decade.
Perhaps I’m reading into it but what Akash might mean is that in India they (we) localise Chinese food to make it to our tastes… Kinda like a chicken tikka / korma a dish more a more international pallet. (British Indian food) Meaning the bloke prefers it like in the post.
Boy I need to get out more typing this out on a Saturday afternoon 😅
Is he praising London Indian food with what looks like a Chicken Tikka Masala…
Indian food in London is not even the best in Europe let alone India.
Some people know as much about food as a blind person knows about colours
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