Indians React To Curry Stereotype | Street Interview 

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Even Indians dont know all the names of Indian dishes. As a North East Indian, I know the rest of India wouldn't know the name of dishes from my state. Come to think of it, I also don't know the names of all dishes of other neighbouring North Eastern states because we're not a homogenous region.

lol i guess for indians, internationals saying they love curry is like Asians saying their favourite western dish is ketchup and mustard

Foreigners in this context = East Asians (Koreans, Japanese etc)..... Karey, Karey !

The older guy with the moustache is very wise.

Whoever had the idea to do this video, it was perfect. I had no idea of all of this. For me it's how it is advertised to me since I was a kid. I just had no idea. Great video.

I’ve recently been learning more about traditional Indian cuisine for the first time after being diagnosed with celiacs disease. I’ve discovered many phenomenal Indian dishes that do not contain gluten, and therefore are safe for me to eat. This was so helpful in my quest to learn more about Indian food and culture. Thank you so much for providing this context! Best wishes ❤

omg everyone in the video is so heated about curry 😂 but it does make sense to me now. It's like saying there's only one bread type or one rice type when there are TONS of different types for each.

Indians have some of the best dishes. They always make sure they take pride in whatever they bring to the table.

Curry is a leaf. If the sauce lacks curry, it isn't "a" curry (sauce).

what I hate most about South Korean youtube channels, especially mukbang ones is that they link every indian dish with the word 'curry'. even if it is a sweet dish, they say 'Oh it smells/ tastes like curry' it is similar to that if we say every korean dish tastes/smells like kimchi or ramen.

I like the fact that the Indians are not so 'imposing' like the Italians when it comes to cuisine names and it's pronunciations. Most of them said in this video "It's not possible for them to learn all these names so it's cool". That's generosity, Rare to find. People should learn.

Curry originated from tamil word "kari" We tamils usually say kaikari/காய்கறி which means vegetables used for curry. Many indians don't know about tamil language. British added these tamil words in English when they ruled madras, a tamil land. There are some tamil words in English like curry(kari) , catamaran(kattumaram), cheroot(churuttu) etc.

MY BLOOD IS BOILING WHEN THEY SAY CURRY WORD

As a S.Korean, I thought Curry is yellow spicy powder for curry rice and I realized I was wrong. Thanks for good information 👍👍👍

By the way what is curry tho 😂💀 ??? And for most of the foreigners India is Delhi-Jaipur-Agra sometimes Udaipur that's it that's all think and know about India. It's hilarious 😂😆.

India: Curry is not Indian!!! 😡🤬 Italians: Get in line, bro.

'Curry' isn't foreign, it has its roots in the tamil word kaṟi (கறி) which signifies a liquid mixture of vegetables, spices and curry leaves. Interestingly, the term 'Curry leaves' also has a related etymology, derived from the tamil word kariveppilai​ (கறிவேப்பிலை) which in itself again has its roots to the word kaṟi

Curry originated in ancient India but curry is truly a pan-Asian dish. Many Asian countries have their own versions of it, developed using their own indigenous ingredients and spices. You could really do a curry tour of Asia and try different curries from around the continent, I wonder if anybody has done that before. There are also curry dishes outside of Asia developed through the migration of Indians and other groups such as those in the UK and the Caribbean.

As an Indian i don't even know the meaning of the word curry

Curry word is irritating to me some korean youTuber called it khari khari and they called samosa smell like curry or Chowmein smells like curry even i am watching a video they think curry is a perfume all indians smell like curry 😂😂😂 i was like what the f##k 😂😂 ahhh how dare you said that i mean i know they don't know anything but still when they are making a video go research properly that's what make me mad 😢 i mean i know they want to reach out indian population they want to try out but still that's irritating as hell 😛 sorry i am frustrated well that's how i feel when i hear curry that's my honest opinion ... Again that's my opinion so many people don't think same as me that's fine you know i respect everyone 🙏🏼

Last line - exactly what we Indians are and what we love about ourselves. We live in community but we respect individualty most in the world. Thats the reason we are Unity in Diversity

Most Korean people have very little knowledge about India. Very few people in Korea speak English. In India, almost everyone speaks or understands English. Even an average Indian can speak or understand English to know what is happening in the world. While Koreans have no idea what is happening in the world, they are only busy with their work. They only know one thing about India, curry. What you may not know about India is that the language changes every 10-15 kilometers, the food, clothing, and weather change, the way of speaking changes in India, and much more. There are many things worth knowing about India.

In Japan they have a dish they called Kare from the word curry. It’s generally believed that it comes from India. So yeah, they basically say Curry.

Generally in my country, "curry" or kari as a distinct form of gravy that is brownish orange that is originated from the ethnic Indians that migrated here. There other type of Indian gravy too such as kurma, masala etc but kari is a distinct family of dishes on its own.

This was so informative. Everyone one of those people made good points. WoW and thanks!

I feel like so many people just overlook South India. The word curry is used everywhere where i live. I live near the coast and our main dish everyday consists of Meen Curry with Chorru. Which is basicallly Rice with Fish Curry. And depending on which house you go to you get a different Meen curry with complete different flavors. Of course we have specific names for all other side dishes, like kootan, thoran, kalan, pachadi.... etc. But the term curry is also used for specific dishes that have too much variety (depending on area) to be confined to a single name. Sambar has a very specific recipe, curry however varies in taste and flavour depending on whose house you go to and what ingredients are available... for example in my place we use coconut in our meen curry but folks from the inner parts don't use coconut, they use chilli as the base. And yes we grow Curry leaves in our backyard. Thats where the name curry comes from doesn't it... CURRIVEPPALA which means curry leaves.

As a German I thought "Curry" was a spice. Here in Germany we have a yellow spice that is sold as "Curry". We put it on sausage or in ketchup. "Curry sausage" and "Curry Ketchup".

I think Indians forget… Indian food is the most popular food in the UK..

Everyone is so passionate about this, I've just been roasted 💀

I'm actually well aware of the stereotype being form the Caribbean, a place with a large Indian/Bengali diaspora.

You should have asked this question in Chennai and you would have gotten completely different responses. These guys are right in that "curry" on its own is a completely meaningless term and just means "cooked vegetables", and therefore if you say "I like curry", it just means "I like cooked food", as opposed to raw vegetables. We would even call an eggplant dish in a Chinese restaurant as "Chinese eggplant curry" or food in a Thai restaurant as "Thai curry", and so on. However, where a lot of these interviewees are completely wrong (and most importantly the tour guide because he's been misinforming a lot of guests, it seems) is that "curry" is very much an Indian term - it comes from the Tamil word கறி, which refers to gravy- or dry-based cooked side dishes. One lady in the video says she has never used the word "curry" before in her life, but we Tamil people use the word every single day - "என்ன கறி வேண்டும்?" "What curry (cooked side dish) do you want (with rice)?" Thus, it's not only important for foreigners to learn about India and its diversity, but it's even more important for Indians to learn about other parts of India and not think that their own local food/experiences represent all of India. India is much more than North India and Hindi, and other Indian languages such as Tamil have had a very large influence on the cultural outreach of India historically, including in this word 'curry'. Most likely, the British picked up this word from the Madras Presidency and applied it to all the cooked food they saw everywhere in India (and in other parts of Asia, too), because as we know, the British are not exactly known for their cooking. 😆Many North Indians may also not be familiar with the term 'curry' because when they think about South Indian food and go to South Indian restaurants, they primarily think about dosai, vadai, and sambar, but in terms of the food we South Indians eat every day, which one usually cannot find in restaurants, it's very much சாதம் கறி - different rice dishes with different curries. That forms the essence of our culture and cuisine, and dosai is just the crispy cherry on top! I invite our North Indian friends to South India to try real everyday South Indian food beyond dosai and sambar, so that they can also learn what "curry" means.

I think you should tackle another common stereotype that I hear many people having here in the West out of ignorance: I've asked that question to many "What is an official language of India" and I've heard many say..."Indian". If only they knew...If only they knew...

People call it curry to describe the type of food, not a specific dish. Just like when we say we want pasta or Italian when want food from Italy.

Japanese-style Curry was popularized by retired Imperial Japanese Navy cooks who opened "Western-style" restaurants (a.k.a YOSHOKU-Ya 洋食屋) in their home towns after they retired. During late 19th and early 20th centuries, Curry was considered as part of "Western" cuisine, as the Japanese Navy learnt curry spices/recipes from its many interactions with the British/Royal Navy. Japanese Navy still serves Curry every Friday to not lose track of the day/calendar (which is not rare on long voyages). There is even a "Navy Curry Olympics" held each year as every ship and naval station has their own custom recipes that gets passed down by the cooks. In addition, immigrants from Thailand have opened many Thai restaurants that serve Thai-style Curry, and immigrants from mostly Nepal have opened restaurants serving Nepali/Indian-style Curry. They are very popular and successful in Japan as well.

Interesting, I thought curry was connected to the use of curry leaves. My wife is from Japan and I've yet to meet a Japanese person who doesn't enjoy カレーライス。 Actually ate that for lunch today, on nishiki rice. Thank you for sharing this AB!

We say curry for everything that has gravy in it. For ex, if it has egg as main dish we call it egg curry. Or if it has chicken, we call it chicken curry. Sometimes we only use the word 'curry' for every side dish whether it has gravy or not. ~from kerala,India

Funny how this passed as an insightful topic of discussion

Thanks for the content. I was ignorant before and I actually sat through the entire clip.

Where can I find information on the man with the moustache? I would love to go to India and have him as my guide

I didn’t realize curry was an English Word. My favorite is Indian cuisine dish is Chicken Tikka Masala with a vegetable Samosa. When I think of curry, I generally think of Jamaican curry chicken which probably uses some spices that have Indian roots.

the guy with the blurred face has a good take

Wow I wasn't aware of this stereotype.. Very educational video thank you! 😊

Here I think curry as a spice mixture. Curry sauce would be a localised sauce using that spice. If you want to make Indian food then the recipe books tend to have specific names for those dishes. Also I was under the impression that the curry dish in the UK was more of a British dish (made by the British Indian)? Indian dishes have Indian names usually, right? 😂

one of my friends from grad school had an argument over this exact topic lol like obviously we know the dishes have specific names, but to simplify, we just say curry as a general term for most indian food that comes with a "gravy" or "sauce". obviously in a restaurant we don't just order 1 type of curry - there's different types with actual names but most people aren't going to study their names lol. and to go even deeper some indian restaurants won't even list the actual indian names of dishes and will just say like lentil curry, spinach curry, paneer curry etc.

Japanese curry (カレー) and Korean curry (카레) is the same style dish. But what is colloquially called 'Indian curry' is different. From what I understand, the big difference is the types of spices and other ingredients used and how it is prepared.

I think many westerners still use original name of the dish but east asians always do "karey karey"...and it's just like most of the Indian restaurants present the dish names like that, so they are used to use those terms we can't blame them for that, also we use liquid based dishes as "jhol" in my state like "fish curry"-" Macher jhol", "mutton curry"-"mangsher jhol" etc

Curry = sambhar, rasam, dal etc everything is called curry outside but there are 1000s of dishes like that.

This is such a good topic! I learned the word growing up in California through grocery stores. "Curry powder," and sauce packets, etc. I always thought this word meant that the sauce had curry leaves in it. I learned differently when I moved to Silicon Valley and ate and cooked more Indian regional foods.

1:57 thanks for mentioning east indians. 🤘🏿🤘🏿

If you go to TAMIL NADU and ask the waiter in a restaurant, that you need ''CURRY''- he will bring a non-veg dish In TAMIL ''CURRY'' means ''MEAT'' For INDIANs the word ''CURRY'' HAS NO MEANING It's like calling calling JAJANGMYEON, BULDALK(fire noodles), JAPCHAE, NAENGMYEON, KALGUKSU,...... as ''RAMEN/RAMYEON'' It really hurts from the heart when people generalize a dish which has 'n' number of varities in it In North India - people generally prefer eating thick consistency gravies In South India - people eat rice with spicy soups such as Sambar, rasam,... The taste of these foods are entirely different Most of the foreigners don't understand that- main cause is caused because of media( The WEST and the EAST), they have very little to no knowledge about INDIA and our diversity

Omg thank you for making this video! Finally someone addressed this - hope more western people watch this!

Damn, Curry as a word is BUSSIN

It's pretty sad that they're not aware of their own culture: "Curry is an anglicised form of the Tamil கறி kaṟi meaning 'sauce' or 'relish for rice' that uses the leaves of the curry tree (Murraya koenigii)."

Ask them what Americans eat and they will says burgers and pizza everyday. It goes both ways ...

English curry word means food. Thats it. It has nothing to do with any country. Like if Korean people say they like indian curry, as indian i understand it they like indian food. American and British people have knowledge about Indian foods and their name like chicken tikka, gulab jamun,naan etc. In North India there's specific dish called curry/kadi pakoda,it is made from besan. Its true that you can't remember foreign countries food name but if you go to restaurant like indian/Chinese/Italian restaurant there you will check the menu and order the dish by its name. not just curry or i want Italian because you are already there.😅 Some people in comments section mentioned that only curry word is mentioned in menu in their country which should not be happened. Those people who are running Indian restaurant in foreign countries should clearly mentioned every dishes by its rightful name. Its responsiblity of every indians studying /working or running these restaurant in foreign countries to maintain right ,correct & respected image of India in foreign countries.

At the end of the 18th century, the British officially formalized spice blends known as curry powders. Food made with this curry powder are referred as curry. I would associate curry with Thailand, Japan, Uk more because panang curry, green curry, japanese curry and the spice mixture that is sold as curry there are different spice mixtures sold as tandoori, tikka masala and butter chicken.

Curry is just a general term for Indian food in a spiced gravy. Like calling varieties of raw fish rolls as sushi or pasta for spaghetti.

I use curry as a catch all for any sauce based Indian dish. Or "Indian food" for everything. But i always use the actual dish names when talking about a specific one. Even Indians here in UK use the term curry as a generalisation.

Whaaaat! I didn't know that. I just love having my mind blown. 🤯 Thank you.❤

This video reminds me of a standup comedy joke I've been meaning to write. Saying you like curry is like somebody saying they like meat. So broad.

Very similar to Mexican food... depends on where you are as to what you will get... Tex Mex, New Mexican, Cal Mex, Mexico (pick a region), or maybe get authentic Aztec cuisine... which technically is Mexican. People also lump in anything south of Mexico as Mexican food... El Salvadorian just to name one.... the list goes on.

*If I as an Indian can understand the difference between a hotdog and cheeseburger or Donut and Bagel then Westerners can also avoid using an extremely generic term to reduce our whole diverse cuisine into "curry". Come out of British mindset fr.*

Those two olderly males have my respect mahn like seriously!!!!!!! They know so much wrt India.. aaahh!!!! Mazedaar

Its like… if i say Japanese “broth”..or French “bread”

We indians just say every cuisine by name or gravy/masala like paneer butter masala, chicken masala etc.

Ive never heard of the term indian curry as a dish.

Noone says Curry in India to any dish. I think Egg curry being the only exception.

Made interesting viewing 😊 Thx.

For me curry means sauce means when we put water to any cook vegetables or lentils to thicken it or cook fully make saucy this sauce is curry.

Curry and the guy on Simpson Thank you come aging I love that guy😂❤

I think it’s like pasta? A cacio a pepe is like polar opposite of bolognese with rigatoni, or a fresh egg pasta with a nice light marinara

In odisha, we say tarkari, which is an umbrella term for all kinds of dishes with gravy, for instance, maach tarkari, mutton tarkari, matar aloo tarkari. Very similar to the English word curry.

Thankyou Thankyou , it was about time

CURRY.. things comes to my mind hearing this word:- curry leaves curry ≠ gravy this is one dish in our bihar called "KADHI" with Chawal which gravy is made up using gramflour and curd

4:50 ha ha ha .Not just Americans we troll British too 😂😂😂

Thank you, we will come again, to watch this

I am curious, so when you order curry in a restaurant in a foreign country, what does the waiter bring you? Does get you Aalu Matar or Palak Paneer or Malai Kofta or Rajma??

I had been assuming all of the dishes are curry before watching thir video.

lol honestly the reason why people consider curry a thing is because everything that falls under that category in that type of sauce tends to be freaking delicious. its an unconscious compliment to indian cuisine as a whole

It's pretty sad that, none of them used the term "Bharat" and just went along with India.

Curry is a word used like for example India has 8000 type of rice dishes all over country and they call every thing as biriyani 😂😂😂 and that's irritating 🤷🏻‍♀️

same when everyone assumes vietnamese folks also love phở. while they actually eat sandwiches more

Need to invite the tour guide gent to do a video

Before internet many Indian signature dishes were unknown to me like naan, kulcha, chole bhature, dahi valle, bati chokha etc

Kari is a Tamil word which literally translates to curry in English. English borrowed this word curry from Tamil. I am a Telugu, South Indian from Andhra Pradesh. All North Indians know nothing about South India or its languages. In Telugu curry is called koora. We make many varieties of Koora. Koora is similar to Tamil kari. Koora can be dry koora or wet (gravy) koora, we often eat it with rice and chapatis or poori. We call them like vankayakoora(brinjal curry), bendakaayakoora(Okra curry), and so on. We also make varieties of koora podi(curry powder) for different curries. There is nothing wrong in the word curry. We have many other dishes like pappu(dal), pappupulusu, pulusu, charu(rasam), pulusukoora, pachipulusu, sambar, pachidi, ooragaya and many more which are not kooras(curries). We also have vepudu variety in curry, vepudu means fry in Telugu, example bangaaladhumpavepudu(Potato fry). You are running a RU-vid channel, please do some research before you make a video.

In Bihar, there is a famous dish known as "Chawal Curry". Curry is made from besan and super tasty

Hey im from odisha India...in my State we use to call it "Tarakari" which is close to tamil word "Kari" ...and tarakari different types based on used vagitable...also fruit is also used for making tarkari (curry) like mango it may be sweet and sour in taste based on what you like ;i like sour one...also here we make "tarkari" of bamboo shoots also which is my favourite one and it is very yummy and mouth watering when you eat with rice by mixing it ... Also forget that we used two word one "khata" and another is "tarakari" "Khata" means mainly sour one and "tarkari" is for Normal one...there is many word use for "curry" and some may be forget the word because the influence of English word "curry"

This is great =D

I think this curry thing got popularized by *gravy boats* ...maybe

Tbh, as an Indian, I have had kadhi chawal a lot. The kadhi made of dahi (Curd) is usually yellow in colour, and the Sindhi kadhi (these two are delicious, you should have them) When I saw vids of foreigners having Indian food, which was basically what they called as 'curry', I thought about dahi kadhi chawal and Sindhi kadhi, not some mere chicken dish.

North East of Indian states like Nagaland, Arunachal or Mizoram doesn’t cook curry. We eat boil food every day

Bro in south asia we eat so much curry that we think of it as default. If you say today I ate chicken, people assume you ate chicken curry you don't have to say it. It is so ubiquitous in the culture that we don't think to mention the word curry. But for people outside of south asia who don't eat curry everyday, ofcourse they will look at us and say we eat curry, because we do.

For someone in England, The term " curry " has ALWAYS confused me too! Like, What is a curry? I do tend to think of a gravy dish with rice but.. Does a curry have onions? Does it have to have onions? Isn't changing the ingredient changing the entire dish?! So what is it?! I think it's an umbrella term for people who pretty much eat anything, Who are happy to eat anything no matter what is put infront of them! I can only say it's born out of England having the worst food , And most British people just eating whatever and not really caring about it! I have always hated that lack of standards! As someone who enjoys fine cuisine and only enjoys fine food.. It really ruins everything for me. If one ingredient is not finely chopped, not cooked well enough or prepared, or is included at all, Then I can't eat it. That's why I have never tried Indian food here, Because it's just too daring for me to try something under the umbrella term "curry" And not being able to eat most foods, It's too much of a risk for me order all this food when I don't know what is in it or what it is!

everyone here represented me

Why has any indian in this video said that aall those disshes british called curry we have specific names for them and even if fe have to give it a broder name we will say gravy based dishes also there is a specific dish that we do call curry but its entirely different from what foriegners presume

It’s all about the Naan!

When I think of curry I think of Madras curry powder, which is actually a spice blend and not an actual curry/gravy/sauce in itself. 😂

Yes, curry is simply gravy.

Time to try more Indian cuisine that isn't curry hahaha