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Actually such a missed opportunity!!!

100% this

Yeah agreed

They could have at least used his image, when Harry said Indians would probably not think of these dishes as authentic.

they fired him, because they didn't need diversity hires any more

Fish chips 💀 nobody eats that on daily basis in India u must be out in fancy restaurant

Exactly ​@@Potato-me4wu

How the hell are u eating fish n chips being Indian tho!? 🤣🥲

@rohanprashad7514 bihari ke bacche tu fish and chips katha hai?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@dkjakdljfkdjkajjr exactly 💯

Yeah it's kind of a weird episode. The measuring and seeing different portion sizes was pretty pointless as every single restaurant is different. It's not like fast food where every one is supposed to be identical.

Same as any other kind of cuisine.

I agree. You could do a version of this between my two favourite "Indian" restaurants here. One Bangladeshi and the other Nepali. Lots of overlap but their special dishes are very different.

Because most Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants fake that they are Indian restaurants

I miss not having Nepali food everyday.... Love me some momos, and ever since I've moved here from Nepal, momos have gone from once a day thing to once a couple months thing :( really wish they had more nepali restaurants in the US

assamese pork and duck dishes are a hidden gem in Indian cuisine , I'm surprised more people don't eat it , it's actually pretty good

Jaluk di bonua Local Chicken is a classic 🙌😔

@@takoyaki126 Yes😋

@@daddykimjongun7777 It's mostly due to (for pork), non availability in the North Western Parts of India. You don't find pork and Bovine Meat (Buffalo Meat, not cow meat) here. You can find them commonly in South and Eastern parts starting from UP. Sunday's in Lucknow are really popular.

Pork is also seen as dirty in India and it doesn't help that numerous disease outbreaks have occurred on pork farms.

A barber

not a fan, resemblance to groucho marx

@@ben8133 IMPOSSIBLE

You make it sound like he was poured into it

Looks like a 70s porn star

Absolutely right!!!

South Indian dishes are great!

​@@Pratham_-xp9qtyup, like in North India south Indian food is overly popular but very few. I like masala dosha, dhokla(Gujarati) too much.

​@@Sumit-rp5mx Gujarat is not south India dude

@@lostinreverie2183 that's why I mentioned Gujarati, I know geography of my country

It is curry to us they’re all just different kinds of curry’s, burgers are also German not American

We know, but it's the curry shops that did it, I'd quite like to have a choice of more authentic dishes. But the majority of Indian restaurants in the UK are actually Bangladeshi owned. I have one local curry house that is closer to authentic.

And this is not the way to do it... Indian-Americans such as myself that were born and raised here had to put up with non-Indian-Americans asking if I eat this food daily. My family is TAMIL; almost NOTHING featured here is what I grew up eating.

Jalfrezi is a Pakistani thing I think. I could be wrong.

​@@SaadDurraniWhen we say an Indian restaurant it generally includes some Pakistani stuff as well. In fact, most "Indian" restaurants are run by people from Bangladesh here 😂 Actually, I don't know how true that is but it is pervasive!

Pakistani and indian cusine is very similar because we were one country.

Jalfrezi is my go to dish generally too.

You are correct; it's unusual for any Indian restaurant in America to give you naan by default. They give you rice expecting you to eat that with the curry, and naan is extra.

Americans.

If it tastes good does it matter?

​@@moaen1thats similar to adding pineapple on pizza, i guess. It may taste good for you, and be insulting to Indians. Both can be true at same time.

​@kailash4799 All dishes started unauthentic. It's not like pizza pop out of nowhere. Probably someone tried to experiment and founded pizza which was an unauthentic dish, and now it's a staple

It is not insulting at all. We ain't Italians bro chill. It is just a fish curry ..(the word itself isn't accurate to Indian cuisine anyways ) it is just what it happens.. it isn't like dishes we have here are completely accurate to the original dish. Let them cook ​@@kailash4799

Yes. As an Indian, it irks me when I watch some American reviews etc because they think Indian food is just heat, full of chillies because it's spicy. Spices and heat are totally different, imo even many Indians can't handle pure chilly heat.

@@Harshiahaha I severely dislike just chilli

The beauty of English is that it doesn't have a word for Theeka/Kaaram. 😂

@supernerd8527 the English never bothered creating our own words for things, we generally adopt the local one and take it for our own.

Americans do too, but we sometimes need to be asked to clarify what they mean when they say spicy, because many use it interchangeably with hot/flavorful due to a blend of spices/herbs. The use of spicy and piquant/hot being used exclusively as it was intended would make it more clear from the initial statement, but it is what it is, LoL.

Take my suggestion and don't. After watching this video, as an Indian I can safely advise you to save your money. 🤭 . . . . . . . Have Indian food in India if you happen to travel here, or have it in an Indian person's home in your country.

I'm jealous. I have beans on toast right now lol

@@isolatedpoptart I gather that you'd need therapy. 🤭

go for it girl!

@@RonBhattacharya Look, it's a butthurt culinary purist. Talk about needing therapy

I wonder if he's managed at last to try a prawn vindaloo? Maybe he has stayed clear of vindaloos since his encounter with the mutton vindaloo beast.

Pitty he didnt mention lager, the only way to kill a vindaloo

@@paulanderson1102 lol true.

@@paulanderson1102 I would like to have seen how they coped with poppadom the size of lake Michigan.

I only started few years ago, i also don't like Bhindi that much .

I thought a bhindi was the thing on a woman's head before I watched this 😂

@@GM-tw4elThat’s a “Bindi”! It’s the dot we wear on our forehead! The veggie is “Bhindi”. Similar spellings but totally different things!!

@@anushkapalle thank you for the info!

​@@GM-tw4elThat's Bindi (Bin-di). She is talking about Bhindi (Bhin-dee) which is Ladies Finger or Okra.

Generally, as an everyday meal, you generally wouldn't have both a bread and a rice with your curry but it is super common in the UK as it tends to be a treat rather than everyday food for most. I'm going to be in Birmingham soon (not far from Northfield, actually). I'm super tempted to try it! Haha

@@FahadAyaz interesting. But I always just have the curry itself and rice (no bread). Simla can be ordered from Deliveroo and on Just Eat. So as long as you’re within the delivery radius then it’s all good!

As an calling instead of calling them dal or sabgi calling them curry makes my heart angry, why?! Why?!.....

I came for this comment. 😂

Naw, he’s just auditioning to be in a Queen tribute band.

why is that funny, when everyone in Britain and india admits it's a british dish?

Sorry for my prejudice but I think ..you would have had indian food in india most probably in some standard restaurant near an airport or a restaurant near some tourist locality ... And most hotels near airports and touristic areas are crap and locals won't eat there.. the food will usually be bland...

@@shadowfiend-s6u I was visiting with locals and went where they ate :)

I agree! Not on the "UK above all" because India does Indian food best, just like any other place does its cuisine best, but between UK and US, UK does Indian food better than the US. The one thing that the US does that pisses me off is using the same curry base across multiple dishes which ruins the whole experience...

Im sorry, but you had Indian food in India and preferred UK indian food? You are clearly white. The only good indian food Ive had is in India, cooked by my grandmother. Nothing in the US, UK will ever come close to homemade authentic indian food. You must not have gone to the good places in India.

@@shadowfiend-s6u Real Indian food may also just not be to his taste... I'm assuming he's not Indian. That being said, you're probably correct that he didn't try the truly authentic Indian food, which you won't find in restaurants. The best food is actually from the villages.

Yeah, I thought that too. The Naans I get from Aldi and Tesco are twice the size of that. The samosas in most places I've been are twice that size.

His memory

His 9 inch naan?

Neither are the dishes gonna taste like we get here in India, would be too bland and sweet..

@@Ashk_- That's not always true. I lived in India for 3 years and ate all over the country. I've also eaten a lot of Indian food in the US. It's often a little different, but also often the exact same taste.

90% of Indian dishes is sewage.

Eating food IN India is gross, especially the street food. Unhygienic

Somosas are so unreal in those, UK one is so small and US one is too much deep fried and idk which flour they used and in how much proportions.

Correct. In Stoney Lane I believe?

@@XxLew correct

@pjsniper436 thought so, my dad use to take me and my brother to Stoney Lane for curries when we were younger. Great staff, very friendly and food was out of this world

You can get authentic food in basically any modern city, but this is more of a comparison of generic "Indian takeaway food" rather than a specific cuisine.

That was sooooo overly deep fried. I don't know if they can even crunch in with their mouths

I imagine we have better BIR food than the US. But I'm guessing we also have better, more traditional Indian food, if you know where to find it, especially up in the Midlands, and a few areas in London.

Id think it'd be hard to beat the US due to New york alone. We have so many indian restaurants you cant imagine so the odds of finding extremely tasty indian food 9x out of 10 will out beat the UK. Queens Alone prob has more indian restaurants than the entire uk 😂 plus more authentic ones since most of them are frequented by actual indian ppl so it's not watered down indian food unless you get indian food in white neighborhoods or in Manhattan etc

@@mfield040491 🤡

​@@mfield040491You sound like you don't know much about the UK's demographics

Without a shadow of a doubt the Indian food in UK is a million times better, it Is so hard to find really good Indian in the US especially in the south, you get good but not great. Scotland also has some great Indian food especially Glasgow. And lets not forget a CTM Curry was/is the national dish of UK!

So British Indian food (yes it's kinda it's own cuisine) is basically (a modified version of) north Indian food from Punjab and Bengal. Most Indian food in the US also tends to be North Indian. Here in the US we can get south Indian restaurants like A2B (yes, that actual chain), but these are rarer even when the restaurant itself is run by south Indians. In the US Indian restaurants quality and authenticity varies wildly, you can actually get really good Indian food here but you gotta look.

Well the least the could add was Poppadom.

Saag dishes depend on who is making it. You can either blanche the leafy greens and grind them to make a paste/sauce or you can simply saute them. And we too get a choice here in India to choose if you want rice. Mostly bc we have a lot of variety of rice produced and different regions eat different kind of rice. Also, since rice eaters prefer the rice cooked at home compared to rice cooked at restaurants. 😂

Mushrooms and okra look and taste gross. Both are slimy suckers 🤢 🤢

Even I won't imagine making a Salmon Vindaloo. Fishes like Salmon, Bhetki, and Ilish have their own unique flavours which will be ruined in heavy curries.

@@catificationcorner Mushrooms are not slimy! They are meaty. Stop washing your mushrooms and sear them well. That's it.

@@RonBhattacharya I just can’t do it. The texture and look is off-putting and let’s not talk about how they are grown🤢. There are so many wonderful vegetables around and fungus would be last on my list along with okra.🤮. I would rather eat my hand‼️

@@catificationcorner 😅 Just so you know, Mushrooms are grown in a very controlled environment and are probably one of the most hygienic as they don't need chemicals.

Yeah... but they heavily dumb down all the dishes, and that becomes frustrating for any Indian (especially Bengalis) traveller wanting to try them out.

@@RonBhattacharya They often have "home style" options on the menu these days (on the bone, less liquidy, spicier, whole spices etc.). It's still completely random consistency though, it'll either be incredible or bland tomato soup. The problem is the consistency, even the BIR style is not meant to be bland at all they are just bad at business or don't care because it doesn't change customer numbers or at least they don't notice the difference in the kitchen.

@@Bozebo I suspect they don't care because their 'target' base isn't Indians. I can vouch for the fact that Indians (and especially Bangladeshis) don't cook that way in their homes. They (and us in the West Bengal as well) are very particular about their food. Also, contrary to popular belief, the vast majority of Indian dishes are not really that spicy; especially hot-spicy. But they are always well-seasoned and flavourful. Also, there's an order to eat various Indian dishes during a meal. Most people end up disliking or burning up with spices because 90% of the time they're eating them wrong. The other 10% are truly intolerant to spice levels. E.g. we 'never' eat Samosas and Pakoras (the various fritters) as part of a meal as starters. That's such a noob thing to do! 🤣Also, having both rice and naan along with gravy in the same bite! Choose one - either rice or naan/parantha/roti - one carb. No one eats carb on carb. lolz

@@RonBhattacharya But naan and rice and curry together tastes good

@@cpmc5400 Do you ever load your "bread" with "pasta"?! That's the equivalent of loading your Naan with Rice. Got it?

The turks

What's Jalfrezi? Is it a dessert? Here in India we a have dessert called Jalebi.

@@Impedance_Zit’s a type of curry we get in Indian takeaways in the Uk/ Ireland . P yummy.

@@starlight8554 thanks for clarification

​@@Impedance_Z mix veg

Slavery is banned bro

@@mayurk8697 not funny u pos

More like Groucho Marx. I agree he needs to loose the mustache.

Thats not overcooking. Thats cooking it "well done".

One difference I noticed between real Indian restaurants (in India) and British Indian restaurants is the excess of sauce in the British Indian cuisine. Lots more salads and the dishes tend to have more herbs in them (eg more coriander and more actual curry leaves). Also noticed it's either bread or rice, not often both with the same meal. I also prefer a variety of starters than a main.

Its punjabi dish sarso da saag te makke di rotti. But i think its made by pakistanis that is why the addition of mutton and paneer. They have habit of adding meat to everything.

Idk who even came up with word curry, I guess it's S India who calls curry to any meat and vegetable dish

Jagsmash

That one had me barking, “No it doesn’t! No. It doesn’t!”

There's a good chance the one he had did have tomatoes in it. A lot of western versions use tomatoes, it might not be traditional but it's definitely the best thing to order in a uk curry house.

@@chrisgreene4999 The point is that proper rogan josh doesn’t have tomatoes. Adding tomatoes changes the dish completely. Besides, calling that dish rogan josh - no matter how delicious it may be - is kinda messed up given the culinary and cultural practices of Kashmiris. For example, there’s a reason why traditional Kashmiri Pandit food doesn’t use tomatoes, onions or garlic. I’m genuinely sorry you can’t get a real rogan josh because that dish is the GOAT! 😁

Indian-Portuguese* Portuguese are not the only ones who have contributed to it. It was invented right here in India.

Of course its not meant to be authentic. The dish has to be localised for the palatte.

Because south Indian dishes isn't that popuein west except few which are famous in North India

They tried Madras Curry. But TBH, the poor dish looked sad and pathetic - wanting to jump into the nearest trash bin. 🤭

There is also no Bengali Food here, you southern folks should either shut up or go open a restaurent yourself!

South Indian food is available in the UK, it's not as widespread though due to most of the 'Indian' restaurants being operated by immigrants from Pakistan or Bangladesh. Just like other cuisines from Asia have been adapted, they do a base sauce plus protein plus extras approach which allows them to make a lot of different dishes quickly but not authentically. I like both regional Indian food and the British Indian restaurant style but I see them as separate options. Actually there is a cafe in the small city where I live that does cheap lunches and they cook big pots of only a few dishes, this is perhaps more authentic to home cooking as it's aimed at South Asian customers, especially people working in the city wanting Halal lunches. I'm vegetarian but they do very nice veg dishes as well. I think this is the closest to authentic North Indian food I could get locally.

@@orientalmoons Atleast there are South Indian foods available outside the country, the same cannot be said about East Indian ( Bengali+ Odisshi ) food, while North East Indian foods aren't even available outside their respective states. I can name several South Indian,and many more North Indian cuisine,but can you name atleast 5 Bengali cuisine ( not including Roshogolla or Doi), or one dish from Tripura ?