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The UK is obsessed with Indian food to the point where the Chicken Tikka Masala is the countries national dish. In this video Andy travels across the UK visiting curry houses to figure out how Indian food became a staple of British dining. And why, despite their popularity, the UK is at risk of losing these restaurants.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 The UK 's National Dish is a curry.
1:23 Paying the bills
3:05 The first Indian restaurant in the UK
3:54 The seamen from Bengal
4:43 Post WW2 Migration
5:34 Your favourite Indian restaurant isn't an Indian restaurant
7:32 The difference between Indian & Bengali food
8:22 1971 changed everything for the curry house.
9:49 What's the deal with the Chicken Tikka Masala
12:20 What do Londers think of the Chicken Tikka Masala
13:14 Why are all curry houses the same.
13:57 The peak of Indian food in the UK.
15:08 Why do I only order a Chicken Tikka Masala?
16:33 Why the curry house is dying out
18:08 The new styles of 'Indian Food' in the UK
19:38 Why the British Indian food doesn't taste like Indian food
20:00 The secret Chef menu
21:19 How curry house changed the taste of a nation
#indianfood #uk #chickentikkamasala
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Britain: colonises India
India: colonises British food
Resistance is futile.
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As an American, I feel like Indian food is to the UK what Mexican food is to the US
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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.
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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 š¤¤
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Jamaican Food would probably be heaven for British people since most of it is a mixture of British and Indian foods
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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.
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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!
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>it's not overpowering
>eyes went watery in an instant, immediately grabs a bottle of water
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Itās a beautiful thing!
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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.
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There's a 4th sector of Indian food you should consider: Traditional "CafƩ 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 cafƩ style Indian restaurant!
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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.
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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
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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 McDonaldās. 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 č¾»å ē
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/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.
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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
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