East Indian cuisine gets fairly close to Chinese food. Most of the dishes in western countries are going to be north Indian, which I think really means northwest. Punjabi and Gujarati regions. They’re the wealthier states with a greater number of emigrants. South Indian is a different style as well, but I’m not familiar with it.
Experiencing East India damn near instantly made me wonder what my country’s tourists/expats look like in comparison to the actual country’s makeup. Just a bit of a surprise that for having a poor international reputation, I feel like it’s a more progressive portion of the country that goes abroad. And we’re still bad? Either my country is even worse than the world thinks, or my people are way too entitled abroad, knowingly or not.
Chinese is the most popular ‘foreign’ cuisine in India, and some popular ‘Chinese’ dishes were actually developed by Chinese merchants living in India.
Also Southeast Asia has a lot of Indian influence, except Vietnam, so that’s a bit wierd.
I know of near me a Chinese restaurant run by Indians, and an Indian restaurant run by Vietnamese owners.
But the Vietnamese restaurant, that’s still run by Vietnamese owners.
They are all pretty good, but the Vietnamese restaurant is the best.
Tustin? That’s the best Vietnamese food I’ve had outside of a cat (best place to read) . Or Vietnam, which I should probably visit.
East Indian cuisine gets fairly close to Chinese food. Most of the dishes in western countries are going to be north Indian, which I think really means northwest. Punjabi and Gujarati regions. They’re the wealthier states with a greater number of emigrants. South Indian is a different style as well, but I’m not familiar with it.
Experiencing East India damn near instantly made me wonder what my country’s tourists/expats look like in comparison to the actual country’s makeup. Just a bit of a surprise that for having a poor international reputation, I feel like it’s a more progressive portion of the country that goes abroad. And we’re still bad? Either my country is even worse than the world thinks, or my people are way too entitled abroad, knowingly or not.
Chinese is the most popular ‘foreign’ cuisine in India, and some popular ‘Chinese’ dishes were actually developed by Chinese merchants living in India.
Also Southeast Asia has a lot of Indian influence, except Vietnam, so that’s a bit wierd.
I know there’s at least one Indian restaurant that serves Indian style Chinese fried rice around here.
Foreign dishes get adapted to use local ingredients and to suit local tastes.