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

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.

Pointless episode, you could get 10 Indian takeaways from uk and all would be completely different.

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

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.

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?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@Heisenberg-chemist exactly 💯

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

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

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.

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.

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!

I came for this comment. 😂

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.

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.

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

His memory

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

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.

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

@@mfield040491 I think you underestimate just not only how wide our choice of food is within an Indian restaurant/takeaway.... but also just how common they are. Pretty much everywhere (even small villages with 4000 people) has a South Asian takeaway..... and even in really rural areas near those small villages, most takeaways will do delivery for a very small charge (outwith the App Store infrastucture that may not cover remote areas) I live in a smallish place in North Scotland and have 4 Indian Takeaways-two of which have a full restaurant faciity. And they are all busy and offer amazing quality food at more affordable prices than the traditional Fish and Chip shops. Being Anglo Indian myself.... and having lived and worked for many years in New York... I can safely say that the UK has a much wider variety of food, much more readily available than you give it credit for.... and I can honestly say if you think anything sold in New York is 'authentic' you are very sadly mistaken [Edited to add... there are reportedly between 9,000 and 10,000 Indian etc Restaurants/Takeaways in the relatively small UK landmass..... On top of the countless Chinese/East Asian places, a huge number of Carribean Takeaways, Thai Restaurants, and African and Middle Eastern eateries. As well as it being a staple for people to leave the pub drunk and head straight to the nearest Turkish place for a Kebab!!!) We're not all bland food and weak tea-despite what you may think! Crikey-even my small town of 15,000 has a very well stocked Asian Supermarket, due to the huge number of Thai, Filipino and Vietnamese workers on fishing boats that dock in our local harbour)

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

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

Sadly I'd say it's only about half or a third, these are just the basics, as most restaurants do chef's specials on top of these, and for instance, I love a chicken ceylon which wasn't mentioned.

@@usedfuzzbox I think most people have a limited experience with the available options at different Indian restaurants and takeaways because they generally try a few at most, then regular the best out of them. I can admit to doing that. My regular Indian takeaway was the second one I tried, while waiting for my food one time I noticed a framed picture on the wall, it was the head chef winning a big curry making competition. After that and trying the food they had me won over and now its the only Indian takeaway i go to.

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

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

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.

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

Slavery is banned bro

@@mayurk8697 not funny u pos

Bengalis have a far more 'variety' of vegetarian food options irrespective of their religion - both in West Bengal and Bangladesh; as well as non-vegetarian (predominantly 'fish' - not meat, but meat too) options.

@@RonBhattacharya No, North Indians(especially north-western region) have more vegetarian dishes, the typical exam are sarso saag, palak, methi saag and 20 different kinds of leafy dishes. We don't have coastal seafoods, many of us are vegetarians, so we tend to eat more green vegetables and Dals. Even for many non-vegetarians eating meat is a once or twice a month thing as compared to coastal or southern people which is more frequent than us.

@@rahulj.005 Clearly... You know "absolutely nothing" about the "variety" in Bengali Cuisine - therefore spoken like a perfect dolt, TBH. 😅 Next time, keep your mouth unopened, FFS. 🤭

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 ?