I'm at an Indian restaurant and I love how their ticket system (showing when you food is ready to be picked up) has a very, very rough and homemade feeling. It's fitting the place very well.

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Indian restaurants abroad can't pay their respects to the recipes. They will mold the recipe to fit the local customer's taste preference or they will jack up the spices or make it too sweet to make people feel like they are trying a new thing.

@Sid2006 yep. An "authentic" Indian tastes only lasts the 1st month, then they realise the 'real' taste it too strong for the locals and doesnt sell, they mild it up and we all suffer 😪

@Sid2006 same for Chinese

@Nanos If we ever met, I would try to make you experience real Indian cuisine.

I've been cooking my lunch and dinner for the past 2 months. I've gotten quite good at it.

@Nanos coz "chili" isnt the only spice, when made thouroughly ie the spices are cooked for their oils to come out, letting the initial ingredients soak em up, then balanced with the secondary ingredients + the right condiments, each bite can give you a different feel!
When they decide to cut down though for the 'local tongue', they ignore the entire process and flatten it out (for the lack of a better word)

so you dont have any complex flavour, the ingredients are thrown in along with the spices, they make it look pretty n thats the end of it. Even the rice/naan gets a "oh they wont get it anyway" treatment, n the rice is ghee-less and naans butter-less. It's pitiful...

@azuredivay
Not even tn the UK?
What region are you speaking of?

Had a curry last week with a couple of world sailors that once stranded somewhere in India and had to take in locals later, thus learned from them.
That seemed quite complex, of course slightly more intense than the local restaurants, but still quite similar.

@scor Never been to UK, but in US/other Asian countries with sizable Indian population, the taste is rarely authentic

Maybe in UK coz even older diaspora, they've set enough competetion to keep the taste right .-.

coz less-strong is ok! it's the lack of method altogether that majority restaurants do after a while that ruins the taste

Well, happens everywhere.

Chefs in new York making """paella""" with chorizo say hi...

@Sid2006 @azuredivay They're open for 19 years and from my observation (I have been eating there regularly before moving) they're mostly serving Indians. No need to cater to local tastes that way and they're open for almost 20 years now ;)
With my limited experience I'd consider it very authentic. I had Vegan Curry Thali, but I also really like their Bhindi Thali.

@topsecret230 I thought about it, bit it was a bit too difficult to do without capturing someone, which I'd consider rude even if I crop them out later.

It was 2/3 black screen, on the right a green column with a title (like "orders") and the numbers. The most recent one was red and new ones get announced with a semiprofessional recording of the numbers that get punched together.