it's really sad that american's have this view of the uk and our food. but when you take a step back and look at why, the time when most american's came to the uk was during world war 2. in the middle of us rationing. your soldiers came back saying our food was limited and bland. well yeah, we were in the middle of a war our boats were kinda busy, so it was all hands to the deck, we'll get back to normal service soon as we've saved the world lol. but our food has always been fantastic. innovative and tasty! :D
@@Trippingthroughadventures I sometimes watch the English Heritage Channel. They have old recipes such as Victoria English Curry. Not authentic Indian at all. There are plenty of medieval recipes that are quite highly flavoured, but they would mostly be eaten by the wealthy due to the price of spices.
I have to say, having been born in the 60's, that this idea that our food was considered bland because of WW2 rationing is an urban myth. Our food WAS ALWAYS bland. A usual meal in the early and middle 20thC was meat and two boiled veg. There was black pepper on the table as a condiment, perhaps some mustard with the Sunday roast but that was it. Spicy food was foreign, pungent and distrusted. Spicy food didn't start becoming mainstream until the mid '70's through the opening of those curry houses and Chinese take-aways by people settling here from Asia in the 60's onwards and also through KFC opening their first UK shops here in the early 70's. Eleven herbs and spices spicy chicken served in boxes (!) was a very very different intrepid novel experience for people back then.
@@TimeyWimeyLimey Do you remember how the French were ridiculed for smelling of garlic? Garlic and chilli were regarded as alien in the UK until the 80's really. Now they're in everything we eat!
@@MrKeefy1967 That's right,,,and then 1970's upwardly mobile housewives bought those Cordon Bleu cookbooks for their dinner parties and the rest is history.
It is actually quite hard to find a curry house in the UK that is _not_ very good or excellent. The chefs (always hidden in the kitchen) pride themselves on producing excellent food in 20 minutes or less and will also knock up anything 'off menu' for you. Dishoom is an experience, but, next time in London, try the _Punjab_ [80 Neal St, London WC2H 9PA] Unfair, as I could easily recommend another 10-15 places in London..... For the real mccoy, try Birmingham or Leicester.
Pedantic Brit here. 1700's are the 18th Century, not the 17th. Always one ahead (we're 21st Century now) Aside from that, so pleased you enjoyed your food experiences here and the trip overall ❤
Guys, you need to know that many restaurants in the UK put a service charge on the bill. It is different from restaurant to restaurant, some charge anything fron 10% to 20% if they feel that can get away with it. The service charge is discretionary, you are not obliged to pay it. I've seen visitors from the US pay the service charge and also give a tip. You're being ripped off. When you get the bill just tell the waiter that you don't wish to pay the discretionary service charge. They will usually give you another bill with it removed. You can then if you choose give a tip. But remember, in the UK, tips are not generally expected.
Sorry to correct you, but someone has not explained properly what "Kacchi biryani" style means _(or you have misunderstood, perhaps?)._ Basically, biryani can be cooked using TWO different methods: #1 "Pakki biryani", where the meat is cooked seperately, BEFORE adding it to the rice - VERSUS - #2 "Kacchi biryani", where the RAW MEAT is added and then cooked WITH the rice.
OK! Yet another great video! Dishoom is a very famous brand in the UK but the quality of the food is no better than many restaurants around the country. The big difference is the price! Dishoom is outrageously expensive!. One little niggle is that you said that it was surprising that "people who like bland food" like curries! Really? Is that still a thing? That Americans think that the UK only has bland/beige food? I know for a fact that you guys know fine well that Brits have good food, so still with the stereotype? 🤣🤣🤣
I thought it was quiet a funny joke lol specially that the main reason Americans ( the ones who make the joke about the uks food ) don’t like Indian food is that and I quote “ too spicy “ 😂
This bland food thing is so deeply ingrained in the American mind. Just give them a big dollop of Colman's English mustard followed by a generous serving of Marmite and see how bland they find that!
In the 1980s with pubs shutting around 10.30-11.00 going for a curry was one way to extend the evening and continue drinking past midnight. Nightclubs had a no jeans policy so you might have to go home and get changed.
:D enjoyed that , cheers. and yeah, for sure, you could go to so many places anywhere in the uk and get a proper brilliant curry for a really good price in a lovely place. we do know our spices ;) we have neighbours who taught us lolol.
The best curry house I have been in was a small restaurant called Indian Blues and it was in Chesterfield. If you visit to the Peak District during your travels, make the effort to go there.
Avebury. In Wiltshire. It’s a Neolithic stone circle with a village in the middle. Give it a google Has a pub in the middle too. But it’s a cattle market. Go to the wagon and horses two miles away. Went to primary school there from 5 to 11. Quite a cool place to grow up
Dishoom have a cook book, you can make your own at home. If you go back to Dishoom , order the multi small dishes and share, maybe 4 or 5, the Lamb dishes are the best..
The best place to go for a curry is ‘The Balti Triangle’ in Birmingham. It has the largest area of Indian restaurants in the country. Tom Cruise has frequented a restaurant there. Yes, we have a very long-standing love of Indian curries. The BIR (British Indian Restaurant) style curry was developed here to suit our tastes and then imported to other countries such as America, Australia, etc. I had an American friend in the 70’s. She came to live over here for a while with her English mother & American father. They never ate curries, or football (soccer). It was all pizzas, beef burgers etc.
I used to live in Stoke-on-Trent which had loads of great Balti houses and it was basically smack bang in the middle of the two most famous curry areas in the UK, the 'Curry Mile' in Manchester and the 'Balti Triangle' in Birmingham, the only reason to go to Stoke is if you love porcelain and pottery in general, as that's what the area is famous for, and not much else, so I'd suggest Manchester and just go for a cheap Balti somewhere, order a Chicken Tikka Balti and a Naan Bread and enjoy, after Stoke I moved to Brighton and I really struggled finding a decent Balti house in the south of England, or ones equal to those in the North and Midlands at least, there are some but I found it very hit and miss whereas up North they were all very good, there's a really good food review channel called FRC (Food Review Club) and they've been to some curry restaurants, I know they've been to the Balti Triangle.
Queen Victoria was rather partial to a "Ruby" (Ruby Murray: Curry) as were certain sections of Victorian society, mainly those who had been out to India to serve either in the British Army, the Royal Navy or the Indian Civil Service and brought their love of spicy food back with them. 🙂
Most British Indian restaurants are British versions of fairly traditional Indian home cooking - or, as people here have said, Pakistani or Bengali cooking. But Dishoom is based on the Parsee-run cafes of Mumbai. So the style is slightly different.
I live in Edinburgh and eat in the dishoom chain about 3 times a year, it's one of my favourites. I wouldn't really call it high end, it's probably 20% more expensive than a bunch of other places but generally i think the food is better. There are much more expensive curry houses, some which i think may be assuming at Michelin stars, but they are relatively rare. I probably around l spend about £25-30 pp in Dishoom
Just from a quick glance at that menu, the section entitled Ruby Murray would be the curries. Cockney Rhyming slang - Ruby Murray = Curry. So the dish called 'Chicken Ruby' would be a straightforward Chicken Curry. It was there all along!! You just gotta know the slang! Love your videos btw - keep up the good work.
@@Trippingthroughadventures Do you know what Burk (or Berk) means in Cockney Rhyming slang? A lot of English people use it without knowing its meaning. Berkshire Hunt = Cu*t. So when you call someone a berk, you're calling them a cu*t!! Del Boy's got a lot to answer for!
It’s rare to find a bad curry house. The best are in areas with high south Asian populations: London try Tower Hamlets area. Birmingham has the Balti triangle. Leeds/Bradford has many great curry houses.
Hi rich n tiff,found your channel on youtube last week, I’m currently off work with a broken foot,so you have been entertaining me! all your other videos from your London trip are a few months ago, so I was surprised when this one came up! Love the enthusiasm you have everything new,and the anticipation of the next voyage of discovery. Just like my wife n I.Happy travels! Ps.. make a video of you two cooking a chicken vindaloo and eating it, my favourite curry 🤣
Thanks for this. Its a very cold windy rainy day where I am and I'm now inspired to go for a curry for lunch at a local multi award winning establishment that will prob cost £20 a favourite of mine.
A lot of what we consider to be "Indian Food" is actually either of Pakistan or Bangladeshi origin and changed for the British palette over the course of about 50 years or so. If you go to Inverness on one of your trips, please take a trip to Love Dosa, they used to be near me in the South but the whole family moved up to Scotland. They make South Indian (Kerela) style food that is so Authentic that if you go to a typical home in Kerela, that is what you'd be served. It's amazing, especially when they do the Onam Sadhya feast served on a banana leaf.
I work directly opposite the Covent Garden Dishoom. The queues are often ridiculously long and although it is good quality food, I would not wait in line for it. Fortunately I can pick and choose when I go in so have never had to wait. Colleagues have said the breakfasts are excellent and it is certainly a lot quieter in the mornings! Good curry, but really no better than two or three Indian restaurants that are within a 10 minute drive from my home. Dishoom is very expensive for an Indian restaurant.
Another little of info you might like about the indian curry, the base stock for for all dishes is the same chicken stock, they boil the chickens in bog pans with onions, and cinnamon, and other stuff, once the chickens are cooked they are remved, and the stock left with the onions is blended till smooth lump free the amazing to watch is the chef's pan work, he tends to make the dish in a single pan, he has row of 6 to 8 different spices behind his burner, using he spoon, takes different amounts in different combinations, depending the curry he is making, , then towrds the end he may add tomoatoes, coconut milk, or youghart depending which curry. The only ones that really differ is tikka chicken, and tadoori chicken as well as the nann breads which are all done in the tadoor, at around 400C thats around 750f for you americans, Lamb curry is done in a similar way, what they do keep back, is the lamb bones, thats there after service meal, the marrow in the bones is the best bit for them.
1:16 definitely going to the chippy tomorrow after that lol. Chips n battered sausage with curry sauce👌 that kinda curry in the picture we would class as a "fruity curry" sometimes called English curry. You only find it in chippies. Its got bits of apple in it, sometimes raisins/sultanas, but you see that less often now with the raisins. Its different to the Chinese curry sauce, which is the more spicier curry sauce. How spicy varies massively between chippies though
@@Trippingthroughadventures 👌 I'm in the North West, Manchester area. Going to the chippy is near on routine for people here 😅 chippies galore, so many great ones. Theres not so good ones too always trying to get in on the high demand though, so always gotta read reviews first. And ofcourse coastal towns have top quality fresh seafood on their doorstep but its bit more posh than a tray of chips,steak pudding, mushy peas and gravy youd get in the north lol
I seem to remember in the 60's a lot of the curries you would find were 'fruity' until the drive to be 'authentic' increased the choice and quality and educated the brits more. My own parents only made what they thought was madras and filled it with raisins and pineapple chunks.
@@theotherside8258 well its tweaking stuff too to make new varieties, much like with tikka masala. Nothing wrong with that. Japanese curry is ever milder. They traditionally add stuff like carrots and potatoes to an already mild curry sauce
my recommendations, do not go to supper posh ones you see in citys, head to an area what really big on Indian food. just make sure place has a good hygiene rating some smaller ones in small towns or Indian food areas in bigger places you get real Indian taste. ive been to some posh ones more modern ones they just do not hit same as small local one what been around for many years and for me i feel i get better tasting food as a much better price. i never choose of the main menu i choose traditional dishes section cost a tad more normally but it feels more like they just had to cook it than take it out big pot, my fav is Chicken dhansak it can be pretty hot but also tad sweet a bit tang. it rare i ea out or get a take out but that one i choose with fried rice and all the extras. Hot, tangy and slightly sweet normally slice pineapple in it, my local pan cooked a combination of spices and lentils and garlic Hot, sweet and sour. if at home a shop curry it be common like Tikka,korma to something a little hotter some shop ones really good these days, one most scary someone got me an extra hot vindaloo the worry was next day. but since then ive grown some worlds hottest chile and peppers and wow they on another level crazy so hot had to dry and make blend powder and still finest sprinkle you really know about it. sure like hot food, all summer growing them now freezer full heat
Curry introduction was indeed through the Royal Navy but it was further back than WW2, it dates back to the late 19th. Century from what I have read from Japanese writers. Queuing, indulging in one of out cultural pastimes I see! Looked up the menu from Dishoom and have to say I wasn’t impressed, going for the “trendiest” is rarely to have the best, I have had better in local Indian restaurants in towns across the country. Well worth being adventurous wen next you visit.
Forgot to add the earliest recorded “Indian curry” recipe in Britain is Hannah Glasse’s “The Art of Cookery Made Plain” published in 1751. Has to be said it doesn’t look much like what we are used to today.
As some one who is brown and from that part of the world, if you want good Desi food avoid the local curry houses. Go to areas where there is a lot of brown people and go to the dive they go to. You won't see too many non-brown faces but you'll be left alone. The food is likely to be cheap and delicious. It may feel intimidating at first, you will have some eyes on you initially, people wondering how you found the place but nothing sinister. Here is a little known thing, staff on average will not eat the staff they serve, they can't its way too heavy, just like the Chinese restaurants the staff dishes are light, tasty and healthier. If you're familiar with an Indian restaurant, ask the owner to show you what he/she and the staff have
@@OriginalNiceButOdd Not sure what your comment has to do with my post? Curry is catch all term to mean gravy. Its like calling all pasta dishes by one name. The British dried the spices and made it in powder form (so it could be transported) but they did not invent curry. The triune of spices that make most desi curries are Turmeric, Coriander Seeds and Cumin, they have been around for thousands of years. The Portuguese bought the chilli in. Which was the later addition, prior to that, Desis were using pepper corn. The Brits did bring in tea from China, and created "tea time" to push tea
Chicken Tikka Masala is probably the one curry that has best claims to being a wholly British invention. Sometimes ascribed to Glasgow restaurateur Ali Ahmed Aslam, who opened his restaurant in 1964. He learned his trade working in his father's restaurant, the Green Gates on Bank Street (Glasgow's first true Indian restaurant, opened in 1959). Alsam's claim was disputed by other parts of the UK, but what isn't disputed is that - while it is probably derived from Butter chicken or plain Chicken Tikka served in a Masala sauce - Chicken Tikka Masala, itself, is a British dish.
Many different types of Curry from the many different regions of India, some Curry Houses in the UK are region specific and some are an approximation of a mixture of different regional specialisms
Dishoom is pricey but not really 'high-end'. It's more of a place to go to share small plates with loads of people than just order just for yourself. The variety and textures at Dishoom is different from your average local curry house (most likely actually Bangladeshi) as the food is based on what you would find in Mumbai.
There's a bunch of "Every country Britain's invaded" videos on here. IF I remember correctly there's 22 countries that we have't invaded at some point. It was mostly to get access to better food 🤣 It's a good if you ask your waiter for recommendations of mild/medium/hot curries, it's pretty much meat of choice and sauce of choice (unless it's a dry dish), but they'll also do you a taster if you're a bit nervous about a hot sauce (for example). Wherever you are, if it's a ~busy area, find a pub, get a drink and ask the bar staff where they'd go for a curry + you'll get some really good recommendations.
Good point was made on another page, US appropriated the dishes of its immigrating inhabitants as US Food ... (even UK/EU Apple Pie 😂) Yet UK not allowed? UK Food NOT BLAND 🙂
Curry massively took off in Britain due to Queen Victoria, who was also Empress of India at the time. Her influence and love of curry helped spread the idea of curry and spicy food to the masses.
@@Trippingthroughadventures Apparently she liked quite bland food because she had to eat such elaborate and rich food wherever she went on official visits, as all the top chefs would fall over themselves to cook for her. I guess you just get sick of it. She did often have smoked haddock kedgeree for breakfast though.
i know you guys talked about butter chicken while popular, the most popular is chicken tikka masala, you aso mention tadoori chicken, the chicken in chicken tikk is actually tandoori chicken cubes, How do i know this, i spen 3 years woing for indian place also a delivery driver, I also used to deliver and the milk and cream to 80% of the indian resturants in our city, so i have been in 90% of the kitchens
Yes, I think they just got confused and meant to say 'Chicken Tikka Masala' _(not 'Butter Chicken'),_ which was supposedly made by the Indian chef, Ali Ahmed Aslam, in his restaurant, 'Shish Mahal' in Glasgow in the 1970s.... 🤔🙂
@@StewedFishProductions i sort of figured that out to be honest, i think and i could be wrong, but butter chicken is more popular in America, while we do have it here, its not top of the list, your right about that glasgow link, it was said to be a customer sent a curry back and asked it to be toned down, the heat i beleive. I have eaten so many curries, we used to have free meal to take home every night, i went through the board, anything over madras i cant handle, to hot,
@@seanmc1351 Although no one has been able to 100% confirm the 'inventor' of Chicken Tikka masala, Mr Aslam has quite a following believing 'his' story of improvising a sauce made from a tin of 'condensed tomato soup' and spices. Also, not because it was too 'hot', but because he wanted MORE sauce _(curry garvy),_ as it was too 'dry'.
city spice in brick lane is really good and not as expensive as that meal you had. i recommend it just be aware of pickpockets as with all of london. people say london is dangerous but it really isnt that bad compared to any other city. as you probably already know. also i know you guys dont drink that much but if you do fancy a drink in most Indian restaurants its byob "bring your own booze" but just make sure you check first. whatever you do dont order a phaal its ridiculous spicy to the point of being dangerous lol
'indian' food comes from anywhere in the so-called subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka); IMHO, the best is from Bangladesh. Obviously, it owes its popularity to the British controlling the area for two hundred years and the large number of immigrants from those countries.
Firstly, Dishoom is mainly for tourists. I don’t know a single person who has ever eaten there. Secondly, very few ‘Indian’ restaurants in Britain are Indian. They are largely Pakistani or Bangladeshi. If you want traditional Indian cuisine you need to seek it out as you won’t find it in your local curry house.
Dishoom isn't just Indian food, it has a middle eastern influences. It is the best Indian style food I've ever eaten, but you must try multiple small dishes.
We are a REAL multicultural country and India is part of the Commonwealth so there are many Indians living in the UK so the Curry is authentic. Curry is now considered a more national dish than Fish and Chips! Don't go the national chain eateries - look out for the individual Indian Restaurant and be advised by the waiter if you d on't like your food overly hot or spicy.
Id take uk food scene over America anyday, such a diverse range of multicultural foods, next door to Europe and this is found all over the country, outside the big city’s in th USA is just fast food.
That depends where you are in the states nyc and la is close but that’s in a land mass the size of Europe so I would agree. Pizzas great in America in the north east mainly…so if you live on the west coast it’s only a week worth of driving away lol.
Very popular names for the locals Indian restaurant are Taj Mahal or Star of India. Just ask a taxi driver / hotel desk staff / friendly police officer.
Brick lane on a Sunday morning is brilliant for the food market, but I wouldn't go in any of the curry houses at night. Very overrated and poor quality.
It's the Murican way of flirtin' wid da ladies, my wife just said that no wonder his wife laughed when he said a little bit, finger and thumb about 3/4 of an inch apart!
Most of the best curry dishes was actually made in England from foreign spices Chinese and Indian i lived in China for 2 years and was baffled why i could not find curry until i found out why its the same with our chip shop curry.
You're not wrong, and I for one totally get it. The expensive and fancy restaurants are great for trying new things and 'playing on a theme' like culinary jazz. But if trying to judge the original, the classic that made it a whole theme to play on, that type of restaurant is pretentious, and un-authentic to the max - by design.
I think when you say it’s not a typical curry menu, you mean, it’s not like an American curry menu. That menu would be based, more authentically Indian. In WW2 British food was rationed so that is where the bland food thing came from. It was a loooong time ago now. Get over it! British food now is very different. You might try getting out of London too. The UK is very different once you get away and cheaper.
We rephrase that multiple times made several jokes about how the curry we are looking for is a direct comparison from America to the UK an not India lol because most of American is what I believe to be more of the Punjabi style of Indian food. We just want something that would be everyday style food, I don’t think we actually made any remarks regarding the authenticity of the food. More of just the ambiance and how fancy the setting was.
Open mic nights are called karaoke in UK. Every town has pubs that do this. Sometimes every night or sometimes on specific nights of the week. They will have notices on the walls when they do it or just google 'karaoke' and name the town you're in and something will come up
@@Trippingthroughadventures That’s not correct. There are proper open mic nights called that in Manchester where people will go up there and sing, do comedy, spoken word, political rants. Some pubs even have open DJ decks where people bring up to 3 vinyl songs to play.
most Indian food is sold in restaurants not take aways...we order from restraunts to take out. can't say I've ever been a Indian takeaway as in like a chippy or Chinese takeaway
I would love to help you find your epicurean masterpiece, you guys can't do, it ain't your fault, nobody can be perfect at everything, like, I wouldn't spend $150 on cooking implements, just to cook a Full English but then do it Murican style and say it ain't the same but there again, you are most certainly Murican! I took an American associate and his wife for a Silver Service meal at a Restaurant in St Katherine's Dock, Tower Bridge, whereby she lit a cigarette during the main course and was taking puffs every other mouthful and blowing smoke all over my missus, who was a smoker but, Please, really? Knowing that this was top tier and shouldn't be thought of as normal, for normal people, the next night I took them to a Chop House just off of Fleet St, still high on the list and by no means a normal haunt for someone wanting a quick bite to eat, the next night I took them down market to an Aberdeen place on Shaftesbury Ave, the last night I offered up the coup de gràce. Walking the Jack the Ripper trail, I knew that they would love that, follwed by a pint in "The Blind Begger" IYKYK, and then a Ruby down Whitechaple High St. What is it with certain cultures that will say, "Oh, I love Hot n Spicey food" when they have no idea what hot is, even if you try to warn them! "No, it's fine, ok, buddy, I can handle it!", ok, Mate, go for it! This isnt a one off, I had the same with a Murican mate of mine, from Milwaukee, who, after seeing me apply a smidgen of Colemans to my Sausage sandwich, decided that he could put far more on than I did, Bigger is best, More is better, right? Well, not where English mustard is concerned! My wife used to make my pack up and on one of the sandwiches she would put a Mustard bomb in one corner the anticipation was worth it, but I couldn't eat two sandwiches loaded like that, you'd lose the taste of the Roast Beef or Smoked Ham, so what would be the point!
It's just Chinese whispers. As people, what take aways the british like, and the anser would not be unanimous, but may lean more to Chinese or italian/ Pizza & burga's, than curry.
Not unanimous indeed. If I could only choose your initial options, Indian would beat Chinese, Italian, pizzas or burgers every time. As a kid it would be pie and chips (never fish), Chinese or Indian. As a student I added kebabs and fried chicken. As my taste buds grew, Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese and Lebanese became my preference over anything I used to order. It might have been Mexican too but sadly finding an authentic Mexican food stop in the UK is tough work. The only English food I continue to buy is a proper Cornish Pasty but only when I think it's been done by hand in the traditional way.
A lot of Indians don't like admitting they cooled things for the britosh occupiers they feel a lot of humiliation and anger about it so would not admit it was made for the bririsj occupiers not all Indians but there are a lot who despise beitsin
Tikka Masala was invented in Glasgow Scotland, when an Indian chef put coconut milk into a curry to cool it down, it had f-all to do with 'occupiers' , some people even say it was an accident and he just spilled milk into the curry, either way, it was 100% born in Glasgow, not India.
There is no such thing as “indian food” India is a vast country, and dates back long before transportation was particularly feasible. There are similarities in some spices or ingredients, but “curry” which isn’t even an Indian word is just a word that British people coined to describe a cooking that was different to their own. It is generally a way of describing some sort of cooked meat or vegetable in a sauce. And normally served with rice. While some restaurants may do some generic dishes. Indian food - and by default Pakistani, is very regional in its style. If you are in London and want a good curry, go to Southall to a proper restaurant/cafe/diner or to eat the street food. Butter chicken is something restaurants make for the one person in the group who can’t handle properly spiced food and personally I find chicken tikka Marsala an abomination. There is no shortage of authentic “Indian” food in the UK. In fact “Pataks” which is a British company ships food to India - including ready meals for the microwave. Check out Southall on UA-cam. I was born and raised there, and even long after the family had left and gone our separate ways, family get togethers would see us heading to Southall or Hounslow for great food.
@@alananderson5731 love seeing the yanks trying to act all cultured. Saying he is British is a not a good look. Crosses a line. I am sure he calls people who were born in America African Americans too. Weird take on nationality. The 23 and me take on nationality.
We are actually romanichel and ludari I’m romanichel from England I’m 3rd generation American my wife’s second generation from Romania. As Roma people in America we most relate our tribe to the country our people came from most recently. TIFFs came from Romania and we came from England. We kept a lot of the traditions and we have and interact with our relatives in our respected home lands. I got a cousin from Liverpool will be here tomorrow. And in that part we are talking about our ethnic background notice we both said a European country and Indian, a rough idea of a Roma bloodline.
No lol actually being romanichel I feel more connected to England, being that a lot of your slang is just a knock off my language, Kushti =good mush = man burk= tit chav= kid div = crazy
I'd say Mush is closer to mouth than it is man. You can tell someone to shut their mush. Berk is short for Berkshire Hunt. It's rhyming slang for the C word.
Your a Yank .My Father was Scottish, my Mother English I was Born in Derbyshire England so Derbyshire 1st English 2nd British 3rd .When I visit Scotland I tell everyone I'm 50% Scottish and wear a bloody kilt .
Bland eaters? Please educate yourself and dont spout the typical stereotyping of British food. By the way the most authentic curries are found in the diverse areas of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford and many other cities around The UK . Dishoom is a chain restaurant, although good food it is not the best, and its totally overpriced.
i thought these guys, having join the channel, and other stuff, the merch, i said a couple months back, i did not think they being fair to put is nice, i had been emailing stuff, but replies stopped, as did there posting, i mentioned, it, looking at things i was right, becaue anyone that has paid the money $3,00 or so, one video in 4 weeks, cheaper to have netflix, there is always an excuse, or something, I said 2 minths ago, your not playing the game for subscribers, it was not fair, because lack of content, yet they want to charge for it i got a email, and i told them what i though 2 months ago, the email is private, i wont publish it, i dont think they being fair, is all i will say
American (from New Jersey) / Brit (dual citizenship) YT guy, living in England, Evan Edinger _always_ promotes "Dishoom" (& even took his Mum there) but I have never been there & as I don't travel, I pribably never will, so I cannot say if that restaurant is good, bad or indifferent! 🤔 Anyway, am interested in your British foodie videos and hope you'll enjoy the foods you try. Also, that one day you'll say Edinburgh correctly - it's _not_ "Edinboro' !" ☹️ It's more: 'Edinbruh' 🏴 (and _Borough_ as in 'Borough Market' is _not_ "Boro' ...☹️ It's ' _Burruh_ ' 🏴) 👍🏴💜🇬🇧🤭🖖
Ironically in the UK foods considered “American “ pizzas/burgers/hot dogs etc are incredibly bland and tasteless. The tex mex (Taco Bell) that I’ve tried was awful,grease and salt are not spices 😂😂
i'm sure the american food in America is nicer than what we do. ive been to bbq smokehouses in london and they were really good. just depends on the restaurant there is good and bad no matter where you are in the world
it's really sad that american's have this view of the uk and our food. but when you take a step back and look at why, the time when most american's came to the uk was during world war 2. in the middle of us rationing. your soldiers came back saying our food was limited and bland. well yeah, we were in the middle of a war our boats were kinda busy, so it was all hands to the deck, we'll get back to normal service soon as we've saved the world lol. but our food has always been fantastic. innovative and tasty! :D
Couldn’t agree more we have special video when we hit 10k subs that we want to delve into that further
@@Trippingthroughadventures I sometimes watch the English Heritage Channel. They have old recipes such as Victoria English Curry. Not authentic Indian at all.
There are plenty of medieval recipes that are quite highly flavoured, but they would mostly be eaten by the wealthy due to the price of spices.
I have to say, having been born in the 60's, that this idea that our food was considered bland because of WW2 rationing is an urban myth. Our food WAS ALWAYS bland. A usual meal in the early and middle 20thC was meat and two boiled veg. There was black pepper on the table as a condiment, perhaps some mustard with the Sunday roast but that was it. Spicy food was foreign, pungent and distrusted. Spicy food didn't start becoming mainstream until the mid '70's through the opening of those curry houses and Chinese take-aways by people settling here from Asia in the 60's onwards and also through KFC opening their first UK shops here in the early 70's. Eleven herbs and spices spicy chicken served in boxes (!) was a very very different intrepid novel experience for people back then.
@@TimeyWimeyLimey Do you remember how the French were ridiculed for smelling of garlic? Garlic and chilli were regarded as alien in the UK until the 80's really. Now they're in everything we eat!
@@MrKeefy1967 That's right,,,and then 1970's upwardly mobile housewives bought those Cordon Bleu cookbooks for their dinner parties and the rest is history.
It is actually quite hard to find a curry house in the UK that is _not_ very good or excellent. The chefs (always hidden in the kitchen) pride themselves on producing excellent food in 20 minutes or less and will also knock up anything 'off menu' for you. Dishoom is an experience, but, next time in London, try the _Punjab_ [80 Neal St, London WC2H 9PA] Unfair, as I could easily recommend another 10-15 places in London..... For the real mccoy, try Birmingham or Leicester.
Pedantic Brit here. 1700's are the 18th Century, not the 17th. Always one ahead (we're 21st Century now)
Aside from that, so pleased you enjoyed your food experiences here and the trip overall ❤
im brit but i still say born in late 19th century and we in the 20th it is because we are. 21st dose not start till we 2100 a long way of that.
Guys, you need to know that many restaurants in the UK put a service charge on the bill. It is different from restaurant to restaurant, some charge anything fron 10% to 20% if they feel that can get away with it. The service charge is discretionary, you are not obliged to pay it. I've seen visitors from the US pay the service charge and also give a tip. You're being ripped off. When you get the bill just tell the waiter that you don't wish to pay the discretionary service charge. They will usually give you another bill with it removed. You can then if you choose give a tip. But remember, in the UK, tips are not generally expected.
Sorry to correct you, but someone has not explained properly what "Kacchi biryani" style means _(or you have misunderstood, perhaps?)._ Basically, biryani can be cooked using TWO different methods: #1 "Pakki biryani", where the meat is cooked seperately, BEFORE adding it to the rice - VERSUS - #2 "Kacchi biryani", where the RAW MEAT is added and then cooked WITH the rice.
Subbed :) My new fav channel, love from the UK :)
Thank you welcome aboard
OK! Yet another great video! Dishoom is a very famous brand in the UK but the quality of the food is no better than many restaurants around the country. The big difference is the price! Dishoom is outrageously expensive!. One little niggle is that you said that it was surprising that "people who like bland food" like curries! Really? Is that still a thing? That Americans think that the UK only has bland/beige food? I know for a fact that you guys know fine well that Brits have good food, so still with the stereotype? 🤣🤣🤣
I thought it was quiet a funny joke lol specially that the main reason Americans ( the ones who make the joke about the uks food ) don’t like Indian food is that and I quote “ too spicy “ 😂
This bland food thing is so deeply ingrained in the American mind. Just give them a big dollop of Colman's English mustard followed by a generous serving of Marmite and see how bland they find that!
In the 1980s with pubs shutting around 10.30-11.00 going for a curry was one way to extend the evening and continue drinking past midnight. Nightclubs had a no jeans policy so you might have to go home and get changed.
:D enjoyed that , cheers. and yeah, for sure, you could go to so many places anywhere in the uk and get a proper brilliant curry for a really good price in a lovely place. we do know our spices ;) we have neighbours who taught us lolol.
Yes I would say you do, I got a few British curry sauces in our pantry lol. Curry chips is a part of the dinner rotation now 😁
The best curry house I have been in was a small restaurant called Indian Blues and it was in Chesterfield. If you visit to the Peak District during your travels, make the effort to go there.
Avebury. In Wiltshire. It’s a Neolithic stone circle with a village in the middle. Give it a google Has a pub in the middle too. But it’s a cattle market. Go to the wagon and horses two miles away. Went to primary school there from 5 to 11. Quite a cool place to grow up
Dishoom have a cook book, you can make your own at home. If you go back to Dishoom , order the multi small dishes and share, maybe 4 or 5, the Lamb dishes are the best..
The best place to go for a curry is ‘The Balti Triangle’ in Birmingham. It has the largest area of Indian restaurants in the country. Tom Cruise has frequented a restaurant there. Yes, we have a very long-standing love of Indian curries.
The BIR (British Indian Restaurant) style curry was developed here to suit our tastes and then imported to other countries such as America, Australia, etc. I had an American friend in the 70’s. She came to live over here for a while with her English mother & American father. They never ate curries, or football (soccer). It was all pizzas, beef burgers etc.
I used to live in Stoke-on-Trent which had loads of great Balti houses and it was basically smack bang in the middle of the two most famous curry areas in the UK, the 'Curry Mile' in Manchester and the 'Balti Triangle' in Birmingham, the only reason to go to Stoke is if you love porcelain and pottery in general, as that's what the area is famous for, and not much else, so I'd suggest Manchester and just go for a cheap Balti somewhere, order a Chicken Tikka Balti and a Naan Bread and enjoy, after Stoke I moved to Brighton and I really struggled finding a decent Balti house in the south of England, or ones equal to those in the North and Midlands at least, there are some but I found it very hit and miss whereas up North they were all very good, there's a really good food review channel called FRC (Food Review Club) and they've been to some curry restaurants, I know they've been to the Balti Triangle.
Queen Victoria was rather partial to a "Ruby" (Ruby Murray: Curry) as were certain sections of Victorian society, mainly those who had been out to India to serve either in the British Army, the Royal Navy or the Indian Civil Service and brought their love of spicy food back with them. 🙂
Absolutely love watching all your vlogs ❤
Thank you 😊
When you come back go to Leicester and walk along the 'Curry Mile', plenty of choice along there.
Most British Indian restaurants are British versions of fairly traditional Indian home cooking - or, as people here have said, Pakistani or Bengali cooking. But Dishoom is based on the Parsee-run cafes of Mumbai. So the style is slightly different.
Hello , use your night out having a Ruby Murray at Dishoom as a Bench Mark and judge all future currys by this night . Good job
I live in Edinburgh and eat in the dishoom chain about 3 times a year, it's one of my favourites. I wouldn't really call it high end, it's probably 20% more expensive than a bunch of other places but generally i think the food is better. There are much more expensive curry houses, some which i think may be assuming at Michelin stars, but they are relatively rare. I probably around l spend about £25-30 pp in Dishoom
Hope all is good after the hurricane if you need somewhere to stay in Yorkshire you are welcome
Yes for us thank go for a lot of other people in north Florida and North Carolina. It was very destructive.
Hi Rich & Tiffany great content keep it coming love from Yorkshire
Rowton Castle is somewhere that has wedding venues and you can stay, it's just outside Shrewsbury Shropshire.
Just from a quick glance at that menu, the section entitled Ruby Murray would be the curries. Cockney Rhyming slang - Ruby Murray = Curry. So the dish called 'Chicken Ruby' would be a straightforward Chicken Curry. It was there all along!! You just gotta know the slang! Love your videos btw - keep up the good work.
Kushty lol 😂 I only know cockney slang from fools and horses that are Romani words like Kushti and burk, mush and Chavi 😂🤣😂
@@Trippingthroughadventures Do you know what Burk (or Berk) means in Cockney Rhyming slang? A lot of English people use it without knowing its meaning. Berkshire Hunt = Cu*t. So when you call someone a berk, you're calling them a cu*t!! Del Boy's got a lot to answer for!
@@Trippingthroughadventures I had no idea they were Romani words - fascinating!
@@digidol52 imagined how surprised I was to hear my language being spoken on tv 😂🤣😂
It’s rare to find a bad curry house. The best are in areas with high south Asian populations: London try Tower Hamlets area. Birmingham has the Balti triangle. Leeds/Bradford has many great curry houses.
Hi rich n tiff,found your channel on youtube last week, I’m currently off work with a broken foot,so you have been entertaining me!
all your other videos from your London trip are a few months ago, so I was surprised when this one came up!
Love the enthusiasm you have everything new,and the anticipation of the next voyage of discovery. Just like my wife n I.Happy travels!
Ps.. make a video of you two cooking a chicken vindaloo and eating it, my favourite curry 🤣
Thanks for this. Its a very cold windy rainy day where I am and I'm now inspired to go for a curry for lunch at a local multi award winning establishment that will prob cost £20 a favourite of mine.
A lot of what we consider to be "Indian Food" is actually either of Pakistan or Bangladeshi origin and changed for the British palette over the course of about 50 years or so. If you go to Inverness on one of your trips, please take a trip to Love Dosa, they used to be near me in the South but the whole family moved up to Scotland. They make South Indian (Kerela) style food that is so Authentic that if you go to a typical home in Kerela, that is what you'd be served. It's amazing, especially when they do the Onam Sadhya feast served on a banana leaf.
I work directly opposite the Covent Garden Dishoom. The queues are often ridiculously long and although it is good quality food, I would not wait in line for it. Fortunately I can pick and choose when I go in so have never had to wait. Colleagues have said the breakfasts are excellent and it is certainly a lot quieter in the mornings! Good curry, but really no better than two or three Indian restaurants that are within a 10 minute drive from my home. Dishoom is very expensive for an Indian restaurant.
My local curry house the Akash i can get a Bhuna, poppadoms, mushroom bhargee and pilla rice for about £14 and it's lovely.
Another little of info you might like about the indian curry, the base stock for for all dishes is the same chicken stock, they boil the chickens in bog pans with onions, and cinnamon, and other stuff, once the chickens are cooked they are remved, and the stock left with the onions is blended till smooth lump free
the amazing to watch is the chef's pan work, he tends to make the dish in a single pan, he has row of 6 to 8 different spices behind his burner, using he spoon, takes different amounts in different combinations, depending the curry he is making, , then towrds the end he may add tomoatoes, coconut milk, or youghart depending which curry.
The only ones that really differ is tikka chicken, and tadoori chicken as well as the nann breads which are all done in the tadoor, at around 400C thats around 750f for you americans, Lamb curry is done in a similar way, what they do keep back, is the lamb bones, thats there after service meal, the marrow in the bones is the best bit for them.
Bog pans!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😎. Fat finger syndrome strikes again, but bloody funny.
1:16 definitely going to the chippy tomorrow after that lol. Chips n battered sausage with curry sauce👌 that kinda curry in the picture we would class as a "fruity curry" sometimes called English curry. You only find it in chippies. Its got bits of apple in it, sometimes raisins/sultanas, but you see that less often now with the raisins. Its different to the Chinese curry sauce, which is the more spicier curry sauce. How spicy varies massively between chippies though
I’m going to get me some when we get back, from a better chippy in the north lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures 👌 I'm in the North West, Manchester area. Going to the chippy is near on routine for people here 😅 chippies galore, so many great ones. Theres not so good ones too always trying to get in on the high demand though, so always gotta read reviews first. And ofcourse coastal towns have top quality fresh seafood on their doorstep but its bit more posh than a tray of chips,steak pudding, mushy peas and gravy youd get in the north lol
I seem to remember in the 60's a lot of the curries you would find were 'fruity' until the drive to be 'authentic' increased the choice and quality and educated the brits more. My own parents only made what they thought was madras and filled it with raisins and pineapple chunks.
@@theotherside8258 well its tweaking stuff too to make new varieties, much like with tikka masala. Nothing wrong with that. Japanese curry is ever milder. They traditionally add stuff like carrots and potatoes to an already mild curry sauce
my recommendations, do not go to supper posh ones you see in citys, head to an area what really big on Indian food. just make sure place has a good hygiene rating some smaller ones in small towns or Indian food areas in bigger places you get real Indian taste. ive been to some posh ones more modern ones they just do not hit same as small local one what been around for many years and for me i feel i get better tasting food as a much better price. i never choose of the main menu i choose traditional dishes section cost a tad more normally but it feels more like they just had to cook it than take it out big pot, my fav is Chicken dhansak it can be pretty hot but also tad sweet a bit tang. it rare i ea out or get a take out but that one i choose with fried rice and all the extras. Hot, tangy and slightly sweet normally slice pineapple in it, my local pan cooked a combination of spices and lentils and garlic Hot, sweet and sour. if at home a shop curry it be common like Tikka,korma to something a little hotter some shop ones really good these days, one most scary someone got me an extra hot vindaloo the worry was next day. but since then ive grown some worlds hottest chile and peppers and wow they on another level crazy so hot had to dry and make blend powder and still finest sprinkle you really know about it. sure like hot food, all summer growing them now freezer full heat
Curry introduction was indeed through the Royal Navy but it was further back than WW2, it dates back to the late 19th. Century from what I have read from Japanese writers.
Queuing, indulging in one of out cultural pastimes I see!
Looked up the menu from Dishoom and have to say I wasn’t impressed, going for the “trendiest” is rarely to have the best, I have had better in local Indian restaurants in towns across the country. Well worth being adventurous wen next you visit.
Forgot to add the earliest recorded “Indian curry” recipe in Britain is Hannah Glasse’s “The Art of Cookery Made Plain” published in 1751. Has to be said it doesn’t look much like what we are used to today.
As some one who is brown and from that part of the world, if you want good Desi food avoid the local curry houses. Go to areas where there is a lot of brown people and go to the dive they go to. You won't see too many non-brown faces but you'll be left alone. The food is likely to be cheap and delicious. It may feel intimidating at first, you will have some eyes on you initially, people wondering how you found the place but nothing sinister.
Here is a little known thing, staff on average will not eat the staff they serve, they can't its way too heavy, just like the Chinese restaurants the staff dishes are light, tasty and healthier. If you're familiar with an Indian restaurant, ask the owner to show you what he/she and the staff have
Why though? Curry wasn’t created by`Indians, it was created by Brits during the British Raj
@@OriginalNiceButOdd Not sure what your comment has to do with my post? Curry is catch all term to mean gravy. Its like calling all pasta dishes by one name. The British dried the spices and made it in powder form (so it could be transported) but they did not invent curry. The triune of spices that make most desi curries are Turmeric, Coriander Seeds and Cumin, they have been around for thousands of years. The Portuguese bought the chilli in. Which was the later addition, prior to that, Desis were using pepper corn. The Brits did bring in tea from China, and created "tea time" to push tea
I have 3 Indian restaurants and a S. Asian restaurant all within a 5 minute walk from my humble abode...Lucky me! Jealous?
Very much so we have maybe 3 in a 50 miles radius lol
Chicken Tikka Masala is probably the one curry that has best claims to being a wholly British invention. Sometimes ascribed to Glasgow restaurateur Ali Ahmed Aslam, who opened his restaurant in 1964. He learned his trade working in his father's restaurant, the Green Gates on Bank Street (Glasgow's first true Indian restaurant, opened in 1959). Alsam's claim was disputed by other parts of the UK, but what isn't disputed is that - while it is probably derived from Butter chicken or plain Chicken Tikka served in a Masala sauce - Chicken Tikka Masala, itself, is a British dish.
Many different types of Curry from the many different regions of India, some Curry Houses in the UK are region specific and some are an approximation of a mixture of different regional specialisms
Pubs or Restaurants ! Try the online reviews ! For at least a rough guide of what to expect and what and where to try !!
Dishoom is pricey but not really 'high-end'. It's more of a place to go to share small plates with loads of people than just order just for yourself. The variety and textures at Dishoom is different from your average local curry house (most likely actually Bangladeshi) as the food is based on what you would find in Mumbai.
There's a bunch of "Every country Britain's invaded" videos on here. IF I remember correctly there's 22 countries that we have't invaded at some point. It was mostly to get access to better food 🤣
It's a good if you ask your waiter for recommendations of mild/medium/hot curries, it's pretty much meat of choice and sauce of choice (unless it's a dry dish), but they'll also do you a taster if you're a bit nervous about a hot sauce (for example).
Wherever you are, if it's a ~busy area, find a pub, get a drink and ask the bar staff where they'd go for a curry + you'll get some really good recommendations.
Good point was made on another page, US appropriated the dishes of its immigrating inhabitants as US Food ... (even UK/EU Apple Pie 😂)
Yet UK not allowed?
UK Food NOT BLAND 🙂
🤣🤣🤣 that instagram impression was perfect 🤣🤣👍👍
Thank you 😊 🤣😂😂
Curry massively took off in Britain due to Queen Victoria, who was also Empress of India at the time. Her influence and love of curry helped spread the idea of curry and spicy food to the masses.
So funny how royals change queen Victoria loved curry, I wonder if queen Elizabeth did, I heard she hated garlic.
@@Trippingthroughadventures Apparently she liked quite bland food because she had to eat such elaborate and rich food wherever she went on official visits, as all the top chefs would fall over themselves to cook for her. I guess you just get sick of it. She did often have smoked haddock kedgeree for breakfast though.
@@Millennial_Manc I could understand that but still idk how a person could dislike garlic lol
i know you guys talked about butter chicken while popular, the most popular is chicken tikka masala, you aso mention tadoori chicken, the chicken in chicken tikk is actually tandoori chicken cubes, How do i know this, i spen 3 years woing for indian place also a delivery driver, I also used to deliver and the milk and cream to 80% of the indian resturants in our city, so i have been in 90% of the kitchens
Yes, I think they just got confused and meant to say 'Chicken Tikka Masala' _(not 'Butter Chicken'),_ which was supposedly made by the Indian chef, Ali Ahmed Aslam, in his restaurant, 'Shish Mahal' in Glasgow in the 1970s.... 🤔🙂
@@StewedFishProductions i sort of figured that out to be honest, i think and i could be wrong, but butter chicken is more popular in America, while we do have it here, its not top of the list,
your right about that glasgow link, it was said to be a customer sent a curry back and asked it to be toned down, the heat i beleive.
I have eaten so many curries, we used to have free meal to take home every night, i went through the board, anything over madras i cant handle, to hot,
@@seanmc1351
Although no one has been able to 100% confirm the 'inventor' of Chicken Tikka masala, Mr Aslam has quite a following believing 'his' story of improvising a sauce made from a tin of 'condensed tomato soup' and spices. Also, not because it was too 'hot', but because he wanted MORE sauce _(curry garvy),_ as it was too 'dry'.
You do realise that Britains voted Chicken Tikah Masala as our national dish. Curry IS our National Dish. Birmingham has the curry mile.
I'd try Birmingham, Bradford or Manchester for excellent inexpensive proper curries
city spice in brick lane is really good and not as expensive as that meal you had. i recommend it just be aware of pickpockets as with all of london. people say london is dangerous but it really isnt that bad compared to any other city. as you probably already know. also i know you guys dont drink that much but if you do fancy a drink in most Indian restaurants its byob "bring your own booze" but just make sure you check first. whatever you do dont order a phaal its ridiculous spicy to the point of being dangerous lol
'indian' food comes from anywhere in the so-called subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka); IMHO, the best is from Bangladesh. Obviously, it owes its popularity to the British controlling the area for two hundred years and the large number of immigrants from those countries.
the quality of food standard is very high in the UK as there are thousands of restaurants and takeaways which is a very good thing, life is good.
Personal tip for Loch Ness. Rent a car, dont rely on the buses/taxis!
When on your travels ask the locals.
Otterburn Castle in Northumberland google it.
Firstly, Dishoom is mainly for tourists. I don’t know a single person who has ever eaten there. Secondly, very few ‘Indian’ restaurants in Britain are Indian. They are largely Pakistani or Bangladeshi. If you want traditional Indian cuisine you need to seek it out as you won’t find it in your local curry house.
Dishoom isn't just Indian food, it has a middle eastern influences. It is the best Indian style food I've ever eaten, but you must try multiple small dishes.
We are a REAL multicultural country and India is part of the Commonwealth so there are many Indians living in the UK so the Curry is authentic. Curry is now considered a more national dish than Fish and Chips! Don't go the national chain eateries - look out for the individual Indian Restaurant and be advised by the waiter if you d on't like your food overly hot or spicy.
Id take uk food scene over America anyday, such a diverse range of multicultural foods, next door to Europe and this is found all over the country, outside the big city’s in th USA is just fast food.
That depends where you are in the states nyc and la is close but that’s in a land mass the size of Europe so I would agree. Pizzas great in America in the north east mainly…so if you live on the west coast it’s only a week worth of driving away lol.
Very popular names for the locals Indian restaurant are Taj Mahal or Star of India. Just ask a taxi driver / hotel desk staff / friendly police officer.
Been to Dishoom three times and didn’t rate it three times.
Most ‘local’ indian takeaways will be better. Follow the reviews 👍🇬🇧
Yea it was good but I know there’s some dirty spoons that will blow us away lol
@@TrippingthroughadventuresBrick
Lane
The very best place for Indian food outside India/Pakistan is Birmingham. I'd recommend the Balti. Absolutely delicious.
Ps don't expect rice with a Balti, it's served with breads.
Forget Brick Lane on your next trip, outdated and over rated, head to Tooting in South London, way better choice and quality for curries and beyond!
Brick lane is tourist trap for westerners. No decent Indian would ever eat there.
Brick lane on a Sunday morning is brilliant for the food market, but I wouldn't go in any of the curry houses at night. Very overrated and poor quality.
You mentioned Tiff has Romanian roots - do you speak Romanian Tiff?
Dishoom is nice, but it really isn’t all that fancy. A bit more expensive than your neighbourhood curry house, but not massively.
5:50 What does he say here? Little tiny bit of what?
“That dog in me “ it’s a term in the American south when a man is how do I say it, “flirtatious”. lol people will say “ he got that dog in him. lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures oh! I thought that’s what you said but I thought I misheard it as it didn’t make sense. Does now. Thanks. 🙏
lol now you know a little southern slang lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures Is that what “dawg” means?
It's the Murican way of flirtin' wid da ladies, my wife just said that no wonder his wife laughed when he said a little bit, finger and thumb about 3/4 of an inch apart!
4:10 Yaaassss Queeeen 👑
You should do more cringe shorts just for the laugh 😏 lol
Most of the best curry dishes was actually made in England from foreign spices Chinese and Indian i lived in China for 2 years and was baffled why i could not find curry until i found out why its the same with our chip shop curry.
You're not wrong, and I for one totally get it. The expensive and fancy restaurants are great for trying new things and 'playing on a theme' like culinary jazz. But if trying to judge the original, the classic that made it a whole theme to play on, that type of restaurant is pretentious, and un-authentic to the max - by design.
staying in the centre of london looking for authentic anything is a fool's errand.
I think when you say it’s not a typical curry menu, you mean, it’s not like an American curry menu. That menu would be based, more authentically Indian. In WW2 British food was rationed so that is where the bland food thing came from. It was a loooong time ago now. Get over it! British food now is very different. You might try getting out of London too. The UK is very different once you get away and cheaper.
We rephrase that multiple times made several jokes about how the curry we are looking for is a direct comparison from America to the UK an not India lol because most of American is what I believe to be more of the Punjabi style of Indian food. We just want something that would be everyday style food, I don’t think we actually made any remarks regarding the authenticity of the food. More of just the ambiance and how fancy the setting was.
Open mic nights are called karaoke in UK. Every town has pubs that do this. Sometimes every night or sometimes on specific nights of the week. They will have notices on the walls when they do it or just google 'karaoke' and name the town you're in and something will come up
Thank you we will check that out
@@Trippingthroughadventures That’s not correct. There are proper open mic nights called that in Manchester where people will go up there and sing, do comedy, spoken word, political rants. Some pubs even have open DJ decks where people bring up to 3 vinyl songs to play.
Nope, not even close!
Open Mike nights are for aspiring musicians, or people trying a new "Set", a new song, or just getting their grove on....
You mean, you don't want 10 versions of the same dish, done if different styles.
most Indian food is sold in restaurants not take aways...we order from restraunts to take out. can't say I've ever been a Indian takeaway as in like a chippy or Chinese takeaway
I would love to help you find your epicurean masterpiece, you guys can't do, it ain't your fault, nobody can be perfect at everything, like, I wouldn't spend $150 on cooking implements, just to cook a Full English but then do it Murican style and say it ain't the same but there again, you are most certainly Murican!
I took an American associate and his wife for a Silver Service meal at a Restaurant in St Katherine's Dock, Tower Bridge, whereby she lit a cigarette during the main course and was taking puffs every other mouthful and blowing smoke all over my missus, who was a smoker but, Please, really?
Knowing that this was top tier and shouldn't be thought of as normal, for normal people, the next night I took them to a Chop House just off of Fleet St, still high on the list and by no means a normal haunt for someone wanting a quick bite to eat, the next night I took them down market to an Aberdeen place on Shaftesbury Ave, the last night I offered up the coup de gràce. Walking the Jack the Ripper trail, I knew that they would love that, follwed by a pint in "The Blind Begger" IYKYK, and then a Ruby down Whitechaple High St. What is it with certain cultures that will say, "Oh, I love Hot n Spicey food" when they have no idea what hot is, even if you try to warn them! "No, it's fine, ok, buddy, I can handle it!", ok, Mate, go for it!
This isnt a one off, I had the same with a Murican mate of mine, from Milwaukee, who, after seeing me apply a smidgen of Colemans to my Sausage sandwich, decided that he could put far more on than I did, Bigger is best, More is better, right? Well, not where English mustard is concerned!
My wife used to make my pack up and on one of the sandwiches she would put a Mustard bomb in one corner the anticipation was worth it, but I couldn't eat two sandwiches loaded like that, you'd lose the taste of the Roast Beef or Smoked Ham, so what would be the point!
It's just Chinese whispers. As people, what take aways the british like, and the anser would not be unanimous, but may lean more to Chinese or italian/ Pizza & burga's, than curry.
Not unanimous indeed. If I could only choose your initial options, Indian would beat Chinese, Italian, pizzas or burgers every time.
As a kid it would be pie and chips (never fish), Chinese or Indian. As a student I added kebabs and fried chicken. As my taste buds grew, Thai, Japanese, Vietnamese and Lebanese became my preference over anything I used to order. It might have been Mexican too but sadly finding an authentic Mexican food stop in the UK is tough work. The only English food I continue to buy is a proper Cornish Pasty but only when I think it's been done by hand in the traditional way.
Dishoom is great but its not really a curry house - more of an Indian fusion thing. This is not the place to try out typical Indian Restaurant food.
A lot of Indians don't like admitting they cooled things for the britosh occupiers they feel a lot of humiliation and anger about it so would not admit it was made for the bririsj occupiers not all Indians but there are a lot who despise beitsin
Tikka Masala was invented in Glasgow Scotland, when an Indian chef put coconut milk into a curry to cool it down, it had f-all to do with 'occupiers' , some people even say it was an accident and he just spilled milk into the curry, either way, it was 100% born in Glasgow, not India.
This is why you're tourists. Oh don't understand! It happens regularly
Well yea we are your tourist lol, this channel would be dumb if we acted like this and lived there for 20 years 🤣😂🤣
There is no such thing as “indian food” India is a vast country, and dates back long before transportation was particularly feasible. There are similarities in some spices or ingredients, but “curry” which isn’t even an Indian word is just a word that British people coined to describe a cooking that was different to their own. It is generally a way of describing some sort of cooked meat or vegetable in a sauce. And normally served with rice. While some restaurants may do some generic dishes. Indian food - and by default Pakistani, is very regional in its style. If you are in London and want a good curry, go to Southall to a proper restaurant/cafe/diner or to eat the street food.
Butter chicken is something restaurants make for the one person in the group who can’t handle properly spiced food and personally I find chicken tikka Marsala an abomination.
There is no shortage of authentic “Indian” food in the UK. In fact “Pataks” which is a British company ships food to India - including ready meals for the microwave.
Check out Southall on UA-cam. I was born and raised there, and even long after the family had left and gone our separate ways, family get togethers would see us heading to Southall or Hounslow for great food.
Your British?
@@alananderson5731 love seeing the yanks trying to act all cultured. Saying he is British is a not a good look. Crosses a line. I am sure he calls people who were born in America African Americans too. Weird take on nationality. The 23 and me take on nationality.
We are actually romanichel and ludari
I’m romanichel from England I’m 3rd generation American my wife’s second generation from Romania. As Roma people in America we most relate our tribe to the country our people came from most recently. TIFFs came from Romania and we came from England. We kept a lot of the traditions and we have and interact with our relatives in our respected home lands. I got a cousin from Liverpool will be here tomorrow. And in that part we are talking about our ethnic background notice we both said a European country and Indian, a rough idea of a Roma bloodline.
No lol actually being romanichel I feel more connected to England, being that a lot of your slang is just a knock off my language,
Kushti =good
mush = man
burk= tit
chav= kid
div = crazy
I'd say Mush is closer to mouth than it is man. You can tell someone to shut their mush.
Berk is short for Berkshire Hunt. It's rhyming slang for the C word.
@@G0Lg0Th4Nnope both are romanchial in origin.
Your a Yank .My Father was Scottish, my Mother English I was Born in Derbyshire England so Derbyshire 1st English 2nd British 3rd .When I visit Scotland I tell everyone I'm 50% Scottish and wear a bloody kilt .
@@MaxwellMoore-d1u an actual kilt or the Victorian tartan skirt?
You need a good vondaloo. Phall or however you spell it would be too hot for you
1747 is the 16th century.
Bland eaters? Please educate yourself and dont spout the typical stereotyping of British food. By the way the most authentic curries are found in the diverse areas of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford and many other cities around The UK . Dishoom is a chain restaurant, although good food it is not the best, and its totally overpriced.
i thought these guys, having join the channel, and other stuff, the merch, i said a couple months back, i did not think they being fair to put is nice, i had been emailing stuff, but replies stopped, as did there posting, i mentioned, it, looking at things i was right, becaue anyone that has paid the money $3,00 or so, one video in 4 weeks, cheaper to have netflix,
there is always an excuse, or something, I said 2 minths ago, your not playing the game for subscribers, it was not fair, because lack of content, yet they want to charge for it
i got a email, and i told them what i though 2 months ago, the email is private, i wont publish it,
i dont think they being fair, is all i will say
American (from New Jersey) / Brit (dual citizenship) YT guy, living in England, Evan Edinger _always_ promotes "Dishoom" (& even took his Mum there) but I have never been there & as I don't travel, I pribably never will, so I cannot say if that restaurant is good, bad or indifferent! 🤔
Anyway, am interested in your British foodie videos and hope you'll enjoy the foods you try.
Also, that one day you'll say Edinburgh correctly - it's _not_ "Edinboro' !" ☹️
It's more: 'Edinbruh' 🏴
(and _Borough_ as in 'Borough Market' is _not_ "Boro' ...☹️
It's ' _Burruh_ ' 🏴) 👍🏴💜🇬🇧🤭🖖
Ironically in the UK foods considered “American “ pizzas/burgers/hot dogs etc are incredibly bland and tasteless. The tex mex (Taco Bell) that I’ve tried was awful,grease and salt are not spices 😂😂
i'm sure the american food in America is nicer than what we do. ive been to bbq smokehouses in london and they were really good. just depends on the restaurant there is good and bad no matter where you are in the world
Curry isn’t actually Indian, it was created by Brits during the British Raj using different foods available locally.
The first Cury was made in the 1300's in Britain - there's a recipe book called 'The Form of Cury'
1747?
I beg to differ!
This is why:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forme_of_Cury