Indian Food.

[chequita guevara]

Re: Indian Food.

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[Proteus_MST]

Yep, Indian food is great.

You should be careful however if it comes to hotness.

A couple of years ago we had an indian restaurant in Essen
where you could choose the hotness of the dishes
from 0 (rather mild) to 5 (hot like in india).
My father and myself chose 5, as we are used to very hot meals.

Nevertheless it was so hot that we could eat our meal only very slowly and with lots of drinking duriong the meal

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Smiley
how readily available is it down in San Diego?

I live in Mira Mesa and there they have a small strip mall complex which is refered to as Little India. That place consists of around 20 South Asian shops including an Indian super market and several restaurants. Other then that there is only around 5-6 other Indian places in the whole city.

So I guess access isn't great compared to other cities but it isn't nonexistant either. Van Nuys near LA has a HUGE Indian population and that is where to go if someone wants anything Indian in southern California.

[GePap]

Hmm, Naan......

Indian food is great.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
Now, you've got me to thinking. --There's no Indian restaurant that I know of in downtown L.A. I can't even think of an Indian restaurant anywhere in Los Angeles...but we're such a diverse city, there must be! Come to think of it, we must have a "Little India" here somewhere in L.A., but I haven't even heard of it. I shall have to look into this.

I've only had Indian food when I've been out of the counrty. It was delicious!

(We need a "Mmmm" smiley.)

Van Nuys in the valley is the place to go for Indian in LA.

[Dr Strangelove]

I love Indian food.

[monolith94]

Love it! I particularly like Lamb or Pork rogan josh.

[aneeshm]

Anyone from Cleveland? My aunt founded and owned two Indian restaurants there, called "Saffron Palace" and "Jaipur Junction". Now she's sold them off and moved to Florida (retired), but while she was there she used to manage them.

It is interesting how America provided her the opportunities she never would have had in India, and how India provided her the skills which allowed her to use those opportunities.

In the old Indian system, the mother, since the daughter's childhood, taught her the arts of the kitchen. My grandmother is an incomparably good chef, and a master of the culinary arts. She was the one who trained my aunt. My aunt picked it up fantastically well, and became herself a master. For giving her these skills, I must say:

India:


But had she stayed in India, she would have remained a very skilled housewife. She migrated to the USA, and while raising three children, founded and managed two Indian restaurants. For providing her the opportunity to do this, I must say:

America:

I don't know how the restaurants are doing now, but if anyone here is from Cleveland, I'd like to know how they are now.

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
Yep, Indian food is great.

You should be careful however if it comes to hotness.

A couple of years ago we had an indian restaurant in Essen
where you could choose the hotness of the dishes
from 0 (rather mild) to 5 (hot like in india).
My father and myself chose 5, as we are used to very hot meals.

Nevertheless it was so hot that we could eat our meal only very slowly and with lots of drinking duriong the meal

Hotness varies between regions and castes and cultures in India. The South tends to have milder food. Andhra Pradesh has some of the hottest food in the subcontinent. As for caste - in general, Brahmins eat the mildest food. Maharashtrian food (my food) ranges from the very mild to the very, very hot, depending on where you go.












Indian food is not a monolithic entity. The food of Rajasthan will be completely different from the food of the South. Then there will be regional variations within the South, and the North. The food of the North is usually wheat-based, whereas the food of the South is normally rice-based.

Indore (my home for the last eighteen years) and Ujjain (two cities in Madhya Pradesh) are famous for their fast food (Indian fast food, such as samosas and kachoris and that type) and namkeens (salty dry snacks). Om Namkeens in Indore is, IMO, the best provider of namkeens in Indore. He makes a fantastic corn namkeen, where he first roasts fresh corn kernels, then fries them, and then puts a delicious masala over it. Then there is the .....

Forget it. If I start describing Indian food, I'll never stop. It's just too vast. You have to come here to experience it.


But I can't resist one last little titbit. Has anyone here felt that chewing was too much trouble? That food should be such that it should retain its consistency and taste, but should be easy to masticate? The decadent Mughals had the time and money to waste on this sort of thing, so Dum Cuisine was born. Imagine food cooked over a very, very low flame for 24 hours. No loss of nutrients - the temperatuer never went that high. No loss of natural taste or consistency - a very slow cooking cycle ensured that. And easy to masticate - the food would melt in the mouth. I wish I could afford this sort of food - nothing in the world comes close to it in terms of pure luxury.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Van Nuys in the valley is the place to go for Indian in LA.

Dang...15-20 years ago, I lived in Van Nuys! Either I was oblivious, or they waited for me to leave before moving in.

[Provost Harrison]

I had some lovely Indian food tonight cooked by a friends mother who is from India.

And Chegitz: *slap*

[Imran Siddiqui]

Imagine food cooked over a very, very low flame for 24 hours.

Yeah, it's called Southern US barbecue .

[SlowwHand]

Darn right.

[Dinner]

Long and slow cooking at low temperature is a cooking traditions whites got from the Native Americans.

[SlowwHand]

That's right. They invented the crock pot.

[Dinner]

I'm talking about barbecue wich originally was a method for smoking and cooking food at low temperature. Most people confuse grilling with BBQ when in fact grilling is very different.