Indian Cents

The UK’s Love For Indian And Chinese Food

Britain is obsessed with ethnic food? It has become the national food; I mean you wouldn’t say ‘I’m going down to the English on the corner to pick up a corned beef sandwich”, would you? Indian and Chines are the largest sector, with a 40 per cent proportion of the market. The Indian food industry alone employs 60,000 staff and has made chicken tikka masala Britain’s favourite dish.

You will find Indian and Chinese takeaways up and down the country from Chinese edinburgh restaurants to Barry’s own Indian eateries. We love Indian food so much so that we even have a National Curry Week at the end of November. In today’s globalised world, culture overlaps and integrates. Our love affair with Indian food stretches back 400 years ago when the East India Company brought various ingredients and dishes to our shores. These adventurous seamen were mainly from the East of India. Moreover, the popularity of Chinese and Indian has been aided by people cooking their own ethnic dishes. Supermarkets have a selection of products from sauces, condiments and instant meals whilst an increasing amount of Far Eastern style grocery shops are opening too. So there is now a larger pool from which people can experiment new tastes and to  learn more about other cultures.

Figures suggest that we are currently in the middle of a boom in Chinese restaurants. Where are the best eateries? It’s always going to be a element of luck involved, but by reading online reviews you can get a decent idea to whether the takeaway restaurant is worthy of your business. Use your search engine, type ‘Indian takeaway Edinburgh‘ or ‘Chinese delivery Birmingham‘ depending on your location. Why not ask a friend of how their recent experience of a particular restaurant or takeaway? Or simply and have a quick look at the restaurant your thinking of going to.

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