Indian Food--Please Sir, I'd Like No More

[Moliere]

There's a reason most Indian people I meet are skinny, its because their food sucks. I've had lots of Indian food and its rarely good and never great, and I live in a city with lots of Indian restaurants.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Maybe that's your Norm for Chinese. Sad.

I hate Chinese buffets. But they are everywhere in the US.

[New Mexican Disaster]

Indian food is my favorite international cuisine. I have never had anything I did not love except frozen.

[thesaint258]

I hate Chinese buffets. But they are everywhere in the US.

There's a pretty good Chinese restaurant on 72nd that has both buffet and restaurant sides. All of the Chinese people sit on the restaurant side, and the Americans are all on the buffet side. Whenever I go there with my fiance's family, I'm always the only white guy on the restaurant side. I looked at the buffet once, and it looked like every other Chinese buffet. The restaurant side has some pretty good food, though.

[myboynoah]

I spent a week in India and the food can get old pretty quickly, but the same can be said of Japanese traditional fare (really, how much broiled fish with miso, pickles, rice and misoshiro can one be expected to enjoy when it comes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?).

If going to Delhi, you must eat at this place. I came to understand that Indian food is regional, and as far as I could tell, North West Frontier cuisine is the best and heavy on meat. The dal was excellent as well.

[USUC]

India is so far behind Thailand on the curry scale that it's hardly worth comparing them. Indy and JL have it right, with a couple of additions:



I agree with you on Filipino and Hawaiian food, though. Utter crap. Seriously, that L&L has lasted as long as it has (and grown, it appears) is honestly baffling.

I prefer Indian over Thai curry. But Thai is a close second.

I don't think I hate all foods in any specific cultural cuisine. I like some more than others. But there is always at least one great dish in any culture. Overall I'm not a huge fan of Greek, but Moussaka is divine. English and Scottish food doesn't get me excited much but they have their moments. But Lebanese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Mexican, Uruguayan (married into this cuisine. The beef is superb and the Chivito is a sandwich second to none), German, etc. Food is good everywhere. I'm not a high roller so I don't know much about French, but I hear its the best.

[MarkGrace]

Anyone making fun of Hawaiian food in this thread can kiss my white Hawaiian ass.

[wuapinmon]

The best meal I've ever eaten was a sweet curry at an Indian place in Machynlleth, Wales. Most of the Indian food I've had in the US overuses cumin so much it tastes like spicy dirt.

[Pelado]

I love Indian food. The only bad Indian I've had is grocery store bought "heat up" type. The best Indian in Utah hands down is the Tandoori Oven in Logan. Its in a gas station. The best I've had is a place in Curry Row on Manhattan. Couldn't even tell you the name.

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Way back when I was about 15 years old, our young men's advisor brought instant-type Indian food to our mutual activity. We made the food and then he filmed each of us eat the food as if we were making a commercial for it. I think only one of us vomited, though all of us wanted to.

[Clark Addison]

Indian done right is one of my top three cuisines. I love it. Part of that may be because I eat it about once a year at most, due to my wife's sensibilities being closer to PAC's, and the dearth of any good Indian restaurants in North Carolina.

[Surfah]

Anyone making fun of Hawaiian food in this thread can kiss my white Hawaiian ass.

Add my fat white Hawaiian ass to this too.

The best part about Hawaiian food is that while you have traditional Hawaiian dishes, Hawaiian cuisine is generally the best of all the Asian, American and Pacific island foods. Hawaii is fusion.

[Surfah]

Real Chinese food sucks so much balls.

One of my favorite Idiot Abroad episodes is when they sent Karl to China and he's at the market trying to get something to eat and I think all he ends up with were a bag of chips and a soda because everything else was scorpions and sea horses on a stick.

[jay santos]

I prefer Indian over Thai curry. But Thai is a close second.

My order is Japanese/Korean style curry first. Thai second. Indian third. But that probably has more to do with when I was introduced to them and how often I've experienced them. Thai is starting to overtake Japanese style for first.

[USUC]

My order is Japanese/Korean style curry first. Thai second. Indian third. But that probably has more to do with when I was introduced to them and how often I've experienced them. Thai is starting to overtake Japanese style for first.

To be perfectly honest, my curry preferences have a lot to do with frequency. My wife's stomach doesn't take Indian well so we get Thai a lot more than Indian.

The first time i had curry it was Japanese style from a Japanese roommate when i was right out of high school. My palate was less than refined in those days. I hated it. Haven't tried it since. I should give it a go.

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[Surfah]

My order is Japanese/Korean style curry first. Thai second. Indian third. But that probably has more to do with when I was introduced to them and how often I've experienced them. Thai is starting to overtake Japanese style for first.

Same as my order. Japanese/Korean curry is the bomb. Thai is second but not that close to Japanese curry. Indian distant third.

Indian food seems to be one of those foods that when it comes up in conversation everyone has to say "I love Indian food." But really they're all lying because they haven't eaten that much of it and they just like naan.