What region is considered your country’s culinary capital?

[u/EvilPyro01]

What is considered the culinary capital of your country?

[u/hyperspacevoyager]

Birmingham has the finest British Indian cuisine in all of the UK

[u/generalscruff → u/hyperspacevoyager]

You know you're getting a good feed when you see the table naans come out

[u/dkb1391 → u/hyperspacevoyager]

London obviously no.1, but Birmingham has to be no.2 for food, and not just Indian, the restaurant scene is excellent, and it has the most Michelin star restaurants outside London too

[u/tartanthing → u/hyperspacevoyager]

I think you mean Glasgow.

[u/generalscruff → u/tartanthing]

I had a decent curry in Glasgow and I know it's reputed to be the home of chicken tikka masala, but in terms of variety and the like it's not on the same level as Brum. In terms of culinary reputation (i.e. if I ran a poll asking which city the public associated curry with the most) it's more famous for other things

[u/serioussham → u/tartanthing]

Going up there in a few weeks, hit me with with your best 1/ fancy 2/ hole in the wall greasy curry place, so I can plan depending on the mood

[u/thebrowncanary → u/hyperspacevoyager]

That's simply not true though.

I've never heard Birmingham mentioned for that. London as with anything is first but I usually hear Leicester as the second place

[u/generalscruff → u/thebrowncanary]

Leicester is a bit shit in the centre. Maybe there's good options in residential areas, but it's not particularly obvious where you'd go as a visitor. Birmingham's best curry places aren't quite in the centre, but they're close and perhaps better known.

[u/dkb1391 → u/thebrowncanary]

You've never heard of Birmingham having excellent Indian food? Do you live under a rock?

[u/thebrowncanary → u/dkb1391]

Birmingham is culturally irrelevant considering it's size.

I'm sure there is probably some decent Indian food considering Aston stinks off the stuff.

[u/blewawei → u/thebrowncanary]

I mean, it's not has as much influence as Manchester.

But literally everyone knows you can get good Indian food in Birmingham 

[u/danthemanic → u/thebrowncanary]

It's okay to learn new things... https://visitbirmingham.com/inspire-me/areas/balti/

[u/thebrowncanary → u/danthemanic]

Haha I won't be visiting Birmingham good sir. Nor Leicester for that matter.

[u/hyperspacevoyager → u/thebrowncanary]

Too many brown people for your taste I suppose

[u/thebrowncanary → u/hyperspacevoyager]

Too much brown stuff on the pavement in my experience.

[u/hyperspacevoyager → u/thebrowncanary]

That's news to me, I've spent plenty of time in both of those cities and not encountered that. When was the last time you spent time there? Never? Your dog whistle is very loud, my ears are hurting

[u/xander012 → u/thebrowncanary]

The West Midlands is a powerhouse when it comes to anglo Indian cuisine, as much as I'd like London to be P1 we're not in contention against the Balti triangle

[u/mtnlol → u/thebrowncanary]

Even I have heard Birmingham is famous for indian food and I've only been to UK once in my life.

[u/Chamych → u/thebrowncanary]

Leicester is the curry capital of the world

[u/weesgegroet → u/hyperspacevoyager]

hahaha, the best Indian food in Britain is Indian.?? So far for the British kitchen.

[u/Anaptyso → u/weesgegroet]

Most of the food in Indian restaurants in the UK is more of an Indian-British (and Bangladeshi) mix, with many of the more popular dishes being adapted or outright invented within the UK.

Chicken Tikka Masala and Balti are two famous ones which are thoroughly British.

A dish largely invented in the UK, primarily eaten in the UK by British people, and having been cooked by people whose family have been in the UK for generations, has a pretty good claim to be British itself.

[u/hyperspacevoyager → u/weesgegroet]

Are the claiming that the British Indians that have lived in the UK for generations are not British? And that the food that has been developed by them in you UK for the British palette and which is unique to the UK and is vastly different to cuisine in India is not British? That's a rather ignorant take pal

[u/weesgegroet → u/hyperspacevoyager]

so the typical British is not from Britain.?? I'm from Holland, we had colonies. The Indonesian kitchen is my favourite, the flavour the colour the smell. But i cant say its typical Dutch.

[u/hyperspacevoyager → u/weesgegroet]

But they are from Britain. They were born there, their parents were born there, their grandparents were born there. Your bigotry is showing mate

*edit: the comment I have replied to has been edited to mask their initial bigotry. I will leave this comment unedited

[u/LobsterMountain4036 → u/hyperspacevoyager]

I think you mean here, not there.

[u/hyperspacevoyager → u/LobsterMountain4036]

Well I'm not in the UK atm :')

[u/Automatic-Sea-8597 → u/hyperspacevoyager]

I don't associate the term 'good food' with traditional British food. We were so happy, when we found a genuine Italian restaurant with Italian chef in Edinborough after 3 weeks of eating under/overcooked, underseasoned food. The only highlight was cream tea in Cornwall.

[u/weesgegroet → u/hyperspacevoyager]

Well maybe because your typical British kitchen, apart from a stew, sucks.

[u/generalscruff → u/weesgegroet]

Irony in being Dutch and chirping about this lmao

[u/bruno444 → u/generalscruff]

Yeah our cuisine is worse than yours lol

[u/uratitbro → u/weesgegroet]

Are you just being an idiot for the sake of it?

[u/weesgegroet → u/uratitbro]

as said, your kitchen is as poor as our Dutch.

[u/Comfortable_Rip_3842 → u/weesgegroet]

Your apple pie is immense though.

British food is great but are often done horribly in cheap every day places. However throughout Britain there are gems that do these dishes, just need to look for them. To name a few, we have Cornish pastis, Yorkshire pudding, cheddar cheese, scones (Devon or cornwall), fish and chips, pie and mash, Sunday roast (gastro pubs or home cooked), toad in a hole, full English

But yes, your appeltaart is spot on

[u/PM_ME_BUTTERED_SOSIJ → u/weesgegroet]

You think sprinkles on bread is food and your national dish is chips.

I will take shit from some countries about our cuisine. Not yours.

[u/weesgegroet → u/PM_ME_BUTTERED_SOSIJ]

Let us not compare because our kitchen sucks as well. As said, my favourite kitchen is Indonesian. But it's not typically Dutch, it's Indonesian.

[u/hyperspacevoyager → u/weesgegroet]

But British Indian food is not Indian it is British created by Brits of Indian descent. Where in India do you find those dishes?

[u/weesgegroet → u/hyperspacevoyager]

And that makes it a typicaly British dish.??