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post #166 of 172
8/19/09 at 9:21pm
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Originally Posted by oroy38 View Post
Oy, I'd say I've had plenty of good Biryani, being born half Indian and eating Indian food practically since the day I was born. I guess it's all a matter of perspective that leads to the same conclusion. If my assumptions are correct, you think that if they can't make a simple biryani, what else could they possibly make? I think that if they can make a good Chicken Tikka Masala, then the rest of their food is bound to be good.

Perspective.

actually, question - have you ever had a biryani in india? you might simply not ever had a god biryani
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post #167 of 172
8/19/09 at 9:26pm
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Originally Posted by globetrotter View Post
no, Chicken tikka masala is a dish made by indian resteraunts for foreigners. biryani is a dish made by indians for indians, but taking an influence from iranian dishes. a little different

Biryani was brought into India/Pakistan by travelling Muslims, and the dish is found all over the middle east as well as Sri Lanka and varies regionally. And yes, I did have Biryani in India. Loads better than any other Biryani I've ever had. The only restaurant I can think of in my locale that comes close is the Bismillah I mentioned. Even tops my grandma's Biryani and that's difficult for me to admit.
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post #168 of 172
8/20/09 at 6:26am
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Neither is Biryani. What does that say about yours?

It doesn't say anything about my perspective.

Unlike you I did not try and make a definitive statement about either dish, and in fact offered no previous opinion or perspective.

But a dish that was brought to a country where it was embraced and adopted into the food that people actually eat (biryani) is entirely different than a bastardized dish developed in a foreign country (tikka masala).

K
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post #169 of 172
8/20/09 at 6:41am
All this talk about biryani makes me want to cook some of this chicken biryani:
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post #170 of 172
8/20/09 at 7:44am
tandoori chicken is terrible. seekh kebab is good. chicken mekhani(spelling?) is bad, ghee is gross. dosa and mint chutney are good. poori is good. upamav(spelling?) and putta(spelling?) are good. ooniappam is good. parotha and chapati can be good. bengal and kerala fish are good. saag paneer and bengan bartha(spelling?) are scary. oily biryani sucks. beef samosas can be very good. fish cutlets are good. gulab jamun, carrot halwa and jelabi ard bad.
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post #171 of 172
8/20/09 at 8:24am
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It doesn't say anything about my perspective.

Unlike you I did not try and make a definitive statement about either dish, and in fact offered no previous opinion or perspective.

But a dish that was brought to a country where it was embraced and adopted into the food that people actually eat (biryani) is entirely different than a bastardized dish developed in a foreign country (tikka masala).

K

Touche, my friend. Touche.
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post #172 of 172
8/20/09 at 10:37am
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Originally Posted by oroy38 View Post
Biryani was brought into India/Pakistan by travelling Muslims, and the dish is found all over the middle east as well as Sri Lanka and varies regionally. And yes, I did have Biryani in India. Loads better than any other Biryani I've ever had. The only restaurant I can think of in my locale that comes close is the Bismillah I mentioned. Even tops my grandma's Biryani and that's difficult for me to admit.

biryani, in the middle east, comes from india - the middle east is full of indians and indian resteraunts. you can actually get a pretty good biryani in much of the middle east. biryanini was influenced by similar rice dishes that you find in iran and the middle east, but they are not biryanis.


if you ever get to hyderabad, there is a place called "paradise" that is the ground zero for biryani. once you have that, you can't go back.
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