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Indian cuisine has a history that goes back 5000 years, and is one of the few ancient cuisines that have spread all over the world. Within India, it consists of a set of cuisines with vastly different food stapes and dishes. Wide-spread vegetarianism is one of the defining characteristics.

Broadly speaking, Indian cuisine can be broken up into four regions. In the South (Bangalore & Chennai), rice is the staple, with a traditional meal consisting of many different kinds of rice being served on banana leaves along with side dishes, sweets like payasam (pudding) and chutneys. Breakfast food consists of rice dishes like dosa and idlis.

The food in the western region (includes Gujarat & Mumbai) is a lot sweeter, and sometimes spicy too. The standard meal is a ‘thali’ aka a plate filled with many vegetables and side dishes, along with roti or flat bread. How spicy the food is varies based on the state and region, with some places like Maharashtra’s Konkan Coast renowned for its fiery dishes.

The Eastern part which includes Calcutta isn’t all that gung-ho on vegetarian food, and they’re primarily fish and seafood lovers. But it is the north (with Punjab and New Delhi) that is really the calling card, as far as western perception of the cuisine goes. Punjabi food (paneer, lassi, sarson ka saag, etc.) and tandoori restaurants are famous all over the world.

The food from India’s north, which is common to Pakistan and bears similarities with Pashtun cuisine in Afghanistan and Jammu & Kashmir, is most famously represented in thousands of London curry houses. To be noted that many of the curry dishes and chicken tikka masala, so popular in the UK, are not originally from India. These dishes have been created in the UK for the western palate and usually not found in restaurants in India.

Other variations of Indian cuisine that have spread across the world include the goat curry in the Caribbean, especially in Trinidad and Tobago. Another such variation is the Cape Malay Curry in South Africa, which has become sweet and fruity in its journey from India to Malaysia and on to South Africa. Restaurants offering local variations of dishes from India can be found in almost all major cities in the world.

A traveler in India will easily find restaurants offering local and regional dishes, since South & North Indian cuisine restaurants can be found all over the country. But people trying to get a taste of dishes from India while in Europe or the US are likely to find only curry or northern food like tandoori restaurants. As all the above information shows, there’s a whole lot more to it than just curry or tandoori chicken, and the difference can be understood only after finding restaurants from some of the other regions.

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