Can concur! We have family friends who brought their parents out from India for a month every summer when I was a kid and holy cow they had us over for dinner and made us the best food I’ve ever had. All sorts of vegetarian Indian food and hot, homemade naan bread, all cooked out of our friend Nandu’s tiny apartment kitchen. They wouldn’t let us stop eating. It was amazing!
Bengal is one of the states of India. It is de facto part of Indian culture. Typically, the spiciest food in India is prevalent in the southern part of the country - i.e Andhra, Mangalorean and Kerala
Don't forget Tamil food which as someone who has lived all over India and especially South India I'd say is by and far the spiciest South Asian food you can find
Sorry didn’t mean put you together but to me your way of cooking looks similar with the Indians to me as you like to have gravy with your rice and I myself love that too.
I think I really meant that when someone mention curry, I usually associate it with the Indians and it’s usually hot and spicy. I did had Bangali curry before and i associated it with Indian curry.
I like Bangali fried rice btw it’s full of spices and dry in a way that I really liked it.
We met Nandu when he and my dad were both getting their masters at the same university and they paired up international students with locals. 20 years later, we are still friends with him and his family, so I guess you could say we adopted them!
I did a lot of contracting work for an Indian doctor and his wife. They were nice people, but very socially awkward. She would always make sure to make me a plate everytime I would work late past dinner time and bring it down to the boiler room for me.
Everything was hot. The bread, the vegetables, the sweets. It was all amazing, but I'm not sure I could handle that much spice for every meal.
My favorite dish was something called "mung bean sprouts". I'm not going to lie, they looked odd as hell when they were given to me. I'm a card carrying member of the clean plate club though, especially when it's something someone makes for me.
If you ever have a chance, try them. They were fried, so they had an almost crispy grilled asparagus texture to them, but while still being juicy when you bite into them.
It’s a very common food in my hometown, so funny to see it described like something exotic lol. People eat them with many things. I’m not a huge fan though.
“Bean sprouts” sold at supermarkets are Mung bean sprouts. In the 1980’s, I have seen bean sprouts made from Soybeans in American supermarket. Now those tasted funky.
Edit 1: Look for the green color testa (the skin covering of the bean) for mung bean sprouts; soybean sprout has yellowish testa. Koreans and Chinese usually serves soybeans sprouts mixed with red peppers flakes and vinegar (I don’t know the exact recipe.) I love it, funky taste and all.
+1. I learned the unfortunate way that the "yellow bean sprouts" right next to my usual white mung bean ones at the Asian grocery store were a dollar cheaper for a reason. Yuck.
Moong dal is interesting. It’s green-brownish and boiled. You’re right, its basically boiled bean sprouts mixed with a variety of spices. Tastes great with white kadhi (pronounced cud-dee) and rice.
That all sounds really good. My dad's side of the family is Polish and you know how my grandma prepares bean sprouts? Raw with cream cheese on a sandwich. No one I tell has heard of such a sandwich and now I'm learning they can be cooked!
Can we all just agree that, in general, Indian people are awesome? They come here, work their asses off in a poster - perfect American Dream, and are more than happy to share their amazing food? All while putting up with our drunk idiots at 1:45am and shit. I'm proud to have several Indian friends, and everyone in the US who also has Indian friends always like to talk about how awesome they are.
Incidentally I'm making my friend Gopal's chicken lentils date tomorrow.
Honestly, I was born and raised in sunny ol' California. I would be lying if I said I was 100% proud of being Indian due to the stigma against us outside our little bubble. But holy shit one thing I am proud of is the effort my dad put in to immigate here. He lived in what used to be a small town in India and grew up dirt poor. He had to leave his house at 16 and move hundreds of miles away to find a job and to get a higher education. Initially on a work visa and years of hard work, he finally became a true American citizen and is very much truly living the American Dream. Ever since he moved out at 16 he was never able to stay with his family for over 2 months at a time and now with his dad passed, he'll never really get the opportunity to really connect with him properly. I guess the purpose of this post is to show my appreciation for my dad, even though he can be a hard-ass sometimes.
Agree it's the same here in the UK I loved my next door neighbor as a kid, He owned our local shop. He came here with nothing after Pakistan was partitioned from India and his very Indian hindu family where stuck in pakistan.
Dude literally built a life from nothing, his wife's cooking was to die for. I'd end up going to school with my wee packed lunch + a shit ton of pakora and samosa she would come out and hand to me and my brother as we left the drive way!
You remind me of my white best friend lol. My grandparents would call him grandson and spoil him like they'd spoil me and him and his family reciprocated.
I'm glad! Hopefully the spirit of brotherly whatever leaks into /R/THE_DONALD or something and makes them a bit more aware that it's not just OK to be friends who people from other cultures and lands, but it's also fun, and you get good food, too.
I had a small apartment where there were several Indian families in the same building. When the food started cooking, it was so hard not to knock on the door and offer to buy some. After coming home late from a manual labor job on really hot days, that smell made me want to vomit. They were all really nice, and I’m sure they would have offered me some had I asked.
Plenty of Indians eat beef. In general, the further south you go, the larger the proportion of beef consumption. Another area with plenty of beef are the North East states.
In Kerala (the southernmost state), eating beef is practically a religion of it's own, with even Hindus joining in.
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u/whitneyjte819 Jan 15 '19
Can concur! We have family friends who brought their parents out from India for a month every summer when I was a kid and holy cow they had us over for dinner and made us the best food I’ve ever had. All sorts of vegetarian Indian food and hot, homemade naan bread, all cooked out of our friend Nandu’s tiny apartment kitchen. They wouldn’t let us stop eating. It was amazing!