>To be fair, Indian restaurants in the west sell a fully bastardized version of Indian food from India. The situation is similar for Chinese restaurants in Ind

>To be fair, Indian restaurants in the west sell a fully bastardized version of Indian food from India. The situation is similar for Chinese restaurants in India. I first got to know about this from my aunt, an Indian but a naturalised US citizen, when she came on one of her periodic visits to India, to see us. When we were eating at a Chinese restaurant in India, she remarked that the food was very different from authentic Chinese food. (It has been heavily modified to use Indian spices and to appeal to Indian tastes.) Later, when I went to Chinese restaurants in Malaysia and the US, I could see this for myself.