Don't know about Amreeka, but I have eaten 'Indian' food in many European cities and it is uniformly crap. It is a bastardized Punjabi-Mughlai cuisine dumbed down to suit gora palette. Very very one dimensional made by the same type of chefs, who keep importing the same kind of chefs after them. Many of these are run by Bangladeshis or a mix of Indians/Pak/BD staff.
To make it worse, the veggie cuisine is dominated by the 'Udupi' kind of establishments, which is the worst of South Indian food. They are very good at scaling up, so they are every where and everyone thinks this is what south Indian food is like. The best south Indian breakfast is from Tamil Nadu and Kerala, which you will be hard pressed to find abroad.
In all my travels I have never found these items abroad, which to me represent the best of Indian cuisine:
- Goan Prawn Curry (Goa)
- Malwani fish curry (Maharashtra)
- Chicken Ghee Roast (Mangalore)
- Chicken Chettinad (Tamil Nadu)
- Guntur Chicken (Andhra / Telangana)
- Mutton pepper fry (Karnataka/Kerala)
- Coorgi Pandi fry (Coorg Pork fry)
- Karimeen pan fried in Banana leaf (Kerala)
- Malabar Beef Roast
- Kosha Mangsho (Bengal)
- Awadhi Biryani (Lucknow/Kolkata)
- Saoji Mutton (Maharashtra)
- Laal Maas (Rajasthan)
- Mutton Dhansak (Parsi/Mumbai)
- Dindigul Biryani (Tamil Nadu)
- Authentic Delhi style Chhole Bhature
- Authentic Delhi style Bedmi Puri and Pumpkin curry
- Authentic Mumbai Chowpatty style Pav Bhaji dripping in butter
- Appam and Stew (Kerala)
- Idiyappam and Egg Roast (Kerala)
- Boti Masala (Gowda style in Karnataka)
- Thalassery Biryani (Kerala)
- Bhoger Khichurhi with baigan bhaja (Bengal)
I could go on. People outside Indian have no friggin clue about Indian food
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