George wrote:

>>> If I had to choose the absolute worst cousine I don't need to think
>>> about it, the worst I've ever eaten is Indian food... and I've tried
>>> quite a few highly touted restaurants thinking it was poor luck of the
>>> draw, NOT!, they all serve food that is literally greasy shit, it stinks
>>> like shit to boot.
>>
>> Try a vegetarian South Indian place, quite different and very tasty.
>> Regular Indian places can be somewhat variable, and sadly most Indian
>> food isn't very photogenic, even if it is tasty.
>
> There is also nothing intrinsically wrong with northern Indian cooking. We
> only have two Indian restaurants in the area and one is superb and one is
> average. Both serve northern Indian cuisine. I was in Edison, NJ a couple
> weeks ago and asked about neighborhood restaurants. One guy suggested an
> Indian place a few blocks away and the quality was superb. I also frequent
> a place over in a part of Philly called University city that serves
> northern Indian. I like food flavored with complex aromatic spices. I also
> patronize the vegetarian southern Indian places too for something
> different.

One problem that non-Indians have with Indian food is that Indians prize
fat: Authentic curries are often SWIMMING with fat, because that richness is
considered luxurious. But most Indian restaurants in the USA adapt their
recipes to suit the palates of their customers, which includes removing a
great deal of the fat. Unfortunately, in that same quest, they usually cut
out much of the heat and some of the spices which North Americans don't
usually like (such as asafetida). The obvious solution is to cook Indian
food at home.

Bob, currently close to a city with a large Sikh population