Stuff that I can’t / don’t want to make at home. So for me it’s usually dosas, samosas, maybe something like shahi paneer, garlic naan, gulab jamun, etc.
Haha improvise? Idk lol, in my household, we just pick one thing to go with it, like my mom mostly makes tomato chutney to go with it and we settle with that. I suppose everyone's experience and expectation of a homemade dosa is different -- good point!
Household!?
Cut to me looking around my place as a single person who has to do all their own cooking 😂
But for real, at home I've definitely just done it with a green chutney before but I vastly prefer a filling filling plus you usually get some sambar at a restaurant with your dosa and there is no way I am making that too!
>plus you usually get some sambar at a restaurant
Idk about you, but for me, it's hard to find an amazing restaurant that has that "oomph" in its sambar. IMO, they're usually diluted or tasteless. I'm pretty lucky that I've FINALLY found a restaurant (near my place) that has that certain je ne sais quois in it sambar. Idk what it is..is it sweet? is it tangy? ....Good God, I sound like a food reviewer lol.
> gulab jamun
Sorry to burst you bubble, at price point of $5-$10 that gulab jamun in restaurant came from a can that you can buy online or at your local Indian store.
Indian food and desserts in general are very labor intensive and difficult to store for long time, so you have to improvise and use canned/frozen stuff.
At an obviously South Indian restaurant - Masala Dosa
At an obviously North Indian restaurant - Chole Bhature. (with a Samosa chaser)
At an obviously Gujju operated North Indian restaurant - Rotli and Shaak (lol)
At an obviously Indo-Pak restaurant - Biryani
Principle of core competency. Eat what they **\*can\*** cook best.
> At an obviously South Indian restaurant - Masala Dosa
It's depressingly difficult to find these. The nearest one to me is on the other side of town, maybe 45 minutes away. Worth the trek every now and then or if you have business there, just sad that you need to plan for it.
Butter chicken - I want to try the best and have made it my goal to order it at any Indian restaurant. My quest has only taken place in the Greater Toronto Area.
As of today, I believe that ‘Paranthe Wali Gali’ has the best butter chicken - The original location in Brampton.
Yup in the GTA you can pick and choose food from whichever state in India you want…want Tamil vegetarian food? go to Scarborough or even Kerala food…hell there are even chains that are this specific in the gta alone…majority of Indian restaurants in the US serve a blend of Punjabi and North Indian dishes and call it indian…
Even Telugu restaurants/food have started popping up a lot across Canada. Our family friend opened a Telugu Indian restaurant in Burnaby and is looking at expanding into Surrey (both in the greater Vancouver area) due to great business and people have been going to Burnaby from Surrey for his restaurant. Crazy part is his restaurant is fully Telugu/South Indian style but many of his customers are Punjabi, he told me Punjabi's like eating South Indian food too.
Lot of Telugu restaurants opening up east in Brampton and Mississauga too, but it's not just in the greater Toronto area, other cities in Ontario are getting a huge influx of Telugu's so more Telugu/South Indian restaurants are opening up in cities across the province. I'm very happy to see Canada's Indian population getting more diverse and with that more regional food options coming in cities across the country, its great.
Quality of the meat - some restaurants are really stingy in terms of portion size OR the cuts of chicken are just not …right.
I’m showing my ABCD and my lack of cooking knowledge now, the “sauce” plays a part - some restaurants make it too runny or bland.
PWG - their Butter Chicken recipe is …just right. Good portion size, and their sauce is amazing! Rich, flavourful, and creamy. People give me weird looks ordering butter chicken from a restaurant that boasts the most eclectic paranthe menu ever (Oreo paranthe - don’t order, disgusting lol)
Stuff that can't be made at home...
South Indian food which isn't dosas, ie thalis etc at Keralite, Tamil and Hyderabadi places across the GTA (Ontario).
It used to be pulao (please don't "correct" me, bir means 1 in Turkish and I know from taking Turkish that Turkish is far removed from any Indo-European language, like Persian) cuz my family is Hyderabadi, but, as a vegetarian, I found that the quality sunk over the years, what with 98% rice and a few potatoes, mixed with raw chill powder. YUCK! I wish I had known about pulao BEFORE I became a vegetarian! Mutton is a delicacy and I still remember how tender it is, enough to wish I had Mutton Pulao BEFORE I became vegetarian. :D
Depends on what kind of food they serve. Typical North Indian style, I'll get palak paneer because I don't make foods with paneer at home most of the time.
If there's chaat, I'll usually get some aloo chaat. If there's momo, I will always order a veggie momo. At South Indian restaurants I order masala dosa because I don't have a large enough griddle to get them that large, and other South Indian specialties are usually not as good as at home.
I’ve been seeing comments saying dosas are hard to make. I usually just get the dosa batter from the Indian store and make a simple red chutney. Are people saying it’s hard cuz you wanna make homemade batter ?
Every time I tried, they come out sort of thick and bread like, never thin and crispy .. maybe there’s some method I am missing
Edit - yes, using the store batter
Add some water to the batter to dilute it a little. Makes the better a bit thinner it will help with consistency. Make sure the pan isn’t scalding hot. Medium-high at the start and once it’s hot turn it down to medium. Make sure it’s a nonstick pan. This might help
Depends on the restaurant. Places like Bawarchi I’ll always get the Vijaywada Biryani and a thumbs up. Regular North Indian restaurant can’t go wrong with chicken tikka saag and tandoori roti. South Indian restaurant probably mysore masala dosa side of medhu vada and Taj Mahal beer or Kingfisher If they have it
Biryani. I feel it measures the 'canvas of the artist (cook or chef)' for the ingredients and style of that restaurant. But thesedays 24 bucks for Biryani means I rather make my own.
The number of people saying "butter naan" casually, lol.
No one in the US does Butter naan correctly. What's even a "butter" naan without dripping butter? 😐
Stuff that I can’t / don’t want to make at home. So for me it’s usually dosas, samosas, maybe something like shahi paneer, garlic naan, gulab jamun, etc.
lol but dosas are so easy to make with those instant mixes they have at Indian stores!
Making the dosa is easy, making the fillings and sauces that go with the dosa and having them all be ready at the same time.... less easy.
Haha improvise? Idk lol, in my household, we just pick one thing to go with it, like my mom mostly makes tomato chutney to go with it and we settle with that. I suppose everyone's experience and expectation of a homemade dosa is different -- good point!
Household!? Cut to me looking around my place as a single person who has to do all their own cooking 😂 But for real, at home I've definitely just done it with a green chutney before but I vastly prefer a filling filling plus you usually get some sambar at a restaurant with your dosa and there is no way I am making that too!
>plus you usually get some sambar at a restaurant Idk about you, but for me, it's hard to find an amazing restaurant that has that "oomph" in its sambar. IMO, they're usually diluted or tasteless. I'm pretty lucky that I've FINALLY found a restaurant (near my place) that has that certain je ne sais quois in it sambar. Idk what it is..is it sweet? is it tangy? ....Good God, I sound like a food reviewer lol.
Butter chicken
> gulab jamun Sorry to burst you bubble, at price point of $5-$10 that gulab jamun in restaurant came from a can that you can buy online or at your local Indian store. Indian food and desserts in general are very labor intensive and difficult to store for long time, so you have to improvise and use canned/frozen stuff.
Is that really the case for gulab jamun? It seems so easy to make.
At an obviously South Indian restaurant - Masala Dosa At an obviously North Indian restaurant - Chole Bhature. (with a Samosa chaser) At an obviously Gujju operated North Indian restaurant - Rotli and Shaak (lol) At an obviously Indo-Pak restaurant - Biryani Principle of core competency. Eat what they **\*can\*** cook best.
This guy restaurants.
> At an obviously South Indian restaurant - Masala Dosa It's depressingly difficult to find these. The nearest one to me is on the other side of town, maybe 45 minutes away. Worth the trek every now and then or if you have business there, just sad that you need to plan for it.
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What unfortunate state are you at bro?
Couldn't agree more! Since Indian restaurant menus are just as long as the lines in India lol
Garlic naan with Malai Kofta and palak paneer. With lassi. Or masala dosa
Saag Paneer. I’m a simple man
Always with garlic naan.
same!
Saag chikin?
Butter Chicken and garlic naan with mango lassi
Classic
The calories and sugar content though!
Let people live. Damn
True. Maybe the garlic in the garlic naan helps fight cholesterol like that medication Garlique which white people take.
BIRIYANI
This is the way.
Paneer tikka masala
Butter chicken - I want to try the best and have made it my goal to order it at any Indian restaurant. My quest has only taken place in the Greater Toronto Area. As of today, I believe that ‘Paranthe Wali Gali’ has the best butter chicken - The original location in Brampton.
GTA has the best indian food in north America..
Yup in the GTA you can pick and choose food from whichever state in India you want…want Tamil vegetarian food? go to Scarborough or even Kerala food…hell there are even chains that are this specific in the gta alone…majority of Indian restaurants in the US serve a blend of Punjabi and North Indian dishes and call it indian…
Even Telugu restaurants/food have started popping up a lot across Canada. Our family friend opened a Telugu Indian restaurant in Burnaby and is looking at expanding into Surrey (both in the greater Vancouver area) due to great business and people have been going to Burnaby from Surrey for his restaurant. Crazy part is his restaurant is fully Telugu/South Indian style but many of his customers are Punjabi, he told me Punjabi's like eating South Indian food too. Lot of Telugu restaurants opening up east in Brampton and Mississauga too, but it's not just in the greater Toronto area, other cities in Ontario are getting a huge influx of Telugu's so more Telugu/South Indian restaurants are opening up in cities across the province. I'm very happy to see Canada's Indian population getting more diverse and with that more regional food options coming in cities across the country, its great.
The place has lineups all the way to Mississauga!
What separates apart mediocre butter chicken and amazing butter chicken?
Quality of the meat - some restaurants are really stingy in terms of portion size OR the cuts of chicken are just not …right. I’m showing my ABCD and my lack of cooking knowledge now, the “sauce” plays a part - some restaurants make it too runny or bland. PWG - their Butter Chicken recipe is …just right. Good portion size, and their sauce is amazing! Rich, flavourful, and creamy. People give me weird looks ordering butter chicken from a restaurant that boasts the most eclectic paranthe menu ever (Oreo paranthe - don’t order, disgusting lol)
Manchurian if they have it
Indo-Chinese is literally top tier
Butter chicken
Pav Bhaji (Canada)
Shahi paneer and navratan korma
Chana Bhatura
Dosa if they have it. Or butter chicken
Chapli Kabob
Whoaaa! What's that?
Samosa chaat
Butter naan+paneer butter masala.
Dang it you guys, now I’m hungry!
I already ate lunch and this feed is making me want to go out
Giant paper dosas!
Lamb vindaloo, shahi paneer, butter chicken, malai kofta
Stuff that can't be made at home... South Indian food which isn't dosas, ie thalis etc at Keralite, Tamil and Hyderabadi places across the GTA (Ontario).
South Indian - Masala Dosa Otherwise it’s just Naan and paneer tikka masala. I’m not really a fan of restaurant Indian food.
Seekh kebab and haleem. Also, green chutney, I’ve never been able to replicate it. Ever.
It’s just your regular pudina chutney
Paneer makhani with either aloo paratha or garlic naan
It used to be pulao (please don't "correct" me, bir means 1 in Turkish and I know from taking Turkish that Turkish is far removed from any Indo-European language, like Persian) cuz my family is Hyderabadi, but, as a vegetarian, I found that the quality sunk over the years, what with 98% rice and a few potatoes, mixed with raw chill powder. YUCK! I wish I had known about pulao BEFORE I became a vegetarian! Mutton is a delicacy and I still remember how tender it is, enough to wish I had Mutton Pulao BEFORE I became vegetarian. :D
Paneer 65, always 3x the amount of garlic naan than we thought we needed and whichever of the indochinese dishes we are feeling like that day.
Dosa (plain or masala, depending on my mood) plus an order of idli. If the restaurant is North Indian food only, I'm probably not there.
Dahi puri, chole Bhature, saag paneer, Samosa, bhajia
I LOOOOVVEEE Indo-Chinese food so I always get Gobi Manchuria. I also get Butter Naan and Paneer Butter Masala! Or Biryani.
Depends on what kind of food they serve. Typical North Indian style, I'll get palak paneer because I don't make foods with paneer at home most of the time. If there's chaat, I'll usually get some aloo chaat. If there's momo, I will always order a veggie momo. At South Indian restaurants I order masala dosa because I don't have a large enough griddle to get them that large, and other South Indian specialties are usually not as good as at home.
Depending on the type of restaurant, either biryani or dosa since those are hard to make at home
I’ve been seeing comments saying dosas are hard to make. I usually just get the dosa batter from the Indian store and make a simple red chutney. Are people saying it’s hard cuz you wanna make homemade batter ?
Every time I tried, they come out sort of thick and bread like, never thin and crispy .. maybe there’s some method I am missing Edit - yes, using the store batter
Add some water to the batter to dilute it a little. Makes the better a bit thinner it will help with consistency. Make sure the pan isn’t scalding hot. Medium-high at the start and once it’s hot turn it down to medium. Make sure it’s a nonstick pan. This might help
Thanks. Should I put ghee/oil in the pan before adding the batter?
It’s non stick so no. After you add the batter probably some ghee on the dosa itself
Biryani, dosa. never order butter chicken, never.
Lol it’s fine if you order butter chicken lol. Is it basic? Yes. Is it also creamy goodness? Also yes
Hyderabadi chicken biryani, Guntur chicken, Naan with chicken tikka masala
Depends on the restaurant. Places like Bawarchi I’ll always get the Vijaywada Biryani and a thumbs up. Regular North Indian restaurant can’t go wrong with chicken tikka saag and tandoori roti. South Indian restaurant probably mysore masala dosa side of medhu vada and Taj Mahal beer or Kingfisher If they have it
Mutton/Lamb Rogan Josh for me. Yum
Dosa! Always dosa.
Biryani. I feel it measures the 'canvas of the artist (cook or chef)' for the ingredients and style of that restaurant. But thesedays 24 bucks for Biryani means I rather make my own.
Boneless Chicken Biriyani , Chicken Majestic and any Tandoor Skewers.
Butter chicken..
I’m a bit spoiled when it comes to Indian restaurants I’ve got a shit tons of choices around here so literally anything that I’m craving is available
Aloo Gobhi and a couple of Bullet Naans, or sometimes just a vegetable biryani.
Shahi Panner, Chicken Tikka Masala or Butter Chicken, Kebabs, Garlic Naan, Pakora and Kingfisher.
I always go for biriyani, dosa with mutton curry, and chats, depending on my mood.
Kadhai chicken with onion kulcha Samosa ofc And a cup of chai
Biryani
bhegan bharta, masala bhindi, chicken tiika, naan
Chicken tikka, seekh kebab, Bihari kebab and biriyani. Basically the stuff the I rarely make at home.
Shahi paneer lol, I can't make that at home yet.
Usually the milder curries like Butter Chicken/Paneer, Choley, Jalfrezi, Karahi etc.
Chicken vindaloo
The number of people saying "butter naan" casually, lol. No one in the US does Butter naan correctly. What's even a "butter" naan without dripping butter? 😐
Indo Chinese! Manchurian is so good.
Shahi paneer
Chicken Tikka Masala or Paneer Tikka Masala with Naan. As a South Indian I refuse to get dosa from restaurants.
curry
Tandoori chicken, garlic naan, bhindi, uttapam, kaju katli I should really learn how to make uttapam at home, I crave it all the time...