CURRY!!!! Others opinion on Bangladeshi food

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What other says about Bangladeshi cooking and restaurants:

Extracted from someother forum:

>I agree with you regarding Bangladeshi >cooking as being better than most Indian >cooking. I have done some research on >indian cooking for my aunt, who was trying >to write a cook book for herself back in >1996. I llove food from Indian-subcontinent >including Afganistani Kebabs.


>(1) It is due to good quality of spices >that are grown in Bangladesh aand I believe >they use pure mustard oil in cooking instead of vvegetable oil.

>(2) A book published in 1878 in Calcutta by >David Symington named oriental Cooking >Recipes, which contained only 64 pages, >stated that there was a party in Calcutta >for some Viceroy. Many Maharaja and Nawabs >personal cooks presented various dishes for >this grand gathering of 500 high and mighty >in Calcutta. There were five medels for >chefs or best cook. Some Nawab Khuja of >Dhaka got all of them for presenting and >serving best dishes.

>(3) I was advised by the Chef, while >dinning out at a restaurant in Dhaka few >months ago that "Old Dhaka is the place for best food in the whole Indian-subcontinent" >but cooking of other parts of Bangladesh >are not so good. This was to re-confirmed >by three or four NGO guys from europe and >the United States now living in Bangladesh >as they all lived and worked in India and >Pakistan as well.

>As far as cooking in Bangladeshi owned >restaurants in England is concern...I am >sure not all Bangladeshi restaurants are A->1 in cooking! I was in India, Pakistan and >Bangladesh few months back...I tried them >all. I must agree that food in Dhaka was >very very tasty.

>But I must also mention that an Indian >friend took us to old Delhi and food there >was A-1....the best!

>happy cooking..

>Finger lickin good!

2nd opinion:
on to your Subject title. I agree with you 100%.
Unfortunately,
> when the Bangladeshis first settled here in the UK), they were East
> Pakistanis. The British were still trying to get over the loss of the 'The > Empire where the Sun never sets'. The Bangladeshis of a few decades back did > a very wise thing by calling them 'Indian' restaurants because it used the > 'British India' title to promote their food to the British
population. After > all, there never was a 'British Pakistan' and our people felt that it would > have been a poor Business decision to name it after a country that no
one> could relate to. >> Times are changing and the Bangladeshis, the majority of whom are Sylhettis, > are now using Bangladeshi/Sylhetti names for their restaurants. However, the > problem is, when it comes to promotion and support, the Indians get full> support of their Government to project 'their' image abroad. Our missions > usually come out with the usual bull****, 'Amra Goreeb Manush. Amra
Keechu > Korthe Parbenna'. This is why the Indians have managed to gain a foothold in
> this industry even though they own less than 5% of the 'Indian'restaurants
> in this country. Since the early 1980's, a lady by the name of Madhur > Jaffery (Syed Jaffery's wife) had a whole series of BBC programs of Indian > Cooking. She also published a whole bunch of books. The food she cooked was > totally ripped off from Bangladeshi cooking because Indian food from
India > is a load of bollocks. Incidentally, I've been to Indian 'Indian' > restaurants and I can safely say that they can't cook to save their lives. >> Her Majesty, Queen Elizebeth II, will vouch for us. Her favorite food is > curry from a 'Bangladeshi' owned restaurant.>
> The Bangladeshis usually tailor make their menu specifically for the> British. In fact, the BBC recently advertised that 'Korma'
and 'Vindaloo'> will soon be exported to Bangladesh and India as a 'new food'. The
> Pakistanis don't give a ****. We literally grew up with a family from > Peshawar and a restaurant near Algate East Tube Station (just off commercial> Road) in East London called 'Lahore' cooks exactly like my Peshawari Auntie.
> Real home cooking.
>
> Regards,