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Article: Chicken Tikka Masala celebrates 60 years in UK, where else?
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- October 21, 2007
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NEW DELHI, India, Oct. 21 -- It is about as Indian as ' Chicken Manchurian' or 'Sour Hot Soup' are Chinese. The latter, among the most popular dishes on the menu of any Chinese restaurant in India, have never been heard of in China. So too, 'chicken tikka masala' Britain's favourite 'Indian' dish, is by no means Indian; it is unknown to Indian restaurants or dinner tables or palettes.
Yet, in a ringing affirmation of the rise of multi culturalism, this phoney Indian dish is celebrating its 60th anniversary in Britain this month. It is the country's most popular dish - mind, not just most popular Indian dish - according to Food Service Intelligence. Robin Cook, the former British foreign ...