There is "NO" single real Indian
restaurant in Sweden as per my knowledge. I have been in Sweden for more than
four years and I have travelled places around Gothenburg, Stockholm and Malmo
in Sweden. What I can find is, most of the Pakistanis and Bangladeshi running
the Indian restaurant, with the name of "Indisk restauarang" or ”Indisk
Mat". Pity! The same situation continues to be found down in Cph as well.
Speaking about authentic Indian restaurant, it's tough to have to in Sweden. As
per my experience, many of the swedes are little stereotypic in sticking to
very few common food dishes like "Naan", " Chicken Butter
masala", "Chicken korma", " raitha" etc and they feel
very hard to try any new cuisines introduced to them in the Indian restaurants.
Trust me, my friend had a bad experience in selling few of our south Indian
dishes in his Indian restaurant in Halmstad, Sweden. Moreover Swedes are not
used to eat much hot/spicy food; there are few exceptional ones, who would
taste the same amount of spicy food, tasted by any Telugu guy in India. I knew
few of the swedes compares the naan bread with the one served in other
restaurants in Sweden. Actually this should not be the case, they can only judge
or compare, after eating food in any of the 28 states in India. In general
people should have a little knowledge, about what kind of food they eat. Talking
about Indian food, there are many traditional Indian food in our country,
myself from Chennai(Madras) have our own cuisines like "idli",
"dosa","sambhar","vada" any many other varieties of food, which at least 98% of the
swedes would have never come across in their life. Most of these foods are
supposed to be eaten by hand, which hardly any western would prefer in the
first case. The restaurants in Sweden provide the food with the mix of indo-Pakistani/
Pakistani and indo-Bangladeshi/Bangladeshi. Most of these people set their
business for their livelihood, rather providing the authenticity in the taste
with the food and culture, which they believe to do. There won't be many years
to come, where their real identity would be lime lighted to the public.
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