Friday, March 14, 2014

Is there any real Indian Restaurant in Sweden?



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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