Indian ways of adapting to global food!

Its quite interesting!

Have you ever heard the word ‘Chindian’, I came to know about it during my stay at Singapore. Chinese cuisine prepared in Indian style is Chindian. Some Singapore Indian restaurants claim their expertise on it. Isn’t this fact is interesting that we Indians are expert in moulding the things according to our taste, where ever we are!Indian taste buds are always in search of good taste. They just can’t take the food for the sake of food only. Though this definition of taste varies from country to country but for Indians the taste lies in all spices, in all variety of vegetables, sweets, puddings, rice variety. We are the the best example of the country for unity in diversity. With 28 states around in a country one can imagine how many types of food variety we are having. Every state has different specialty in the terms of food.  Some dishes are really deshi in terms of liking in every state like chola bhatura, dosa sambhar, chowmein, pani puri, nan paneer, and samosa. These dishes are like present in most of the places throughout the country and in some foreign countries too!

When we talk about the global food so many cuisines are their throughout the world. There is Continental, Korean, Japanese, Mexican, Chinese, Thai, Indian, and many others.If you are a vegetarian by nature then its will be really experimenting time for you to mould the international cuisines according to your taste. And believe  me if you are a real Indian by nature then you will do it perfectly.Its not that all international cuisines require experimenting.Some cuisines are tasty in their original form. Thai food is the best choice in international cuisine as it is quite close to Indian cuisine in terms of spicy and tasty food. So you can go along the dishes without any change. Thai rice, Thai soup, salad, match the Indian taste buds. For some cuisines you have to carry a bottle of Tabasco sauce, and Tomato sauce to mix with the rice or noodles if you want(which I did during my visit to  some eastern countries).

Here I will like to share some different experience with vegetarian food in Japanese cuisine and in Taiwan. Teppanyaki is the way of cooking in Japanese restaurants. The word means iron plate. In Japan it means number of dishes cooked using a hot plate located in the centre of dinner’s table.Though non-vegetarian is the main menu the few dishes which is vegetarian are worth trying.Assorted vegetable, Mung bean sprouts,  and soup. In 1945, Misono restaurant in Japan started the Teppanyaki way of cooking. The interesting fact is that you can watch the skilled manoeuvres of the chefs preparing the food in front of you.

In Taiwan concept of vegetarian is present but to certain extent. They have the Buddhist way of cooking vegetarian food which doesn’t allows you to use onion garlic.But they use chilly sauce so its not that bland. One place was Minder Vegetarian(English name)which meant Highest Virtue Vegetarian Garden in Chinese name.Its a buffet style. You pick a plate and tongs at the entrance walk along the serving counter and load up. The interesting point is that the cashier weighs your plate to determine the price and asks if you want rice.You can try different varieties of tofu and vegetable in this restaurant.

Continental, Korean, Mexican , Spanish there are numerous cuisines to try your hand on.  Its actually fun to know the variety of food we are having worldwide and umpteen number of ways it is cooked. So have fun with your food and keep experimenting!