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do you like indian food do you
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make indian food well if you were
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when i first started i just opted to go
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if i want to have some delicious
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restaurant quality food well
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what is that um that's your butternunn
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your butter chicken chicken tikka all
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your tandoori specialties
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because obviously none of us have a
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at home well how can we even do that
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that oven goes to 2000 degrees celsius
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and that's just impractical in the house
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as a barbecue but most of us don't have
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well let me tell you what happened when
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in canada and how my experience was
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with these indian restaurants and i'll
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i'm completely sick of them now don't
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i love eating out i just don't do a lot
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it if you've been following my stories
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from facebook or instagram you know that
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pizzas and i get indian food from
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and i'll tell you why i do that if you
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for a little longer and if you stay
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until the end of the video
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you'll see what my home cook recipes for
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indian food looks like compared to what
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indian restaurants here pass off as
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indian food in terms of beauty it's not
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exactly an indian classic is it
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also i would like all of you to share
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your most disappointing
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restaurant experience in the comment
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so let's go back to the very beginning
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why did i even start cooking
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believe it or not before i started
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actually never used to cook as often
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as i do now like it was just basic
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like eggs or maybe a cheese toast
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or something simple like a nothing in
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poha and nothing to write home but
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nothing that was instagram worthy
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so some of you may be thinking right now
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what happened how did i suddenly
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start cooking and trying to get all
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these restaurant quality dishes
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right at home now to start off i got
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of the indian food and the indian
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restaurants that i experienced
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in my first year at university so i was
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really really homesick for food and i
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up online what the best indian
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restaurant near me is
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and i remember it was kind of far i
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didn't have any car i didn't even have
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back then when i started university
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because i hadn't applied for it
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um and i walked i think about 25 minutes
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in the middle of summer
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to go get my fix and like any other deli
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i got the classics all i wanted was some
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and naan really simple really basic i'm
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most indian folks back in india can make
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with their eyes closed so i'm coming
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the food is smelling great and i'm
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really excited to eat this
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and i take my first bite and i'm
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what is this this looks right
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it smells okay what's wrong with the
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flavor why is the chicken so hard
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why is it pink tandoori chicken
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be red and i have tried almost all
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indian restaurants in ottawa and it's
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thing now don't get me wrong there are a
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some things right but there are still
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so many flaws that really really
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and it disappoints me not because i have
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big super high standards if you ever go
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to india or if you've been to india
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and you're traveling between cities
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there are these roadside restaurants
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called tavas or they can be a really
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small scale japan they can go like
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complete vip with ac and
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really great quality service so there's
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if you are visiting the tava while
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in india and trust me on this each tier
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from the most basic one to the most high
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can make a naan and a butter chicken
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better than these restaurants here you
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butter chicken and naan and every other
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better at home if you follow some of my
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recipes now i'm not saying
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i have the best recipes it's really good
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that's all i'm gonna say it's better
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than what you're gonna get at some of
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these restaurants and it's not that much
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and it's gonna teach you so much about
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and i'm really excited for you to get
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now i have worked in some of these
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while i was in university and
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the chefs that were in the restaurant
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well they were brought in from india so
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what are they getting wrong i really
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don't know how they can mess
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something like indian food up it's
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really not that complicated
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and these chefs were flown in from india
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so what are they doing wrong now picture
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i visited chicago a few years ago
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okay and decided to go to the internet
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the best indian restaurant we went for a
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buffet because we might like save some
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and trust me when i say this the flavor
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and the texture and the naan and the
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exactly the same as what you get in
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ottawa it's like they're following some
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blueprint for north american
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indian food if you know anything about
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the michelin star winning chef vikas
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you'll know that he brings authenticity
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and the exact flavors from india
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to north america and he does a great job
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of it he makes his spices
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at the restaurant and the dishes really
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the true flavors now what i've been
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given is a much bigger global
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so i'm just moving from one smaller box
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you still have very traditional routes
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you're still connected to the box but
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out of the box i really think they're
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taking advantage of people
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who don't know indian food by selling
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that looks and smells like indian food
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i'm gonna tell you another experience on
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to a restaurant i went to one of the
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indian restaurants and i ordered
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a vegetarian classic dal makhani
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it's simply black lentils that are
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simmered overnight over rastandur and
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finished with the tomato cream and
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the color is usually a brownish red
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and each piece of that lentil
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really melts in your mouth and goes
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with breads like lacha paratha or
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now i'm sure some of you know what a
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it's usually yellowish made with chana
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or split chickpea lentils and
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it's a complete different texture as you
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can see in these pictures
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to that maknae so the waiter comes in
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at the bowl it has some brown lentils
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some yellow lentils and it
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doesn't look at all like me
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and i am a daddy height i am a delhi boy
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with dharmakhari i'm pretty sure there's
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through my veins by the way if you like
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dal makhani from honduras in india
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give this video a big big thumbs up
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that is one of the best but i tell the
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waiter excuse me is this
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me because he's like yes of course
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like well it doesn't taste like it it
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yellow dal plain yellow dal that you're
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premium price for of course i didn't say
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that but that's what i was thinking
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and do you know what the waiter tells me
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where are you from what i'm like i'm
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and he says well if you're from delhi
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this is what dalmaking tastes like can
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they're trying to tell somebody who has
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all their life in india
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grown up on dal makhani and he's selling
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so willingly without any shame
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and telling me this is something that it
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now imagine somebody who's having indian
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food for the first time
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what kind of tricks are these guys
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calling i don't even get it
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that's why i'm completely completely
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on indian food um there are a few
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restaurants that some people recommended
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which i haven't tried yet
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i will try them but but if i don't
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consider those restaurants
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it's a complete complete shame
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honestly i'm all done i'm happy it was
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and then i looked at my hands and guess
