Why This Dish is Killing Indian Restaurants
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The UK is obsessed with Indian food to the point where the Chicken Tikka Masala is the countries national dish. In this video Andy travels across the UK visiting curry houses to figure out how Indian food became a staple of British dining. And why, despite their popularity, the UK is at risk of losing these restaurants.
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Executive Producer/Story/Reporting: Andy Burgess
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Production Assistant: Mack Mooney
Production Assistant: Pete Jobson
Editor: Andy Burgess
Animations: Jatin Nahata
Consultant: Claire Alexander
Special thanks to:
Aparna Gansan
Jamil Khan, The Royal Raj - https://www.royalrajrestaurant.co.uk
Bangla Village - https://bengalvillagebricklane.co.uk/
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Hi, I'm Andy and I believe people would be less divided if they understood each other more. So in 2022 I started Faultline to document and report on stories from overlooked people and places to shift how we see the world.
My filmmaking journey started on Snapchat in 2016 where I encountered stories in parts of the world that are largely ignored by mainstream media. These stories were way bigger than my own, so I turned the camera onto others and became the guide. In 2018, that work earned me a Shorty Award nomination, a signal that audiences were ready for stories that had long been overlooked.
That path led me to create and showrun 'Origins' for Red Bull, a documentary series that traced the roots of extreme sports through the overlooked communities and places that built them, and how they reshaped global culture.
Over the years my reporting has taken me to places experiencing profound change, from the Arctic to the Middle East, across Eastern Europe, South Asia and the United States, to forgotten communities back home in the UK. Everywhere I go, the same pattern emerges despite language barriers and cultural differences, everyone has stories they want to tell. It’s obvious when we have real conversations we find common ground and learn something new. But inside our algorithmic bubbles, that curiosity has been replaced with fear.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 The UK 's National Dish is a curry.
1:23 Paying the bills
3:05 The first Indian restaurant in the UK
3:54 The seamen from Bengal
4:43 Post WW2 Migration
5:34 Your favourite Indian restaurant isn't an Indian restaurant
7:32 The difference between Indian & Bengali food
8:22 1971 changed everything for the curry house.
9:49 What's the deal with the Chicken Tikka Masala
12:20 What do Londers think of the Chicken Tikka Masala
13:14 Why are all curry houses the same.
13:57 The peak of Indian food in the UK.
15:08 Why do I only order a Chicken Tikka Masala?
16:33 Why the curry house is dying out
18:08 The new styles of 'Indian Food' in the UK
19:38 Why the British Indian food doesn't taste like Indian food
20:00 The secret Chef menu
21:19 How curry house changed the taste of a nation
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