What is meant by Indian Restaurant, Asian and Curry?
1. ‘Indian’ in the British restaurant sector is used generically and includes Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Nepalese, and Sri Lankan food. This group of countries is also referred to as the subcontinent. 2. ‘Asian’ is used in the UK to mean all those whose roots are originally from the subcontinent, and excludes China, Indochina, Japan, and Thailand. In the US the reverse is the situation. 3. ‘Curry’ has come to mean the food of the subcontinent. 4. ‘Curry House’. Coloquial term for a local curry restaurant. Most such restaurants in the UK (some 85% or 7,200) are Bangladeshi owned, though as stated above, for historical reasons most are still referred to as ‘Indian’.
