“Indo-Chinese is very popular with middle- and upper-class Indians,” says Tishani Doshi, a writer and dancer based in Madras. Much to her amusement, Doshi recently had her first Indian meal in Britain and was surprised not to have encountered a single dish she had ever eaten in India. “It’s probably how a Chinese person would feel eating at a Chinese restaurant in India,” she says. “I couldn’t believe how heavy the ‘Indian’ food was in London, and it reminded me of the feeling I often get when I go for a Chinese back home: completely stuffed and slightly bloated. I can’t imagine that Chinese people regularly eat anything that heavy.”
Fancy a Chindian? (Guardian)
Bonus: “Mountbatten’s English Cuisine” bit from Goodness Gracious Me (YouTube)