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Same here. This should be a challenge to include ingredients that improve the dish only. Lobster is great but gold tastes of nothing. You can gold plate a salad sandwich and call it a £500.00 dish - makes no sense and adds nothing. That is why Salt Bae is bankrupting everywhere. You can go for a nice inexpensive Sunday Lunch in the UK and the waiting staff will be carving meats and then visit Salt Bae where the waiter taps a knife on meat adding nothing to service or dish - literally everyone can do it and the meat is gold plated for no reason.
She was just an idiot. Everyone I know would have more idea anout food/ Indian food than her. I don't know many that would eat chicken tikka masala either to be honest.
May has well have just pulled a random person off the street. I've never heard of her and perhaps she knows about indian food, but if you claim to know about food of any country or culture, you should at least have a vocabulary and understand flavours and be able to offer some kind of intelligent conversation. I was a teacher and have seen year 5 pupils with more to say about their packed lunch! I'm guessing she has someone write for her on her channel.
I feel like Lali was the wrong choice for the most expensive curry 😅 Seema would at least have been able to compare all 3 curries at the different price points
Agree. What a waste. Didn’t get any value add comments from her tasting as she’s never tried any of the ingredients. Just had no idea. Should’ve kept Seema on. Didn’t want to hate but a wasted opportunity. Should’ve switched them around.
Great response Sonny, to Laura's comment about there not being a place for chicken tikka masala. As a 2nd gen chinese, and as someone who works part time in a small chinese takeout restaurant, I've seen both westerners and "traditional" chinese people come and enjoy the food our restaurant makes. I myself love certain westernised dishes. There is ALWAYS a reason why certain foods are the way they are, and if anyone thinks they're superior because they prefer "traditional" food, they're just delusional. Food doesn't happen in a vacuum, rather it's a reflection of culture and people, and people and cultures change with time and space. It's great. New flavours come into existence and now there is MORE to enjoy in this world. Isn't that incredible? Seema was a great guest to have, very personable and knowledgable. And I always appreciate people who have manners and I loved her gesture of serving Sonny before herself.
so well said! the history of immigration, and often the practice of hiring cheap labour, cannot be removed from the evolution of most "westernized" asian food which has had to adjust to what is available or preferred in a new country.
I think you should have brought Chef Seema to the expensive dinner to really understand something so exclusive and complex as this dish was, Nora would have been more comfortable with the first two restaurants
As a British South Asian I'd have much preferred Seema's opinion on the expensive dish than someone who just visited India a few times and has apparently never eaten food before.
It was either a strike of genius as they were going for comedy...or a complete and total booking failure. She has the pallet of someone who is 12 pints deep at 3AM.
Kinda of a flop. Not mean to be elitest, but i think she would be a perfect guest for the 2 first dishes and the guest for the first 2 do the last one. I think she (the first guest) would trully appreciate the flavours involved.
Wrong brother, I thought that at first but then met lolly she is more real. I’m from sri lanka and we never eat lobster or caviar. Morel more like Lessel! Can’t speak for the Indians but having someone like lolly is way more realistic than having a Chef try it
The YMCA curry was the most authentic Indian curry. The £1000 lobster has nothing Indian about it barring a few Indian spices. Glad to see you chose the best. ❤
The second host made me feel like the £1000 curry was a waste of money . I felt that she would have been better reviewing the cheaper options since they were more similar to what she already had tried . Seema would be able to break down the complexities of the pricier curry better since she’s well versed in the cuisine
Exactly. It's just the way to get yourself into the newspaper and get your name out there. It works with burgers too, I'm told. Even better if you can get a few fictitious City boys to blow $60K on the most expensive wines, and publish the receipt. This modus operandi has worked for for the last 30 years, so don't give it up. Nobody spends £1K on a curry. They might spend £200 on a curry, and £200 on alcohol, but that's about it. Never been to Tayyab's, but I expect it is 'okay'. I've been to the Veeraswamy twice, and it was quite mediocre, just turning the latest food trends into 'curry' (hint, go at lunchtime and order a Thali, but don't go in the evening).
True, for me the essence of Indian cuisine is having hearty meal while keeping it affordable. Making it as pricy as possible just make it lose its "homemade" feeling to it
A dog turd is going to be expensive if you put caviar, and truffles on it and the gold is just stupid. Every one of these expensive dishes Sonny eats has basically the same stuff on them because that is how you make a dish expensive.
and even then, it's not anywhere near 1000 bucks lol. The dish he made, in the end, is maybe worth 75 bucks lol. The prizes he shows are per lb or per kilo etc. you dont eat 2 lbs of everything on that plate, and even if you did, it would be still less, minus the caviar.
Seema should have been the guest at the last , most expensive tasting. Shes really sweet and her descriptions of foods is great. I love your videos as always Sonny. 💕💕💕💕 but last guest Lali was disappointing, thats just my opinion
Atul Kochar is a legend. I had the honour and pleasure of working with him on a Luxury Hotel Group project. His combination of traditional Indian Cuisine with a modern approach is sensational. Atul is my preferred choice in London when it comes to Modern Indian interpretation.
@@potatopoii2720 Still, recipes to chefs can be like jokes to comedians. You just don't share. I do agree that they could have made an expensive - if not 1000 pounds - curry using other things besides gold leaf, the most useless of 'ingredients' and truffles, one of the most over-hyped ingredients.
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Mushroom hunting is big in Missouri, specifically morel mushrooms. My husband hates mushrooms so we’ve never gone but it’s big with our friends from March to May.
Its kind of nice seeing how everyone can come together and laugh at British food. In most food channels I hear people say native British food is bland, but luckily its neighbors (French, Italy) and Asian cultures influence came to its the rescue.
12:55 - Haha, I'm from Kentucky in the USA. I recognized those Morels right away! I find it hilarious they're used in fine Indian cuisine, cuz that wonderful chef learned what we know...they're DELICIOUS! We call them something else though. We call morel mushrooms "dry land fish." And we call the act of foraging them "dry land fishing."
What's being missed here in regards to chicken tikka masala and what was sort of myopic in regards to Laura's part is that you can always add more spices to it. Yes, the basic version of it is leaning heavily on the tomato aspect of it and being very creamy, typical of a British dish, but it can always be up scaled by adding more spice and herbs as desired like really any other type of curry, which is thing about curries--they're an exceptionally versatile type of dish.
Yes if you're making it at home. Ordering it somewhere though, they can only adapt it so much because the spices don't really take well in the ~15 minutes time to prep after the order comes in. Really once you add some more spices it's effectively a different BIR curry like a ~Madras.
I love you, Sonny! Your humor and humanity shine in each and every episode! As long as you continue making these amazing videos, you have a lifelong fan in me!
Given how the vast majority of the curry houses in the UK are owned by Bangladeshis/Bangladeshi descendants and given the important role they played in driving up this food culture, atleast a shout to Bangladeshi cuisine would have been appreciated.
There are many dozens of great hard working authentic Indian restaurants all over London lol. No idea what the uncle is talking about @1:40 - Also you can get a lot of chicken tikka masala that is spicy, with a lot of aromatics. This chef just didn't.
Ye seems BS what they said. I know many people that love authentic indian currys, and love spice. So no idea where this man is coming from. Maybe trying to get people to his place xD
I think he means getting good Indian meals for the same price because they get subsidised so they can keep the prices low. No way can you get a high quality home made Indian with the sides for less than £9 in London. You are lucky to get large chips for that now!
@@SD-oi9gr I don't think the youtuber is being intentionally deceptive, I'll be generous, but London really is the worse place to talk about cost in relation to the rest of the country, he would probably be shocked if he ventured out even slightly north at how much of a bubble that city really is. Not even from a political perspective or anything because I'm sure even Londoners will admit the disparity, I'm not surprised in the slightest the food is being subsidised. As ever in a lot of cases with most countries the capitol cities these days are very different form the rest of the country, I save so much money cooking for myself generally it's pretty ridiculous how much even in the north they're charging now.
Don’t know why you didn’t take Seem to the most expensive restaurant? Like she would have actually been able to talk about the food, the flavours, the spices, the techniques, but instead you took someone who apparently doesn’t know what food is. Doesn’t make sense. Not your best work Sonny, disappointed.
Lobster is common in Goan restaurants, and more coastal areas of india that haven't had their environments decimated. As a Fijian Indian we got to eat lobster curry every time we went back home and it's absolutely the best curry you could ever have. Even better than crab curry, which is also a thing. India is huge! And there are lots of people. Of course someone, sometime, would have thought, "Let's try that!" Haha
The YMCA kitchen looked amazing. I’ve got to admit it as a Brit I do love a chicken tikka masala yummmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy👍👍another fantastic episode. Get yourself over to rural Lincolnshire and I’ll introduce you to British Homebrew cheers 👍🍻
14:48 I'm gonna be blunt and say that's not curry the soul of the curry is that the protein soaks it's flavour into the sauce. It's just lobster with sauce please don't call it curry😑
And yeah you can make a 1000 pound curry without relying on classical expensive ingredients like caviar etc. There's old royal recipes that made curries with premium ingredients like sandalwood coals,saffron paste etc.. I'd like to see one real curry made with those not some fine done style meat with sauce and toppings that'd never be curry in a thousand years
I grew up my whole life eating Morels, but I live in the country, semi-southern USA, and we called them Dry Land Fish. My grandmother and my mom would bread them and fry them in out, I don't know what else they added. Anyway, I could sit and eat a whole plate of then haha. Until I became disabled, one of my favorite things to do was, get a satchel, and head deep into the mountains (We were covered by the mountains and we used to be called hill people way in the way back, but it eventually changed to Hillbilly) and hunt these. Sometimes you may only find a few, sometimes you could bring 50 home. Great episode!
Yeah, I moved to Tennessee when I was a kid after Hurricane Katrina. My step-dad used to get them from a man he worked with, and he would fry them. There was never enough to go around lol. I wish I knew where to get some now.
I can fully relate to this Indian man coming from south Africa where we known for bold flavours and moving to Portugal I found a lot of the food lacking seasoning but it’s nice , being Portuguese interestingly south african influenced Portuguese cuisine is different to European Portuguese flavours because sa portuguese food is influenced by mozambique which is packed with bolder flavours Im more willing to cook at home and create those flavours then eat out although some dishes and food is coming with bolder flavours and really delicious the fact that Portugal has embraced hot cheeto’s is miraculous
I like a Tikka Masala and I'd say that every restaurant does theirs differently. There was a curry house in Hastings called Vitality that was absolutely banging and it's Butter Chicken was unlike any other I'd had. I hope Sonny travels further afield in the UK and tries some other dishes, even if it's a curry in Bradford or Birmingham.
It wasn't 89 years because The East India Company was there for over 200 years before and they had captured multiple areas of India. They were also connected to the British Crown and government they were just allowed to operate outside of the laws and pay tribute.
Marmite on toast,then put a can of baked beans into a sauce pan, with a knob of butter, and a little soy sauce. Heat then pour some of this over the toast, finish with a handfull of your choice of grated cheese,add a sprinkle of your favorite herbs...
Years ago in the UK, Chicken Tikka Masala was a 'gateway curry' (like Chicken Korma), to entice in any meek souls who were too anxious to go in at the deep end. Most British Indian Restaurant cooks use all the requisite spices you would find in traditional Indian/ Bangladeshi curries: Balti, Pathia etc all have great use of spices.
@@STirZ_RockCityUgthere are whole boroughs of London that are 90%+ Indian - Southall. Street signs are in Indian, Indian is first language there, there is statistically 0% white British living there. If you cannot get an authentic Indian there, you can’t in India itself.
@@SafavidAfsharid3197 yes I know, there are loads of languages and hundreds of dialects. I am unable to identify the exact languages spoken I’m afraid. Most likely Hindi in Southall I guess.
How are indian restaurants bland in comparison to this one? You can find every curry ranging in spices at those restaurants 😂 also a lot of English people I've come into contact with actually prefer the hotter side of curries. Lool
Uk Indian cuisine is 10x hotter than in Europe. You have to get vindaloo or above in Europe to even feel the faintest tingle of spice. Most brits love spice.
The best way to describe it is that Indian Restaurants will nerf their spice levels if they know their customer base can't handle it. I live in America so not exactly a 1 on 1 comparison. But in HS, I lived in a town with mostly white people around me, the local indian resaraunt wasn't really that spicy even at the hottest levels. And at this point I hadn't had indian food in 3 months because my HS was a boarding HS. So my tastebuds were not prepped for the spice. Despite that it wasn't really that bad. Now I am in college and in comparison my university has a high number of indian international students. So we have 3 local indian restaurants and I find their medium options really spicy because they know they have a customer base that can handle it. My point is its all relative. Yes you may find these British India restaurants spicy relative to British standards. But if you were to compare to Indian Restarants in India, its likely child play in comparsion.
I'm sorry, i find Lali incredbly picky and doesn't seem to have even basic food culture at least not her own, never eaten scallops, morels, or truffle ? Really ? I don't get it...
While every restaurant's chicken tikka masala is different, there is usually some sort of cream or coconut cream in the sauce to make it more of a creamy sauce, which that place didn't seem to use for some reason...so what you had is maybe not so representative of the average British chicken tikka masala...
To everyone commenting here - no... Lobster is ABSOLUTELY indian. It is a big country with a LOT of coastline. Of course there would be crustaceans! Moreover, there are Indians all over the world. I'm personally Fijian Indian. We've been there for almost 2 centuries, and with how available it is, my dads family would eat it decently regularly (they were a lower middle class family of 10 brothers and 1 sister... so that's a lot of lobster) - once or twice a month. You can get 2kg of lobster for $40-50 Fijian over there (this was in 2022 when I last went) = $20USD. And every time I've been, my grandma's curry is the highlight. You can get it easily in Goan restaurants in india as well. It is more expensive than fish, mutton etc. But it's served in india in higher end, but not fine dining, restaurants near the coast (Fish is not regularly served - it rarely will be seen in many North Indian restaurants). Scallops - I have no idea, I will admit. Truffle - lol probably not. But lobster curries are Indian af and extremely tasty!
@drawmaster77 who me? My mum is Punjabi, I've been 7 or 8 times, having spent most of my primary school summer holidays there. I'm not completely Indian, but like I've been around, beyond the level of a tourist, and know the country a chunk
I've had desi and BIR curries and the BIR isn't bland compared to the desi.... they're just cooked different. BIR curries still use kashimiri chilli, garam masala, cumin, tumeric etc, but also use a base gravy to cut down on the cooking times.
I've never had BIR curries but I assume that the reason they're considered to be bland is because the flavor and intensity of the spices used in these curries are probably damped down by ingredients like coconut milk or heavy cream.
@@yugmathakkar4023 They're just prepared differently. All Indian food is not supposed to robust with flavour it can be delicate depending on the dish. But in Britain they're either way too chilli/oily/made with a lack of care.
@@yugmathakkar4023 not really.. they still use the spices as well and the gravy doesn't contain cream. It's gravy made from vegetables and spices. They'll add the spices to the pan, the meat, any vegetables and then the base gravy. It's just a quicker way to make a curry rather than making individual ones from scratch .. if you watch the video, when he's talking about other places, the chef is ladling a sauce into the pan... That's the base gravy that's used in a BIR curry
It took a few years from landing to ridding the place of the Mughal empire. British empire replaced Islam empire. The work was only completed in the 1800s. Probably was 89 years that British had full control.
17:55 That food was wasted on her. She seems nice, but literally hadn’t tried anything on that plate at 34 yo? Criminal. She should be reviewing McDonalds stores maybe. The first girl, Seema should have been invited. Disappointing.
As someone from london, It’s not hard to find the home cooked Indian food that bro was talking about. And it probably the most common take away foods here 😂
ITS NOT ABOUT HOW HOT SPICY IT IS ITS ABOUT TASTE OF SPICES, PORTUGESE BROUGHT CHILI INTO INDIA , WE DONT LIKE CHILI , WE MAKE OUR FOOD FULL OF TASTY SPICES NOT HEAT WAVERING CHILI🌶🌶 SPICES , ACTUALLY TO DESCRIBE BETWEEN MASALA AND CHILI 🌶 🌶 THERE IS NO ENGLISH WORD, EARLIER TO MAKE OUR DISH HEAT WAVERING WE USED CLOVES AND PEPPERS
It was made by peshwari hindu during 1900s in india . These bangladeshi and pakistani imigrants open restraunts calling themselves indians and even claim they made the dish.
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Please don't care so little for your own subscribers that you take sponsorships that you couldn't care less about how they take advantage of people or can't be bothered to research first.
Thank you so much for having me Sonny!!! Ill have to take you to my mums next time for some real home made Indian food :)
Got room for another i bet it is amazing 😁
@@SeemaPankhania1 You were delightful
Joke
get them influencer points!
Sonny should taken you to the last place.
I love how the Indian Chef speaking perfect English still has subtitles haha
Thanks for saying that. I'm so stumped by their choices for when to put subtitles
Reminds me of that Australian comedy sketch of interview with Iraqi insurgents’ subtitles
they were detecting a bit of an accent xD
@@Hasan-zs7jssame here
Yes but when most of Indians speak English, sounds like hindi 😂😅
I absolutely hate when a chef throws truffle, caviar and gold on a dish and then the exorbitant cost.
The first place would have been my pick.
I think the problem is getting a curry dish to £1000, there are only a few ingredients that will get you there, wago beef being another
@@garethsnaim8174Even if it was half wagu beef it would still be nowhere near $1000 in value my man lol
Despite the current economy, there's still tons of money out there! I also would prefer the first place.
Same here. This should be a challenge to include ingredients that improve the dish only. Lobster is great but gold tastes of nothing. You can gold plate a salad sandwich and call it a £500.00 dish - makes no sense and adds nothing. That is why Salt Bae is bankrupting everywhere. You can go for a nice inexpensive Sunday Lunch in the UK and the waiting staff will be carving meats and then visit Salt Bae where the waiter taps a knife on meat adding nothing to service or dish - literally everyone can do it and the meat is gold plated for no reason.
Right that’s real Indian food not catered to a bland palate
The last guest is what i would expect from a British food blogger.
She was just an idiot. Everyone I know would have more idea anout food/ Indian food than her. I don't know many that would eat chicken tikka masala either to be honest.
Word "bland" was used many times, not only the food but the tourist and fan of Indian food, and not actual experienced foodie
I knew this would be the reaction. We do have people that know about food! I promise!
there are good british bloggers too. Ramsey is very respectful of indian food ofc hes a chef but still.
Very disappointing guest. Lack of seafood experience is big yikes.
What a guest to have try out a $1000 dish with lol. That was interesting.
it's pounds not dollars, gareeb
May has well have just pulled a random person off the street. I've never heard of her and perhaps she knows about indian food, but if you claim to know about food of any country or culture, you should at least have a vocabulary and understand flavours and be able to offer some kind of intelligent conversation. I was a teacher and have seen year 5 pupils with more to say about their packed lunch! I'm guessing she has someone write for her on her channel.
I feel like Lali was the wrong choice for the most expensive curry 😅 Seema would at least have been able to compare all 3 curries at the different price points
My exact same feelings....
Agree. What a waste. Didn’t get any value add comments from her tasting as she’s never tried any of the ingredients. Just had no idea. Should’ve kept Seema on. Didn’t want to hate but a wasted opportunity. Should’ve switched them around.
Agreed , totally should have taken @seemaPankhania1
My thoughts exactly.. what a waste of food on this person..
Agreed. You could sprinkle curry powder on baked beans and tell Lali it was traditional Indian cuisine...
Great response Sonny, to Laura's comment about there not being a place for chicken tikka masala. As a 2nd gen chinese, and as someone who works part time in a small chinese takeout restaurant, I've seen both westerners and "traditional" chinese people come and enjoy the food our restaurant makes. I myself love certain westernised dishes. There is ALWAYS a reason why certain foods are the way they are, and if anyone thinks they're superior because they prefer "traditional" food, they're just delusional. Food doesn't happen in a vacuum, rather it's a reflection of culture and people, and people and cultures change with time and space. It's great. New flavours come into existence and now there is MORE to enjoy in this world. Isn't that incredible?
Seema was a great guest to have, very personable and knowledgable. And I always appreciate people who have manners and I loved her gesture of serving Sonny before herself.
Exactly this!
so well said! the history of immigration, and often the practice of hiring cheap labour, cannot be removed from the evolution of most "westernized" asian food which has had to adjust to what is available or preferred in a new country.
I agree. I see American Chinese as a different category and enjoy it for what it is. Food has always evolved with trade and migration.
Seema was/is so charismatic! She should have been the one to try the 1,000 Pound Curry.
Smart and well spoken
@@zeusapollo8688 and gorgeous!!! 😍
100% agree. Completely wasted on the second guest….
absolutely
@@zeusapollo8688 smart, well spoken and SO well mannered "no, you're my guest, let me do you". ❤
I think you should have brought Chef Seema to the expensive dinner to really understand something so exclusive and complex as this dish was, Nora would have been more comfortable with the first two restaurants
As a British South Asian I'd have much preferred Seema's opinion on the expensive dish than someone who just visited India a few times and has apparently never eaten food before.
As a white-ass native German, I'd have preferred Seema's opinion, too, instead of someone whose palate can only classify caviar as "slimy"
1st thing I thought of....SONNY SHE NEVER ATE SCALLOPS or LOBSTER, what where you thinking.
It was either a strike of genius as they were going for comedy...or a complete and total booking failure.
She has the pallet of someone who is 12 pints deep at 3AM.
What is South Asia ?
Indian ya pak? Kya south Asian..
I like how your last guest has apparently never eaten food before. That was pretty funny 😂
Pathetic actually. Why was she even there? They weren’t reviewing chicken nuggets
she obv didnt like it
Seem like she dont know nothing about the food and yet want british national dish go.
@@Jc-vn6hq its nice to see peoples new exp's , she was nice
Kinda of a flop. Not mean to be elitest, but i think she would be a perfect guest for the 2 first dishes and the guest for the first 2 do the last one. I think she (the first guest) would trully appreciate the flavours involved.
Damn, should've brought back the other guest for the 1000 pound curry. I think she would've appreciated it more.
Absolutely don’t have this guest again 👎🏻
Wrong brother, I thought that at first but then met lolly she is more real. I’m from sri lanka and we never eat lobster or caviar. Morel more like Lessel! Can’t speak for the Indians but having someone like lolly is way more realistic than having a Chef try it
That’s probably how my parents would react to that dish 😂
Seema was lovely. The second guest whoever her face was more bland than a british masala.
Introducing someone inexperienced to a specific food is enlightening for that person and entertaining for the audience.
The YMCA curry was the most authentic Indian curry. The £1000 lobster has nothing Indian about it barring a few Indian spices.
Glad to see you chose the best. ❤
Correct 👍🏼
The second host made me feel like the £1000 curry was a waste of money . I felt that she would have been better reviewing the cheaper options since they were more similar to what she already had tried . Seema would be able to break down the complexities of the pricier curry better since she’s well versed in the cuisine
You picked the wrong girl to go with you for this experience. She's to picky but, you're awesome sir and I appreciate all that you do. Thank you
Without even watching the video, Lemme guess, Gold flakes, caviar, and truffles make an expensive curry…
always.
Exactly. It's just the way to get yourself into the newspaper and get your name out there. It works with burgers too, I'm told.
Even better if you can get a few fictitious City boys to blow $60K on the most expensive wines, and publish the receipt. This modus operandi has worked for for the last 30 years, so don't give it up.
Nobody spends £1K on a curry. They might spend £200 on a curry, and £200 on alcohol, but that's about it.
Never been to Tayyab's, but I expect it is 'okay'. I've been to the Veeraswamy twice, and it was quite mediocre, just turning the latest food trends into 'curry' (hint, go at lunchtime and order a Thali, but don't go in the evening).
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That always makes me laugh inside
lol so predictable. gold flakes should be banned because they add nothing beyond price.
I think the cheaper ones are more worth eating than that fancy curry
I agree too then eating fancy
I mean he asked him to make one specifically for the video so its not a normal thing.
And it's always the same shit: caviar and gold foil.
True, for me the essence of Indian cuisine is having hearty meal while keeping it affordable. Making it as pricy as possible just make it lose its "homemade" feeling to it
My issue with fancy curry isn't just the price, but that it won't fill you up even compared to starters.
£1000 curry without rice/ roti is the real deal breaker!
i don't really get how its curry
the whole thing was awful tbh
lobster with beluga caviar is a crime
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@@NonsensicalSpudz The chef:- It is curry cuz it is CURRY!! that's it!!
Elevated curry...just add lobster, caviar, scalops, foie gras...and kobe beef maybe, because why not? In the end its like any other "elevated" dish.
What the hell?! Why was the last guest even there? She’s never eaten seafood in her 30+ life?? What a waste of money…
How come you didn’t take the Indian girl with you to eat the last curry? It would have been nice to get her perspective on that curry.
A dog turd is going to be expensive if you put caviar, and truffles on it and the gold is just stupid. Every one of these expensive dishes Sonny eats has basically the same stuff on them because that is how you make a dish expensive.
Where can I get my cheap dog turds from?
Do you know any good places in the Bristol area?
and even then, it's not anywhere near 1000 bucks lol. The dish he made, in the end, is maybe worth 75 bucks lol. The prizes he shows are per lb or per kilo etc. you dont eat 2 lbs of everything on that plate, and even if you did, it would be still less, minus the caviar.
@@104thironmike4 Exactly
The blokes at the YMCA are great. They obviously care a lot about both the taste and the affordability- and making young people welcome coming over 👍
Seema should have been the guest at the last , most expensive tasting. Shes really sweet and her descriptions of foods is great. I love your videos as always Sonny. 💕💕💕💕 but last guest Lali was disappointing, thats just my opinion
That first place looks incredible, that’s real Indian food!
Atul Kochar is a legend. I had the honour and pleasure of working with him on a Luxury Hotel Group project. His combination of traditional Indian Cuisine with a modern approach is sensational. Atul is my preferred choice in London when it comes to Modern Indian interpretation.
@@joergr82 thats a polite way of saying bastardized Frankenstein dishes.
love that the chef told the audience how to recreate the curry despite it costing $1000
It costs like 20$ to make if you don’t add caviar and truffles lol
@@potatopoii2720 Still, recipes to chefs can be like jokes to comedians. You just don't share. I do agree that they could have made an expensive - if not 1000 pounds - curry using other things besides gold leaf, the most useless of 'ingredients' and truffles, one of the most over-hyped ingredients.
@@potatopoii2720 I want to know where you are buying JUST the lobster for under $20
@@jenjonnybravo 1 WHOLE lobster here is $10
It's literally piss easy to make a curry mate. Don't need some plebb to tell you. unless you're a plebb yourself.
Bloody love this channel. Much love from the UK ❤
Morel mushrooms grow wild in VA. They’re hard to find but if you’re lucky enough to know what to look for they’re just divine!! My father in law had a secret spot that he wouldn’t share with anybody that he would go gather them up and cook them for the whole family!! He passed away with his secret 😢❤
Mushroom hunting is big in Missouri, specifically morel mushrooms. My husband hates mushrooms so we’ve never gone but it’s big with our friends from March to May.
Sonny you are an amazing man. I've watched you from the very beginning and watched your production grow. Love your content now more than ever!
I love how you subtitled the English bloke on this video. 😂
"bloke" lol
'Looks like caviar'; Truffle = wood; Lobster = lobster-fishy looking thing; 'Scallop i guess'; Curry = yellow stuff. Am i watching Kids TV?
"slimy" 🤣
Its kind of nice seeing how everyone can come together and laugh at British food. In most food channels I hear people say native British food is bland, but luckily its neighbors (French, Italy) and Asian cultures influence came to its the rescue.
Americas main culinary export is diabetes 2.
@@Sparkypark What can I say, Americans food is to die for.
@@Sparkypark And cancer inducing chemicals
Great episode. Always impresses meal how you connect with real people so well.
12:55 - Haha, I'm from Kentucky in the USA. I recognized those Morels right away! I find it hilarious they're used in fine Indian cuisine, cuz that wonderful chef learned what we know...they're DELICIOUS!
We call them something else though. We call morel mushrooms "dry land fish." And we call the act of foraging them "dry land fishing."
What's being missed here in regards to chicken tikka masala and what was sort of myopic in regards to Laura's part is that you can always add more spices to it. Yes, the basic version of it is leaning heavily on the tomato aspect of it and being very creamy, typical of a British dish, but it can always be up scaled by adding more spice and herbs as desired like really any other type of curry, which is thing about curries--they're an exceptionally versatile type of dish.
Yes if you're making it at home. Ordering it somewhere though, they can only adapt it so much because the spices don't really take well in the ~15 minutes time to prep after the order comes in. Really once you add some more spices it's effectively a different BIR curry like a ~Madras.
I love you, Sonny! Your humor and humanity shine in each and every episode! As long as you continue making these amazing videos, you have a lifelong fan in me!
Love her reactions at the end, So authentic to these high value ingredients!
LOVINGGG THESE CONTENT! please upload more videos in London, visit Camden market, borough /spitalfields/ brick lane etc!!
Given how the vast majority of the curry houses in the UK are owned by Bangladeshis/Bangladeshi descendants and given the important role they played in driving up this food culture, atleast a shout to Bangladeshi cuisine would have been appreciated.
that Tikka Masala looks great, some places add food colouring which you do not see here
Honestly love watching your videos while I eat 👌🏻
Me too 😊😊
We need more "normal" people trying and reviewing luxury food
Hundreds of "normal" TH-camrs do it
Found it dead annoying.
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When Indians in India have a Tikka Masala I hope they call it an English!🤓😂
My man, love your videos! Thanks Sonny for showing us the world from your eyes, pallet and most of all your transparency. You the man! Apeace!!!!✌✌✌
Have to say this is one of your best made videos ♥
Anyone paying these prices for a curry should pay double whatever tax bracket they are in......lol
That curry is at least 1 months rent, I doubt most people would be eating this anytime soon especially with how expensive everything is now
There are many dozens of great hard working authentic Indian restaurants all over London lol. No idea what the uncle is talking about @1:40 -
Also you can get a lot of chicken tikka masala that is spicy, with a lot of aromatics. This chef just didn't.
Ye seems BS what they said. I know many people that love authentic indian currys, and love spice. So no idea where this man is coming from. Maybe trying to get people to his place xD
I think he means getting good Indian meals for the same price because they get subsidised so they can keep the prices low. No way can you get a high quality home made Indian with the sides for less than £9 in London. You are lucky to get large chips for that now!
@@SD-oi9gr I don't think the youtuber is being intentionally deceptive, I'll be generous, but London really is the worse place to talk about cost in relation to the rest of the country, he would probably be shocked if he ventured out even slightly north at how much of a bubble that city really is. Not even from a political perspective or anything because I'm sure even Londoners will admit the disparity, I'm not surprised in the slightest the food is being subsidised. As ever in a lot of cases with most countries the capitol cities these days are very different form the rest of the country, I save so much money cooking for myself generally it's pretty ridiculous how much even in the north they're charging now.
Sonny it’s always great seeing ur videos
Great review as always, food looks delicious.
Don’t know why you didn’t take Seem to the most expensive restaurant? Like she would have actually been able to talk about the food, the flavours, the spices, the techniques, but instead you took someone who apparently doesn’t know what food is. Doesn’t make sense.
Not your best work Sonny, disappointed.
Lobster curry looked good but you could probably embellish a few things to get the same flavor profile without it costing 1000 EU.
Lobster is common in Goan restaurants, and more coastal areas of india that haven't had their environments decimated.
As a Fijian Indian we got to eat lobster curry every time we went back home and it's absolutely the best curry you could ever have. Even better than crab curry, which is also a thing.
India is huge! And there are lots of people. Of course someone, sometime, would have thought, "Let's try that!" Haha
Yes, Fiji and Mauritius look like two clean beautiful places to visit and eat fresh seafood!
too mad they tortured the poor thing
Some comments regarding the £1000 curry, 'Ingredients cost £20 e.g'. This chef is 2x Michelin star, 2 meals, private dining, and cost to the Channel
The YMCA kitchen looked amazing. I’ve got to admit it as a Brit I do love a chicken tikka masala yummmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy👍👍another fantastic episode. Get yourself over to rural Lincolnshire and I’ll introduce you to British Homebrew cheers 👍🍻
One of the best videos I have watched after a very long time.👍
14:48 I'm gonna be blunt and say that's not curry the soul of the curry is that the protein soaks it's flavour into the sauce. It's just lobster with sauce please don't call it curry😑
And yeah you can make a 1000 pound curry without relying on classical expensive ingredients like caviar etc. There's old royal recipes that made curries with premium ingredients like sandalwood coals,saffron paste etc.. I'd like to see one real curry made with those not some fine done style meat with sauce and toppings that'd never be curry in a thousand years
$1000 for a curry?, that's almost an month's wages for me!.😆
Add to that rent too 😢😮
@@HUYI1 and bills...
Sonny probably thought he'd gotten a posh English lady to help him with the $1000 dish, but found out she doesn't know much 🤣
That’s so sweet that she gave you that art of you!
I love the texture of the flat bread from the 1st one.Me as a curry lover wants to try ways on how to cook it.
Come trinidad... your friend mark weins was here and he loved it...
I grew up my whole life eating Morels, but I live in the country, semi-southern USA, and we called them Dry Land Fish. My grandmother and my mom would bread them and fry them in out, I don't know what else they added. Anyway, I could sit and eat a whole plate of then haha. Until I became disabled, one of my favorite things to do was, get a satchel, and head deep into the mountains (We were covered by the mountains and we used to be called hill people way in the way back, but it eventually changed to Hillbilly) and hunt these. Sometimes you may only find a few, sometimes you could bring 50 home. Great episode!
what a great experience you've had! i love morels and have never had a whole plate of them, that sounds like a dream come true!
Yeah, I moved to Tennessee when I was a kid after Hurricane Katrina. My step-dad used to get them from a man he worked with, and he would fry them. There was never enough to go around lol. I wish I knew where to get some now.
Dude, did you not have the lamb chops at Tayyabs? They are the best!
I agree..misled! You cannot go to Tayyabs without having the chops. To me, that's their best dish by far.
Shocking behaviour!
I can fully relate to this Indian man coming from south Africa where we known for bold flavours and moving to Portugal I found a lot of the food lacking seasoning but it’s nice , being Portuguese interestingly south african influenced Portuguese cuisine is different to European Portuguese flavours because sa portuguese food is influenced by mozambique which is packed with bolder flavours Im more willing to cook at home and create those flavours then eat out although some dishes and food is coming with bolder flavours and really delicious the fact that Portugal has embraced hot cheeto’s is miraculous
I like a Tikka Masala and I'd say that every restaurant does theirs differently. There was a curry house in Hastings called Vitality that was absolutely banging and it's Butter Chicken was unlike any other I'd had.
I hope Sonny travels further afield in the UK and tries some other dishes, even if it's a curry in Bradford or Birmingham.
Best food review video as always ❤
Most Indian restaurants in the uk are bengali, and then Pakistani. Not a lot of actual Indian restaurants
1k for that, what a rip off 😂
no such thing as get or rip or bad or etc or laux about bx or etc, laux etc any nwm s perfx
@@zes7215 No idea what that says but of course there is.
What if it was £!00,000?
@@zes7215 🤣🤣
yeah lol essentially just paying for the caviar, truffles, and gold flakes
@@reece1156 gold flakes cost less than 10 bucks for 5 sheets, so yeah you ain't paying for that
"you gotta get back on the boat"
one of the best "right moment" jokes i've heard!
Love Seema’s personality. Her stunning beauty doesn’t hurt either.
It wasn't 89 years because The East India Company was there for over 200 years before and they had captured multiple areas of India. They were also connected to the British Crown and government they were just allowed to operate outside of the laws and pay tribute.
$1000 lobster curry isn't a $1000 curry if you opt out the caviar. It would be couple $100 😂😂
Best I can do is $50
Should have kept Seema for the whole episode. I felt deflated and anticlimactic with that second guest.
Marmite on toast,then put a can of baked beans into a sauce pan, with a knob of butter, and a little soy sauce. Heat then pour some of this over the toast, finish with a handfull of your choice of grated cheese,add a sprinkle of your favorite herbs...
Years ago in the UK, Chicken Tikka Masala was a 'gateway curry' (like Chicken Korma), to entice in any meek souls who were too anxious to go in at the deep end. Most British Indian Restaurant cooks use all the requisite spices you would find in traditional Indian/ Bangladeshi curries: Balti, Pathia etc all have great use of spices.
"It is very difficult to get Indian food here in London" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They meant authentic Indian food
@@STirZ_RockCityUgthere are whole boroughs of London that are 90%+ Indian - Southall. Street signs are in Indian, Indian is first language there, there is statistically 0% white British living there. If you cannot get an authentic Indian there, you can’t in India itself.
@@Sparkyparkthere is no language called indian.
@@SafavidAfsharid3197 yes I know, there are loads of languages and hundreds of dialects.
I am unable to identify the exact languages spoken I’m afraid. Most likely Hindi in Southall I guess.
@@STirZ_RockCityUg "I'm indian but can't find any authentic indian food in this country that isn't India"
How are indian restaurants bland in comparison to this one? You can find every curry ranging in spices at those restaurants 😂 also a lot of English people I've come into contact with actually prefer the hotter side of curries. Lool
Uk Indian cuisine is 10x hotter than in Europe.
You have to get vindaloo or above in Europe to even feel the faintest tingle of spice.
Most brits love spice.
They aren't- people that aren't white british find any excuse to dog on the people of the country they came to live on.
The best way to describe it is that Indian Restaurants will nerf their spice levels if they know their customer base can't handle it. I live in America so not exactly a 1 on 1 comparison. But in HS, I lived in a town with mostly white people around me, the local indian resaraunt wasn't really that spicy even at the hottest levels. And at this point I hadn't had indian food in 3 months because my HS was a boarding HS. So my tastebuds were not prepped for the spice. Despite that it wasn't really that bad.
Now I am in college and in comparison my university has a high number of indian international students. So we have 3 local indian restaurants and I find their medium options really spicy because they know they have a customer base that can handle it.
My point is its all relative. Yes you may find these British India restaurants spicy relative to British standards. But if you were to compare to Indian Restarants in India, its likely child play in comparsion.
They are not very good either way the good one are in India.
I'm sorry, i find Lali incredbly picky and doesn't seem to have even basic food culture at least not her own, never eaten scallops, morels, or truffle ? Really ? I don't get it...
Thanks mate great video
I am from England. I am loving what you're doing here.
Really disappointed Sonny didn't have the $1,000 curry with Seema. That Laura chick is quite possibly the worst person to share that meal with...
That last elevated curry looks nothing like a curry. Basically a load of seafood on a bed of sauce.
While every restaurant's chicken tikka masala is different, there is usually some sort of cream or coconut cream in the sauce to make it more of a creamy sauce, which that place didn't seem to use for some reason...so what you had is maybe not so representative of the average British chicken tikka masala...
Curious. How do you/your team decide to insert subtitles?
That was so interesting. Chicken tikka masala is one of my favorite foods on the planet. It eased me into strong curries and I love them all so much.
BetterHelp must be FILLING sonnys pockets
I've heard they scam their customers
glad i'm not the only one that likes to smell the food.
So sweet of Lali to give that awesome gift! 😁
To everyone commenting here - no... Lobster is ABSOLUTELY indian.
It is a big country with a LOT of coastline. Of course there would be crustaceans!
Moreover, there are Indians all over the world. I'm personally Fijian Indian. We've been there for almost 2 centuries, and with how available it is, my dads family would eat it decently regularly (they were a lower middle class family of 10 brothers and 1 sister... so that's a lot of lobster) - once or twice a month. You can get 2kg of lobster for $40-50 Fijian over there (this was in 2022 when I last went) = $20USD.
And every time I've been, my grandma's curry is the highlight.
You can get it easily in Goan restaurants in india as well. It is more expensive than fish, mutton etc. But it's served in india in higher end, but not fine dining, restaurants near the coast (Fish is not regularly served - it rarely will be seen in many North Indian restaurants).
Scallops - I have no idea, I will admit. Truffle - lol probably not.
But lobster curries are Indian af and extremely tasty!
But does he have an Indian passport?
@drawmaster77 who me? My mum is Punjabi, I've been 7 or 8 times, having spent most of my primary school summer holidays there. I'm not completely Indian, but like I've been around, beyond the level of a tourist, and know the country a chunk
Wow the way sunny explained the bridge of flavour between india and Britain the tikka masala really understanding
I've had desi and BIR curries and the BIR isn't bland compared to the desi.... they're just cooked different. BIR curries still use kashimiri chilli, garam masala, cumin, tumeric etc, but also use a base gravy to cut down on the cooking times.
Fr, guy is talking shit
They are crap in comparison to real Indian food.
I've never had BIR curries but I assume that the reason they're considered to be bland is because the flavor and intensity of the spices used in these curries are probably damped down by ingredients like coconut milk or heavy cream.
@@yugmathakkar4023 They're just prepared differently. All Indian food is not supposed to robust with flavour it can be delicate depending on the dish. But in Britain they're either way too chilli/oily/made with a lack of care.
@@yugmathakkar4023 not really.. they still use the spices as well and the gravy doesn't contain cream. It's gravy made from vegetables and spices. They'll add the spices to the pan, the meat, any vegetables and then the base gravy. It's just a quicker way to make a curry rather than making individual ones from scratch .. if you watch the video, when he's talking about other places, the chef is ladling a sauce into the pan... That's the base gravy that's used in a BIR curry
1:31 British ruled India for 190 years(1757-1947) not 89 years.
It took a few years from landing to ridding the place of the Mughal empire. British empire replaced Islam empire. The work was only completed in the 1800s. Probably was 89 years that British had full control.
1757 to 1858 was the British East India Company period. The British government had varying degrees of influence but did not rule directly until 1858.
101 for good luck😊
Actually in 1858, Lord Canning announced Queen Victoria as empress of india and EIC monopoly was abolished completely.....
17:04 blud snorting it like coke 😂😂😂
Food look so good, so good! I have been to London twice, and they have a large community there. Hello from Canada.
17:55 That food was wasted on her. She seems nice, but literally hadn’t tried anything on that plate at 34 yo? Criminal. She should be reviewing McDonalds stores maybe.
The first girl, Seema should have been invited. Disappointing.
As someone from london, It’s not hard to find the home cooked Indian food that bro was talking about. And it probably the most common take away foods here 😂
Bland? The British like it spicy 🌶️ get drunk and order the hottest curry 😂
ITS NOT ABOUT HOW HOT SPICY IT IS ITS ABOUT TASTE OF SPICES, PORTUGESE BROUGHT CHILI INTO INDIA , WE DONT LIKE CHILI , WE MAKE OUR FOOD FULL OF TASTY SPICES NOT HEAT WAVERING CHILI🌶🌶 SPICES , ACTUALLY TO DESCRIBE BETWEEN MASALA AND CHILI 🌶 🌶 THERE IS NO ENGLISH WORD, EARLIER TO MAKE OUR DISH HEAT WAVERING WE USED CLOVES AND PEPPERS
@@kaustubhraizada well everyone likes both hot and spicy, relax lol
@kaustubhraizada why are you shouting? Calm down.
@@kaustubhraizada bruh calm down
Bruh chicken tikka masala was a Punjabi traditional food for eons, British just use canned ingredients and less spicy.
It was made by peshwari hindu during 1900s in india . These bangladeshi and pakistani imigrants open restraunts calling themselves indians and even claim they made the dish.
Low key crushin' on Seema 😍
The girl in the black jacket at 1.34 is my baby girlllll♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Its spicy and full of spices, the lamb has a nice lamy taste 🤣🤣🤣 sonny sonny boy 4:19