Ravi’s Gadgets

Recently I find myself a bit too occupied studying Asian cultures. All these cultures are pretty ancient, and I am looking for blogs that can give me authentic information, rather than trusting Discovery Travel and Living and National Geographic. I had been searching for Indonesian Cultures in martial arts, food, festivals and other customs of Indonesia, which if I am right has a touch of the Indian cultures too. And thats perhaps why Indonesia has the first part of its name rhyming with India.

Sanskrit is one of Indonesia’s tribal name, and most words that are used in Sanskrit in India, is their tribal language today, while Sanskrit was a popular language in India in which several books and poems were composed in. Well, Sanskrit is almost extinct in India now, except amoung certain scholars who still learnsanskrit to get to read the traditional Hindu books in their original form. But the tribe that learned Sanskrit from the Indians, still use it as their language in their tribe, though naturally it would be modified a lot over the years with influences of several languages, but still, like I said, several words remain the same.

Vir Sanghvi, in A Matter of Taste in the channel Discovery Travel and Living was showing the orgins of the Tandoori Chicken. At the time of Indian Independence, at the time of the partition, several homeless people from the now Pakistan reached Delhi. Having nothing to do, most started eateries in Delhi.

What to make? Roti ofcourse. Mass production of Roti isnt that difficult. Naan in the hot pot. Some bloke stuck some chichen to a iron rod and stuck it into the pot(clay oven) and pulled it out and tasted it. It rocked. Thus, the tandoori chicken was born (or dead?)

Moti Mahal in Delhi is one of the several restaurants in Delhi that claims to have given birth to the Tandoori Chicken. But there is no way to find out.

It appears that the British’s National Dish is Tandoori Chicken masala. If you didnt know, except the Toast and the Afternoon Tea, England has done nothing much in contributing any Delicacies  to the world. Therefore a lot of Indian Restaurants are having a harvest in the streets of London. It has become so popular that Bollywood has started making movies with it. Cheeni Cum portrays Amithab Bachan as a restaurant owner in london. He later finds out that Tabu makes Hyderabadi Biriyani better than he does, and falls in love with her, tries to take her to bed, and since he couldn’t, he marries her at the end.

Chicken is a dead bird. Its flesh that is being cooked. Flesh that has blood veins thru which blood was flowing before it was killed. I wonder how people eat it, tearing away the bone from the flesh. Is it really the taste that makes people like it? Or is it just the Masala that gives it the taste. Somehow people like it.