Do you prefer Indian or Chinese food?

[XenophobicPrussian]

Chinese, probably because they put way more sugar into their dishes, although I'd take a good butter chicken over most Chinese stuff, but most Chinese stuff over the vegan/spicy Indian food.

[IrisSelene]

I would agree do find Chinese food can be a bit sickening depending on where you get it. Some of the local Chinese take out places dotted around here are quite bad and usually have a lot of black people in them for some reason. They seem to like Chinese food a lot.

Here most chinese restaurants have shitty kitchens that are gross asf and dirty asf.... they're always terrified of health control lol

But I don't think it's just because of that... It's also because of the ingredients they use and bc most are deep fuckin fried lol They're generally rlly salty, oily, fat, etc...

Indian food is just healthier IMO

[Thambi]

North Indian food>Chinese food>South Indian food

+1

Other than hyderabadi biryani, south indian food is generally not my favorite, especially the breakfast items.

[Borealis]

+1

Other than hyderabadi biryani, south indian food is generally not my favorite, especially the breakfast items.

Explain to Iris the difference, Im not sure how to put it lol.

[Ayetooey]

Indian food. Chicken Madras, Pilau rice and a Keema naan. Yum.

If I'm not feeling like hot food. Then I like butter chicken.

[The Lawspeaker]

Chinese. Chinese food really made some in-roads here (but usually in the form of Indonesian-Chinese/Indo-Dutch fusion dishes).

[Zeus]

I haven't eaten indian food in years, I eat chinese food almost every day.... it's actually my favorite type of food

[wvwvw]

I never ate Indian food, I'm insecure with Indians. So my vote goes for China.

I am more insecure with Chinese food, after reading they use a lot of food additives like msg (neurotoxins) in their often fried food.

On the other hand Indian cuisine uses a lot of turmeric and similar spicies so it feels safer.

But as far as taste is concerned I like both cuisines equally, maybe Indian a bit more.

[Thambi]

what's the difference?

north indian food is more flavorful imo. They base their foods on wheat(roti, naan), cream/butter/dairy based side dishes (butter chicken, paneer, saag, drinks like lassi). Also a lot of the street foods like pani puri, samosa, chaat, vada pav, bhel puri are from the north. Desserts like gulab jamun, jalebi, rasgulla, rasmalai, kheer, basundi. seriously north india imo is a paradise for food.

south indian food is based on rice and coconut which is rather very bland. Even when they make it spicy, it's just plain. Idli, upma, dosa, pongal, sambhar, lemon rice, chutney all are coconut and rice based. We even have spicy pickles (search up priya pickles) specifically to add flavor to the food while its not necessary for the north indian food. it makes sense since south india is a tropical region close to equator do thats why they use more coconut, but i just dont like the native food of south india, other than the biryani from hyderabad and haleem. both are muslim dishes from the south and are famous all over the country.

[farke1]

Indian food. I like pretty hot curries (anything you can buy in a jar in a supermarket doesn't count), my personal favourite is one made with the bhut jolokia chili and one of those is around 855,000 scoville units - about the limit of what I can realistically handle whilst still being able to enjoy the taste. But more than that, I think the diversity of Indian food means that you could eat a different dish every night and not get bored, and that's the basis for my decision here.

In my experience, Chinese food has always been a little too sweet and over-processed for me, but it's good in moderation.