 But they also have Punjabi pizza and this was your special request man. Look, I know you a fan of the can and you got to Papa John's you got your little Caesar's you got your pizza huts Nothing compares to can and what comes to mind when you think of Indian food probably the word curry or Tikka Masala, right? In this episode of our Beyond series We're taking a back to our hometown again, which actually has a large amount of Indian restaurants mostly owned by Punjabi families So we'll try some of the classic Indian dishes that we've had before But also some dishes that we've never tried this is Beyond butter chicken All right guys starting off our Indian food battle listen We have everything from chicken dishes Tikka Masala butter chicken biryani Punjabi pizza. We've got naan roti Paratha appetizer Samosas penny puri you pakoras. Yo, I'm with the drinks. Look, I'm a big fan of mango So obviously I'm gonna go with the mango lassi I love how you get that tangy yogurt smoothie taste But I'm not gonna lie. I did not know that there are other flavors So the sugar cane one basically is like mango lassi without the mango whoa whoa Whoa, this one's really similar to the sugar cane one, but it finishes it off with a spice Is this like any drink that you've had before can you compare it to anything else? It took me in a different direction. You feel that oh Kind of sweet and then it's spicy Different waves this this one tastes pretty conventional. There's a taste like a gogher. Yeah, I'm a gogher like a traditional gogher Also one thing I noticed never do the Indian drinks have ice. You know what ancient I'll tell you this. This was the most unique lassi I've had. Yeah, right You know I wasn't trying to try it, but I'm gonna wipe it with this sweatshirt It's interesting That tastes like you should put that on top of chicken That spice that you guys are mentioning tastes like pepper It's a pepper lassi they meant salt and pepper lassi man I gotta go actually with the salt and pepper one just because I like trying things I never tried before I'll go with the sugar cane one. That was that was nice. I gotta just roll with the regular mango lassi I gotta agree. I think when I step into a Indian restaurant just grabs it towards that that common Mango lassi you can't mistake in the color. You see that for far away. You know it's a man Lamb samosa Actually, you like what level they cook the peas at really soft and it blends in with the meat Does that not taste a little bit like hello guys packed with flavor. Yep If this is just a little preview of what's ahead of us with this video. I'm excited I'm excited. We have something interesting. You guys might have not had this is called penny purry These don't look interesting puffs of ball that you break into and then you fill them up with this sweet water and Garbanzo beans. Oh, it's like a little ping-pong. So is it hollow inside? It's kind of like a little arts and crafts project a little bit little bit Jurassic Park vibe This is an interesting way to eat an appetite. I think you just eat it one bite. Mmm. They're guys Pony purry Really really good for something to have no meat. Yeah, you're gonna see Indian food, man Does vegetarian food flavor chicken pakora a little on the dry side I think this one I would like to try with some sauce. You know what tastes clean. Yeah, good good flaky meat I like no that sauce is pretty boring. Yeah, I'm what's like some liquors in there. Mm-hmm. I'm going with the samosas Oh, that is a no brainer say as an appetizer I do like the penny purry because it's just like really refreshing. No, that's true That's true. That's why I'm moving on to round three, which is the bread section man right off the bat I love how dense it is. It's coconut in it. Oh my well. It's a coconut now. Oh, I Fire I didn't even know it really tastes like the guy may bow from all I don't see these bakeries The coconut non is a five out of five. Oh five out of five. Wow. This is a lamb non Wow, I would say my my Indian food knowledge may be like out of five like at best like a 1.75 We got to roll through these non. We got more. This is a paneer non Paneer is the primary cheese that like northern Indians use in their cooking. I like that a lot It's salty, but not too overpowering. You know what that reminds me of a really similar taste to feta cheese It to me. It's kind of a mixture of feta and mozzarella It's not as stretchy and gooey as mozzarella, but it is it definitely has a little bit more sour bite like that All right guys, this is roti Mmm As you can see, it's a little bit more dense. Definitely not as fluffy. Mm-hmm. This is made with wheat I was just gonna say it tastes more like wheat obviously compared to the non. Hey tastes more healthy That's actually good. I think it's cool to have kind of like a more subtle bread. This is the plain paratha right here This one looks a little bit more like some regular pita bread. There's something pretty special about like kind of like ripping it apart though Yeah, I see why people eat with their hands. It's more fun A little smoky flavor a little more toned down than the roti. I would say it was all like a mix in between Wow, here we have the fried bread. You know what this reminds me guys if you guys ever had a Native American fried bread Oh, yeah, hurry Mmm, I like it. It's not too oily. It does give me that a sesame ball flavor. Yeah, I would say This is a good combination of all the breads we had so far. Yeah the aloo paratha This is like a sour potato paratha That's our potatoes fire. You can see that color pop. Yeah, wait. You taking some big rips. Hey guys Pratha Wow. Oh That tastes like it's been dipped already. Wow. Wow. This does not need any dipping. That's a dish right there The dish is inside nice flavor from the potato. Wow, you imagine like mashed potatoes in a bread This is this is going with one of these curries. Yeah, we guys going with real quick guys. I'm going with the aloo aloo paratha I got a little too. Really? Yeah, you guys switched it up on the coconut one. A few moments later Richie, I'm going with the coconut one. Wow It's a tie. Well, it can't be a tie if it's too hot. We got our Indian expert over here Okay, that's the coconut one coconut non versus the aloo paratha coconut coconut Wow All right moving on to round four. We have the chicken dishes. I think we gotta start with the butter chicken Let's go with the butter chicken. Butter chicken always brush me, huh? Yeah, and always bonus. I feel like yeah Always bonus and I appreciate that. I appreciate it. This is like the one dish that's gone like super mainstream You know like you can get this frozen at Trader Joe's. Yo, man, honestly can't go wrong with butter chicken I don't know my crazy percent that would have been cool with some thigh pieces, too I always think that I always think that because you have chickens. What do you do with the chicken thigh? All right, so we just got that tiki masala right here. You were right the kick is on another notch Oh, you tasted it already. Okay Tika masala, whoa It's pretty different five more spices in there I think a lot of the times I thought I was actually eating butter chicken was probably actually tiki masala How could you be so try it with the potato? We're just trying to mix and match the bread to match with the right spices Did you guys expect it to taste as different or was it less different than you expected? So I could actually now I'm pretty confident in my tiki masala butter chicken radar That round was delicious actually wow tandoor chicken. Is it tandoori tandoori chicken I Could see one drumstick all the spices on this. How do you like this on that? Wow? Look at these pieces. Let me just switch it around who will win the chicken battles tandoor chicken You could taste all that charred onions the bell peppers. This drumstick is very very very flavorful Charred is the good word very flavorful, you know that char burger from habit. This is more char than that I got straight camping vibes guys moving on our last chicken dish chicken Vindaloo Vindaloo bro. That is a name definitely taste the lightest the lightest out of everything as far as flavor wise Almost tastes like a lemon curry to me. Mm-hmm. That was nice. It was easy to eat might only work It's the spiciest to yes, it is actually the spiciest Andrew. Am I tripping? Yeah, you guys I'm actually rolling why with the chicken tiki masala. Oh, if you made me eat like the whole thing I would eat the butter chicken though. What a weird thing to say after you pick it for this round I got one chicken Vindaloo chicken Vindaloo The tiki masala fire if there's a reason these are the top two stop playing with the people It's what these alright now on to round number five probably India's most famous rice dish Which is the biriyani so most traditionally it's made with goat and lamb and then the most popular one That's probably ordered in America is the chicken biriyani. I gotta ask you though. Are you feeling it? Oh, but isn't that a thing with an Indian food the heaviness and like feeling it? Do you guys feel it? It is it is it is uh Feel Indian. This is goat biriyani flavor is like Like Flavors all over the meat kind of tastes like beef Wow, I would say goat is a good mixture of beef and lamb Maybe if I was just gonna get one thing I wouldn't go for it, but as a third option. Yeah, yeah lamb biriyani Definitely fattier No, I can't even tell the difference no lamb and goat. It's hard to tell the heart. It's oh the texture reminds me of like a shredded Beef mmm more shreddiness. Yeah, I don't think this one you could have easily fooled me to do this beef I think in a way, and I don't want to speak too soon. I like the goat better I enjoyed a piece of goat I'm sorry. I felt it after the lamb my Tommy the belly the belly and we got a long ways to go to the And we still got the fire fusion pizza coming up Chicken biriyani who wants to be the chicken biriyani. Just give me one piece of chicken man I'm still don't get to choose the guys well chicken tender chicken tender I would say the chicken almost blends in better with the rice than the other meat. Yeah, I agree I'm going with the chicken biriyani. It really helps that the chicken the dark meat chicken is juicy I think it just soaks in more flavor. I would say for me easily the chicken biriyani. I agree. I agree. I agree Andrew unanimous the goat What's the most interesting? I'm not saying I would eat goat meat over chicken for me I'm just gonna roll with the goat on this one But I totally understand chicken biriyani is the most ordered probably most popular biriyani of them all you guys Feeling all right feeling great. What a battle so far one thing That's kind of interesting about our city Kent that we grew up in not only are there a lot of Indian restaurants But they also have Punjabi pizza and this was your special request man Look, I know you a fan of the can and you got to Papa John's you got your little Caesar's you got your pizza huts Nothing compares to can and we got the tandoor butter chicken pizza Yes tomato, but it's not like tangy. Yeah, all right there. You know what there is I think there's slight marinara pizza sauce. Okay in here and then you have little chopped tomatoes on top I was gonna say the tomatoes go along. I'm excited for the tandoori. This is the most Interesting yeah almost like a hot flaming cheeto Would you say that this color of the tandoori chicken is almost something you were more expecting from the other authentic tandoori Yeah, I think what you open the lid and you were like whoa guys tandoori chicken pizza Compared to the butter chicken pizza It's not as creamy you taste more of the seasoned meat than you do with the butter chicken You actually taste like more of the sauce more of the butter chicken a lot of red onions That's the main onion that is used in Indian cuisine You know like I'm pepperoni pizzas where you might take a bite and not even get a piece of pepper There's chicken in every single bite. I feel like this is more like a true fusion 50-50 all right guys before we make our decision though We have the kadahi chicken pizza right here right off the bat. I noticed the yellow sauce Underneath the toppings. There's some garam masala and this garam masala is the the main yellow powder that people associate with curry Curry is actually technically not a flavor. So we think of curry always as like a certain spice and flavor But that's not necessarily true. I guess I was more of a British thing definitely had most Roman shout out to the pickle the jalapenos on Kadahi chicken pizza Juicy definitely the one with the most flavor so far whoa man. I like this one. I like this one a lot Got a lot going on almost like a Traditional curry flavor that we're used to all right guys. So with the pizza man, obviously they were all good But I'm going with the kadahi, but I think I'm gonna roll with the kadahi Had all the right veggies that you wanted the right flavor makes me want to try that dish now I have to almost judge off my plate and it's looking like the butter. It's the butter chicken Okay, and I'm not agree with David So I mean I hate to just tie it, but I got us to the butter chicken There's a reason why I ate whole box for myself But let me tell you this tan you hate to tie it, but you know who's not mad that you tied it Okay, Dave's not mad. Come on, Asian Randy Johnson Think I know what I would say the butter chicken Okay, that's the number one seller. I can't am that is art everybody We just finished up with the hot entrees, but we wanted to throw in this section about Indian snacks Parle G. I've never ate biscuits and tea David. Is this how you do it? Oh, you made some chai Literally almost looks like Kris Jenner. Oh, man. Oh, well, it's not bad. I mean, I guess it's a tea cookie So this is just one of those like standard famous cookie flavors that you could probably find in a lot of different forms I'm gonna go ahead and give this a four out of five. I'm enjoying it. We haven't come next up We got the halderom section. Halderoms is one of those og Indian brands. I guess it's been around for like eight decades That's a long time. Let's start with the Bombay mix since I have it in my hand Mild spicy blend of crisp noodles lentils and peanuts. They do eat a lot of lentils in India. So let's try it Tastes like some other kind of Asian snacks we've had before but um a little bit more curry based Overall, I can see it. It's tasty. You mean more garam masala because curry is not a flavor I want to try the things that made halderoms rich panchataran So these look like little fried potatoes. Yo the panchataran coming in with something I did not expect They got some raisins with some picnic sticks. That was that was good. I like how it's sweet That one's the best one so far. All right guys here. We have the katamita. Oh, okay light yellow I see some turmeric. I want to say it tastes the mango powder. It's bright I didn't know mango powder was a thing It's kind of fruity. Okay here. We have the uh cornflakes mixture This looks like some spicy cereal. So it has a little bit of the potatoes mixed in and the still got the raisins in there Dude, would you say that almost I have some like chicken flavor? Yeah, that almost tasted more like a meal All right guys coming up. We have the spicy potato noodles. I think this is gonna be a good one That's how the halderom family got rich and it was off the buja. So this is the million dollar buja All right, definitely tastes like how a old spice store smells has a little bit more of that like dried like supermarket vibe But it's good. All right. We're moving on to the next brand india life Which is doing a little bit more of like your new school like whole foods type. Mumbai mix. Okay, so we had the bombay mix earlier This is the Mumbai mix I need some chai. I can't say that was my favorite dal mix. These kind of do look like those little uh wonton strips Not bad. It didn't really stand out to me though. I could see more older people liking this one It does taste like the chinese american crispy noodles. All right guys moving on. We have the spicy chevdo This is a hot punjabi mix. So that sounds like a fire playlist on spotify Whoa, okay. Got some potato chips in there Yeah, it was like a really healthy chex mix easily the most similar to a trail mix I like the elements, but it tasted almost exactly how it looks. Mopi's chada tour This company leads the world in making sweet savory indian snacks. Wow. Look at these chips Actually, this looks interesting. Yo, I've never seen anything like this. So hella flavor. Wow I would say it resembles like a mexican snack to be honest guys all these snacks caught me off guard on how good they were All right, last one lemon bech bell. This was the shop owner's favorite item. Uh, this is a lemon bell Nice and light. This is a good snack easy to eat. Oh man I feel so torn between the aloo buja and the panchuratan. Okay, but i'm gonna go with the aloo buja Okay, how do i'm built a buja empire? They did not build a cornflake empire I'm gonna roll with the panchuritan. It's only one per brand. So what so what we disagree No, there has to be a winner. It's like dried noodles behind the camera, man. I tried them earlier. I gotta say Whoa First of all, you know me and i'm a fry guy. I love potato sticks, but the way i'm a fry guy with the i'm a fried good Give me some fries Guys, thanks for watching that portion of indian snacks back on to indian dessert All right guys, we have round seven. We finished it off with the hot food and the entrees We are now on to the sweet section. So this galabjerman here is like a uh, almost like a fried donut hole You want to say? Wow? Yo, right now I got to say the galabjerman to me. It almost looks like a gigantic boba ball Galabjerman soaking in syrup Doing oh, that is so decadent. Hell yeah It is like a dense donut hole. I've had many many many desserts in my lifetime The sweetest Dessert I've ever had. I really like it. I'm a galabjerman fan You could almost drink and suck the syrup out of it. Wow This is fire You know how things are double fried. This might be triple fried. We all just gonna go with one go one thing I'll see what you pick richie. Okay richie got milk cake. So I'm gonna go with the carrot This is the indian carrot cake. I'm going to stir. Shoot. Let me go with these little tubes here Punjabi sweets Whoa This is good. Yeah kind of want to compare it with chocolate but like grainy dude. This texture is crazy when you feel it It almost like feels like putty. It tastes like a carrot cake fudge. There is a fudgy quality to all of these It does taste like a white chocolate flavor. Yeah, I'm gonna try the mil cake. It's like a little bounds of them. Is it good? It's interesting take a little bit of that little bit of that. Bro this is straight up white chocolate. Yeah it's interesting. But I gotta say that um milk cake that is fire. I might go with the carrot cake. What? Stop. I mean I'm not gonna lie the only thing I could finish and I'll probably eat another one is the Galabjuman. But yeah I would say this Indian sweets by all means are super super sweet. What are you guys rolling with as far as the desserts go? I'm going with the Galabjuman. I'm going with this. Milk cake. Milk cake. Milk cake. Alright you guys thank you so much for watching that Indian episode of Thumb Rose Food. We were just trying to break it down. We are not experts. Please correct us what we got wrong but I tried to do my research. I hope you guys enjoyed that video. Please give it a thumbs up. Please hit the subscribe button and turn on your notifications and we just wanted to show our appreciation for Indian food because it is something that we did grow up eating and there's actually a lot of Indian restaurants in our hometown which is where we're at right now. Alright guys let us know in the comments down below what your favorite Indian dish is and why and let us know if there's another culture's food that we should also cover and put into a battle format and until next time we're out. Peace. We have like a don't know who they are like you said it's been sitting for a long time just what is it kind of water or rose water? Rose water syrup. Really good. How do you recommend