Someone on People's Daily Forum recently claimed that curry was introduced into India from Yunnan in China. I was quite taken aback at this claim, which came with no hint of evidence or a link. I have never heard of this before, and India is widely recognized as the origin of curries. I looked online for this or similar claims but found nothing. Has anyone heard of this claim before, and is there any evidence to back it?

(By the way, it should be noted that this claim was made in the course of an angry retort)

cambodians love to use curry especially in soups. curry is used in stir fried cooking also. i like dipping bread in my curry soup this shows influence from india and the french.

Chicken curry is a popular Filipino dish inherited from Indian traders from the pre-Spanish colonial area chicken curry is a traditioal dish in the philippine cusine even my mom cooks curry, its very good one day my mom was cooking curry and i ask was this indian and where she learned to cook and she said no its filipino and our family always cooke it, not that she say curry is invented by filipinos but we adopt curry to be part of our cuisne and add filipino style. coz i think everyone know curry originate in india. curry is unique tho, it is among the only spicey food in filipino cusine, most filipino dish is sweet & soothing taste not very firey or hot like asian dish that r indian influences. alot dish of philippine originate other place like balut is this egg thingy which originate from pre-colonial chinese trader but filipino tweak it and its well known filipino deliacy sold in the street vendor. and there is some spanish food also which introduce and filipino add local prdouce make it unique. etc all is very good.

khmer also eat balut eggs from chicken and duck. And they are really good when you haven't eaten it for a long time. I just had that on Sunday. It think curry is very common in all parts of asia, they all have different ways to cook them.

and Chinese from China?

just kidding.................... Do not be angry at me!
Do you like eating curry?

A Chinese who like to eat curry!

I love Malaysian curry and Indian butter chicken.

What's curry? Seriously, I don't know.

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Any pictures of what it looks like?

everybody knows that curry originated in India; or if not India, then somewhere in the Indian subcontinent. if the people from that Chinese forum can disprove this fact, then all of us have been mistakened.

btw, curry is called ca-ri (spelling?) in Vietnamese. I eat it sometimes, and it tastes great.

There is no need to get upset about someone claiming curry wasn't originally from India

There will ALWAYS be people who want to claim something doesn't belong to them for their own. Look at Bush at Iraqi oil. How about the Afrocentric supremacists who claim that they founded the Chinese civilization?

Besides, this is just curry It's not like it's Hinduism, Buddhism, or something else that actually matters

I dunno, curry has as much of a cultural culinary impact on the world just as Japan has sushi or China with chopsticks and dim sum. I suppose its more like a cultural icon.

I love curry myself tho. Too bad I cant get any authentic stuff out here in the country.

You guys should try Lebanese food, their sauce and salads are spicy too!! -drools

actually curry is a austroasiatic delicacy

Curry is originated in India.

Curry's got a really unique taste. I really can't say it's bad. Personally, I enjoy madras-style curry, which is not too spicy, but has a zing to it. Don't really like the Japanese versions that much, because they're too sweet in my opinion.

DaMo, you know what kind of curry is the spiciest?

There are two currys you know the curry wich is an indian dish and then there is this other curry wich is another name for haldi. Like the person who said he/she liked to dip bread in curry soup they ment they like to dip it in haldi soup

I don't think India can lay claim to curry any more. It may have originated in India, but it has found completely different meaning and execution in Malaysia, West Indies, Fiji, Jamaica, Mauritius etc. Even Creole cooking in Louisiana is based on curry. It was taken to the US by the Acadians.

maybe this invention is kinda like shoes...... multiple people in different areas of the world could have invented it without help or influence.....

maybe curry was invented by different people independently

Can somebody tell me what the hell curry is?

There is no dish I can think of in the entire Punjabi/Indian cuisine chart that has the name "curry". We have Palak Paneer, Aloo Gobie, RajMaha, Ronghi, etc...... but no CURRY!

I recently saw on the Travel Channel (Samatha Brown's "Passport to Europe" show) that there are 11,000 Indian restaurants in the U.K. Looks like Indian food is to Brits what Mexican is to Americans, or even more so. I've also seen stuff on CNN about how Indian cuisine is all the rage in the U.K.

In my own very limited experience, Indian food wasn't all that hot. But this is because I was eating with my Indian male/grad student friends. They're really good math and computer geeks, not great chefs. I found it to be like Taco Bell with curry on it.

Although my brother who lives in Chicago knows of some great Indian restaurants there. (I've had some authentic Mexican food, it's incredible compared to Taco Bell.)

as a muslim indian i should know what curry is, becuz we make the best curries.

anyway, curry = spicy gravy with variations

i find it weird tha ppl make pork curry cuz in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and rest of the South Asia ppl dont eat pork...it is considered a very filthy and unholy animal and no one eats it.

i personally dont like extremely hot curries, i like the spicy coconut curries their the best.

far as origination goes it might be afghanistan, india, or iran or middle east becuz we have similar cuisine....im excluding pakistan cuz it was once india..

[quote=Hiroki,Apr 12 2004, 07:51 AM] [quote=Kulong,Apr 11 2004, 11:22 PM]
Alot of Cantonese LOVE curry. It is all they eat. Personally I'm not a big fan of spicy food.

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"Alot of Cantonese LOVE curry." - true

"It is all they eat." - bull shyt

if curry originated in China but was brought to India, then how come some of the top Chinese food recipes today doesn't have curry???

I doubt it originated in China, but if it did, it could be from only a particular region of China. China is a big country, you know.

I remember when we used to hate having curry as a cuisine reprensetin our culture when coming over to western countries!

Now they loving the $hit, and we fighting over it

west indian curry is pretty ill stuff too.

That stuff almost burned my insides up one time. Jerked chicken is just too hot.

Curry is derived from the Tamil word - Kari, the name was later adopted by the Bristish and made international through their colonialisation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry

How about middle east people they eat cury for long long time as well
Is it posible that cury is originate from middle east?

The recipe for making curry might have originated from Middle East and later adopted by the Indians. But the term "curry" is of Tamil origin, a name given by the British when the colonialised India, Malaysia etc..

oh yum! i love curry soooo much!!

but it stinks! i mean.. it smells good... but not good on people..

ok.. thats besides the point.. curry is delish!

Your pictures make me hungry

Yes. We call it "cari" in vietnamese... Really great taste