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The Indian restaurant has opened in London over 200 years, but the company flop and its owner was declared bankrupt. But Dean Muhammad sweat of Sake in the kitchen does not go in vain, for he has created history and opened the doors of a multi-million dollar Indian food business. SHAMLAL PURI looks at Indian culinary delights available today in the United Kingdom. It will never written an Indian from India not miss the food at home.

Curry is King in the UK

By PURI SHAMLAL London

uttapam Fancy idli sambhar and South India; toovar daal, rice, ThePlant, Farsan Gujarat, fish curry from Goa Goa, Sarson ka Saag and Makki ki roti from Punjab CHUM CHUM Bengali from Calcutta, or even flat as the Parsi and Dhansak Pathiers? Well, you do not have to buy an expensive flight to India. Make your choice here in the UK - you'll be spoiled for choice when it comes to eating Indian food.

Ironically, the first Indian restaurant that opened in the United Kingdom over 200 years ago not to draw in business, but he created history.

According to records, the man who sweated in the kitchen there are more than two centuries of cooking Indian food was in the Indian state of Bihar.

From the humble beginning in London, in the form of the Hindustani Coffee House on George Street, Portman Square in London, Sake Dean Muhammad in history, probably give rise to multi-million dollar Indian food industry, which grew, employing over 100,000 people. Today there is hardly a village street in the United Kingdom which has not an Indian restaurant.

The story goes that Sake Dean Muhammad, who was born in 1759 in Patna, has joined the East India Company and rose to the rank of Subedar, a historic place in the Indian army, just below the British officers and above NCOs. He and his best friend, Captain Godfrey Baker, came to Britain in 1784 and began a new life in Ireland.

Dean has studied English and married Jane Daly, "a pretty Irish girl of respectable parentage. He had several children and published a book with the title: "The Journey of Muhammad Dean, a native of Patna.

Dean moved to Portman Square in London in 1809 where he joined the steam belonging to Sir Basil Cochrane. Here, Muhammad said: "Champi" massage of the head () to the list of services offered, and later opened the Hindustani Coffee House. The restaurant was designed to Anglo-Indians for the pleasure "of hookha (pipe) with" Tobacco chilm real, "and offered an Indian meal in the highest perfection, and authorized by the greatest gourmets be equal to all curries never done in England ", in a decorated Indian and Oriental scenes.

The food served in the restaurant was good, but the weather was bad. Three years later, Dean was declared bankrupt. After several trysts his fortune, he has been named "Shampooing Surgeon" to King George IV. He died in 1851.

The organizers of the National Week of Great Britain Curry think the first restaurant opened in 1809, while other historical sources say that the restaurant opened its doors in 1810.

According to Curry Tree Charitable Fund, one of the organizers of the National Curry Week, since Dean first Indian restaurant industry has grown to over 10,000 today, generate considerable revenue for HM Treasury and employing over 100,000 people.

"More than 200 year-end industry served 2.5 billion people - a figure to be surpassed in just 20 years ahead - and over £ 30 billion was spent on food alone, a figure will be beaten in the next 15 y.