Shame. Biryani is the best.

Biryani is a nationwide dish. Not particularly confined to South.

Fair, but the best ones I've had were made at South Indian restaurants.

True in the US for sure. We do get pretty darn good Biryani in the states

Darn Punjabis. South Indian food is tough sell in the western hemisphere

Nothing beats Punjabi food IMO, but I still love me some dosa and sambar.

As I get older, Punjabi food is so heavy. I have to slither like a snake to get around after a good Punjabi meal. Have yet to eat chole ( chickpea curry) or rajma ( red bean curry) that blows my socks off in the US

I count chana masala (if there's a difference between this and chole then I don't know it) as my favourite food, even though (not being much of a traveller) I've eaten it *only* in the USA. I must assume that it's even better in India or Pakistan.

It’s pretty good here don’t get me wrong and plenty of poor imitations in India. Best Indian food like all food is homemade. No reason you shouldn’t bug an Indian person you know for it Trick is to soak raw dry chickpeas in water over night. Adam Ragusea has a good video.

Not really telugu cuisine is the GOAT . It is a mixture of deccani plus Andhra/telangana cuisines. Except for bread dishes. Telugu curries ,rice and breakfast dishes,deccani meat,desserts,non use of potato in every curry mogs punjabi cuisine. Hyderabad is a UNESCO city of gastronomy for a reason

parotta is underrated and needs to be more common here

This angers me.

Frozen Costco parotta is pretty good

Gotta get that shit then

South india has the greatest breakfast and rice dish cuisines in the world . In terms of rice dishes. Lemon rice,tamarind rice,mint rice,Hyderabadi biryani,bagara,curd rice,ulavacharu rice etc

It ain't. North Indian is more famous in places where gujaratis,Punjabis and Bengalis migrated. There are lots of Telugus,tamils etc in usa so south indian food has gotten lot popular in north Texas ,bay area . Every midwestern and southern college town has a telugu restaurant now

Chill out man. It’s only food

Yeah that single handedly brought us the word slop and defamed other indian cuisines when most of the south indian curries are not in thick liquid unappealing form at all

Somehow the first town I've lived in that has a convenient to me and really good South Indian place is a 12k person town in Wisconsin.

Nope most college towns that telugus are in has a great south indian one

They are not especially after the growth in telugu american community which is extremely economically well off. Telugu students have a gazillion restaurants in smaller college towns

Have you tried Scarborough?