It's butter chicken — not curry
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As popular and ubiquitous as curry is around the world, the word ‘curry’ doesn’t actually exist in India. Just like you’d never get fortune cookies at the end of your meal in China, you won’t find curry on a menu in India. On this episode of Eat Drink Asia, we look into butter chicken – not curry – a dish that balances the smokiness of the meat and the silkiness of the sauce like no other. We traced it back to the grandson of the inventor of this iconic dish, who told us its origin story of…