Why does Indian food taste the same to me?

Aniruddha Banerjee has written a very nice answer to your question. Let me see if I can add some small pieces to it. Main point is the "authentic restaurants" serve only a very stylized subset of "Indian food". Honestly, there is nothing as such - "Indian Food" - every state of India has its own completely different food. read more

Main point is the"authentic restaurants" serve only a very stylized subset of"Indian food". Honestly, there is nothing as such -"Indian Food" - every state of India has its own completely different food. Sometimes even different regions of the same state has different cuisines. Just for an example, take the case of Georgia - the state of USA. read more

In a large new analysis of more than 2,000 popular recipes, data scientists have discovered perhaps the key reason why Indian food tastes so unique: It does something radical with flavors, something very different from what we tend to do in the United States and the rest of Western culture. And it does it at the molecular level. read more