What was Chinese and Indian food like before tomatoes and peppers...

What was Chinese and Indian food like before tomatoes and peppers? I thought all their recipes are thousands of years old.

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Indian food (North Indian) was always bland as fuck. It was literally milk, cooked meat, fruits and milk along with some kind of bread. It was only after Persians and Turks brought their cuisine you got spicy stuff like Tandoori chicken and Butter Paneer Masala. Most North Indian households still eat bland food for the most part.

South Indian cuisine had spices and is probably the one you sort of could say has a long continuity. Idli, Dosa, Uttapam, along with chutney is a principle cuisine in South India.

Does Indian and Chinese cuisine even use the three ingredients a lot?

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South India is the only reason India became known for spices

Never heard of any Asian cuisine that extensively use tomatoes

I can't think of a common Chinese dish with tomato

Indian cuisine uses a lot of tomatoes

I think southern Chinese cuisine uses a lot of peppers though

I was surprised how popular crawfish is over there though. How the Fuck did they get crawfish?

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It's European food the one that became reliant on American vegetables, such as tomato, corn or potato.

Indian cuisine heavily relies on potato now. I don’t think I spend a day without eating some kind of potato.

Just ask any Chinese or Indian. They will be flabbergasted and insist they've always had tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, etc.

Did the British bring the tomato and potato? I think various kinds of peppers exist all over the workd

No, thankfully indians unlike Americans have some idea of history. Most of us get taught that potatoes was introduced by Thomas Roe who presented potatoes to the Mughal court of Jahangir in 1616.

I'm sure it came via the Spanish because they're both from South America

nice projecting, mutt

More likely the Portuguese since they had ports in India they owned like Goa

I think some Indian words for a specific kind of white bread is called “pav” from the Portuguese “pao”

> [五辛］ ( go-shin): Also, five spicy foods. Five kinds of pungent vegetables: garlic, scallions, leeks, rocamboles, and a plant of the dropwort family. The list of the five strong-flavored foods differs among sources. According to another account, they are garlic, scallions, leeks, onions, and ginger. In the Buddhist Order, they were forbidden because of their strong odor and their stimulating effect when eaten. The five strong-flavored foods were said to produce irritability and sexual desire.

These were the few available spices before the arrival of peppers.

Jahangir was so impressed by the potato he lended lands to the East India Company to grow that crop along with their factories.

I'm sure some would be shocked, I've seen people on Zig Forums adamantly say that tea is from India

No the vast majority of Indian food was brought there by Muslims.

wtf i thought this was filipino dish

*North Indian

True, I know it was the Portuguese that introduced chillies to africa

The cuisine I feel least touched by the columbian exchange was China and Japan. I can’t think of many dishes that use potato, tomato, peppers, etc

No lie most people think that tomatoes here came from your country

Cassava, hugely used in African cuisine, came from the Europeans as well. I legit can’t imagine African food without cassava

Corn and Tomatoes are also important to African food.

Maize/corn too is a staple for most of sub saharan Africa and that was from the Americas too, africa had gained a lot

Yeah and all they had to give up was some workers

Oh and bananas/plantains

What kind of starches existed in India before the potato?