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:-p China would NEVER understand the concept of Indian Chinese food either. We've changed the traditional Chinese food so significantly that...

And it is the second most popular "cuisine" in India after traditional Indian food.

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Indo-Chinese is barely derived from/a changed version of traditional Chinese.

As an Indian who eats traditional Chinese food from various parts of China regularly, I can confirm that there literally isn't any sauce that tastes like Indo-Chinese cuisine's sauces. Indo-Chinese seems like Indian food with ingredients from Chinese food added which makes it a changed version of traditional Indian food rather than a changed version of traditional Chinese food.

One of my life's goals is to get one of my friend from NE China to eat Manchurian food in Mumbai. Results will be interesting.

I've had American-Indian-Chinese food in the Edison, NJ area. It was closer to American-Chinese than American-Indian.

Edit: Also, I remember a great Indian-Thai-Chinese restaurant in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Oh I hadn't heard of that. As a chef I'm definitely going to do some research on that! Any particular favourites?

The cuisine is called Indo-Chinese food...it's a fusion of Chinese dishes with Indian spices and vis-versa. It has come about because "close" border between China and India (in the north east)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Chinese_cuisine

It is similar to the term Tex-Mex which a fusion of Mexican food with American tastes

I feel like trinidad also has an indo chinese feel to their food. I think they had immigrants from both countries. Absolutely awesome food.

Hmmmm. I had beef-filled Roti in Tobago. That was incredible.

Hakka Noddles

Chilli Chicken

Gobi Manchurian and many more...

I've seen Gobi Manchurian a couple of times (I'm American), really delicious. Also check out Mauritian food if you can, it has those influences and more.

Chicken chilli, chicken schezwan, chicken manchurian, chow mein, chop suey and what not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Chinese_cuisine#Dishes

In LA, Bollywood Bites, an Indian resteraunt, has an ethnic menu where you can order various food transplanted to Indian transplanted to the USA, so things like Manchurian Chicken are there.

Similarly, I ate at an Indian restaurant in Beijing and didn't notice any difference from Chinese food.

Which one? Indian Kitchen? Ganges? Beijing isn't Tokyo when it comes to Indian food, but it isn't that bad!

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