[j7ake]

Italian restaurant cuisine today is judged by whether it tastes like the way their particular Italian grandma made it.

Asian restaurant cuisine is judged by partly by how different (technique, taste, looks) the dish is from what they can make from home.

[klipt]

Of course that situation may be reversed for people with a Chinese grandma instead of an Italian grandma.

[j7ake]

No it’s not. Chinese restaurant cuisine is not defined by home cuisine at all. They are almost orthogonal.

You go to a Chinese restaurant to eat something that cannot be made at home, almost by definition. The only exception might be breakfast food.

[satvikpendem]

Indeed, same reason I don't usually go to Indian restaurants, I can just make the same thing at home with much fewer costs. The only ones I'd go to are specialized or well known ones, such as some South Indian places I've been to recently.

What's even more interesting is no one actually makes butter or tikka chicken at home, or has a tandoor to do so, but Indians also don't eat it outside generally, instead it's mainly foreigners who like those dishes.

[zem]

I feel like similar to the chinese, indian home cooking and indian restaurant cooking are very different; I can try my hand at a lot of restaurant style recipes at home but it's not what I usually cook or what I grew up eating at home.

[bilalq]

I'm assuming by tikka chicken you mean "chicken tikka masala"? Because chicken tikka is something my family made all the time growing up. I still make it at home often. That's mostly been with a charcoal grill and not a traditional tandoor, but like you said, most people don't have tandoors at home. That's restaurant food.

[satvikpendem]

Yeah I meant with a tandoor specifically. And generally it's not an everyday food either is what I mean, mostly a weekend thing on the grill.

[SugarReflex]

I don't know how relevant it is, but my wife and I like to eat out at places where the dish/cuisine is something that we simply cannot make at home. If it is too similar, my wife will sigh "we could have just made this at home".