So, does this look like real Indian food to you?
The lacquered food phenomenon here is something that stopped being weird a long time ago, just because it's so commonplace. It just IS. Why wonder what that restaurant is serving, when they have every entree, rendered in plastic, right there in show window in front? I guess I've seen approximately infinity plastic bowls of udon. But today when Mike and I went to this Indian restaurant in the Kishiwada shopping center, I was struck at how bizarre it is. Maybe it took lacquer naan and tandoori chicken to remind me.