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Some like it hot and supersized
Western Morning News
|May 22, 2026
APPARENTLY Britain has more than 12,000 South Asian restaurants. Indeed that’s the very first fact we're presented with (there’s plenty more to come, trust me) in this lively one-off documentary.
KORMA HERE OFTEN? Staff make enough curry for 2,000 diners every night
“It's clear we're a nation that loves our curry,” says popular TV presenter Anita Rani.
She's reading that line off a script, having been hired to do this programme's voiceover, but that’s not to say she believes it any the less.
The reason this show is able to dish up a huge number of staggering statistics for us to digest (yes, sorry, lazy pun, but it’s a Friday and my brain aches) is pretty much explained by its title. Specifically, that word “biggest”.
This story is from the May 22, 2026 edition of Western Morning News.
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