Bigger India
How Carmakers Brought New Cuisine To Chennai
When carmakers built factories in Chennai, India, they brought cuisine that is changing the culinary landscape.
A decade before America discovered sushi, a restaurant in a small southern India coastal city, served sashimi from local whole tuna. This small Japanese oasis, called Akasaka, sat behind a non-descript building on the hot, honking mess of one of Chennai’s most crowded traffic junctions.