Things have changed: it's often said that the food served in modern-day Indian restaurants in the UK is not real Indian food but an Anglicised version which is certainly very popular. The food served was a hybrid of Indian and British food and perhaps it did not appeal to either nationality. It seems not to have been a success since he was declared bankrupt in 1812. In 1810 he opened the Hindoostane Coffee House, serving Indian-style food we are unclear whether it served any actual coffee. They came to London where he introduced a therapeutic massage, or champi ('shampoo') which became all the rage. Resigned in 1782 and two years later with his friend from the army Captain Godfrey Evan Baker, travelled to Ireland where he published 'The Travels of Dean Mahomet' and married a Protestant Irish girl and converted. A Bengali Muslim, he joined the East India Company aged 11, where he served as a solder and fought a few times.
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