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Oggi Simply Italian, Food and Identity1

A clip of manager of Oggi Simply ItalianTranscript: "About 90% are white British people." "The Asian people would like the halal meat and, as an Italian, we serve pork products and we serve wine in here. So I think that’s the reason we’re less famous…

Oggi Simply Italian, Negative aspects of multiculturalism1

A clip of manager of Oggi Simply ItalianTranscript:"The way I see it is that people from outside the UK are very good with each other. But with the British people and the outsiders, there’s a gap." "Africans and Asians and Europeans, they become very…

Nila Palace, History of London Road, Leicester

A clip of Maruf Miah, owner of Nila PalaceTranscript:"At one time I used to do very very well. About fifteen years ago, ten to fifteen years ago this was the restaurant of the London Road. But now there’s so many competition, recession. More than…

Nila Palace, Positive aspects of multiculturalism

A clip of Maruf Miah, owner of Nila PalaceTranscript:"Well we are Bangladeshi you see but we’re living in Britain. So the majority of people who’ve been living here a long time are settled here and they don’t go to Bangladesh. If they do it’s every…

Nila Palace, Food and Identity

A clip of Maruf Miah, owner of Nila PalaceTranscript:"Bangladeshi taste is the taste Britain’s people love." "Bangladeshi food is like everyday food because British people eat curry very regularly. If they go to an Italian they may go monthly to eat…

Mystic Mangal, Food and Identity

A clip of Belalur Rahim, owner of Mystic MangalTranscript:"We do Turkish, Indian, Indo-Chinese and we do a little bit of buffet as well so it’s like…multicultural as well."

Mystic Mangal, History of London Road, Leicester

A clip of Belalur Rahim, owner of Mystic MangalTranscript:"I heard that London Road’s quite busy, the university’s near and everything so I thought maybe it’s more multicultural people. And you’ve got loads of students and normal customers as well so…

More, Food and Identity

A clip of Leela Keshavji, manager of MoreTranscript: "We call ourselves a multi-cuisine dining theatre because we have everything from Indian, Chinese, Indo-Chinese, a little bit of Italian, Mexican and we have a kebab grill so a wide range of…

More, History of London Road, Leicester

A clip of Leela Keshavji, manager of MoreTranscript:LK:"It was seen as one of the des-res [desirable residence] places in town and also it’s got easy accessibility from the city centre. There’s a lot of footfall, there are lots of offices around,…

More, Positive aspects of multiculturalism

A clip of Leela Keshavji, manager of MoreTranscript:"British. I’m originally from India, my husband [the owner] is originally from Africa. FF: What does it mean to be British and from India? How would you describe it? LK: I’d like to think we’re…