Chef Mohammad Anam Hussain with a freshly made meal at the Shaad restaurant on London's Brick Lane Angela Dewan/CNN Spices in the kitchen of Bengal Cuisine on Brick Lane, famous for its curry houses CNN/Angela Dewan Head chef of the Shaad restaurant Mohammad Anam Hussain cooks a chick pea curry. Angela Dewan/CNN Competition between curry houses on Brick Lane is fierce. CNN/Angela Dewan Coriander, chillies and onion -- some of the essential ingredients to a good curry at the Shaad restaurant Angela Dewan/CNN Dates and other sweet dried fruits on display in a Brick Lane shop Angela Dewan/CNN Indian hero Mahatma Gandhi is painted on the wall of a restaurant on Brick Lane. CNN/Angela Dewan A batch of rice ahead of the dinner rush at the Shaad restaurant Angela Dewan/CNN A Bangladeshi man welcomes customers to his curry restaurant on Brick Lane. Angela Dewan/CNN Brick Lane is popular with sweet-toothed Britons, with stacks and rows of desserts to pick from. Angela Dewan/CNN Meals are prepared ahead of the dinner rush at the Shaad restaurant. Courtesy M.K. Brown Prev Next
