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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
David McLean & Katie Weston

Restaurant mastermind who invented the chicken tikka masala dies at 79

Touching tributes have been pouring in for a British curry house owner who is believed to have invented the world's first chicken tikka masala.

Ali Ahmed Aslam, the owner of Glasgow's famed Shish Mahal restaurant, died on Monday at the age of 79.

He opened the curry house in 1964, following in the footsteps of his father, Noor Mohammed, who ran what many consider to be the city's first "proper" Indian restaurant - the Green Gates.

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