I’m off to the Blue Mountains to enjoy some delicious slave cooked Indian food.  The owner of a number of Indian restaurants, including “Taste of India” at Faulconbridge, has been charged with people trafficking offences, plus a charge of “intentionally exercising control over a slave”.  Allegedly, Yogalingam Rasalingam enticed Anbalagan Rajendran to come from India to Australia, but when he got here took his passport, made him live in a tin shed, and worked him 11 hours a day, 7 days a week as a kitchen hand at his restaurants, without paying him a cent.

This beats the delicious taste of the food cooked by exploited overseas workers at a number of our local cafes and restaurants in Canberra, allegedly Zeffirelli’s, Milk and Honey and the Holy Grail.  There was also the rather bizarre instance of the alleged kidnapping of a Filipino chef who worked at Pangaea Restaurant after he complained of being ripped off and poorly treated by his employer.

Just when I thought food cooked lovingly by underpaid and exploited Filipinos was the bee’s knees, now we have the even better option of slave cooked Tandoori.  Yummy!!!

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