This is a former British colony that has adopted some British cuisine .
: :* Tamil cuisine : :* Andhra cuisine : :* Cuisine of Karnataka : :* Hyderabadi cuisine :* East Indian cuisines : :* Bengali cuisine is a style of food preparation originating in Bengal , a region in the eastern South Asia which is now divided between the Indian states of West Bengal , Tripura , and Barak Valley of Assam and the independent country of Bangladesh .