Maybe it’s a regional thing. Most Indian restaurants here make their tandoori dishes a selling point. One downtown place took over a former Italian restaurant and converted the wood-burning oven into a tandoor. Works quite nicely, actually.
I was referring to the “wok/steamer” method.
Tandoor is, of course, typically used in Indian restaurants, although in India it is a regional feature.
I’ve never experienced what the OP says, but then, it could be that the vegetarian dishes are more generous. I love Indian food… mmmm so spicy it makes your eyes water and I guess I’m just lucky because I am never “reminded if you know what I mean” by it later.
Dammit, now I want some Indian food :mad:
One of England’s finest Indian restaurants (if not the finest), the Mumtaz Paan in Bradford, there are just two types of curry - pound and half pound.
I completely agree with the OP-the majority of the mid-range to upscale mughal style Indian restaurants serve much smaller portions as compared to Chinese restaurants, and even worse, many are now charging for rice and you end up having to pay $3.50 for a single naan. OTOH, I find the Mughal style cuisine most places serve to be very heavy so I’m okay with how much food is given as I’m usually stuffed within 2 bites anyway. I really don’t buy that the food is more expensive to make as compared to Chinese, unless cream is super-expensive unbeknownst to me.
Honestly, I just chalk it up to them trying to get the best margin they can.
OTOH, if you want to get a lot of food, try a dosa place. Some may skimp on the sambaar but you’ll almost always get a gigantic dosa for what you’re paying for.
Ah, understood.
I can’t get my husband to go out for Indian food anymore because he likes to get the chicken dishes, and there usually are only 5 chunks of chicken swimming in a plate full of sauce. He says he’d need 4-5 dishes like that to be full, and he’s not exaggerating. There’s no point in going out to dinner if you’re still going to be hungry afterwards. I buy frozen Indian dinners for myself when I get the craving. 
See this thread for my chicken curry recipe. The great thing is that you can put as many chunks of chicken as you want.
For me, Indian food so far surpasses Chinese food in deliciousness that I have no problem paying more for it.
That’s funny, 'cause for me its all about the sauce liberally spread over rice and scooped with some naan. You can keep the meat. 
Me too. You can keep the rice as well.
When people are saying that it is expensive at two or three dollars for naan bread I’m guessing that the bread isn’t the blanket-sized, butter and garlic soaked ones I’m used to? Because those are a bargain!
We lost our best high-quality Indian buffet/a la carte place with Hurricane Katrina. You guys are making me wistful over here.
Uh, what she says, at least in my vicinity. I think the tendency to share dishes makes small sizing them an incentive for the group to order 1 or 2 more. Although the heaviness of the food really keeps the belly full 
I’d wager that there is much better economy of scale with the Chinese places. There are a million Chinese restaurants, and I bet they buy from the same distributors. Fewer Indian restaurants means smaller economy of scale.