A CURRY house in Liss has the chance to win a major industry award.

Madhuban Tandoori Restaurant is a finalist in the South Central category of the Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Awards.

The winners will be revealed in a ceremony at the Westminster Park Plaza in London on Sunday evening.

Awards founder Mohammed Munim wanted to reward the best in all aspects of the Asian restaurant industry – chefs, small eateries, food cart owners and five-star curry houses.

The winners will be chosen based on survey data collected by the Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Awards’ partner ChefOnline.

It asked more than 350,000 customers around the country about their South Asian cuisine

favourites.

BBC News presenter Samantha Simmonds and comedian/magician Paul Martin will host the event.

It will be attended by an array of high-profile guests including British celebrities, politicians, business leaders, VIPs and sports

personalities.

The curry industry in Britain is estimated to be worth around £5billion per year. As of 2015, curry houses accounted for a fifth of restaurant businesses in the United Kingdom.

The British curry industry has its origins as far back as the 1800s and today there are more Indian restaurants in Greater London than in Delhi and Mumbai combined.

It is estimated that between 65 per cent and 75 per cent of Indian restaurants in this country are owned by Bangladeshi immigrants.

Eating curry in Britain started to become widespread in the 1940s and 1950s.

Most of the major Indian restaurants in London began to employ former seamen from Bangladesh, particularly Syhlet, and many of those seamen aspired to open a restaurant of their own.

After the Second World War they bought bombed-out chip shops and cafés and sold curry and rice alongside fish, pies and chips.

They stayed open after 11pm to catch the after-pub trade, and eating hot curry after a night out in the pub became a British tradition.