Finding the national hero who invented the butter chicken pie It's risen from a niche fusion food to New Zealand’s third-best-selling pie flavour. Who gave the nation this unique culinary taonga?

They got back farther than my investigation. Seems the first place to sell butter chicken pies was the Essential Deli in 2002, in Mt Eden, Auckland. If true, New Zealand can claim to be the first to sell butter chicken pies.
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Is this the definitive answer? I've been thinking for a while that Aotearoa / New Zealand was the first country to sell butter chicken pies commercially. Anyone got evidence earlier than 2002? #kikorangi #butterChicken #pie #butterChickenPie