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An award-winning chef from Rochester has headed to Bangladesh to show off his skills at a British curry festival.

Chef Jamal Uddin Ahmed, who is the Executive Chef at the Shozna Bangladeshi and Indian Restaurant in Rochester, is one of just five British chefs chosen to show off his skills at the Britain Curry Festival in Bangladesh.

The group will produce a range of new dishes giving a spicy twist to traditional British meals as well as classic high street favourites like Chicken Tikka Masala, Balti and Vindaloo.

To celebrate the culinary diversity of the United Kingdom, the British Curry Festival is back in the Bangladeshi capital to showcase the Best of British Cuisine at the InterContinental Dhaka between October 16 and 29.

"It’s a great honour to be selected again after a long time. I am really looking forward to cooking for a new audience at Dhaka," said Chef Jamal before departing for Bangladesh.

The event is organised by the UK’s Curry House trade magazine, Curry Life, and Chef Jamal has been selected before but this will be his post pandemic trip to the country's capital.

Festival organiser, Syed Belal Ahmed, is hoping the city will prove to be an inspiration for the team of chefs who will be serving up their dishes at the Intercontinental Dhaka which has several restaurants.

Ahmed, who is also the editor of Curry Life Magazine, said: "British food is enjoying a renaissance period after many years and curry has played a major role in helping put us back in the world kitchen.

"This festival will create the opportunity not only to showcase the best of British but also help our chefs to bring fresh ideas to their own menus by working alongside the culinary masters of Bangladesh.

"What greater inspiration could they have than a city which has been famed for its gastronomy for centuries?"

Chef Jamal adds: “I have cooked in various competitions but cooking British curry in Dhaka, Bangladeshwill be a real challenge.”

Lord Karan Bilimoria, founder and chairman of Cobra beer who is also travelling to Dhaka to inaugurate the festival, praised the efforts of British Bangladeshi curry chefs for transforming the British curry business into a multi-billion-pound industry.