This is your Fringe FOMO alert.

The Butter Chicken Odyssey (2026) 5 out of 5 stars

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The Butter Chicken Odyssey is 85% sold out, four days before Fringe Festival begins. If you don't get your tickets right now, you never will.

Ramneek Singh holding up a bowl of butter chicken.

Ramneek Singh is an Edmontonian who, a couple years back, set off on a new, years-long project to try and rank basically every butter chicken made by a restaurant in Edmonton.

After two years, 51 butter chickens, and I assume dozens of cautionary notes from his doctor, he finished the project.

Poster for Ram's Butter Chicken Odyssey: a cartoon Ramneek Singh riding on an orange van, a chicken leaning out the window.

And then, doing the most Fringe thing possible, he turned it into, quote, “a story about immigrant trauma, assimilation, and trying to find yourself in the meals people carry across oceans.”

I've already got my tickets, and unfortunately, not all of you will be able to.

Best hurry.

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