Curry Houses....

[Gorvid]

Please understand we don't want poppadums as a STARTER we want it to dip in the curry.

Please don't take the lovely pickles away - we want them on the curry.

Please invent a good dessert.

[i want an aero]

loads of great thing for pudding.

[casbar]

Gorvid said:

Please understand we don't want poppadums as a STARTER we want it to dip in the curry.

Please don't take the lovely pickles away - we want them on the curry.

Please invent a good dessert.

No, we do want them as a starter, with lime pickle

Maybe its just you that doesn't want them as a starter

[JakeR]

I know a couple of local Curry house owners quite well. They both tell me that the food they serve bears little resemblance to what is eaten in Bangladesh or in Bangladeshi homes.

Why the chuff not?? Are British people that spectacularly crap that we cant take authentic Bangladeshi food? I would far rather have something real than some watered down bastardisation of a cuisine made to suit my supposedly cretinous palate...

Come on Curry house chaps, give us the real thing please...

[coolcatmaz]

i want an aero said:

loads of great thing for pudding.

all consisting of rock hard frozen ice cream based puddings that bends the cutlery when you try to eat them.

I think the pudding lack imagination and are generally over priced for what they are, hence I never have a pudding when I go for an indian

[jmorgan]

If you want something to dip in the ruby then get a good bread. Big crisp don't soak up anything.

[JakeR]

i want an aero said:

loads of great thing for pudding.

Cobra, Kingfisher or Carlsberg for a start.

[egomeister]

JakeR said:

i want an aero said:

loads of great thing for pudding.

Cobra, Kingfisher or Carlsberg for a start.

Kingfisher all the way!

[JakeR]

well, i guess its very personal, but my preference:

1) Carlsberg (but I am half Danish)
2) Cobra
3) Kingfisher

[i want an aero]

coolcatmaz said:

i want an aero said:

loads of great thing for pudding.

all consisting of rock hard frozen ice cream based puddings that bends the cutlery when you try to eat them.

I think the pudding lack imagination and are generally over priced for what they are, hence I never have a pudding when I go for an indian

i don't know where you eat but i drive 31 miles for my curry house, most of the customers are asian. food tastes great and is traditional and don't cost the earth. used to go on xmas day meal for 4 £32, can't get better than that

[biglepton]

Gorvid said:

Please understand we don't want poppadums as a STARTER we want it to dip in the curry.

No we don't, we want them to munch on while we wait for the starter, preferably Tandoori Mix Kebab or King Prawn puri. Naan or chapatis are for dipping in curries you heathen.

Gorvid said:

Please don't take the lovely pickles away - we want them on the curry

Hide them before the waiter tries to collect them.

Gorvid said:

Please invent a good dessert.

Go to a decent curry house - cool refreshing Rashmalai, hot, sticky sweet Gulabjamun or crispy sweet Jilabi with a touch of syrup.

[coolcatmaz]

i want an aero said:

coolcatmaz said:

i want an aero said:

loads of great thing for pudding.

all consisting of rock hard frozen ice cream based puddings that bends the cutlery when you try to eat them.

I think the pudding lack imagination and are generally over priced for what they are, hence I never have a pudding when I go for an indian

i don't know where you eat but i drive 31 miles for my curry house, most of the customers are asian. food tastes great and is traditional and don't cost the earth. used to go on xmas day meal for 4 £32, can't get better than that

nothing wrong with the curry houses round me......some very excellent and good value considering the expensive area that I live. Just find the puddings a let down, but then I don't go to a curry house for the puddings

[Gorvid]

biglepton said:

Gorvid said:

Please understand we don't want poppadums as a STARTER we want it to dip in the curry.

No we don't, we want them to munch on while we wait for the starter, preferably Tandoori Mix Kebab or King Prawn puri. Naan or chapatis are for dipping in curries you heathen.

Gorvid said:

Please don't take the lovely pickles away - we want them on the curry

Hide them before the waiter tries to collect them.

Gorvid said:

Please invent a good dessert.

Go to a decent curry house - cool refreshing Rashmalai, hot, sticky sweet Gulabjamun or crispy sweet Jilabi with a touch of syrup.

No.

[Gazzab]

JakeR said:

I know a couple of local Curry house owners quite well. They both tell me that the food they serve bears little resemblance to what is eaten in Bangladesh or in Bangladeshi homes.

Why the chuff not?? Are British people that spectacularly crap that we cant take authentic Bangladeshi food? I would far rather have something real than some watered down bastardisation of a cuisine made to suit my supposedly cretinous palate...

Come on Curry house chaps, give us the real thing please...

This is such old news! There are restaurants that serve authentic cuisine from the various indian regions. You just have to search them out. There are quite a few in London. There was even one near my old house in Petworth. Havent found one yet near Sheffield.

[jmorgan]

I always search out good ones. Red dye is a big indication of a follow through,

[Polarbert]

Gorvid said:

biglepton said:

Gorvid said:

Please understand we don't want poppadums as a STARTER we want it to dip in the curry.

No we don't, we want them to munch on while we wait for the starter, preferably Tandoori Mix Kebab or King Prawn puri. Naan or chapatis are for dipping in curries you heathen.

Gorvid said:

Please don't take the lovely pickles away - we want them on the curry

Hide them before the waiter tries to collect them.

Gorvid said:

Please invent a good dessert.

Go to a decent curry house - cool refreshing Rashmalai, hot, sticky sweet Gulabjamun or crispy sweet Jilabi with a touch of syrup.

No.

[Glassman]

Any establishment that features Korma, Pasanda and Tikka-massala on the menu should be avoided.

[JakeR]

Gazzab said:

JakeR said:

I know a couple of local Curry house owners quite well. They both tell me that the food they serve bears little resemblance to what is eaten in Bangladesh or in Bangladeshi homes.

Why the chuff not?? Are British people that spectacularly crap that we cant take authentic Bangladeshi food? I would far rather have something real than some watered down bastardisation of a cuisine made to suit my supposedly cretinous palate...

Come on Curry house chaps, give us the real thing please...

This is such old news! There are restaurants that serve authentic cuisine from the various indian regions. You just have to search them out. There are quite a few in London. There was even one near my old house in Petworth. Havent found one yet near Sheffield.

Yeah, note the 'IN LONDON' bit. Surprise, surprise, not in Sheffield though mate? Nor anywhere else for that matter. I live outside London, and ALL the curry houses in striking distance of me are of the 'tikka massala' variety. Old news, my arse.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Most Indian restaurants don't serve 'proper' Indian sweets because they are not liked my the typical clientelle. Rasmalai, Gulab Jamun etc, all very nice but the other sweets are too much of an acquired taste.

[Glassman]

drivin_me_nuts said:

Most Indian restaurants don't serve 'proper' Indian sweets because they are not liked my the typical clientelle. Rasmalai, Gulab Jamun etc, all very nice but the other sweets are too much of an acquired taste.

Indian sweets are way too sweet.

That's why they remain on Indian menus.