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over a year ago
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"Pasanda with rice, poppadoms, chutney, peshawari naan, bhaji, pakora and some Kulfi..and a diet because I gotta watch me figure  "
Chicken or lamb pasanda? Pasanda is one of my favourites  |
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"What do you order?"
When I go to a new Indian, I try to pick something from the house/chef's specials. It's always nice to have something you've never tried before. I enjoy hot, and generally pick something that is labelled hot and sound interesting. I will also have a peshawari naan if available.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Chicken madras with pileu rice and cheesenarn bread with extra cheese and 10 pints of corbra  oh nearly forgot the best part popadoms for starters with the dips |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Only in India
Much nicer and all cooked fresh.
In UK Dansak rice can't get a ROTI"
Can't say I've actually eaten indian food. All the so called Indian restaurants that I've visited are run by people from Bangladesh, yet we all know them as Indian. |
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By *red333Man
over a year ago
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Never understood the fascination with Asian food its mostly disguised with spices/chillies so you can't actually taste what you're eating i prefer Italian, mexican, spanish or home-grown British food  |
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Its probably been 6 months or more since I ordered one, I always cook my own including sides. Very satisfying and alot cheaper.
I also tend to cook on a good percentage of meets, it takes the emphasis off sex and gives you a chance to get to know one another
The lamb is already marinating for tomorrow's curry
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"Never understood the fascination with Asian food its mostly disguised with spices/chillies so you can't actually taste what you're eating i prefer Italian, mexican, spanish or home-grown British food "
You're obviously eating in the wrong places or simply don't enjoy this kind of food.
Well cooked asian food, like any other cuisine, uses spices to enhance the flavour not hide it.
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By *red333Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"Never understood the fascination with Asian food its mostly disguised with spices/chillies so you can't actually taste what you're eating i prefer Italian, mexican, spanish or home-grown British food
You're obviously eating in the wrong places or simply don't enjoy this kind of food.
Well cooked asian food, like any other cuisine, uses spices to enhance the flavour not hide it.
Nita"
I just don't enjoy it sorry |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"In my local Asda there's an Indian guy who works on the till and he always asks me if I would like a real Indian.
*Scribbles down for future pick up line*"
The ones calling themselves real are 100% fake  |
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I'm no skinflint by any means but its gotten a bit expensive, much cheaper to get it from the local supermarket, although some dishes you cannot get there.
Chicken Jalfrezi, keema nan, Mushroom rice.
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"In my local Asda there's an Indian guy who works on the till and he always asks me if I would like a real Indian.
…..and what’s your response? Xx "
My life's spicy enough I will stick with the pataks thank you. |
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By *ay9971Man
over a year ago
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"In my local Asda there's an Indian guy who works on the till and he always asks me if I would like a real Indian.
…..and what’s your response? Xx
My life's spicy enough I will stick with the pataks thank you. "
Well all I have to say if you wanted to change things up with a sharwoods, then I can like you in the right direction x  |
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Love Indian food. Normally go for a dopiaza or a jalfrezi. I can eat fairly hot so could go stronger but I feel cheated if I get a curry that doesn't have vegetables in. I find just meat and sauce boring.
Normally either lemon or peas pilau, bombay potatoes, poppadoms and garlic and coriander naan for sides. Do love an onion bhaji but they hate me. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I may have a vindaloo tonight as I'm staying by an Indian restaurant after work.
I love them, but I always feel like I'm being rushed to order and I like to take my time first with a drink and read the menu. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"North or South Indian food?
Is there much of a difference? More meat in the north, more fish in the south."
In that case I would choose the north dish |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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"North or South Indian food?
Is there much of a difference? More meat in the north, more fish in the south.
In that case I would choose the north dish "
Most of what you have in the uk is North Indian/ Nepalese in style lots of fairly mild chicken and lamb curries.
South is much more spicy, less meat and some dishes are sweet and gooey like Dahi Bhalla
Try Indian street food places like Mowgli or Kerala , it’s really nice |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"North or South Indian food?
Is there much of a difference? More meat in the north, more fish in the south.
In that case I would choose the north dish
Most of what you have in the uk is North Indian/ Nepalese in style lots of fairly mild chicken and lamb curries.
South is much more spicy, less meat and some dishes are sweet and gooey like Dahi Bhalla
Try Indian street food places like Mowgli or Kerala , it’s really nice "
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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When I use to stay near Birmingham we would always order the mixed grill. It was always amazing and I've never seen or tasted anything else which even comes close to it. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I am very uneducated when it comes to Indian food. 
Good suggestions for a newbie? "
I'm not very clued up with it either. I usually just go for a vindaloo chicken curry with plain white rice.
I wouldn't recommend a vindaloo curry for you if you don't like hot spicy food.
Some of the food mentioned in this forum I haven't heard of before. |
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My local one does a nice Prawn Palok which i just have to have whenever i order from there.
I'll also get either a Bhuna, Madras or Jalfrezi as well with either Garlic Mushroom rice or Vegetable rice, Garlic and Coriander or Kehma nann and a portion of Onion Bhaji.
Enough for two meals for me. |
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Some of the food mentioned in this forum I haven't heard of before. "
My Curry Mummy (similar idea to a Sugar Daddy) feeds me East African/Gujarati vegetarian fare with a whole different range of dish names you will never hear in Bengali and similar restaurants. Go to Green Street in East London or Tooting or up behind King's Cross and you will.
For a start, 'sag' pronounced 'shark' is the word for any vegetable curry, not just spinach and bhajia is the name for spinach. Confused? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Lamb Tawa Gosht is my go to
Usually coconut rice
Always a keema and garlic Naan, usually not on the menu but never been refused one
Starter wise I like pretty much anything meaty
If I'm checking out a new place or working away I'll usually go Chicken Bhuna because its a hard one to screw up. |
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For the Poppadom lovers among you, have you tried Khakhra?
They look a bit like poppads but are made with wheat flour.
They need eating over a wide plate as they break up very easily and will end up under the able if you are not a careful eater.
Unlikely to be found in most 'Indian' restaurants but stocked by Asian grocery stores catering for Punjabi/Gujarati customers. I buy two flavours, Jeera and Methi.
Just had some for a mid afternoon snack along with smashed avocado. Eat them straight from the foil pacckage, no need to heat. |
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I live indian food, ill take as hot andspicy as they have got.
i went to an kndian restaurant theh have a 13 ?? eanjed curry, the one i was eating was 4 ??, so i asked flr a sample and it was mot as spicy. i asked them how that could be, they said they had calmed it down a bit for me, so not really a sample af all.
13 ?? hype i think.
if you like hot sauce that isnt loke weak nandos guff, i recommend AiAi sometimes available on Amazon |
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Seems most of you are meat lovers - but Indian food has huge variety of vegetarian dishes too. Shame that a very few restaurants in UK offer that, but if you want to find them, they are mostly located in Pinner, Harrow area in London. One of my favourite dish is Chole Bhature with Glass of dry fruit loaded Lassi with Malai on top. Dude if you have it in breakfast around 10.00 am, yes I am telling you time, you will be in heaven all day..and try Rabri Faluda, omg, I am salivating now…going to order some nice food now.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I love love love indian dishes.
Not able to eat the spicier ones but enjoy a sample of all. Veg or chicken or lamb, all delicious.
The best is to have everyone order a different dish and take a spoonful from all.
Lucky to have an award winning restaurant nearby and others that are also great for takeaways
Love it all |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Since lockdown I have started making my own in the traditional way .
I have gone from visiting the Indian once or twice a week to now twice in the last year .
I usually have Carolina reapers and about 10 green chillies in.
The restaurants don't usually make it hot enough so that's another win. |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
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Some of the food mentioned in this forum I haven't heard of before.
My Curry Mummy (similar idea to a Sugar Daddy) feeds me East African/Gujarati vegetarian fare with a whole different range of dish names you will never hear in Bengali and similar restaurants. Go to Green Street in East London or Tooting or up behind King's Cross and you will.
For a start, 'sag' pronounced 'shark' is the word for any vegetable curry, not just spinach and bhajia is the name for spinach. Confused?"
You’re a very lucky man. I’m currently seeing a Gujarati girl , last night she taught me to make chicken curry and chapatti her way, it’s nothing like how I cook, or the restaurants I go to - absolutely amazing
Gujarati & Pakistani restaurants also do Thali for lunch , it’s a large metal plate with multiple sections of daals, curries, yoghurt, naan, desert. Round here at local Asian community centres you can get Thali for £3 ! |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"Since lockdown I have started making my own in the traditional way .
I have gone from visiting the Indian once or twice a week to now twice in the last year .
I usually have Carolina reapers and about 10 green chillies in.
The restaurants don't usually make it hot enough so that's another win."
Try adding crushed cardoman seeds, cloves and bits of cinnamon. Also a whole Anise (Aniseed)
Fry them carefully for about 5 minutes before adding the onions. This will give you warmth rather than heat but when you add the chilli , the combination will surprise you, you might reduce the chilli. Reapers will overpower the flavours |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Since lockdown I have started making my own in the traditional way .
I have gone from visiting the Indian once or twice a week to now twice in the last year .
I usually have Carolina reapers and about 10 green chillies in.
The restaurants don't usually make it hot enough so that's another win.
Try adding crushed cardoman seeds, cloves and bits of cinnamon. Also a whole Anise (Aniseed)
Fry them carefully for about 5 minutes before adding the onions. This will give you warmth rather than heat but when you add the chilli , the combination will surprise you, you might reduce the chilli. Reapers will overpower the flavours "
Thankyou for your reply
I do fry cardamoms cinnamon ect before the onions.
Sometimes I dry fry them and then blitz in the coffee grinder.
I think I'm immune to the heat after 45 years of eating hotter and hotter curries I can't help myself?? |
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You’re a very lucky man. I’m currently seeing a Gujarati girl , last night she taught me to make chicken curry and chapatti her way, it’s nothing like how I cook, or the restaurants I go to - absolutely amazing
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I don't get taught any of the secrets. It is her way of ensuring my dependency on her! |
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On the fence. I have had some very nice dishes but usually authentic home cooked. Restaurant/take away stuff you can often just taste the spices or the heat which mask everything else and not for me but I am sure everybody's palette is different. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"[Removed by poster at 28/03/23 16:49:04]"
My ideal night out..
A few drinks and then walk to the Indian restaurant and have a couple more pints of cobra or kingfisher, before ordering a vindaloo, with rice and a naan to mop it all up.
Walk home collapse on the bed and pass out to sleep. It doesn't get much better than that. |
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I don't get this obsession with swilling pints of Cobra. Is there something good about it?
I don't really like drinking anything with meals, except an appropriate wine in extreme moderation.
My stomach hardly has the capacity to cope with reaaonable quantities of rice or dal accompanying the main dish without distending it with fizzy lager.
Another thing, Indian people I eat with don't eat poppadoms as a separate starter but usually crumble them onto the main dish being eaten and also take chutneys as an accompaniment to the curry.
I believe that the poppadum and chutney course was thought up by restaurants as a delaying gambit along with the first round of lager swilling while the main course is being prepared. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I don't get this obsession with swilling pints of Cobra. Is there something good about it?
I don't really like drinking anything with meals, except an appropriate wine in extreme moderation.
My stomach hardly has the capacity to cope with reaaonable quantities of rice or dal accompanying the main dish without distending it with fizzy lager.
Another thing, Indian people I eat with don't eat poppadoms as a separate starter but usually crumble them onto the main dish being eaten and also take chutneys as an accompaniment to the curry.
I believe that the poppadum and chutney course was thought up by restaurants as a delaying gambit along with the first round of lager swilling while the main course is being prepared."
Whenever I visit an Indian restaurant I feel pressured to order my food immediately.
They are always looking at me and hinting for me to place an order.
I wish I had more time for swilling pints of cobra down |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I don't get this obsession with swilling pints of Cobra. Is there something good about it?
I don't really like drinking anything with meals, except an appropriate wine in extreme moderation.
My stomach hardly has the capacity to cope with reaaonable quantities of rice or dal accompanying the main dish without distending it with fizzy lager.
Another thing, Indian people I eat with don't eat poppadoms as a separate starter but usually crumble them onto the main dish being eaten and also take chutneys as an accompaniment to the curry.
I believe that the poppadum and chutney course was thought up by restaurants as a delaying gambit along with the first round of lager swilling while the main course is being prepared.
Whenever I visit an Indian restaurant I feel pressured to order my food immediately.
They are always looking at me and hinting for me to place an order.
I wish I had more time for swilling pints of cobra down "
And yeah there is something good about it. It gets me d*unk and it makes the food go down all the nicer. |
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Whenever I visit an Indian restaurant I feel pressured to order my food immediately.
They are always looking at me and hinting for me to place an order.
I wish I had more time for swilling pints of cobra down
And yeah there is something good about it. It gets me d*unk and it makes the food go down all the nicer."
Can see the need not to be rushed but your pluralising of even one pint makes me think that our respective stomachs are poles apart in capacity and functionality!
Glad you enjoy it, anyway. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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Whenever I visit an Indian restaurant I feel pressured to order my food immediately.
They are always looking at me and hinting for me to place an order.
I wish I had more time for swilling pints of cobra down
And yeah there is something good about it. It gets me d*unk and it makes the food go down all the nicer.
Can see the need not to be rushed but your pluralising of even one pint makes me think that our respective stomachs are poles apart in capacity and functionality!
Glad you enjoy it, anyway."
Yeah I coupd drink 10+ pints and enjoy the food even more. Drinking alcohol after I've eaten is a different story though. |
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Whenever I visit an Indian restaurant I feel pressured to order my food immediately.
They are always looking at me and hinting for me to place an order.
I wish I had more time for swilling pints of cobra down
And yeah there is something good about it. It gets me d*unk and it makes the food go down all the nicer.
Can see the need not to be rushed but your pluralising of even one pint makes me think that our respective stomachs are poles apart in capacity and functionality!
Glad you enjoy it, anyway.
Yeah I coupd drink 10+ pints and enjoy the food even more. Drinking alcohol after I've eaten is a different story though."
Wow, 10+ pints? I would be so bloated will be flying up in the air like dumbo. Well before crashing down and making a big splash. A bit of a lightweight |
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Quite partial to a Thai red curry obviously not Indian but I like the flavours.
I prefer to go to a buffet place and have small portions of different dishes.
Love onion and spinach, mushroom.
And tandoori chicken skewers.
Lemon rice.
Lime chutney.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"What do you order?
I only realy like real Indian food in India nothing like what you get in the UK"
Is there anything better than Indian food in the UK? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Quite partial to a Thai red curry obviously not Indian but I like the flavours.
I prefer to go to a buffet place and have small portions of different dishes.
Love onion and spinach, mushroom.
And tandoori chicken skewers.
Lemon rice.
Lime chutney.
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Thai? On my list |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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"What do you order?
I only realy like real Indian food in India nothing like what you get in the UK
Is there anything better than Indian food in the UK?"
I prefer the uk versions, Indian food in India outside of tourist areas is quite basic , mostly meat on bone too.
I like Pakistani and Afghani food places like Desi and Kabul, basically out the high streets, cheap but not too cheap. If there’s just you and one or two other white people in the shop , you’re in the right place. If you’re the only white person, it’s possibly too cheap. |
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2 chicken curry’s, 3 portions of chips, 2 naan breads & poppadoms…..I know I’m a big fatty 
