Indian food

[robmiller]

How odd, a curry sends me right to sleep.

Same. I always get that bloaty satisfied feeling and want a doze

 

[Zip]

Maybe your Just anxious and your brain is subconsciously thinking "Oooo this is going to burn on its way out"

And that is keeping you awake at night

 

[Rich_L]

Argh these food threads aren't helping, cooped up in work and frickin' starving! Anyone know any good Chinese/Indian delivery places who deliver to EC3?

 

[kmistry]

I used to order from a place called "seven stars" in south london.....best chinese takeaway i've had in my life....you could try ringing them

 

[themistry]

Well its a trade-off isn't it. You either have proper spices and bad meat or decent meat and e numbers.

Either way it looks like runny poo

You sound like the guy who can't handle his vindaloo so gets all defence, we all know you love it but it makes you go all red and sweaty, you big softie.

 

[Zip]

You sound like the guy who can't handle his vindaloo so gets all defence, we all know you love it but it makes you go all red and sweaty, you big softie.

Vindaloo is for Show offs trying to impress girls

 

[Gilly]

You sound like the guy who can't handle his vindaloo so gets all defence, we all know you love it but it makes you go all red and sweaty, you big softie.

Fraid not

Curry tastes, smells and looks disgusting in all the forms I've encountered

 

[aardvark]

I have a small problem everytime i have an indian takeaway or meal i have a problem where i can`t get to sleep untill 3-4am after is there something in them that could keep me awake?
Unless the local indian takeaway hates me and is spiking my food with something i have know idea what it its.

i'm the same and so don't eat indians anymore. Indian food (restaurant or takeaway) is pretty much the only food that does this to me.

my mate reckons its probably the ghee they use in the food.

 

[themistry]

Vindaloo is for Show offs trying to impress girls

Well, im actually indian, so I don't eat that pseudo islamic-english food either

It annoys me that this food is called "indian" when its totally and utterly made by Pakistani people to cater for the english. I will admit that these days at a good reasturant (aagrah... mmm) its tastes loverly, but its not indian.

Then again i suppose if people were heard to be saying "im going for a ****" it prolly wouldn't go so well lol

If the last be is too brash please edit it, its totally meant as a joke,

Taz

 

[Cybermyk]

i'm the same and so don't eat indians anymore. Indian food (restaurant or takeaway) is pretty much the only food that does this to me.

my mate reckons its probably the ghee they use in the food.

Ghee is just clarified butter so it shouldn't have any effect really. Some restaurants do use hydrogenated vegetable oils as a ghee substitute, I wouldn't knowingly eat that if I could help it.

 

[aardvark]

Ghee is just clarified butter so it shouldn't have any effect really. Some restaurants do use hydrogenated vegetable oils as a ghee substitute, I wouldn't knowingly eat that if I could help it.

its certainly something in indian food that isn't in any other type of food - i had many indian takeaways before i could conclusively pin it down, but its definitely something in the food that makes me feel bad - i'm suprised there is someone else like me - people look at me weird when i tell them why i won't be coming for a curry


having said that, i have also identified 2 other foods which make me feel bad in the same way - my local fish and chips, and tesco aberdeen angus minced beef pastry pie - bizzare i know but there is an obvious physical (and mental) effect when eating these foods.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

i'm the same and so don't eat indians anymore. Indian food (restaurant or takeaway) is pretty much the only food that does this to me.

my mate reckons its probably the ghee they use in the food.

right i own an indian restaurany and i have never ever heard of this, but what i will say is spicy food makes your temperature rise, therefore your metabolism rises, therefore you burn more energy, also i dont understand what gilly means by "bad meat" all restaurants get their meat delivered from very big companies, not just your local dodgy butcher, and when your are ordering thousands of pounds worth of meat every week, and these deliveries take place up to 5 days a week, the meat is prepared then refrigerated, so im basically getting fresh meat delivered nearly everyday from a big company, its prepared straight away, its always refrigerated sometimes on the rare occasion frozen (ordered too much) basically you are slating all indian food on your basis of not liking curries, in all of my years eating from indian restaurants (i only go to the ones where i know the owners because they are friends/ relatives of my family) i have never ever had dodgy food, as for the food colouring i totally disagree with it, but the reason it is there is because all the "british" people want it there, ive had complaints from people saying why doesnt this curry look so red (last time they ordered the same curry this time they ordered it less colouring was used) and complain there wasnt enough colouring and didnt look nice. i would personally like to get rid of food colouring because the amount we use every week is expensive and is costing me money to please you non-indians, also had someone complain once that their curry didnt use chicken tikka pieces but was normal chicken because i told the chef to stop using so much colouring to turn them ORANGE, chicken in my opinion should be white but this customer wanted hers to be bright orange, as you can see the customer is always right and until you all want healthier cheaper food this is the way your curries will continue to be made, i know all aspects of indian cooking, my curries are made "home-made style" they taste 100 times nicer than "british" style even if its the same curry being made but the thing is with no red colouring they dont look appealing to the british consumer

 

[aardvark]

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don't get me wrong - i like indian food, but i can't eat it as it has this effect on me. I don't know what is causing it but it has happened everytime i ate it.

 

[Mechanical Arts]

I love Indian food and it never gives me any problems. I don't get take aways and I usually go to an indian restaurant ever month or two.

 

[themistry]

right i own an indian restaurant

are you actually indian!! where's your restaurant?

Taz

 

[Gilly]

also i dont understand what gilly means by "bad meat"

Curry was invented to mask the taste of bad meat.

 

[welshtom]

I think i am mildly addicted to chicken madras

 

[Gilly]

There's a lad in the office addicted to spicy foods. It hurts him to eat it, but he can't stop. He puts stupidly hot sauce on everything, and his doc told him to stop eating curry altogether. He said to us the week after 'I've only had 3 curries this week'.

It was thursday.

 

[welshtom]

it burns so much sometimes, but i have to eat it

 

[Tinders]

Well, im actually indian, so I don't eat that pseudo islamic-english food either

It annoys me that this food is called "indian" when its totally and utterly made by Pakistani people to cater for the english. I will admit that these days at a good reasturant (aagrah... mmm) its tastes loverly, but its not indian.

Then again i suppose if people were heard to be saying "im going for a ****" it prolly wouldn't go so well lol

If the last be is too brash please edit it, its totally meant as a joke,

Taz

Considering the curry was indian in its original inception, then its right to call it indian (as pakistan was once part of india).

Its right that most curries in this country are either prepared by Pakistani's,bangladeshi's or bengali's, i dont think i have ever come across a 'indian' curry house.

Thing with curries is tho, you cant actually 'taste' the meat like you can with meats in other types of dishes, british and french food focus on the meat more than the sauce, and gilly is right that the original idea of a curry to mask the bad meat.