Indian by a mile when it comes to curry. The only thing Chinese curry is good for is the sauce to go over your chips or soak into a prawn cracker
Where do you get your curry?
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Also, Friday night is more Kebab night, Indian and Chinese should be saved for a Saturday
I tend to make my own if I want something authentic, the takeaway variants are mostly based around a sauce they make beforehand ladelled with gallons of oil (you'll often see this more when you get a takeaway where the oil will start to separate until you serve and mix it back in again).
Nothing wrong with them though, still tasty and the method they use with the base sauce makes every curry nice and quick to make.
However, I much prefer a curry made from scratch without the base sauce, where I can control the oil content so there is just enough for the spices to flavour the oil.
Only drawback with fresh is having to pick out all the cardamoms, cloves, star anise etc. before you serve.
Nothing wrong with them though, still tasty and the method they use with the base sauce makes every curry nice and quick to make.
However, I much prefer a curry made from scratch without the base sauce, where I can control the oil content so there is just enough for the spices to flavour the oil.
Only drawback with fresh is having to pick out all the cardamoms, cloves, star anise etc. before you serve.
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A Turkish kebab. My colleague’s late husband is Turkish and gave me a couple of takeaways recommendations. There’s one a few minutes away me and sometimes the wind comes in that direction and it’s mouthwatering.
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Wtf is actually wrong with you? Getting a massive hit of cardamom when you bite into a pod is one of the highlights of a home made curry
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Wind and kebabs is like bread and jam.
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Maybe cheesefest likes it.
Guarantee you eat loads of the stuff without knowing it.Mmmm... with a side helping of MSG.
No thanks.
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I grew up close to Bradford/Leeds where good curry is made.
I now live in a small town down south where there are 3 Indians. They are all pretty meh.
If we want a takeaway there's one that delivers suspiciously quickly. They always say on the phone that it'll be 45 minutes but, every time, without fail, they're at the door within 20 minutes. It's a 30 second drive (yeah we're lazy). The main dishes are obviously reheated in the microwave. Tastes alright though.
If we want to eat out 2 of the Indians are restaurants. Neither of them are particularly good. One goes into meltdown and can't cope if there's more than 2 tables occupied. The other one used to be good but the food is now very bland and the waiters are annoyingly over-friendly & talkative.
If we travel up north to see my folks my wife usually insists we stop off on the way in Bradford or Leeds for a curry. We get to my mum & dads house late in the evening, reeking of curry, pretending that the motorway traffic is the reason we arrived late.
I've been known to cook curries and they taste alright I reckon.
I now live in a small town down south where there are 3 Indians. They are all pretty meh.
If we want a takeaway there's one that delivers suspiciously quickly. They always say on the phone that it'll be 45 minutes but, every time, without fail, they're at the door within 20 minutes. It's a 30 second drive (yeah we're lazy). The main dishes are obviously reheated in the microwave. Tastes alright though.
If we want to eat out 2 of the Indians are restaurants. Neither of them are particularly good. One goes into meltdown and can't cope if there's more than 2 tables occupied. The other one used to be good but the food is now very bland and the waiters are annoyingly over-friendly & talkative.
If we travel up north to see my folks my wife usually insists we stop off on the way in Bradford or Leeds for a curry. We get to my mum & dads house late in the evening, reeking of curry, pretending that the motorway traffic is the reason we arrived late.
I've been known to cook curries and they taste alright I reckon.
Mmmm... with a side helping of MSG.
No thanks.
MSG is great, gtfo. It's also naturally occurring in most foods.
Not a fan of curry and not bored of Chinese. Pizza however. Nomilicious
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More importantly, why do people still believe it's bad for you, wasn't that myth perpetuated in the 90s?
The problem with MSG (in relation to takeaway at least) is that it's often used to cover up an otherwise flavourless dish
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Couldn't agree more.More importantly, why do people still believe it's bad for you, wasn't that myth perpetuated in the 90s?
The problem with MSG (in relation to takeaway at least) is that it's often used to cover up an otherwise flavourless dish
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Dread to think what sort of Chinese restaurant does curry sauce… never seen it anywhere before!
Is it a North / South thing? Nearly every Chinese does curry up here.
Having recently spent some time oop norf, Middlesbrough to be exact, the food standards there are weird AF.
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I’ve never seen a Chinese menu that doesn’t have curry on it, anywhere in the country.
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Don't mind a Chinese curry. Prefer to make my own with paste than get a takeaway, that way I can have some extra spice, ginger and garlic. Goldfish is the brand I usually use
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Its funny I don't remember there ever being curry dishes at the Chinese apart from chips in curry sauce, had a look at the menus local to where I grew up and they all serve it...maybe its always been like that.