Chinese or curry?

If cooking at home - Chinese.
If eating out - Indian Curry.

Favourite curry - Lamb Masaladar.......

erm....now that is a difficult one.
I do like spare ribs in capital sauce with deep fried shredded beef in chilli sauce, king prawn balls, duck chowmein with curry sauce and chips.

VS

Shami kebab,onion bargi + mint yoghurt, kheema nan,side salad, egg fried rice, lamb ghousht and chiccken tikka starter, popadoms and various dips.

eeeeeeeeeeeeer......... sorry spock i dont know the answer to that one!

How long will it be?

Stephen

My mouths watering. I'd still have the curry though. But the Chinese looked good as well.



Spock

Indian... Byrani (madrass hot)but just veg if it is a take away.

I used to have a shop on the high st (cosmetic not food). We had a big shed at the back. When we first moved in we were too scared to go in there: rats from the take away shops.

Sorry to put you all off. You've seen the programs on TV.......

I never buy a meat dish when having a take away.

veronika

Plain fish and chips is safe.

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Originally posted by Happy Chick:
Plain fish and chips is safe.

Yes, but it won't burn your arse

Spock

Tonight if I could choose it would be

Keema Nan, Pappadums plain & spicey, yoghurt cucumber, lime pickle, bombay spuds, pillau rice, lamb Madras or Korai Ghosh.

If this was a takeaway I'd have a Cobra or Kingfisher whilst I wait.

Hmmmm lovely

Spock

sorry - i forgot the lime pickel!

On a cold winters day i must admit - A full english breakfast is hard to beat.

Er... bacon well done and no snot on thee eggs, and leave the teabag in the cup. I hate tea luke warm, stewed an strong poured out of a teapot.

cheers.

I'm with LTD, if I'm cooking - Chinese, helps having a Mother who was born in Malaysia!!

But we do have a great local Indian take-away, a favourite for a friday night.....

Actually, we had a curry night out here (off-shore) last night, and it's still repeating on me....
Although I was having it for breakfast being on night shift!!

Cheers,
Ali

Yes

Think I prefer curry, at a pinch. Eating at home, I make a mean prawns and courgettes (which is close to a prawn vindaloo only it tastes nice), eating out I like a prawn/chicken/vegetable vindaloo or lamb madras.

A stir fry is nice though.

EW

Stephen in pompey - which Indian restaurants do you reccomend in and around Pompey??

My office is next door to probably one of the best Indian take-aways in Brighton, and in the summer when I have my Velux windows open, it gets to around 5.30 and the cooking smells start to waft in. It's torture. Curry nearly every time for me please - in fact, I'm out tomorrow night for a curry.

Curries are utterly disgusting pap. All flavoured mush with no texture or subtlety. Chinese for me every time.

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Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
Curries are utterly disgusting pap. All flavoured mush with no texture or subtlety.

Well there is that...

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Originally posted by Derek Wright:
Stephen in pompey - which Indian restaurants do you reccomend in and around Pompey??

Derek,

There are a few good ones, these are my favourite so far.(Award winners)

The indian cottage - albert road.
Curry naz - osbourne road.
Gandhi restaurant - kingstone road.
The saffron - kingstone road.
Indian palace - port solent.
Indian palace on the Quay - Gunwharf quays.

If you fancy chinese? restaurants not takeaways.
The fu ho - albert road.
Tangs - Elm grove road.
The china garden - Palmerston road.
The yellow river - gun wharf quays
Tin Tin - The hard.
Yanwoo - kingstone road.

These are ones ive tried and they are all good!
There are many more, but have yet to try them.

cheers,steve.

Give me a warm beef salad and a Red Thai any time. Failing that the ultimate Singapore Noodle will do the job.

I can see that this is going to be like "The Pizza Thread" of years back.

Stephen - many thanks
I think the only one on your list I have been to is the one at Port Solent - if it was once called Indian Cottage.

Have you tried the one at Bosham on the roundabout on the old A27

I have given Chineses so many chances to get it right and every time its been a dissapointment.

Normally tasteless and clearly bad for you. The only shining light was the Jade in Salisbury which specialised in Fish and you could see they had cooked it fresh. That was nice.

I have tried all round China Town as well, every time fucking disgusting.

Gary, you must have been to all the touristy places. Crispy Duck on the main pedestrian street is the closest in the UK I have tried to mainland Cantonese food.

Another recommendation is Royal China on Queensway, for the best Dim Sum I have tried in the UK.

At home my wife (who is Chinese) cooks amazing food. Soups in particular are memorable.

When abroad with colleagues I tend to avoid Chinese restaurants as I have so much great Chinese style food at home. Under those circumstances I'd go for a good curry. Didn't used to like curry, but it's something that I gradually became accustomed to.

For those who have not yet tried, there is a world of difference between Chinese take-aways/mainstream restaurants and the authentic cuisine or the restaurants popular with Chinese communities.

Andrew

Garyi,
The fragrant Fuchsia Dunlop seems all the rage and her knowledge of Sichuanese cookery gathered at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine in Chengdu are the flavours of moment. You might want to give one of her books a try and see if you like this style of Chinese cooking.

Indian, though I've come to sympathise with the 'spicy sludge' expression since I've been learning from a friend how to cook the proper stuff and rarely eat it when I'm out now.

A good Chinese is great, but most are awful.

Re Chinatown in London - it's for tourists who don't know bettter. Look around the surrounding streets and see where the Chinese are eating, ideally somewhere with vinyl seats and formica tabletops and you should get a cracking meal at bargain prices.

S