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I'm currently trying to decide what kind of takeaway to have later on tonight, leaning towards Indian as I always find it more filling.
However, what's your favourite and why? :)
leowyatt
05-12-2008, 19:10
Well I can't choose between the 2 but I'd say Friday night, Curry it should be :D
Only ever had 1 indian take away, as there's a decent chinese near me that I can walk to, but much prefer indian to chinese :D
Stan_Lite
05-12-2008, 19:12
I'm happy with either but I seem to eat a lot more Chinese than I do Indian. Possibly because the chinese at the bottom of the road is pretty good and gives mahooooosive portions.
I have voted accordingly.
Hope you enjoy it. Don't let the fact that I'm still stuck on the rig with no access to decent food for another week spoil your meal :p
/Jealous :(
Hope you enjoy it. Don't let the fact that I'm still stuck on the rig with no access to decent food for another week spoil your meal :p
/Jealous :(
*feels mild guilt......at least until the food arrives then I'll just feel full :p*
Lucky to have both a good Indian and a good Chinese. Only downside with the Indian is it's also a restaurant so it takes ages to get the food, plus the last couple of times the food's been a bit tepid by the time I've got home and it's only 5mins away :(
Going to get two dishes from wherever I go so that there's plenty for tomorrow too :D
Chinese because there's a decent one five minutes walk away. I'm not sure I've ever ordered an Indian takeaway from here even though I love Indian (I tend to pick up packs from Tescos, but it just isn't the same).
Stan_Lite
05-12-2008, 19:18
*feels mild guilt......at least until the food arrives then I'll just feel full :p*
:D
Going to get two dishes from wherever I go so that there's plenty for tomorrow too :D
I usually get soup, spare ribs, meal and noodles - that usually leaves even a chubby bloke something for the next day :D
Indian!
I hope Daz sees this and orders in tonight from Bombay Spice ;)
Hint hint hint
Much prefer Indian food. I do like Chinese food but most of the stuff you get is very poor quality, based on powders laced with MSG and other crap, plus there's not a huge choice if you don't eat meat.
I'm pretty sure that Chinese food is a trigger for migraine as well (for me).
I usually get soup, spare ribs, meal and noodles - that usually leaves even a chubby bloke something for the next day :D
That is quite a bit ;D
Last time for the Chinese, it was Chicken Chow Mein, Chicken in Garlic Sauce, two lots of Egg Fried Rice, two lots of chips and vegetable spring rolls.
The Indian I can't remember the name of one dish but it was Chicken Korma, another creamy curry, two lots of pilau rice, garlic naan, two lots of chips and onion bahjis.
That lasted two meals for two of us easily :D
I apologise for the chips, I know I shouldn't really :p However if it makes the snobs(:p) feel better, I never ever have chips when making a curry from scratch :D And yes making a curry from scratch does taste much nicer but it involves effort which isn't happening tonight ;D
I do fancy something different tonight so have to try a different dish whatever I go for I think. It is a little inconvenient I only like chicken and duck, narrows the options!
RESULT !!!
My curry has just arrived and the guy even had a free bottle of wine for us as it's their first aniversary :thumbsup:
We pay just £13.50, delivered, for a vegetarian banquet which is absolutely amazing for the price:
2x pilau rice
1x mushroom bhaji
1x bombay potato
1x vegetable tikka masala
1x vegetable rogan josh (with extra chilli)
poppadums and pickle
1x garlic naan
:D
Much prefer Indian food. I do like Chinese food but most of the stuff you get is very poor quality, based on powders laced with MSG and other crap, plus there's not a huge choice if you don't eat meat.
It's a fair cop gov. I have no doubt ours is laced with MSG but then again I think I'd actually have to pay for delivery if I went the Indian route.
I'd like to know a bit more about MSG use in Chinese food as I know nothing other than 'it happens'. Not suitable for this thread though. :)
And that Indian sounds nomtastic. I'm now hungry. Damn you. :p
RESULT !!!
My curry has just arrived and the guy even had a free bottle of wine for us as it's their first aniversary :thumbsup:
We pay just £13.50, delivered, for a vegetarian banquet which is absolutely amazing for the price:
2x pilau rice
1x mushroom bhaji
1x bombay potato
1x vegetable tikka masala
1x vegetable rogan josh (with extra chilli)
poppadums and pickle
1x garlic naan
:D
Sounds absolutely fantastic to me! Tempted to go for a vegetarian dish tonight. Indian food is certainly good for vegetarian options from what I've seen :)
I'm hungry now, shouldn't have started this thread yet as I'm not ordering for an hour or two ;D
Chinese!!! I could eat chinese every night :D
Only had 1 indian takeaway from around here, can't remember which one it was (there are bloody hundreds) and it wasn't particularly brilliant anyway so if I have another one it could prove an interesting gamble :/ I do enjoy a good indian but usually the only time I have it is ready meals ala tesco or when we've gone to one at a meet.
Chinese is my fave, but I'll eat an Indian if I have to.
Chinese is my fave, but I'll eat an Indian if I have to.
Ahh the good old infamous 'I'll shoot you and all your loved ones UNLESS you eat this curry' situation :D
I reckon it's going to be an Indian for me tonight. Once I've decided what I'm having, I'll post the selection to bore you/make you annoyingly hungry :p
Thank you internet for solving my uber difficult dilemma :D
Matblack
05-12-2008, 20:02
One of mine and Aitches favorites although you rarely see it
http://indianfood.about.com/od/chickendishes/r/achaarimurg.htm
Our local indian is very very good, not one of those shoddy counter places that look like a minicab office but a really nice place with a very modern menu, particularly like the lamb shank and the crab cakes :)
MB
One of mine and Aitches favorites although you rarely see it
http://indianfood.about.com/od/chickendishes/r/achaarimurg.htm
Oooh that sounds nice! Never heard of it before. Might have to have a go at making it sometime :)
TinkerBell
05-12-2008, 20:06
Indian 100% It is the best!! :D
Piggymon
05-12-2008, 20:16
Indian .. I LOVE curry ... and I also have chips ;)
NokkonWud
05-12-2008, 20:18
Roast Duck, Boiled Rice, Pineapple and Capital Sauce.
It's awesome.
Indian .. I LOVE curry ... and I also have chips ;)
:cool: \o/
Roast Duck, Boiled Rice, Pineapple and Capital Sauce.
It's awesome.
What's Pineapple and Capital Sauce? Never heard of it!
Del Lardo
05-12-2008, 21:08
Just ordered Indian. I always make sure there's a good curry house within 5 mins walk before I move anywhere :D
Greenlizard0
05-12-2008, 21:10
Indian!!!! DO IT!!
NokkonWud
05-12-2008, 21:13
Pineapple is simply pineapple chunks, Capital Sauce is a sauce that has many things in - I was once told when I worked in a Chinese, I know tomato, ketchup and some other stuff is in it, it's really nice.
Sounds bizarre! ;D
I've just placed my order:
Chicken Nawabi - Mildly curried chicken mixed with almonds, pistachio nuts and cream.
Chicken Korma
Sag Aloo
Onion Bahjis
Garlic Naan
Pilau Rice
and chips :p
Should do us both for tonight and tomorrow lunch too :D
Piggymon
05-12-2008, 22:00
yummy sag aloooooooooo :D
We always over order to have some lunch the next day :)
Our local indian is very very good, not one of those shoddy counter places that look like a minicab office but a really nice place with a very modern menu, particularly like the lamb shank and the crab cakes :)
Is that the one where Stan threw a chapati at me?
yummy sag aloooooooooo :D
We always over order to have some lunch the next day :)
It's the best way of doing it I think :D
Got to wait 45mins now :( Doh!
Yep, leftover curry in the morning - somehow tastes better than the night before.
I think it's because your taste buds are just waking up :D
Blighter
06-12-2008, 00:41
Indian is nicer bt there are toooo many down here. :(
i'll have a chinese more often as i'm a fan of more of the menu so will vary it more, though i do appreciate the rarer occasions where i get an indian.
it's a tough descsision, and depends very highly on where i'm staying that night. my GFs place has 1 nice chinese in delivery distance and 0 indians. mine is a different story. 1 cracking chinese and 3 good indians.
Me & him haven't actually ordered a curry or a chinese for just us since we've been living here. Only time we've ordered anything is when we've had people over and even then that's not often. Shocking!!
Indian wins hats down for me though. There look to be a few nice ones in the area too, so we must try one out at some point. Last night I made beef rogan josh and it was absolutely gorgeous. Cooked it for 1 1/2 hours until it was really tender. NOM!!!
Piggymon
06-12-2008, 10:39
We're going to an Indian Buffet tomorrow... I'm un-naturally excited ! :o
semi-pro waster
06-12-2008, 10:43
I'd definitely have to go with Indian on this one as there's more choice and usually it tastes on a par with what I can cook myself or better, I don't mind Chinese but I actually prefer my own attempts at stirfry to the ones you get as a takeout.
Greenlizard0
06-12-2008, 17:21
Chicken sag aloo is a gift from the gods. *drools*
Voted Chinese, you can always find good curry. However finding a Chinese that is not just a plate of MSG is harder.
Only ever had 1 indian take away, as there's a decent chinese near me that I can walk to, but much prefer indian to chinese :D
Who, what, where..... tell me more :D I know of the one in Havengore and Torquay road. Is there one near the Springfield Arms/Green signed place?
It's the havengore one I had in mind. A bit expensive but very nice (except the sweet and sour chicken which is greasy as hell :().
There's no both option!! Doh!
They both have their merits... I ended up voting for chinese though as nothing EVER beats duck in pancake rolls with hoisin sauce. I could eat that every day without fail.
Plus crab meat soup.
Proper Chinese food is awesome too. Mmmmmmmmm Chinese Dumplings!
Though the problem with CHinese takeaway food is that it can be quite greasy. And it's always twice the price of Indian with less food. Plus, sometimes it just doesn't fill me up. I can eat loads... and within an hour again I could have another 5 helpings!
Indian though... well when I was younger I used to work in an INdian Takeaway (taking calls and sometimes cooking too! Was fun!) and I LOVED how dishes would fuse together! The smells were so aromatic.... really quite amazing. The tastes... they're AMAZING! I love juicy tandoori chicken and lamb... I love it!
However... it is SO filling. It makes me stuffed so easily - the dishes tend to be very heavy and sometimes I just don't fancy feeling like a beached whale. Plus I've seen what goes into some of the dishes and I don't know how I don't have a heart failure when I nom them.
Plus it makes Picky extra stinky.
SOooo chinese... maybe pips it. I can eat LOADS of it and get stuffed or I can have some soup and feel all nommed up and scrummy :)
Man. I want some duck :(
Von Smallhausen
07-12-2008, 15:18
Indian.
Chinese is good but the vast majority of takeaways use MSG which invariably leads to the Jimmy Smitts.
Indian, obviously :)
Apparently curry makes me fart a lot. Can't say that I really care about it but a certain someone does.
Though the problem with CHinese takeaway food is that it can be quite greasy. And it's always twice the price of Indian with less food. Plus, sometimes it just doesn't fill me up. I can eat loads... and within an hour again I could have another 5 helpings!
Indian though... well when I was younger I used to work in an INdian Takeaway (taking calls and sometimes cooking too! Was fun!) and I LOVED how dishes would fuse together! The smells were so aromatic.... really quite amazing. The tastes... they're AMAZING! I love juicy tandoori chicken and lamb... I love it!
However... it is SO filling. It makes me stuffed so easily - the dishes tend to be very heavy and sometimes I just don't fancy feeling like a beached whale. Plus I've seen what goes into some of the dishes and I don't know how I don't have a heart failure when I nom them.
Our Chinese is cheaper than the Indian :D By quite a lot too.
But you're right, Indian food does seem much more filling than Chinese.
I suppose Indian is more filling is largely due to the nan bread. Damnit, I want a peshwari nan now!
Piggymon
07-12-2008, 20:46
I ate lots of Indian earlier and paid, including drinks, £10 ! :D
Von Smallhausen
07-12-2008, 20:48
Did the police catch you ? :p
Piggymon
07-12-2008, 20:49
Sssssh ;)
Von Smallhausen
07-12-2008, 21:02
Sssssh ;)
Curry up and popaddom back to settle the bill.
* applause *
Piggymon
07-12-2008, 21:02
*groans* ;)
Von Smallhausen
07-12-2008, 21:03
Indian lager goes tremendously with Indian food.
Ice cold Kingfisher is hard to beat.
Nice attempt to divert attention from the, erm, joke there. :p ;D
Foiled.
Von Smallhausen
07-12-2008, 21:28
I better withdraw from this argument before there is too much argy bhaji.
So there is at least 1 BiB that has a sense of humour. Flawed though it is :)
Admiral Huddy
08-12-2008, 11:00
I'm really begining to hate chinese takaway. I doubt they are really authentic and the dry taste it leaves afterwards make me feel ill.
I doubt they are really authentic
I never assumed for a minute that they were.
I'm really begining to hate chinese takaway. I doubt they are really authentic and the dry taste it leaves afterwards make me feel ill.
That's the huge quantities of salt and MSG.
Indian food can also have a lot of salt in it but you're fine as long as you drink plenty of water. Chinese takeaway food really makes me thirsty though, much more so than Indian food - probably accounts for the almost guaranteed headache the next day.
I never assumed for a minute that they were.
Me neither. Indian takeaways rarely are, or at least are nothing like the curries my friend's Indian Mum cooks :)
I've never noticed huge amounts of salt in either our chinese or indian takeaways and I'm usually very sensitive to it as I don't put salt in any of my cooking. Can't stand the stuff as it makes me so thirsty so quickly, but I've not noticed it there. Maybe I'm lucky with ours :D
Both are great, but it's much easier finding a nice indian.
the state of takeaways in Bristol is appalling. I'm amazed how 80% of them stay in business. I just can't believe people go back there.
even fish & chip and kebbab shops are rubbish. how hard is it to cook some marinaded meat chunks on a grill with out burning it to hell and serve in a pitta with fresh salad.
Or cook fish without drying it out and making batter that is chrunchy.
Also why the hell do chip shops use vegetable oil. It has no taste. Chips should be done in dripping..
restaurants in the uk appear to be improving and yet the humble takeaway that we used to be great at, has totally gone down the pan.
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