Job done, Si 👍🏻

There’s no way that meal was ever served in Ireland - only one potato and no spring onions for starters.

25 days later

Aiight Butty Brains, pay attention; this is how food is done proper.

Pasta on a fucking pizza? Christ alive

This is how we eat every day.

a month later

zackster ‘Chicken fried’ is a concept we are familiar with, as for thirty years pretty much every British town has had a crap slice of Americana restaurant.

Deep frying stuff in batter is stuff we’re already ledging.

What we are still genuinely learning from the seppos is how to make a quality burger, which these British ‘gourmet burger’ type restaurants etc really don’t get. Brit restaurant/gastropub owners think a quality burger is a massive slab of expensive beef made into a dry undigestible slab, topped mile high with a load of shite toppings, in a brioche bun with a stick or worse a fucking steak knife put in the top to hold it all together.

What Americans know is a great burger should be a double cheeseburger (patty smashed down with a spatula to get the brown crispy umami flavour on the edge) in suitable bun, possibly topped with a couple of thinly sliced pickles, tomatoes and a tiny bit of lettuce and some burger sauce. Hold in the bag with fat, melted cheese and sauce oozing into a sealed corner. Shake Shack and Fatburger or even any non-descript burger van at a fair in the US are excellent. Most burger places in the UK are total dogshit.

    The good food around here is just regional versions of other’s food - Mexican, Korean, et cetera. One thing nobody can get right is Indian. I’m sure the high end places are good and I’d bet there are some spots in the South Bay/SV given the large Indian tech population, but not great around here for a solid takeout spot. I mean, it’s fine - edible - but nothing to write home about.

      jonattonyeah I mean, it’s fine - edible - but nothing to write home about.

      Why would you write home about it? Are you Indian?

      Jonathan Brownwater of Uttar Pradesh.

          Living Tooting I am exposed to the finest Indian cuisine in the world.

            BlainSA

            Yeah it’s bad by frankly any comparison. Which I guess just means it’s bad. I’ll also take back my thought that maybe Silicon Valley has good Indian. Not a chance. Too expensive. No chance of staffing. Why bother even trying.

                Smallman1 India itself missing out on top spot with Ed there. Pipped to post by the likes of Bengaluru Bites across the road from the tube station

                  The top 3 places in the world for Indian Cuisine?

                  1 - Tooting Broadway
                  2 - Leicester
                  3 - Bradford

                  • Dan replied to this.

                    Top 3 places in the world for fish & chips?

                    1. Kerala
                    2. Goa
                    3. Manipur