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Zackers ordering 2 sausage pasties 😂👍

rhouses

Cankles-McJeggings God no. Roti, Naan, Paratha, shouldn’t be anywhere near rice. They’re meant for gravy, kebabs, and “sabji” dishes.

Anything flies with folks who take in pride sandwiches filled with french fries and ketchup. So I mean… hahaha.

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rhouses

Haha I’ve failed miserably. I did it last week infact.
Lamb Biriani a bit of chickpea curry and some chicken balti all wrapped up in a roti 😂😂
Have to say it was fucking immense too!

rhouses

Cankles-McJeggings That doesn’t sound half bad to be fair. But ideally, it should be biryani + gravy + raita, and roti + chicken balti. Not some heathen mish mash of it all in one roll.

The chickpea curry should really go with a puri/battura, but it’s acceptable if you have it with the roti or even mix it up with the biryani (though that’s not really purist).

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rhouses

What is your definition of gravy?

I don’t feel quite so bad now. I wasnt under any illusion it was acceptable it’s just the fastest vehicle to get it all into the hole. They all complemented one another too somehow.

What would you use a paratha with ? And what is the correct use for a naan? Seems like there are lots of rules. In blighty on a Friday night there are no rules😂 Youd probably look something like this 😱

rhouses

Cankles-McJeggings In India every time you order a biryani, they’ll send a side of raita and a side of a standard chicken curry, but just the gravy, no meat.

Meat dishes are generally split into three versions - gravy (butter chicken, kerala stew), semi-gravy (balti), or dry (mostly kebabs - chicken tikka, malai kebabs, achari, tandoori chicken, sheek kebabs, kerala beef).

Naan is for North Indian dishes - butter chicken, kebabs (Delhi, Lucknow).
Paratha or Appams or Idliis or Dosas are for South Indian dishes. (Kerala, Tamil Nadu)
Roti can be had with anything really. (Pan India)
^None of these should be combined with rice.

Puris/Batturas are made exclusivly for dry masala pototos or chikpea curry.

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Very informative and interesting rhouses cheers. I’d guess 99% of Brits would not be aware of this either. Never heard of Appams or idiis! Just looked them up.
Not even sure you can order a chicken curry sans chicken in England 😂

rhouses

Cankles-McJeggings You were in Kerala and didn’t have appams? Reason enough to make another trip.

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rhouses

I honestly can’t remember. Looking at them I think I probably thought they were dosas. We were staying in somewhere where everything was under silver dome things keeping warm some of the time , the rest of the time we went on those house boat jobbies round canals where we had our own chef and stopped off at places. The beach was fish kind of things . Was all amazing. Don’t think we had a single thing we didn’t like the entire trip.

Old-Dutch

The naan should only ever be used to mop up the baked beans, Dermo

Millsy

Where do Indians stand on chips with curry? Or an omelette if you ’don’t do spicy’?

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Millsy

My mum in an Indian 😂😂 Steak and chips please.

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Millsy

This time back in blighty my local chippy had 3 different types of chip shop curry!! Unheard of. I didn’t even know which one I wanted or previously liked. Chips, curry, fishcake on top 👍

rhouses

Millsy Curry sauce over ketchup any day of the week.

I have a masala omelette with my biryani order, allll the time.

bosstrabs

Not Indian, but I remember being out in Manchester and sat next to a family of four (a man, a woman and the woman’s parents) from one of these backwards Lancashire shitholes in a Thai restaurant and overhearing their conversation at various points.

It basically consisted of the dad just going “orr norr… they carn’t eat food this spicy every day… are yer seriously tellin me that t’Thais eat food this spicy all t’time? nah… yer havin me on” and the mum fanning her mouth going “it’s burnin me mouth!” for about twenty minutes.

What were they having? Pad grapao.

Eventually the mum gave up and ordered omelette and chips.

Millsy

bosstrabs lol. My in laws are a similar breed of folk. I offer them some bean to cup coffee and it’s like I’ve asked them to drink Domestos. ‘No thanks, do you still have that jar of Mellow Birds?’

BlainSA

bosstrabs What were they having? Pad grapao.

Are you saying it’s not a spicy dish?

rhouses

bosstrabs Is this the dish with pork mince and birds eye chillis over rice and fried egg on top? We refer to it as Kaprow. Really easy to make if you have thai basil.

Mark Wiens’ restaurant is another bucket list item, but I’m going “normal” when i do.

https://phedmark.com/

Smallman1

Had an Indian with Snr on Tuesday.

Rice and naan included!

hugopal

Smallman1 Had an Indian with Snr on Tuesday.
Rice and naan included!

You can’t eat butter, but you can eat ghee?!?!

seanc80

Smallman1 Had an Indian with Snr on Tuesday.

Rice and naan included!

So there were 4 of you?

bosstrabs

BlainSA Are you saying it’s not a spicy dish?

No, it is a spicy dish and therefore fucking stupid to order for one of your parents if they weren’t used to Thai food.

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hugopal

So many inconsistencies. There’s only one way to solve it. Hold him down and feed him a Dairy Lea.
Sit back. Observe.

Smallman1

hugopal You can’t eat butter, but you can eat ghee?!?!

No butter or ghee gets specified on my keema naan Hugo worry not!

Smallman1

seanc80 So there were 4 of you?

A bants fail for Sean.

Tbf he’s normally mustard so gets a pass.

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