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We get pakora in England.

Saag paneer=lushest

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think basically any dish is nice if cooked well, and horrid if not. Sorry, that's very fun advice.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i had tandoori mushrooms and paneeri naan last night, soooo good. and a mouthful of my gf's rogan josh but i was too full to eat any more..

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, man, I forgot pakora as well! I find though, that there's a definite range to the types of pakora available... We live just down the street from Toronto's Indian Bazaar, and thus have access to a bunch of excellent and cheap restaurants; every so often though they have a street fair, and just have a bunch of tasting booths set up next to fashion shows and bands, etc. I got to try 4 or 5 different types of pakora ranging from ones heavy on the chickpea flour to ones that were filled with veg with just the flour holding the veg together...I preferred those, otherwise they're just spongy dumplings. Of course you have to have the pakora with yummyspicysweetsauce and raw onions. Mmmmm, I'm hungry now.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a bit odd that no one has mentioned onion bahjees yet. Done well, they're delicious. Usually they're greasy, stodgy face fillers, unfortunately.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

any nyc south indian recommendations?

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

what are the major differences between the cuisines of the south and north?

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I want my lassi served to me by Ayesha Dharkar while I recline on the back of a passive elephant in the forest.

I want mine served to me by Lindsay Lohan in a suite at Chateau Marmont.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

South Indian tends to be more vegetarian, I think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

South tends to be more delicately flavoured, drier and has more veggie stuff. More coconut as well.

xpost

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

There's kind of a joke in my last post, but I think it's over even my own head.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Northern stuff tends to have those heavy sauces most people associated with Indian food.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Although chaat is the Northern/Punjabi version of bhel poori. Drummond Street in London behind Euston and most of Tooting and Wembley have great vegetarian South Indian or (in Wembley) that and Gujerati. We went to Chutneys last night and had:

Bhel and panni poori
Muttar panir
Paper dosa
Paneer dosa
Veg karahi

The dosas came with sambal and amazing coconut chutney. I had poori bread and there were also chapatis. It was incredible. This place used to be a shithole, mind, but they've had improvements and a renovation.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 15 October 2004 09:27 (twenty-one years ago)

dosas go really well with red bull

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Chutneys do a fairly good buffet each lunchtime too

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The pakora in Glasgow are totally different to the ones down south. Here, they tend to be made of Breast Of Chicken.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Do they? I thought that was just one of the varieties. Maybe I am spoiled by the place over the road.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't stand chicken tikka masala. It tastes like a bottle of Heinz ketchup was poured into it. I tend to prefer more onion/spinach based curries than tomato ones.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 15 October 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't stand chicken tikka masala. It tastes like a bottle of Heinz ketchup was poured into it.

Isn't that what it actually is?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

and some heinz mayonnaise too

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

every paneer except muttar is totally delicious. i might like that one, too, if it werent for the peas.

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I esp. like:
saag panir
malai kofta
panir makhni
vegetable biryani
some breakfast stuff my aunt who's lived in India makes, with rice and raisins and I don't remember what else

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ten months pass...

Today for lunch I have ordered:

Chana Sag EXTRA SPICY
Keema Naan (stuffed with ground lamb and spices [YESSS!!!])
Basmati Rice
Mint chutney
Onion chutney

Actually, maybe after this is done I will post it to ipso fatso.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

i like that roxymuzak is totally not a vegetarian at all anymore

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

panir makhni! keep it coming. yes, i'll take another taj mahal please thank you.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Haha, slowly but surely. Krystals were the last straw. Actually, i think a corn dog was the last straw.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I tried to organize dinner tonight at an Indian restaurant I've been dying to try, but everyone's either out of town or just doesn't want to go. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

oh dear it's that one that ruther never ate.

i still haven't had a corn dog, to date. (even though i bought one)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Indian corn dogs. Yum.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Go it alone! I love eating out alone.

xposts You've never had a corndog!? I'm ashamed of this, as a South Knoxvillian who had you as a guest. FedEx on the way.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

i had a...i want to say frozen but it's not actually, it's in a box and it's microwaveable though...dal makhini and it was pretty ok.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

This chana is fucking delicious. And it's actually very hot! They're finally trusting that I can take it. It's actually kind of reminiscient of a Hilmarton, Ken. Haven't tried the Naan yet.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh my god, oh my god. The keema naan is like a giant, flat, mustardless KRYSTAL.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

xposts You've never had a corndog!? I'm ashamed of this, as a South Knoxvillian who had you as a guest. FedEx on the way.

yeah that's because the one i BOUGHT was GIVEN away as a GIFT to someone who didn't even EAT IT. :(

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, that was lame of him. Apparently he "doesn't like corndogs anymore".

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

My proposal for an Indian corndog (the Kormadog):
Made of spiced lamb, and encased in whatever it is that samosas are encased in, and then fried. Dipped into various chutneys.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Ken, remember when we were at that Indian restaurant that served dished with either chicken or GHOST

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

disheds

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I go to see movies by myself all the time, but eating alone at a nice restaurant always depresses me. All the other tables are being all convivial, and I'm sitting there reading the fucking Onion or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Was given the opportunity to go to lovely Brick Lane dinner last night with Kate's buddies. Lots of curry muggers on Brick Lane touting 25 per cent off deals if you went to their place, but I preferred to pay full price at the Shampan, my restaurant of choice. They have lots of awesome Bangladeshi dishes, to wit:

Biran mass shatkora (fish dish)
Some spinach/bean combo snarfed by Kate

Alas no batera tandoori - dem's QUAILS.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

you mean the Clifton? haha the ghost meal wasn't very substantial was it?

Yeah, that was lame of him. Apparently he "doesn't like corndogs anymore".

how about tell him that Apparently, WHATEV'

indian kormadog sounds a lot like a samosa... jalfrazi

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

The ghost meal left me feeling a little unfilfilled, yes!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

And the pic you posted upthread has a variation of ghost on it as well:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/brain.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

chicken vindaloo
mulligatawny soup
stuffed chickpea poori
raita
lemon pickle

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 3 September 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

i just had me some palak paneer (from a box, yay trader joe's).

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 September 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm here with Ruther now, and he'd like me to post a retraction in re: the corndog misquote I made above. He says that he definitely loves corndogs, and that perhaps what I was thinking is that he said he doesn't love them AS MUCH as some people might think, i.e., not as much as his family.

He wants me to add that he "had one on the way up here [Knoxville]".

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

i'd just like to post an appendix to my post above.

WHATEV'

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I'm taking my mom and dad out for indian food for the first time. Like me, dad will eat anything. But mom can't eat anything that is spicy or peppery in the SLIGHTEST! Not even a hint of a kick. What is the most boring, tame, unspicy, unexotic thing I should tell her to order...

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 27 December 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

Korma or passanda. Both creamy and mild.

― chap, Saturday, 27 December 2008 18:06 (seventeen years ago)

Tikka masala is also pretty tame, but is basically an anglo asian invention as I understand it, which you might not be able to find outside of the UK.

― chap, Saturday, 27 December 2008 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

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