INDIAN FOOD!

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You can't get beef in Indian resturants, by the way, on account of cows being sacred in India.

― Pedant Wooden (Wooden), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Some Muslim restaurants are renegade though.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost: That's partly true since it pertains only to the Hindus; the Muslims in the west have no problem with it. [FWIW: India has the 2nd highest Muslim population in the world (something like 140M) next to Indonesia.]

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link

you know that whole sacred thing cow apparently has nothing do to with Hindu scripture - it more of an arachaic/symbolic thing due to the importance of cows in cultivating the land and hence in people's livelihoods.

some author in India presented this analysis in a book a few years ago and had a Hindu fatwa taken against him.

I'm just glad the BJP lost that last election.

Menu:
keema naan
plain naan
basmati rice
paneer and peas
cobra beer
my mum's samosas

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Saag paneer
Aloo gobi
Veg biryani
Naan tandoor

(Taking sides: saag paneer with the runny cheesiness vs with hardish cubes. Also taking sides: saag paneer vs palak paneer.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i prefer a happy medium between runny cheesiness and nardish cubes, which i think is achieved by good preparation i.e good cooks.

what's palak? saag is spinach right

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently the same thing!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

brain massala

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

i prefer the firmish cubes. (take THAT out of context, ilxors!)

― Cynthia Nixon Now More Than Ever (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Hindu Fatwa is probably tastier and more filling, but I'll bet Muslim Fatwa is better in hot weather, especially the cucumbers.

― andy, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i like chilled monkey brains

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

This evening: King Prawn Balti, light on the saag, sadly.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

lamb rogan
balti ada chicken

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 14 October 2004 07:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i am eating indian for breakfast

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Poppadoms
Spiced Onions
Garlic Naan
South Indian Garlic Chilli Chicken/Chicken Tikka Punjabi

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 14 October 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, this Northern Indian hegemony has to stop!

My favorite Indian stuff is "chaat" (street food of Bombay and Delhi), the two basic building blocks of which are crispy dough of some kind and chutney. It's essentially a big mixed salad that can be both sweet and spicy, with yogurt, or veg, or a crazy mix of things. Some places that specialize in chaat will have maybe 20 different varieties to choose from.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Chilled monkey brains, though popular in cantonese cuisine, is not often found in Washinton D.C.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:37 (nineteen years ago) link

brain masala was on the menu in Chicago. (on that street with a load of indian stuff next to the street with a lot of jewish stuff... State?)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:49 (nineteen years ago) link

in fact, i took a picture

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

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 14 October 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

idli and sambar and dosa (south indian staples) are yuck.

north indian style rules. especially chick peas and puri.

and mango kulfi.

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

idli and sambar and dosa (south indian staples) are yuck.

insanity

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm curious about this south indian food

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

How could you not like a dosa??

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link

mutter paneer (ie cheesy peas!)

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

South Indian Garlic Chilli Chicken

Seconded. And get some mixed pakora to kick start your tongue (though pakora, I think, may fall into the "only available in Scotland" category of "Indian").

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

muttar paneer = lush

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

We get pakora in England.

Saag paneer=lushest

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 14 October 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

any nyc south indian recommendations?

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

South Indian tends to be more vegetarian, I think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 October 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 15 October 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

dosas go really well with red bull

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Chutneys do a fairly good buffet each lunchtime too

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 October 2004 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

and some heinz mayonnaise too

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 15 October 2004 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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I made a random curry out of what I had to use up, last night. Had it for lunch again today for a double dose of ginger and garlic! Begone, foul cold and sinus congestion!

― It means why you gotta be a montague? (Laurel), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link

now i need a samoza for back pain

― Dr Morbois de Bologne (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link

two months pass...

hey ilxers!
please consider eating at my friend roger feely's first pop-up dinner in chicago. the theme is Bombay Streets: come get yr pani puri at Dodo Chicago (right across from moto and that achatz dude's places) btw this dodo place is where roger and i teach bread classes for sour flour chicago

omg i'm gonna git so goddamn many suggest bans for this post cuz dudes think it's spam but yo just tryin ta hip my peeps namean? . . .

― Anton Levain (jdchurchill), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link

one month passes...

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― get wolves (get bent), Saturday, 5 May 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ couldn't have put it better myself.

― Stravinsky joins the Zulu nation (zero of the signified), Saturday, 5 May 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link

Reprise of Duke Ellington's Kitten on the keys?

― Aimless, Saturday, 5 May 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link

meow

― get wolves (get bent), Saturday, 5 May 2012 03:24 (eleven years ago) link

chaat

― elan, Saturday, 5 May 2012 07:37 (eleven years ago) link

four years pass...

I made some Moong Dal for supper tonight. I played a bit fast and loose with the recipe, but somehow it still turned out very delicious. This is probably crazy talk, but I felt like adding some egg to it might have improved it.

― calzino, Monday, 3 April 2017 22:08 (seven years ago) link

two years pass...

what are some good chutney types to try? I can easily get lots of bottled ones in my neighborhood, imports from India and Sri Lanka, but I don't know where to start. ideas?

― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link

Brinjal is the all-time classic imo

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link

mango coconut for a sweet one!

― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link

Kuchela is worth trying, at least once, if you can get it.

I eat huge amounts of lime pickle with peanut butter.

― ShariVari, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link

Do they do pickles? I had a killer chilli and garlic pickle recently.

Kerelan style coconut chutney with loads of curry leaf.

― chap, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:23 (four years ago) link

Yes, they have pickles too! But I don't know which ones to get, so your advices are very helpful!

― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link

what does Joey Corona prefer?

― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link

one year passes...

passed this place the other day and had to doff my cap

"Naan Staap"

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link

On pickles... I had a really great tamarind pickle once. Green, in a jar and v salty. Can't remember the name or find it again (am in uk). Any suggestions?

― ringworm, Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link

Could be Priya green tamarind.

― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 July 2021 18:52 (two years ago) link

xp When Bend it Like Beckham was in theaters, I saw a movie theater in Seattle with the title on one side of its marquee and "Naan Stop Football" on the other.

― Lily Dale, Thursday, 8 July 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link

Could be Priya green tamarind.

That could be it! Amazon reviewer says "too salty", sounds good to me! Thanks.

― ringworm, Friday, 9 July 2021 14:48 (two years ago) link

one year passes...

what do i get for delivery
no lamb or beef

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 October 2004 bookmarkflaglink

vegetarianism in the service of Hindu supremacy: https://t.co/rDxEDw6az8
— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) March 17, 2023

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 March 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link

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