Curry Recipes Online
Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: DalPuri on April 09, 2013, 04:18 PM
-
Bradford was a Huge let down for me as was Glasgow last weekend for a choice of good spice shops and fresh ingredients.
Its been a few years since i ate up there(restaurants before) so i was really looking forward to re-sampling this "Glasgow taste" again.
I was so disappointed to the point of being angry! >:(
What IS this? i said :o
I tried 4 different curries from two takeaways in different areas. I thought they were bad here in Wales! but no,, these were worse and no better than German curries. ::)
South Indian garlic
Aloo Gobi
A dish simply called Spinach (tikka marinated with spices cooked in clay oven with spinach, garlic & herbs)
A Bhuna that tasted like beans on toast(maybe butter?)
Totally bland with no flavour of spices at all! The one flavour that dominated was fresh ginger. Only the next day when they were cold could i taste anything that resembled a curry.
The only things that had ANY flavour were the fried items, Samosas, Hot & Spicy Rice, veg paratha, veg pakoras.
So, i'm bored with hearing about the "glasgow taste"
BIR's and TA's are the same up and down the UK. You get good chefs and you get bad chefs. No one region is better than the other.
Frank. ;)
-
BIR's and TA's are the same up and down the UK. You get good chefs and you get bad chefs. No one region is better than the other.
I agree 100%.
I think it's a fallacy that you get good and bad BIR areas, the quality of the dishes are totally dependent on the quality of the restaurant and the Chef's and Cooks who cook it.
-
Have you had curries in Germany? Yes, they are really bad most of the time ... I'm just wondering about your backgrounds for saying that.
-
Is this a 1st? 3 of us agreeing in a row. ;)
............ And then you get the inconstancy from one particular venue. Why is it , once in every now and again, we get a tub of rubbish from what is normally a great TA? Laziness? Busy? Crap chef? Don't often order in these days but youngest handed in dissertation today and caught me unawares with, Dad, do us a curry. I am NOT cooking again tonight so in hands of local T a once more.
-
Not forgetting of course the experience of and exposure to "quality" BIR of the assessor themselves. Basically, it is all very much in the eye of the beholder, is it not ::)
-
Have you had curries in Germany? Yes, they are really bad most of the time ... I'm just wondering about your backgrounds for saying that.
Quite a few times Stonecut. ;) And i dreaded it everytime. Give me Fr
-
Have you had curries in Germany? Yes, they are really bad most of the time ... I'm just wondering about your backgrounds for saying that.
I haven't had any in Germany, but I've had them in Spain and they were dreadful - some of the worst I've ever had, anywhere.
-
Bradford was a Huge let down for me as was Glasgow last weekend for a choice of good spice shops and fresh ingredients.
Its been a few years since i ate up there(restaurants before) so i was really looking forward to re-sampling this "Glasgow taste" again.
I was so disappointed to the point of being angry! >:(
What IS this? i said :o
I tried 4 different curries from two takeaways in different areas. I thought they were bad here in Wales! but no,, these were worse and no better than German curries. ::)
Really saddened to hear that, Frank.
There was no shortage of establishments offering quite simply stunning curries when I lived there back in 1981-82, and since I moved back down south I've often idly thought about jumping on a plane just to go back and revisit some of my favourite restaurants.
From what you say it sounds like I'd be disappointed though...
But surely there MUST be some top notch curry houses left up there?
-
But surely there MUST be some top notch curry houses left up there?
I'm sure there are plenty, unfortunately i didn't find one this time.
-
I had a Chicken Madras in Bulgaria last summer and it was terrible.
-
I am sorry to hear that you did not find a decent curry in Glasgow, but it I would expect as much. I'm just outside of Glasgow and in my town there are only two places out of dozens that are worth ordering from. I find your comment about ginger spot on. In the two places I buy from the chefs are a lot older than in most places, perhaps just more experienced or more old school I dont know. It does worry me that when these chaps retire I won't know where to find a good bhuna within ten miles of my home.
I gather though that I am not alone and would bet most members here would say that, regardless of where they live, it is getting increasingly difficult to find a good curry.
-
I am sorry to hear that you did not find a decent curry in Glasgow, but it I would expect as much
???..if you are meaning that you would expect a member of this forum would not find a decent in Glasgow, that wouldn't surprise me at all ;D
I gather though that I am not alone and would bet most members here would say that, regardless of where they live, it is getting increasingly difficult to find a good curry.
Agreed again most members would probably say that. But not the people who keep them afloat
If anyone can't find a "good" curry in a city of nearly 70 m2 & "curry houses" in every other street, they may need to examine themselves & not the food.
I tried 4 different curries from two takeaways in different areas
Not exactly a mori poll
This guy has been in a few though.
http://curry-heute.com/ (http://curry-heute.com/)
-
If anyone can't find a "good" curry in a city of nearly 70 m2 & "curry houses" in every other street, they may need to examine themselves & not the food.
Or they may need to check their location; a city of nearly 70 square metres is pretty difficult to find :)
** Phil.
-
If anyone can't find a "good" curry in a city of nearly 70 m2 & "curry houses" in every other street, they may need to examine themselves & not the food.
Or they may need to check their location; a city of nearly 70 square metres is pretty difficult to find :)
** Phil.
Not when your visiting it as the op was....... or living in it even
-
U should try the punjabi at charing cross, best madras I have had in over a decadd, top notch
-
Is the punjabi a sit in or takeaway. I will happily drive to sit in, but 40-50 min round trip for a takeaway it would have to be something really worth it.
cheers
-
@ Acrabat, its a sit in and takeaway, i live 50 mins away and its my local now lol, i get a takeaway all the time from it as i work near bye, my fav is a chicken tikka main meal with saffron rice and madras sauce
Garry
-
It's been a while since I've had a Glasgow curry but worked up near Inverness a few years ago and had an extremely good lamb curry from a small village takeaway.
-
I learned a long time ago to be very patient with Asparagus sufferers. It's a typing mistake Phil :)
U should try the punjabi at charing cross, best madras I have had in over a decadd, top notch
May give Punjabi a try next weekend gazman, I've heard its pretty good.
Going off piste, I would recommend Yadgar in Calder Street Govanhill. Don't be put off by the naf shop front & seriously iffy area.
Its the one of only a few places in Glasgow I've seen Asians buy Asian takeaway. The Lamb karahi is off the scale flavourwise.
Prices seem higher than they maybe should though.
**-Autocorrect - off ;)
-
If anyone can't find a "good" curry in a city of nearly 70 m2 & "curry houses" in every other street, they may need to examine themselves & not the food.
Or they may need to check their location; a city of nearly 70 square metres is pretty difficult to find :)
** Phil.
I learned a long time ago to be very patient with Asparagus sufferers. It's a typing mistake Phil :)
Well, that was very clear, but what is less clear is what it was intended to read ...
** Phil.
-
I am sorry to hear that you did not find a decent curry in Glasgow, but it I would expect as much. I'm just outside of Glasgow and in my town there are only two places out of dozens that are worth ordering from. I find your comment about ginger spot on. In the two places I buy from the chefs are a lot older than in most places, perhaps just more experienced or more old school I dont know. It does worry me that when these chaps retire I won't know where to find a good bhuna within ten miles of my home.
I gather though that I am not alone and would bet most members here would say that, regardless of where they live, it is getting increasingly difficult to find a good curry.
------------------
I'm wondering if the quality if establishments have taken a dip across the board due to the governments policy on immigration. I know the industry is suffering and in bad shortage of experienced chefs due to many of them not being able to renew working visas. Always wondered why Dipuraja1 stopped posting videos on YouTube a couple of years ago, maybe he's a victim of this policy and had to leave.
-
I'm wondering if the quality if establishments have taken a dip across the board due to the governments policy on immigration. I know the industry is suffering and in bad shortage of experienced chefs due to many of them not being able to renew working visas. Always wondered why Dipuraja1 stopped posting videos on YouTube a couple of years ago, maybe he's a victim of this policy and had to leave.
I am certain that our present Government's unenlightend and vote-seeking policy on immigration [1] is at least in part to blame, although I also think that we are ourselves, in that most of us accept without complaint a poor curry knowing full well that the self-same restaurant, under the same management, has produced a far better version in the past.
** Phil.
--------
[1] Which is not to suggest that any of the oppostion parties are any more enlightened or any less vote-seeking. I remember the question being put to the leaders of all the major parties during the run-up to the last election, and the responses could all have been written by the same script writer whose sole brief was "don't worry about humanitarian issues, or redressing any wrongs done during Britain's imperial era : just focus on getting the electorate on our side".
-
When BB1 first started posting and mentioned his T.A. was in Bargeddie, I was a little dubious of the location given as there is nothing there except a housing estate. :o (have been to the ashoka a few years ago on the bypass)
After a little searching around on streetview, the only place it could've been was here
(http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/pics/5e9861848532ed4b568832f891f263e5.jpg)
This was finally confirmed with his latest video and this is indeed the place.(obviously with a refit and new shop front?)
I'll definitely be paying a visit to sample some of his wares. ;) :P
I'd be very interested in hearing the chefs story. Why is this "award winning chef" now working in a back street takeaway in the middle of a housing estate? :-\
Is it because of things mentioned above, or maybe he's just hiding from the tax man? ;D
Could be a multitude of reasons, but interesting all the same.
-
This was finally confirmed with his latest video and this is indeed the place.
I'll definitely be paying a visit to sample some of his wares. ;) :P
Wow, i think you need to be checking the food hygiene rating, if its applicable north of the border :o
That said, it doesn't mean the foods not up to scratch ;)
Interesting to hear your verdict after a visit dalpuri :)
Wayne
-
i can vouch for BB1's recipes, they are top notch and indeed Glasgow cuisine, i have made his base 3 times now, the 3.5KG version and made kormas and Madras, all top notch, cant get enough of it
-
Aye, well hopefully after a trip down the Clansman and up to the Punjabi, my opinion of Glasgow curries will be completely reversed...only time will tell. ;)