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Curry Chat => Talk About Anything Other Than Curry => Topic started by: Gav Iscon on August 02, 2014, 07:16 PM
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Went to the Boiler Shop Steamer today with the missus as I've been promising to go for ages but haven't managed. Basically its plenty of street food stalls with some drinks bars and live music which takes place first weekend of every month.
Anyway enough of the preamble, this month Manjits Kitchen (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10707840/Word-of-mouth-Manjits-Kitchen-smart-Indian-street-food.html) was there with her Indian street food. I had to try the Chilli Paneer wrap and I have to say it was delicious although a hefty
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Heard some good reports about Manjits Kitchen , but
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I do like the various street food stalls though, they make you eat far too much trying the different cuisines on offer, and washed down with some real ales! very nice indeed.
And therein lies the problem. All the food looks good and you want to try it all. Next time it'll be a full day session with lunch and tea there.
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Breakfast and supper ?
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All looks good fun Gav :)
Does your missus give you the same look as mine does to me when I tell her I want to take a picture of food?
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All looks good fun Gav :)
Does your missus give you the same look as mine does to me when I tell her I want to take a picture of food?
I get that look all the time! Even more so if I talk about curry
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I get that look all the time! Even more so if I talk about curry
Which, I imagine, is quite often mate?
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Yep, its normally FFS can we not just eat it instead of you taking a photo, it'll be getting cold. I've also done a few curry cook-in's with Chewy and when I mention I'm going to cook curry I also get the 'You're from another planet' look.
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Haha, yep my wife also can not understand me photographing my cooking, but As long as I'm not taking photos of random customers food I think she might let it pass. ;)
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Manjits Kitchen (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10707840/Word-of-mouth-Manjits-Kitchen-smart-Indian-street-food.html) was there with her Indian street food.
For what sounds like an Indian lady she looks remarkably white and male! :o
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She was there but hidden by the wall of the trailer. Smart looking lady too if i may say.
(http://theculturevulture.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/100_3270-500x666.jpg)
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Is that happy chris in the van?
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Free ebook with every portion ? ;D
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Rant on.
I have to say I detest this new wave street food fad, all over hyped and over priced and run by yuppie career changers who've left the square mile and decided to re-invent streetfood as a high margin food sector supported by marketing bullshit. Worst of the lot is Petra Barran's kerbfood.com who run events where their identikit traders descend en masse and fleece consumers at 6/7/8 quid per tiny portion of various trendy nonsense, complete with twitter and Facebook accounts buzzing away and faux decorated stalls (all in catastrophically unimaginatively identical styles) to support the rip off pricing.
Streetfood should be about low overheads and value pricing - at least it always was before Petra Barran and her new breed showed up. These damn yuppies have stolen a whole genre and through ubiquity and aggressive marketing have made consumers accept the new norm of a half sized portion with drink costing nearly a tenner.
Rant off.
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I sort of agree but its not always the whole picture. Manjits Kitchen for example was brought up from Leeds and would have involved a stop over so the overheads mount up. I'm assuming that they'll have to pay to be at the event which won't be cheap also plus wages etc. I have to say that the ribs I had weren't bad value at
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Haha quality mate, pretentious (moderated)
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Can't stop myself looking at that lovely aluminium stock pot! Seems way to big for her stove and I WANT it for my range ;D
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I sort of agree but its not always the whole picture. Manjits Kitchen for example was brought up from Leeds and would have involved a stop over so the overheads mount up. I'm assuming that they'll have to pay to be at the event which won't be cheap also plus wages etc.
But this is just the point, it's the opposite of what street food should be. Once you're paying transport, and the cost of a pitch, plus in the case of Kerb (or similar event marketing types) you're effectively paying a marketing agency a fee you do indeed get to this high overhead business model and that is the *opposite* of street food! Effectively these people are stealing the brand image of street food and hood winking the public, while serving up overpriced overhyped nonsense and I find it dishonest trading.
I've said my piece.
And yes, Harry Enfield, very clever guy and spot on.
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Would you? ;)
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@ Donald Brasco 'Avenue Food' then? :)
As for the nice pan lc, when where I worked moved into newly built premises I thought they would take all the old pans (like the one your lusting over) but they didn't, they just dumped them all and I was off work when they did it. I was gutted and it still haunts me now. :( >:(
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Gaviscon , yep they are such great pots, I feel for you! Currently I have a stainless pot but it's not a patch on the ones we used to use in catering.
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These pans look much better when their full of onions lol ;D ;D
cheers Chewy
(http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/pics/ea3bd0ceb2a72ac9ab8f56c396e6a4c1.jpg)
(http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/#ea3bd0ceb2a72ac9ab8f56c396e6a4c1.jpg)
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I recognise that base. ;)
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I want THAT pan!
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Agreed MA I also want that Pan Please ! Chewy is that celery I spy in that there pot of goods?
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Look for second hand catering pots, as old ones are much thicker, you want at least 4mm. ;)
Can
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4mm on the case ;) I miss using the old style pots, lots of my old ally pots were pitted badly so I had to toss them :(
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Klassic Flat Base 30cm Casserole Curry stockpots Aluminium Cooking Pan Saucepan Pot
by Klassic
Link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EFYIJAA (http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EFYIJAA)
Just ordered one of these Chewy 4mm and not a bad price ;0) 5 left if any one is interested.