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Curry Chat => Lets Talk Curry => Topic started by: Derek Dansak on July 23, 2009, 10:33 AM
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lessons will be around 20 - 25 pounds per hour each. minimum of 5 or 6 people per session. they are willing to teach. i will confirm if the lesson will be purely madras orientated bir syleee !. i am very confident they will teach madras if thats what we all want. they need more income i suspect. its a friendly non formal restaurant. mondays or wednesday is likely to be the day for lessons. who is interested?
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just thought, if saturday morning or afternoon would be easier let me know and i can discuss with them.
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Sounds good but:
1. Is the normal output of the place a cut above average? If many of us agree we can prepare dishes which are better than the current (2009) sad average BIR standard, then it only seems worth going to a teacher who is much better than average and who bridges the 'missing 5%' taste gap. Does this place fit the bill?
2. Will we be able to draw up a 'contract' or something to help guarantee that he really is showing us the real thing, rather than some dumbed-down version, especially spoiled for our lessson? On the one hand, we wouldn't want to be too heavy and demanding but we'd need to make sure it isn't another disappointment. If the Brick Lane demos, which a few members went to, were all they'd promised to be, then we'd have had most of our questions answered. But it sounds like they didn't deliver.
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DD,
have mulled this (and the Bristol option) over quite a bit. the distance is too far for me (hassle & cost).
i also had to put into the equation that my currying has come on quite a bit in the last 6 mths. i no longer feel i have the same need. expanding my No off "yellow sticky" recipe sheets through recipe refinement is my No1. i feel i can enjoy doing this myself over time.
many thanks for making the effort.
best wishes
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Yes i am interested and will attend.
Tell me the date and location so i can book time off work.
Wednesday would be good, Saturday even better.
I will do a full report on the forum.
Its time to get this thing solved.
Stew
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I would love to go but it's a long flight from Oz for a lesson....unless there's a bevvy after it ;D
Sounds good tho'
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hi, we still need a few more people. anyone else interested.
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Sounds like an opportunity not to be missed to me.....
...I know SnS was trying to organise something similar, with a similarly poor response, which is a real shame, I feel, if members are actually serious about cooking decent BIR curries....
...How many takers do you have so far DD...and how many do you need (minimum)? I'd like to think that, out of nearly 10,000 members, you could easily get the minimum number! :-\
PS: I'm currently living in Australia too, otherwise I'd certainly be accepting your (and SnS's) offer
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hi dd i may be interested. where in sussex? as i am not too far from east sussex.
regards
gary
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I'm interested, Surrey based close to M25 J8, so most of Sussex in easy reach! Where abouts is it?
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Hi all. its in the sunny sea side town of Hastings. its in my top 5 of best ever bir restaurants. I will have a chat with the chef and owner and let them know the lesson has to be madras bir style.
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I was in Hastings over the last weekend, checking out the town.
I am very interested, try to get a confirmed date for a saturday if possible and ill come along
Stew
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Hi Stew, yes i am going to pursue this propely. so they know what we want, and we dont get disappointed. the problem is this: we are all so close to the taste that they may find it hard to know what to teach. after all, i have had quite alot of teaching from them already, and it seems that they dont quite know what this taste is themselves. even though they can reproduce it with ease. i will discuss it with them in the next week or 2 when I visit them again. the other problem is there english is only mid level, not perfect. but they seem very genuine, and have been helpful all for free so far. so offering them some real money can only improve that !! could be a winner. cheers
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hi dd hastings is only 25 mile from me :) so i will do my damdest to make it!
regards
gary
although i'm not looking for a madars as my tastes are for vindaloo and phall/tindaloo/naga/bindaloo/chilli masala ;D
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ok cool, the more the merrier :) ! the beauty of the madras sauce, is that it is the key to all other bir sauces/curries. at least thats what the bir chef at this restaurant told me. its what all bir chefs learn first he said. its the reverse of how cr0 members seem to learn lol ;D
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Alas, I lived in Eastbourne for about 3 years... now I'm thousands of miles away...
Good luck guys, and report all findings back to the forum!!!!
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no its going to be top secret Josh ! only joking :)
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we could do with 1 or 2 more people really. any one else interested ?
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PS: I'm currently living in Australia too, otherwise I'd certainly be accepting your (and SnS's) offer
Hi Cory Ander
What part of Oz do you Live?
I'm in the Sunshine State
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no worries rallim. although i am sure there used to be a number 10 bus from oz to hastings !!
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Hi Cory Ander
What part of Oz do you Live?
I'm in the Sunshine State
Hi Rallim,
I was in Melbourne and am now in Perth...shit curries all round huh? :P
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...shit curries all round huh? :P
I had heard that the Aussies will eat anything! :o
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...shit curries all round huh? :P
I had heard that the Aussies will eat anything! :o
Cory Ander How true :(
S S They do and they enjoy it. Yuk :o
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I wonder how the crap curries in Oz compare to the sh*ite curries in Canada and the US?
I was in Iceland last week and figured I'd take a gamble and try out a curry house. Definitely not BIR, closer to the stuff we get here. Which was disappointing considering the menu clearly was written to appeal to the UK tourists. Madras, CTM... all the non-authentic stuff which is usually a good sign :(
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I was in Iceland last week
The freezer shop...or the country?
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Haha... the country.
Forgot it was also the name of a shop.