My wife & I got a take away last night, she had chicken biriani & I had chicken pathia. Wasn't great but not bad either, to be honest most of mine are better, but woken at one & again at five with thirst.

I thought that had stopped in the eighties, what causes it ? Monosodium glutamate ?  Pat Chapman in his appallingly bad, Indian Restaurant Cookbook of 1989 says powdered garlic contains sulphur dioxide which causes this.

The salt levels didn't seem high but something was doing it.

I'm in south west Ireland so maybe things are different here.

Probably got MSG in it - monosodium glutamate 

Quote from: pauly58 on May 14, 2012, 08:52 AM
[W]oken at one & again at five with thirst. [...]  I'm in south west Ireland so maybe things are different here.

Could it be that you accidentally forgot to down the mandatory ten pints of the black stuff with it ?!

Salt from the pastes ?

It's down to a mix of garlic powder , salt and MSG plus the use of pastes and as Phil noted ... obviously not enough beer   

yup i think what colin says hits the nail firmly on its head