Topic: Do we aspire to recreate junk?

[Gazza63]

I think this article is spot on with some of my experiences back in the early eighties, I used to stay weekends in east london with a couple of my mates at uni and we would reguarly end up in Brick Lane at 4.00 a.m. pissed out off our minds, give the waiters crap and have a meal for five to seven quid, but next day would pay the price , I have never ordered a Phall in my life but it is safe to say the Madras  I was served would blow your arse of the next morning and we would end up with our heads out the car window next lunchtime on the way back to leafy Hertfordshire, be it down market Stevenage.
 However all that said this Guy smacks of jealousy, just because other cuisines are overpriced and traditionaly so, he feels that he has to charge ridiculous prices and justifies it with the fresh quality produce label, he has obviously moved on from the cheap council estate punters that most of us were or are, and now caters for the sort of people who spend more on high quality unbleached third world ethecally sourced co operative produced toilet paper than we do on a curry and good luck to him , you know we have a curry house here in Pattaya Thailand that charges more for a curry than your average restuarant in the UK, they printed a recipe book last year and I went to buy it , it cost 23 quid in a country where the average daily wage is 4 quid, I looked through it and they apparently cook everything from scratch, no base sauce , needless to say I have never eaten there or purchased the book, however the owner is a millionare and I'm not.

[George]

we have a curry house here in Pattaya Thailand that charges more for a curry than your average restuarant in the UK, they printed a recipe book last year and I went to buy it , it cost 23 quid in a country where the average daily wage is 4 quid, I looked through it and they apparently cook everything from scratch, no base sauce , needless to say I have never eaten there or purchased the book, however the owner is a millionare and I'm not.

I've never seen that book but I bet it doesn't contain the recipes used in the restaurant. The recipes in the book may be cooked from scratch but that doesn't mean the restaurant uses the same approach. It sounds like a place for tourists.