well done Bobby, glad to hear you were satisfied with the result - what dishes did you cook?

I go through to Edinburgh several times a year to visit my pal and we always end our evening with a curry. This is the place we return to regularly, as it has proven to serve consistently good quality curries. Situated diagonally opposite Haymarket Station, it has been refurbished since I last ate there, and the white decor gives what was once a rather plain restaurant a modern airy look.

Thankfully the remodelling hasn't affected the quality of the food which is as good as ever. We both opted for a Chicken Madras and the curry was excellent. With a poppadom, onion and mango chutney starter, two rice, nan and two lagers the total bill came to ?33 which I feel was very good value. Next time I am there I will order something else and add my impressions to this post.

Omar Khayyam
Indian Punjabi Restaurant
1 Grosvenor Street
Edinburgh
EH12 5ED

tel: 0131 225 2481 or 0131 220 0024

http://www.omar-khayyam.co.uk/home.htm

welcome aboard HMS Curryhound Paul, you'll get all the enthusiasm you need from the curryholics on here!!

that recipe was mint!!!!

Glad to see a thread like this mick - I will try and do a couple of recipes for the site next month

Quote from: Bobby Bhuna on February 26, 2008, 02:45 PM
Can anyone put me touch with the right sort of wok.
I want one that can really hold loads of heat.

Go to your local Chinese supermarket and get a bog standard cast iron wok (one-handle). I had my last one for nearly 20 years, current one for about 10!

I know this doesn't address your question Kev but have you tried getting your spices from an Asian grocer? The reason I am saying that is because they are used regularly by the Asian population (and curry heads like me) they have a greater turnover of stock than supermarkets and so their spices are not sitting for months on end. Also their prices are so much cheaper. The same applies for your regular purchases of garlic, onion, ginger and chillies.

I think the notion of online purchases is OK for extremely out of reach places, or maybe people with disabilites, but I assume most rural localities are within driving distance of a town or city. Having said that there are some well established links that you might want to peruse - here are some:

http://www.natco-online.com/
http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/
http://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk/

By the way I always buy my spices whole where possible (e.g. coriander, cumin) and grind them using an electric coffee grinder (after briefly roasting in oven till starting to colour) when ground spices are called for.

Hope this helps.

Jerry

Were you using a commercial curry powder or one made up by yourself from scratch. Just a thought but I have been using home made curry powders for a few years now and the difference is striking.

glad to see this thread is still generating interest it has probably been the most useful (to me) set of posts on the site so far, but then I am biased because I like Ashoka curries

Hello there to Nuneaton and all my relatives in Coventry ha ha, welcome from Dundee my friend