Takeaways
I like to, once or twice a month, treat myself and STeaMette to a delivery on a Saturday. Not because I'm tight but because I ain't going back to fat land!!
What does everyone tend to plump for then after a few bevs?
I'm very adventurous when cooking for us, almost everything gets tried at least once, but when ordering delivery I'm a fairly boring geezer and usually go for something like a cheeseburger and chips.
If it's Chinese it has to be a Chicken Chow Mein.
I can't eat curries, they normally affect my belly as well as my arse the following day.
What does everyone tend to plump for then after a few bevs?
I'm very adventurous when cooking for us, almost everything gets tried at least once, but when ordering delivery I'm a fairly boring geezer and usually go for something like a cheeseburger and chips.
If it's Chinese it has to be a Chicken Chow Mein.
I can't eat curries, they normally affect my belly as well as my arse the following day.
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Sometimes i'm drunk and i'll go to the indian and get a takeaway - prawn puree is a superb starter, love those
You seem to get so much nowadays, i can hardly eat a chinese/indian main meal, always eat half and reheat the other half up the next day. I know i know its not meant to be good reheating the rice etc but its always been fine for me
If were at home we have a takeaway delivered maybe once a month (pre beer) and I always get either a chow mein, usually beef or chiefs special, or a balti and nan bread. The misses always gets about 47 different things, eats some of it and I reheat the rest over the next couple of days.
Back home in England, I'd get Pizza from my local Pizza shop, much better than Pizza Slut, Dominhoes, or Pap-Hole Johns.
Curry, gotta be a Chicken Tikka Madras, Vindaloo, or if I'm feeling suicidal a Phall :D
Or I'd just Buy a Chicken Tikka Starter, Keema Naan and chips. Then I'd make a makeshift kebab out of the Naan the chicken and the salad that comes with it, and pour some of the mint sauce that comes with it into it, and dip the chips in the rest.
Or I used to get Chicken Kebabs delivered.
Egg fried rice, chicken, vegtables and cashew nuts in gravy with beanshoots, battered chicken breast and a sweet n sour dip.
Gawd I feel hungry again :-D
... Good curry I enjoy but steer clear of them if im on the lash as not good for me piles :-D
Haha! That's like the take out equivalent of shite on toast :D
You might as well have not bothered with the takeaway.
That would've ruined my night.
but ever wonder why there are SO many of em? base dishes = 10-20 and everything is off that .. it's easy money.. a lot have said to me.. and the profit margin is very good.
as for Chinese / Thai / Malaysian the REAL deal is far better ... not the dumbed down for UK version, but I get why they do it.. some of the dishes are VERY hot.. as I found out when I went out for chinese new year one year..
I did go out fo " an english " with a g/f and her 6 malaysian and singapore friends , to celebrate her passing her exam.. I was the only male.. and white male there.. the service was utterly s*** and on my way out... I just calmly remarked .. what , haven't you seen a hareem before :)
the place was just off Regent St. In central London.. if you ever wanna avoid it.hehe.. but I couldn't believe how rude they were.. I wouldn't have minded but the high end food was pretty bland.
my fav thing is glutinous rice.. it's a thai thing.. and they normally have it with mango.. it's lush.. it's a desert..
but one of the best thai chef's in London when I went to a high end place was actually Irish :) .. errm not somewehre I would normally go ,but I wasn't paying.. average bill for the place was ?130 per head :s
I'd rather tease me nutsack with broken glass!
TBH. it was 9 courses.. which well isn't that bad.. but remember I wasn't payiing.. all the folk in there were, or maybe 70% were putting it on expenses ..
I'm the guy from the wrong side of town who thinks ?25 is the most for high end nosh :)
my friend in brum paid that for mushy on toast.. while the others had steak.. years ago.. told him thats what he got for being a veggy..hehe
the fat duck in bray is a place I would like to go , thats serious DOSH.. ?200-300 BUT it lasts 3 hours or something.
My wife and her family love anything english, old fashioned stuff like meat and potato pie, hotpot, stew (stew ? We're not some poor family in the 1880's !).
I love anything non-english, make lots of wraps, chinese, thai, indian etc.
Whenever they come for an indian they have the usual meat samosas (boring), chicken tikka masala (the crappy dish the indians made for english people who cant take a bit of spice) and plain rice. The worst ones are the people who go for a curry and have chips as well with it !
Love trying lots of new indian food but like i say i'm a sucker for starters
I used to eat in the Wong Kei in Chinatown a lot. Not been there for a couple of years though.
If you picked carefully from the menu, you could eat really cheaply.
Managed to find a restaurant in London who sent me a big packet of burrito wraps which was superb. The normal wraps you get in Tescos just arent that big, these are huge mothers and are practically a full meal once you put tons of stuff in it.
I'm spolit for choice here, i have a chippy, a chinese and a Macdonalds all within walking distance.
For an Indian, don't just go by heat or what you always get. Look on the menu for the chef's specials and pick something that sounds interesting. A lot of 'Indian' restaurants are run by Bangladeshis, and they have some great fruity (but not sweet) or mixed meats (our local has spiced lamb wrapped in chicken) or a boiled egg stewed in the curry. And if it's nearby, take a walk and ask them what's good. And I'm not beyond ordering a sweet creamy chicken curry, then walking down to the Irish chippy for some fresh crispy chips, then coming back to pick up the curry to go on them. I've even ordered fish and chips at one chippy, then got some onion rings from the other one nearby.
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We have pretty much everything around here and most of it is good or very good. Quite a lot of fried chicken places are springing up.
I have been told that food is quite cheap and can be sold for a large profit.
On everythig else the profit margin is falling, which is another reason the high street is in decline and those coffee places are everywhere.
Along with the take aways and resturants around here there are various ethnic supermarkets, an old school butchers and a very good fishmongers.
Anyone else here cook?
S
Yep Chiquito's is utter turd, but believe me even with a decent mexican restaurant near you you'll soon get sick of it.
We've got at least 2 really good one's near us, and I have to wait at least a month before I can eat anything from them now, it's nice food, but I just can't be arsed with it.
I'm still pining for a decent curry, there is one Indian place about half an hour away, but they don't do take out. I've heard that it's so bad too that you're playing with your life eating there, I've heard it described before as the KFC of Indian food (sounds great eh?). I even bought myself a mini crockpot last week so I could make curries in it cos' the missus was scared I'd ruin the big one if I used it.
Mrs Boozy dislikes curry with a passion :(
Chiqutios would be alright if they reduced the price by 50%, i dont mind paying a decent price for fajitas and other 'mexican' food if its good. But its just crappy in and out type of stuff there and they totally overcharge.
My wife has banned me from eating Taco Bell, on account of what the Beef Gordita does to my digestive system... she was stuck in a car with me for 13 hours after my Taco Bell, so I can't blame her.
Andrew
every 2-3 shop where I grew up is a f'ing chicken shop or estate agent..
not been Wong Kei even though I'm a London, I went to a japanese cafe the next street along from gerrad street, one of the waitress's when I went was jaw dropping pretty... alas I was with my g/f at the time..haha
Wing Yip is near me, so yer I can go if I need to . Me and a friend who was Jamacian used to go.. we used to get ODD looks as he could only get big bottles of Saki there.
I went again with a malaysian g/f.. she was getting dirty looks off folks , probably because she was going out with a white bloke. Had the same issue when I went an english resturant with 6 of her friends..
I've had few g/f's from a few different contenents, so some of my friends call me Benneton. So do pick up the odd bit cooking wise from here and there.
but thai / chinese glutinous rice (a desert), is probably one of my fav things EVER. learning to cook it yourself is the better option as you know exactly whats going in.
i'd call you 'sex tourist' :razz:
well
1) they are all legal and well over the age of consent.. and consenting adults
2)they either came here to work or are actually born here.. and maybe even speak / write better english than you ;) . Also the fact I've never been to their countries.. Unless of course they were Irish , French or Canadian.
cheeky northerner. (must be somefink they put in da wa'her up derr) .. is a foreigner someone from Lancs for you? hehe
'glamorous' grannies.
3 years or so gap.. e.g. I was 33 and they were 30
although when I was 29 I dated someone and she was 33 and well .. nevermind... I don't wanna give Mile any ammo :)