The one thing I miss about living in the UK is being able to get a decent vindaloo, madras, rogan josh etc after a few beers. Try as I may, I havent found a half-decent curry house yet!

I now firmly believe aussies cannot make curry!

Maybe its due to the very small numbers of migrants from the sub-continent here.

DIMIA should definitely put curry chefs on the Skilled Occupations list, or even the Distinguished Talent list

Anyone else noticed this serious deficiency?

Trev, you sound like PB & Dazuk .

There are some good ones around, you just need to know them. Cant help on the Gold Coast sorry, but if you head up this way I could point you to a few .

Plenty of good Thai available instead and its much healthier for you.

There are some good curry houses but they are few and far between.

Not one curry house in Mackay and Stella $70 a carton
I knew there was something missing up here. Found Toohy's Pils quite good though and I will have to make do with the home made curry

Mick

what exactly makes up 'decent curry'?

bright red dye and chips?

BP, I couldnt understand why everyone complained about the curry here. Where we used to live there is an excellent one & when we moved there was one down at Capalaba that was also very good. That was until it closed down & it took us about 6 new ones to find somewhere decent :scared: . Have come up with one now though, personal recommendation from an Indian guy that Dagboy works with, means we have to drive all the way to Cleveland to get there, but its far better than any of the others around .

What are you, quadriplegic or just a marketeer's dream?

Cook.

Jon, I find that most of them couldnt make a good naan bread to save themselves .

As for the curry bit, most brits like it HOT, over here you have to ask for it hot, its doesnt automatically come that way.

The curry that is .

Sounds weird, but a real indian curry tastes nothing like a curry that you would typically get in the UK.

I love english curries, especially Chicken Tikka Masala (which was invented for the English market anyway) but you can't get them to taste the same abroad. I've tried curry houses in various places and although they always taste good, they are different to the UK. Maybe it's the excessive colouring that gets pumped ino English curry ?

Whatever it is, just thinking about it is making me hungry

Where's the menu ?, oh yes, I'd like one chicken jalfrezi, pilau rice, cucumber raita, nan bread and 2 popadums please !

mmmmm........

it's funny how it's not hot in oz. I thought there was a theory about eating hot spicy food cooling you down in hot weather.

hence the hot food in india & thailand etc.... would seem logical for it to be hot in oz as well....

just not popular I guess

Havn't found one over here that does it

"Indian. Don't talk to me about Indian!"

Little India Restaurant

Move out of the 1970's - try Thai, Javanese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, ...

The Aussies cannot make

Good Curry

Decent fish and chips

Beer

TV

Fun of themselves

Are you sure???? Thai food has a lot of coconut milk in it, which a very high in saturated fat and calories??

Currys are only bad if you eat creamy ones like Korma, tikka massala, ones like Bhuna and madras has little fat content. Especially if you use a restaurant that fries in veg oil, not butter ghee, as this is very bad for you. About 50% of curry houses I have asked use ghee and you can always ask them to cook yours in veg oil instead.

Yeah but would they spit in it as they did it .