The curry report
May 29th 2011, 10:05 am
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The curry report
What is it about curry houses in aus? Why does it seem like the chefs couldn't be arsed to learn how to cook, but have no issues charging through the roof? The other day me and the wife had a home delivery curry, from what is regarded as geelong's best curry house. In short, it was rank: absolutely dripping with fat, just loads of chilli with no subtlety, the worst pilau rice I'd ever tasted, no free popadoms. $42 for two. Outrageous.
Lets hear your curry stories, good and bad.....
Lets hear your curry stories, good and bad.....
May 29th 2011, 10:43 am
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Re: The curry report
Last week in East Dulwich we had four bottles (big) of kingfisher, 4 poppadums with all 4 traditional dips and raita, a prawn madras, vegetable thaali, sag paneer , pilau rice and 2 garlic naans for 40 quid. Even got a bowl of hoover bag contents whilst we waited. It was delicious and is still on the hips.
May be the pull of the Antartic means curry can't be made here? The worst one I've had was a crab dish of some description - the exact same, chilli but nowt else sauce as him indoors had in his prawn bhuna, but with an unshelled half crab thrown in. The only way to eat it was to scoop it out and splatter it over the walls and other diners. So I did.
May be the pull of the Antartic means curry can't be made here? The worst one I've had was a crab dish of some description - the exact same, chilli but nowt else sauce as him indoors had in his prawn bhuna, but with an unshelled half crab thrown in. The only way to eat it was to scoop it out and splatter it over the walls and other diners. So I did.
May 29th 2011, 10:56 am
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For Friday lunch, I go to a place in Wynnum, Miss Punjab'. Lunch time special dine-in platter, one meat and two veg curries with pilau rice and a veg samosa $10.90 . . . beautiful.
The Indus in Chapel Hill is very good. Cheap Tuesday, buy one get one free.
The Indus in Chapel Hill is very good. Cheap Tuesday, buy one get one free.
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May 29th 2011, 11:01 am
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Re: The curry report
What is it about curry houses in aus? Why does it seem like the chefs couldn't be arsed to learn how to cook, but have no issues charging through the roof? The other day me and the wife had a home delivery curry, from what is regarded as geelong's best curry house. In short, it was rank: absolutely dripping with fat, just loads of chilli with no subtlety, the worst pilau rice I'd ever tasted, no free popadoms. $42 for two. Outrageous.
Lets hear your curry stories, good and bad.....
Lets hear your curry stories, good and bad.....
May 29th 2011, 11:08 am
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Re: The curry report
May 29th 2011, 11:23 am
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Re: The curry report
to be fair, when we lived in Northcote (10 years ago mind) the Curry Cafe on the high street (not sure if it still exists) was great. Sure it was different from a UK style curry house curry (ie no Kingfisher-BYO, no popadoms unless you beg etc), if anything it was better, as the tastes were so fresh and complex. None of this "nah, fu@k all that herby shit, just bung in the whole packet of chilli powder" nonsense which I've encountered elsewhere in Aus, and not just in Geelong either. Brisbane and Cairns too
It's worth a trip to the Holi festival in Sandown as well (usually sometime around March). Lots of good curry stalls there as well as dancing and paint throwing.
May 29th 2011, 11:25 am
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Re: The curry report
I find chinese food to be worse, and usually consists of plain old gravy bases with veggies & no spice wotsoeva. 
Only good Indian I've had so far is at Spice Ave in Birkdale.
Only good Indian I've had so far is at Spice Ave in Birkdale.
May 29th 2011, 11:36 am
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I noticed in my latter years of living in Hertfordshire that ye olde Curry House as we know it was being rather arsed about with, with new fangled (stupid) names like 'Spice fusion' and 'chili raj'. WTF was wrong with 'a passage to India'? Yeah I know all the staff are Bangladeshi, but still..
May 29th 2011, 11:54 am
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The was a place in Bright (Vic) on Ireland St. I think it was called Get Spiced. They did Indian and Asian food but don't hold that against them. They did one of the best Jalfrezies I've had. Tasted very fresh.
May 29th 2011, 12:11 pm
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May 29th 2011, 12:30 pm
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I'm also nostalgic for the old style curry house with the velvety wall paper, the sitar background music, the low lighting, the fishtank, the groups of pissed up blokes and pissed up girls. ah, the days....
May 29th 2011, 1:11 pm
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Re: The curry report
The Curry Cafe
73 High Street
Northcote VIC 3070
(03) 9489 9066
Still there according to google
I love a good curry, since the wife got pregnant she has gone right off them.
Its a disaster....
If she was still keen on them, tonight tea would be well sorted. Due to the above suggestion.
73 High Street
Northcote VIC 3070
(03) 9489 9066
Still there according to google
I love a good curry, since the wife got pregnant she has gone right off them.
Its a disaster....
If she was still keen on them, tonight tea would be well sorted. Due to the above suggestion.
