Hi
I am on Vancouver Island and am having decent curry withdrawal....my last 'proper' hit was in Sept in the UK and I have had a few substandard ones since.

Now I've been to a 4 or 5 curry houses in Van but none have been upto par, I am going to Vancouver this weekend with a cooler box to collect curries to bring back to the comox valley and freeze.

Where can I get the best (without breaking the bank) anglo-Indian curry from in Vancouver. I am a veggie but my hubby isn't so no veggie places please. Oh, and no butter chicken!!!!

Thanks

"All India" on Davie.

The answer is to make your own...

I have become very good at making curries (partly due to how hard it is to find a decent curry place and partly due to the need for them to be dairy free due to my allergies - it is even harder to find a dairy free curry than it is to get a decent one!)

They are really pretty easy to make once you know how.

I sympathise as the Indian takeouts are dire round here.

Try this website for very good recipes http://www.mamtaskitchen.com

I think this is your difficulty. I don't think many of the restaurants here have learned how to cook English style Indian food.

i do make my own occasionally, but could never produce one to the standards of most uk curry houses, that said, i can make many curry dishes better than a Canadian Curry house,

We actually had a few half decent curries in Toronto, but Vancouver certainly has fallen short so far.

I might try all India sweets. My difficulty is that I look at then reviews and I cant trust them as my standards are so different to many Canadians, even all the other restaurants that my friends think are great, dissapoint me.....I DONT CARE if the service is absolutely awful as long as the food tastes nice!!!!

Marie-clare

Yes you could, and better if you use the recipes in that website.

Rogan Josh

Or indeed to many Indians? WTF is an Anglo-Indian curry?

I don't think many of the restaurants here have learned how to cook English style Indian food.

Is there any good reasons why they should? Let's be honest, English style Indian food is a bastardized version, the same way English/Canadian/American Chinese food is a bastardized version of the real McCoy.

Something invented in bradford, leiceister or birmingham or in one of the other large asian communities in the UK. Something like chicken tikka masala or a balti perhaps. Nothing wrong with wanting that - it's a lot more tasty than you get here - which is mostly greasy butter chicken.

authentic chinese food is mostly greasy goopy slop. There is a reason we in the west don't like it - it's because often the more authentic it is, the more disgusting it is. Though dishes from hong kong are an exception.

Honestly I've never understood the desire to have 'authentic' food as if that's some virtue in it's own right. I want tasty food please - I don't care if it's nothing like the original dish if it's good to eat.

of course there is, I assume that you are using bastardised as a negative adj!!!!!

I prefer an english curry to an Indian one, although I really do like south indian cuisine too. And as for any good reason why they should?...with a 4.2bn GBP industry in the UK, alot of people, like myself, love a great britich curry!!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st...y-1949591.html



and to WTF is an anglo-Indian curry....I think the above article answers that.....

One of my favourite places in Vancouver serves Indian style Chinese food, (Desi style), and it's delicious though I admit I don't get the curry. The food is great and cheap too. It's called Green Lettuce Restaurant and there's one in Burnaby on Kingsway 1/4 block from Victoria, (that's the one I get take out from), and there's one in Surrey as well. Go on youtube and search for Eating Global Vancouver Green Lettuce Resraurant for a tour, and bon appetit!

Anglo-Indian cuisine is a 200 year old tradition eaten by millions of people from many diverse cultures including Bangladeshi, Indian & Pakistani communities, now both in their countries of origin & in their adopted countries, as well as many millions in the "West"..

The best one hands down in Vancouver is on the north shore....on 3 rd between chesterfield and lonsdale. I forget the name something with a V. the pub i go to is frequented by lots of brits and all agree its the best and is as good as many brit curry houses. Not exactly cheap, but very good all the same.

Edit: here is the place:

http://www.vedasindianrestaurant.com...d=a_b354SynhZ4