patemaan

Hello,

I have been in USA for a while and now in Dallas, is there anywhere I can get a decent curry and lamb shiesh kebabs .

I miss the UK indian food... I have tried lots of restaurants but can't find anywhere decent to have a curry especially lamb.

help!!!

Pulaski

I suspect that, as Mrs P and noticed with Chinese restaurants, US "Indian" restaurants may be significantly different from UK "Indian" restaurants (many of which are Pakistani. )

SultanOfSwing

It doesn't help the OP much because I'm many miles north of him, but as far as being different; there is an Indian restaurant not far from my house that is really quite good and not so different that one would notice much.

Not as much variety in the types of rice that one would normally expect and not as wide a range of actual currys but they do the job as far as taste goes. I had a bloody nice vindaloo, if a little on the mild side.

On a completely different note, I actually quite like US Chinese food

Pulaski

So do I, except that there is too much dämn broccoli in it!

SultanOfSwing

I don't mind the broccoli that much. Better than bloody peas, that's for sure.

Pulaski

I'd forgotten that you have an issue with peas, but I like them, more so than broccoli, which, I can take or leave.

SultanOfSwing

I only have an issue with them when they're on my plate. The rest of you are welcome to them ...

What I used to hate was the practice (this is possibly just a Belfast thing) of using them in a Chinese curry. One of the benefit buildings I worked in had curry day on Thursdays and it was a decent curry except I had to spend five minutes picking all the bloody peas out of it to render it edible

Pulaski

I know lots of people have their dislikes, some I understand, but I don't get having a pea hangup. I'm not in the best position to try to understand though, as I will eat almost anything that western cuisine puts on a plate. I wouldn't choose horse meat, but I'll take just about any part of a pig, lamb, or cow you can put on a plate, except for the brain. I would have thought peas were unremarkable, without a strong flavour or an unusual texture. My sister hated them as a small child, but grew out of it when she was five.

Speedwell

The best Indian (and Pakistani) restaurants in Texas are here in Houston, where there is a huge Indo-Pak (that's an OK word to use, right?) community. This doesn't stop my husband from being visibly and vocally shocked that he can't get curry and chips there or at the top-class Chinese restaurant we went to last night.

Curry and chips? I seem to have missed this while I was in the UK. Not that I'm exactly grieving.

Pulaski

I understand, I didn't "get" the curry and chips thing either!

scrubbedexpat027

I always used to have chips with my curry. Especially the big fat chips from the Chinese.

SultanOfSwing

They take up valuable room on the plate that could be used for meat, chips our a proper vegetable like sprouts.

Curry chips (only works with a Chinese style curry) are the dog's bollocks.

zargof

Just when I think there is no hope for you, you say something that redeems you. However, at the Chinese restaurant I used to go to, I'm fairly certain the sweet and sour beef was literally dog's bollocks.

Pulaski

When there's bollocks to be discussed we can always rely on you to show up, because if there's one thing you're good at, it's talking bollocks!

MsElui

I'm subscribing to this thread for two reasons. I also like to talk bollocks, and I may be in the Dallas area before long so need to know the answer too lol.