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Food that is.

I'm saying Indian. Definately.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

why limit yourself to just either?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

TO the food court!

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

general tso's vindaloo

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I love how the culinary treats of two gigantic countries with many disparate ethnic groups can be distilled into, like, two words.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"American Cuisine"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that's meaningless too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

sweet & sour palak peneer

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

er, pAneer

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

mushu pakoras

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Egg Foo Baighan Barta

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicken Kung-Po Masala

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, the vast range of cuisines covered by both terms in the question are brilliant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I won't eat chinese.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Food bigot.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

without a doubt - Indian. I was thinking about Chinese food the other day and of all takeaways I think it's my least favourite

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

It's much easier to find a good Indian restuarant than it is to find a good Chinese one, in my experience. Bad, greasy Chinese food is horrible.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

if i lived in the u.k., i'd be prejudiced against chinese food.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Buffalo burgers are awesome, if you like burgers.

― Huck, Monday, 9 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

If I was in the US, it would be a tie, because I love Chinese Food. Butit's really hard to find a decent Chinese Restaurant in London. Seriously. However, the UK knows its Indian. Oh yes.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

good Chinese takeaways are hard to find. the kind of food you get in an indian takeaway is easier to serve in a fast food basis.

the chinese place i worked at when i was 17 was great though.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

but what i'd give to have a nice serving of ma-po tofu. omg.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i really should start my own chinese food place.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

What Kate said. It's easier to find a decent Indian than Chinese. Plus I always think I'm going to try something new when I go to a Chinese but never do.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

but i already have aspirations to take over my local indian takeaway

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What I would give for my old Chinese takeaway in Queens right now... the bloke who ran it would only have to see me walk in the door and he would shout "stirfry beancurd with mixed veg-geh-tah-buls SPICEY!!!" at me. He was really sweet. I used to love that place.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I do love a bit of crispy Peking duck.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

there seems to be a lot less variety that you can get in indian places (like, half the menu is a combinatorial of ) but there are the other stuff but the differences are more subtle.

although the chinese takeaways have such a uniform menu too (but there are more choices it seems within the menu)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh indian, sag paneer!! nummy!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to live a block away from this:

http://www.clevelandpark.com/storegraphics/yenching.gif

YUM.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Chinese. Although, I haven't really had enough Indian food to give it a fair chance here.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Places like that where they know you and your whims = godly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I miss that sort of thing.

My neighbourhood in Queens was great for it. I only had to walk into the Court Square Diner and my favourite waiter would bring on the coffee and ask if I wanted a "Kate Special" with my Greek Pizza.

I really miss that. Only ever once had that kind of friendly, remembering the customers and their order service in the UK, and that was at my local cafe in Hoxton.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I really miss that. Only ever once had that kind of friendly, remembering the customers and their order service in the UK, and that was at my local cafe in Hoxton.

if you went to "Hong Kong Chinese Food Take Away" in Furzton, Milton Keynes, we would have remembered your orders (i remembered everyone's!!)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(except for the people who order different things each time obv)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Our chippie man usually asks if I want two fresh haddock putting on when I walk in now, even though we don't visit enough (mmm, I am craving this for tonight now)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate to make such a definate call on something like this, but I would take Thai over both without hesitation.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish there was more random Mediterranean take-out.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I could really go for some kibbi and tabouli and baklava for lunch.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The thing about Thai is that they just don't have the menu variety of Chinese. I mean, you could probably go a year on Chinese and never have the same thing twice.

But I do love Thai.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish there was more random Mediterranean take-out.

There is in my neighborhood! A lamb wrap with hummus + baklava: $3.75. Can't beat that.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's much easier to find a good Indian restuarant than it is to find a good Chinese one, in my experience. Bad, greasy Chinese food is horrible.

In San Francisco exactly the opposite is true.

Anybody for some Vietnamese?

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Baklava is the best thing evah!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I fancy a turkish right now. But, in my limited knowledge, Chinese wouldn't get close to Indian. But then again, I live (as I have mentioned time and time again) next door to a Nepalese restaurant, and it's fucking brilliant. Much more Indian than Chinese in style, but with a bit of a crossover.

x-post - I'm yet to have a properly satisfying Vietnamese.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Indian, without a doubt. Most of the Chinese food I've had lately just seems rather bland, if not a bit off-putting, in the case of a gelatinous gravy I had not too long ago. I like the spiciness of Indian, and it's way more vegetarian-friendly, too -- lots of spinach, chickpeas, eggplant, etc. (Also, I just ate yesterday at an all-vegetarian Indian fast-food joint that's mega-cheap and totally tasty, yum yum.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Vietnamese pho has been proven to be the best hangover food ever

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I do eat Thai much more frequently than both, not because I necessarily like it better than Indian (although it often seems a bit fresher/lighter, which is nice), but because there are a million Thai storefronts in Chicago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

PHO ME!

http://www.aklehr.com/Argyle1.jpg

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I really want to try the brazilian restaurant that's opened up somewhere in London, where you are charged bby the weight of food you eat, Brazil by the pound or summat.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I right in thinking indian cuisine has never really taken off in the States?

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Chinese have lots of good veggie dishes too - all the vegetables you mentioned, plus cool stuff like tarot root. They just don't serve most of that at take-out places. You have to find Chinese restaurants that Chinese people actually eat at.

x-post

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It's quite popular, but nowhere nearly as much so as Chinese, Wooden.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

depends on where you are. there's hundreds of places in nyc, and some the best ethnic food near my parents' house (an inner-ring suburb of a large midwestern city) is indian.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Wooden: I think a good way to think of the popularity of Indian in the States is to compare it with Mexican in the UK. I remember going to Sainsbury's in the UK and looking for Mexican food (refried beans, tortillas) and having to scan past the dozens of shelves of curries and naan before finding a tiny Mexican section in the corner. Whereas in the States, you have to scan past all of the beans and yellow rice and green salsa and red salsa and guacamole before finding (if you're lucky) a curry shelf.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

And naan only at specialty stores.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

salsa is the highest-selling condiment in the US.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc is correct. The best Indian food I've had in the US was in the Chicago neighborhood around Foster/Western.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus: even in cities where there are ample Indian restaurants, I think they're still seen as an "ethnic cuisine" -- rather than Mexican restaurants, which are just like FOOD WE EAT ALL THE TIME. Despite the one vegetarian fast-food place I mentioned, there's really no such a thing as a curry takeaway here, but taquerias are fairly prevalent in most urban environments (not to mention chains like Taco Bell, Chipotle, Baja Fresh, etc.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(The vegetarian fast-food place, Annapurna, is in the heart of Chicago's Indian neighborhood; I can only think of three or four Indian restaurants that aren't in that neighborhood.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Taco Bell = a cuisine unto itself

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, I hope Italian is good (if predicatble) for you tonight?

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Strange phenomenon on the North side of Chicago -- Taco Bell and Baja Fresh is the best Mexican food around. A damn shame, that. The taqueria food is nothing like the Tex-Mex stuff I grew up eating. Maybe it's a little *too* authentically Mexican? Because the standard dish seems to be "white cheese and gristle."

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

if only there's taco bell here :(

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Mexican "sopes" are about the best thing in the world, though. I need to look for places here (Dallas) that serve them, I bet there are some good ones.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a fair amount of Mexican resturants in London, but it's still a bit of an event to go to one. We don't have Taco Bells. Meanwhile, chicken tikka masala is officially the UK's favourite dish.

It's strange (and heartening) that, despite it's popularity, there aren't any big Indian food chains that I know of in this country. Most curry houses still seem to be small, family run businesses.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

best Indian food in Chicago = on Devon, surely. There's okay Indian elsewhere, but that's really where the good stuff is.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Good tip.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

every attempt at mexican food i've had in the u.k. has been shocking. scarring, actually.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, good Mex is hard to find. I thought I knew a good one, but the last time I went there it was not as good as I remembered it. :-(

Strangely enough, the Mexican I'd had in a while was in Blackheath.

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

best Indian food in Chicago = on Devon, surely. There's okay Indian elsewhere, but that's really where the good stuff is.

Although Hema's Kitchen, which may be my favorite Indian restaurant in Chicago, just opened a new location in the heart of Lincoln Park (Clark and Fullerton). (The old one is still open at Devon and Oakley.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the only good Mexican I've been to in UK = Coriander in Bournemouth

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, once I ordered fajitas in Ireland, and they served them with a side of vinegar and ketchup

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha ha ha ha holy shit

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You know, I missed the "in Chicago" from that sentance the first time around, and I was really wondering if Sick Mouthy was going to pop in and tell us about sag paneer in Exeter...

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Harold, your comments about Chicago taquerias makes me want to go to Texas. I like the Mexican food around here, but I don't doubt it's done better elsewhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

that reminds me of the "burrito" I had in Victoria, British Columbia. The salsa was basically just tomato sauce for, like, spaghetti splattered on top.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Once recently I ordered a bloody mary with my heuvos con choriza brunch at this way-too-authentic-to-be-in-Lexington-KY place and I swear to god it was nothing but tequila and chunky salsa.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, once I ordered fajitas in Ireland, and they served them with a side of vinegar and ketchup

-- dleone (d_leon...), August 9th, 2004.

I knew a bloke who always put a big dollop of mayonaise on his curry. Seriously.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(Most Chicago taquerias -- where I can usually get a DECENT humongous burrito with cheese, lettuce, beans, sour cream, tomatoes (and in some places AVOCADOS and GRILLED PEPPERS*) -- beat the shit out of Taco Bell, though)

*Grilled peppers is why you should never front on Flash Taco, no matter how "hipster" it is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it's kinda like yogurt i guess.. takes away the sting from the curry

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(Haha, leave it to the Americans to turn "Indian or Chinese?" into a discussion of burritos!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Indian food is not fit for dogs. Except those chick-peas. Wooo baby.

― TheChinkModJ, Monday, 9 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago taquerias are generally good if you avoid the meat. Texan taquerias are good. Best burritos (obv. not "Mexican" food) are in San Francisco, though.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

for some foolish reason, I thought New York would have decent Tex-Mex, but I now realize I'm never going to have it better than where I live

I've loved almost every dish of authentic Mexican food I've ever had, and I will promptly make it a point to find good places for this in Dallas

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the Mexican food around here, but I don't doubt it's done better elsewhere.

Ask Texas Sam about this place:

http://www.currasgrill.citysearch.com/

Amazing. Simply... amazing. Odd concoctions involving bananas and black beans and pecans and shrimp, the best mole I've yet had, and enormous breakfast tacos to kill for. I want to go there right now.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

oh no, NY has pretty horrible Tex-Mex (with some exceptions), this has been covered in many other threads.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

by the time I got to Tejas on tour last year, we were all so sick of eating burritos (see Victoria, B.C. "burrito" example on other thread), I hardly had any to eat. Except for at this Chuy's place (NOT THE CHAIN! HELLO JENNA!) somewhere out in the middle of nowhere West Tejas between El Paso and Austin, and that was just sorta okay (too heavy on the lard).

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuy's might be a chain, we have one in Dallas, I'd say above average tex-mex (unless it's just a diff place). My fave tex-mex in Dallas is Blue Goose.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the reasons food-wise I feel so blessed to live here in what has been dubbed by many as Mexington, KY, is that, due to a ginormous influx of Mexican immigrants over the past decade or so (supposedly due to the hiring of migrant workers by horse farms), there are a surprising number of retarded good taquerias in town.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, nevermind

x-post

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

mexican or mexican (4983938 new answers)

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

All ya'll can fuck off if you don't think the answer is Mexican!

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Harold: what's "interior" (which I originally read as "inferior") Mexican cuisine? Is it like regional cuisine? There's a few restaurants like that in Chicago, most notably Ixcapazulco and THE RICK BAYLESS CULINARY EXPERIENCE, but also Rique's on Sheridan and Argyle, which has the best pico de gallo I've ever had.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

(Also, Riques is probably the cheapest variation on that kind of cooking, as opposed to the more upscale Bayless franchises.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah this Chuy's was just some small family-run joint, I think maybe in Junction, Tejas.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.currasgrill.citysearch.com/

Actually, spent a week in Cancun last month, and ate lots of this kind of food. Yes, the mole is to die for, and tons of cool seafood.

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I could tell a story about Indian vs. Mexican (and how Indian won) but it would probably be regarded as incendiary.

(har har, incendiary, I'm so punny...)

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Mexican is probably second last to Chinese for me, the idea always appelas, it looks and smells good, but then about three mouthfulls in, I'm just bored.

Cuban on the other hand - taste sensation omg wtf!!!!

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Hstencil might agree with me that one of the best burritos in Chicago is at a Costa Rican place: Irazu.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Indian! Like Cliff Richard!

PRAWN POORI. DOSAS! AAAAAAAAAAA.

I had refried beans for lunch though speaking of Mexican. Actually, speaking as a SKINT OLD B#STARD, sadly.

What is CUBAN porkers?

― Yes I have seen, Monday, 9 August 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah Irazu is good, altho to be honest I didn't get to eat there more than one or two times when I lived in Chicago.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

what's "interior" (which I originally read as "inferior") Mexican cuisine?

"Interior" usually means "coastal," not exactly from interior Mexico. I guess it's supposed to mean, "not that border-town grease fest you're used to." It's a lot of seafood and fresh vegetables, as opposed to a lot of refried-ness and mystery beef.

Not that I'm knocking mystery beef. Tamales would be nothing without it.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

there's really no such a thing as a curry takeaway here

dude! curry in a hurry! also, there's a cafe spice express in the grand central dining concourse.

― le JBR (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, basically I'm more hungry now than I've ever been

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Good Mexican in UK = Café Pacifico, Covent Garden or Pedro's, Norwich.

Good Chinese = well, everyone has their own Chinatown favourite; mine was the New Diamond on Lisle St but finding the veggie menu a bit sameish now and haven't found a new favourite yet.

But I will take a curry over either of those, most times.

― Mog, Monday, 9 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Cuban on the other hand - taste sensation omg wtf!!!!

hmm. i love cuban food, but i wouldn't say that it's more flavorful than mexican (unless we're using by-the-numbers enchiladas with mystery sauce and plastic cheese as the yardstick, which we shouldn't be).

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I didn't eat breakfast: I'm starving now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

what is Cuban food? (and give me some)

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Mog - I haven't been there for a while, but I remember the Mexican on Chalk Farm Road being pretty good.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Black beans and barbecued chicken, baby. It ain't fancy, but it's un-fuck-with-able.

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

X-POST

― Harold Media (kenan), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

It's much easier to find a good Indian restuarant than it is to find a good Chinese one, in my experience. Bad, greasy Chinese food is horrible.

In San Francisco exactly the opposite is true.

There are only a handful of good Indian restaurants in SF proper, San Jose on the other hand...

I enjoyed the food at Chuy's in Dallas (the one not too far from Good Records).

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

deep fried pork chunks, marinated in lime juice, scotch bonnets, shallots and garlic overnight, boiled in said marinade for two hours and then deep fried, serve with fried plantain and yellow rice = the best meal I've eaten all year (possibly barring Fino) I suppose it's more the florida/Cuba hybrid but it's just amazing. There's a really good cook book called Miami Spice (can't remember the name of the author) with all the recipes in, for stuff like Ropa Vieja, and about ten variations on the cuban sammidge, not to mention Picadillo (like Chilli con carne, but a lot lot better)

― Porkpie (porkpie), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

fried plantains = GENIUS

― Elle a chaud au cul (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Costa Rican place is fond of the fried plantains, too: they serve 'em with garlic, yum yum.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax!

You're not far from Lower Haight, right? What do you think of India Oven?

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, fried plantains. They love 'em in Venezuela as well, I noticed, but I first encountered them at a Cuban restaurant in LA.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a nice Jamaican meal the other day with top-notch plantains.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

MW-

India Oven is pretty good but too expensive.

JAX0N loves Pakwan (which is pretty much just like every other fastfood indian joint IMHO).

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

plaintains rule, and not just in Caribbean food (although thems good eatin'). This Senegalese place near my apt has awesome super-hot n' spicy plaintains (I think I saw Rosie Perez get takeout there once).

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 9 August 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

No need to choose. NYC has a few good Chinese Indian joints. Chinese Mirch on 28th and Lex is the most well known.

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Same with Melbourne - we got a good pick of *really good* indian, chinese (of various regional kinds), vietnamese, thai, lebanese, greek, italian, nepalese (mmm, Ghurkas curried goat), Malaysian... etc etc etc etc...

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

used to live a block away from this:

YUM.

sgs - that's in Cleveland Park isn't it? it is pretty damn good actually. and D.C. has some fucking bomb Salvadorean restaurants, I'm talking best Hispanic food I've ever had.

I think my list would go:
1. Thai
2. Indian
3. Salvadorean
3. Italian / Polish (tie - love them pierogies)
4. Middle Eastern/Lebanese
5. Jamaican
6.Chinese

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

If Indian food came with little sweet niblets with messges on paper inside them it would pwn 100%, but as it doesn't, it only pwns approx. 89%.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

well?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

sgs - that's in Cleveland Park isn't it? it is pretty damn good actually.

Yenching Palace is slated to close in the near future. Walgreen's intends to go into that space (although historic preservation issues must be settled first).

I must say I'm surprised to see people praise YP; it was lousy the one time I ate there (more than 10 years ago) and I thought the place was still open only due to its historic status.

And right this minute I prefer Indian to Chinese, but that's probably due to too much bad Chinese food recently.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Indian. Everything Chinese tastes too...chinesey. That same sauce on every dish. I'm still hoping I've only ever had crappy Americanized Chinese.

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:41 (nineteen years ago)

I lean toward Chinese, because you never know when cilantro will show up in Indian food and that stuff tastes like soap to me. But the best Indian meal I ever had was a lot better than the best Chinese meal I ever had.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Indian definitely. (Yes, you have only ever had crappy Americanized Chinese, but I could basically be happy subsisting for life on lamb curry. ANY lamb curry.)

― Maria (Maria), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure you could tell them to hold the cilantro. It's usually added as the final touch, anyway, and so isn't integral to most dishes. More for me.

― Chesty Joe Morgan (Chesty Joe Morgan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

That's true. Next problem, nearest Indian restaurant is 130 miles away. Nearest half-decent Chinese, 10 blocks.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have been obsessed with Indian for the last six months. Also I great excuse to consume masses of Cascade Pale Ale.

― S- (sgh), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

indian

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

chinese japanese dirty knees

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Indian for shure. Too much salt/msg in Chinese for me (and I love savoury food).

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

Chinese tends to gross me out unless it's very high quality, so definitely Indian. I think I remember reading a couple of years ago that Indian and Thai had both surpassed Chinese food in popularity in NYC - I'm pretty sure that was based on survey of preference though, not on actual money spent.

Indian and Thai in the states seem to have become somewhat standardized now, much like Chinese. There are restaurants all over the place that serve the same overly greasy and overly sweet pad thai or chicken tikka masala. But even mediocre Indian food tends to have more interesting flavors than most Americanized Chinese food.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

Korean > Japanese > Chinese > Thai > others

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

although dim sums > the world

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

viet>

― -- (688), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

japanese & indian.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

indian, num num. all the best flavours in the world.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

although dim sums > the world

otfm

am very picky about chinese food which is not my mum's so will go for indian quite a lot, even though i way prefer chinese.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I could eat lamb kurma and lentils and yogurt sauce every day for a month, but a) I wd gain 20 lbs and b) I'm not even sure it's proper Indian -- has it been as Americanized as Chinese?

On the other hand last week I went back to my favorite Chinese restaurant ever (in Grand Rapids, MI. YES.) and had crab rangoons which, while not Chinese in any way, made my 2006 end right.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Poor quality Indian is a lot more edible than poor quality Chinese. So usually Indian will win, because good quality Chinese is quite hard to get in the UK. I've eaten way too much dodgy dodgy cult food.

But good quality Chinese is the best in the world. Mmmm. Such variety. Such delicacy.

But! I have just found out that there is a really good Chinese restaurant at the top of my street!

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

ooh there is also a wicked chinese/thai (and maybe japanese?) place on chatsworth road. they let you byo too.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't even touched on South Indian food yet, which is also good. Mmm, dosas. There's another thing it's dangerous to eat more than once a month. Indian sweet shops are nice too.

Jersey City is great in this regard.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me, there's an all day dim sum place just opened on Goodge Street which I really want to try out! Am sure it will be as pricey as all bejeebus though which isn't good for Jan 2007, oh no.

However I rarely crave Chinese food and I always crave curry so INDIAN FOOD it is.

Who likes keema naans? I've never had one! They sound MAD!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

My best friend in high school was Chinese Malaysian, so I ate a lot of home cooked Chinese. Amazing yumness.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

ooh there is also a wicked chinese/thai (and maybe japanese?) place on chatsworth road. they let you byo too.

is this that huge (relatively) looking one with the big sign/decoration above the door (seems awfully overstated considering it's location)?

why is GOOD Chinese cuisine supposedly so much harder to come by in the UK? why would this be?

have also been musing on why traditionally in the UK it seems there are far more 'dine-in' Indian restaurants to takeaway-only ones but the exact opposite for Chinese - I'm not including big city centres in this tho, more just suburban and satellite towns.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if anyone who has adequate knowledge of both could tell me which is better, Indian food in the London area or Indian food in NYC/Jersey?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Who likes keema naans? I've never had one! They sound MAD!

they're not so crazy. the mince tends to be very thinly spread within and not very loose. nice enough.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Depends on where you get it. I'd put 6th Street or Jackson Heights especially easily up against even Brick Lane or Southall in terms of quality.

But yer average NYC Indian is no way as good as your average London Indian.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jackson Heights is the bomb, but my one 6th st. meal was pretty bad. I wonder if I just picked the wrong place (I don't remember the name, but it was the top right one in that group of four that are connected). I've also had great Indian in Journal Square, Edison, and on the strip of rte 27 between New Brunswick and Princeton.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jackson Heights, just thinking about it makes my mouth water. Went to a really good Vegetarian restaurant there that had the best dosas I've ever eaten in my life. Even up against ... that place behind Euston Station whose name I've forgotten.

6th Street is half amazing, half rubbish. You do have to pick wisely to start with, and then act like you know what you're doing with the waitstaff. I used to have a regular one where they knew me and knew what I liked - I think it was on the Avenue, rather than on 6th Street itself, but can't remember the name any more. I think it was the top left of the four that are connected, if we're talking about the same building.

There's another good spot for curry in NYC - Lexington, I think... in the 20s? Again, can't remember. My brother took me there and it was quite good.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

My father-in-law used to drive from Bergen County, NJ to Woodside, Queens just to eat at Rajdhani:

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/queens/menus/rajdhani.htm

I probably haven't been in almost two years, so I don't know if it's still as good, but it used to be dope, and very cheap.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

is this that huge (relatively) looking one with the big sign/decoration above the door (seems awfully overstated considering it's location)?

i've forgotten what it's called. it's on the corner of chatsworth road and clifden road, opposite the post office. it's yellow and red.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeh that's it. it's enormous (from the outside at least). how do they afford to tack it up so much?

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

i made chicken tikka masala the other week. COMPLETELY FROM FRIGGING SCRATCH. that included making the curry sauce. husband said he hadn't eaten so good in the past six months! it was very YUM.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

SEND RECIPE PLZ!!!

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

i don't get this thread at all. maybe it's wacky to enjoy having a choice, but a firm judgement that one type of food is always better than another is... more wacky.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

it is rare for ILX to indulge in this blinkered 'taking sides' business for sure.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I do love the 'Food that is' in the first post tho. Totally got me the first time.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

yeh that's it. it's enormous (from the outside at least). how do they afford to tack it up so much?

afford it? i dunno, it doesn't look like they spend much on decor to me... it looks like a pretty normal - even slightly scuffed-up. they do takeaway as well so even if it isn't packed all the time they probably do pretty well out of that, everyone i've spoken to who's been there thinks it's great.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

a firm judgement that one type of food is always better than another is... more wacky.

but it's not which is better, is it, it's which is your favourite?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

SEND RECIPE PLZ!!!
if you want a scan, just email me at stevienixed at gmail.com and i'll send it ovah!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh okay (xposts) i don't have a favourite. it's like 'brandy vs rum' or something.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

There's still WAY more chinese then Indian or Thai...especially if you count ALL the crappy ghetto chinese takeouts as well as the authentic Chinese in NY's THREE chinatowns (manhattan, sunset park in brooklyn and flushing in queens.)

How about Indian Chinese? These places, fusion-y joints based on the food Chinese immigrants made in India are getting really popular in NY. At least there's a bunch in Queens, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, Rego Park. Some of it just tastes like really good Chinese food served with basmati rice, some of it's more unique. Dishes are stuff like Manchurian Cauliflower or Baby Corn where it's vegetebles prepared like General Tsos style frying. They even serve this at NY's most upscale authentic Indian places like Amma and Desi.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

is thread specifically about new york?

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

6th street is basically totally shit at this point. there's banjara on the corner of 6th and 1st and brick lane curry house on 6th itself, but beyond that you're better off with one of those boil-in-a-bag things. i'm not exaggerating. there was a decent-ish southern vegetarian-style place (guru, i think) for a bit, but it's been closed for a while.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

xpost it's true in china too

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

but the thing about wackiness is kind of OTM. might as well start a thread on "THINGS THAT ARE BLUE VS THINGS THAT ARE RED"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, next you're going to tell me they don't have the crazy Xmas tree lights all over the windows and stuff any more. :-(

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

the four up-and-down ones on first avenue? of course they do. those restaurants are really, really awful, though, and have been for years. actually, there are only three as the one i think you mention upthread is now a sri lankan place that's supposed to be pretty good.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't been there since 2001, but I refuse to lose heart. :-(

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

might as well start a thread on "THINGS THAT ARE BLUE VS THINGS THAT ARE RED"

think Rumps did this already

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Would it be any different if it were "Italian cooking vs. French cooking" ?

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

it would be equally silly.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost but that thread is about tampons innit.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

it would be equally silly.

as silly as continuing to argue about it?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

not that silly

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Why, instead, you could be arguing about useful, positive, helpful things such as whether centaurs can do the backstroke!

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

i meant... oh, never mind.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I was all dim summed out until I tried the sharks fin dumpling thingy at SeeWoo on Saracen Street (G22). Now I am very much in favour of their £9.95 Dim Sum Sunday Lunch. I am in favour of it this weekend, in fact.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Chinese takeaways taste better re-heated the next day than Indian ones, GENERALLY I FIND. I guess I would say I love Indian food the night before but Chinese the morning after.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Vietnamese the rest of the time.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

no, sillier

xposts

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

can't wait to go back to hong kong in feb for dim sum heaven.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to know more, about dim sum! I've only had it once or twice, each time it was lovely apart from the obligatory mystery dish which turns out to be a custard-bun which doesn't half clash with yr lovely scallops etc etc.

Tell me about dim sum, and what you like!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

would like to know which places in London are thought to do particularly good dumplings and see how these compare to your standard takeaway variety, if there is really much contrast in them to be found here.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

dim sum OPO

...although i suppose it doesn't actually tell you much about what the dishes are.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - there's a huge difference between premade and indifferently prepared takeaway dumplings and really good ones. huge.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

maybe i should stay ignorant for fear of never wanting to eat takeaway dumplings again.

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Love the char sui! But it always seems to be a very obvious choice out of such a huge menu!

Hmm but now I'm pondering whether my walk home should diverge through china town so I can buy some char sui buns to take home! Making them yourself seems massive f-d. And also they might be boggin!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Poor quality Indian is a lot more edible than poor quality Chinese.

This is madness. Poor-quality Indian is the worst food IN THE WORLD, particularly if it's of the 'whack as much curry powder in there and hope for the best' school. One of the reasons I rarely eat either Chinese or Indian in London is because of the sheer amount of crap there is out there.

I am all about Tayyabs in Whitechapel these days (although this is Pakistani really).

Malaysian > Vietnamese > Thai in my experience.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

my favourite dim sums, and classics..

- prawn dumplings (steamed thin-skinned dumplings with prawns inside)
- siu maai (pork wrapped by wheat flour skin with pork roe inside)
- rice noodle rolls (long smooth rice noodles wrapped over beef or prawns, served with soy sauce - it is the tastiest thing EVER)
- mini steamed spare ribs with black bean sauce
- phoenix claws (chicken feet!)
- lotus leaf rice (gluttonous rice with meat and seafood goodies steamed wrapped in a giant lotus leaf)

i'm hungry just thinking about them.

and you should only ever drink chinese tea (jasmine or something) with dim sums.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Pork ROE?? I thought roe = EGGS?

I have no doubt eaten chicken feet along with ALL OTHER parts of chicken from Amir's Fried Chicken...

xpost: I don't think I've had specifically Malaysian food... I think I've only had Vietnamese food *once* and then it was a takeaway at our party in Walthamstow where we had no cutlery => Pete was eating his with a corkscrew...

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i love the tripe stew with turnips, chunks of ginger, and star anise that one of my favorite places serves. chicken and duck feet are tasty fried/braised, but i tried to eat a steamed chicken foot a while back and gagged.

xpost - i think shiu mai are ground pork, with a little bit of shrimp thrown in.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh not pork roe! CRAB roe

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

and not inside.. but it sits on top in a dot in the middle.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Cor tripe stew with ginger and turnips, sounds yum. Is this generally available or do you think it's erm, native to your favourite place?

I must admit the dim sum from the place on Charlotte Street weren't that good when we went about 6 months ago with work, really small menu and their non dim sum items were just takeaway standard grease.

xpost: pork and crab roe... together at last!! You have no idea how hungry this is making me!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Indian and Vietnamese are tied for the two best cuisines on the planet as far as I'm concerned. This might stem from the fact that I love the food but don't have any restaurants nearby to over-expose me. Even my tiny-ass rural hometown had, at one point, four Americanized Chinese places. I still live an hour plus from any Vietnamese or Indian places.

Chinese can be pretty good when you go to "real" Chinese places, but even then the flavors don't excite me like Indian and Vietnamese do.

I really can't imagine any situation where I would not want to eat either cuisine.

― joygoat (joygoat), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

so far i've only had that kind of stew at my favorite spot, and i'm obsessed with it. i'm trying (unsuccessfully) to find a recipe because i think it would be worth the hassle. tripe in black bean sauce seems to be more common. also good at dim sum in black bean sauce: razor clams, littleneck clams.

xpost

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Since this has expanded from the thread title, I'll say again that I'm nuts for Vietnamese food. I go to Pho Saigon just about every time I'm in Memphis.

That dim sum place in Seattle that I went to with Jaq, Mr. Jaq and Gravel was fantastic. That was a memorable eating weekend, with Blue Ginger the previous night.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Madchen, does SeeWoo do nice non-fishy things too - they have a sign out saying seafood specialities and I don't like seafoody things. I really should go since it's like two minutes away from my work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

wow the tripe stew does sound awesome.. i've only ever had the ones with blackbean sauce i think (the stuff is kind of like a brush with loads of wavy bits??)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

i don't get this thread at all. maybe it's wacky to enjoy having a choice, but a firm judgement that one type of food is always better than another is... more wacky

who said "always"? that most individuals subjectively prefer certain cuisines to others is... reality.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

is thread specifically about new york

I was responding to this post...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

can't wait to go back to hong kong in feb for dim sum heaven.

Please 2 invite us over for visit. I love dim sum, but suspect Glasgow dim sum are only pale imitation.

― stet (stet), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

thai sauteed spicy basil > malai kofta > bibimbop > dumprings > low main > tempura

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

I live almost across the street from a Vietnamese place and I love it. The menu has something like 180 items, so the first few times I ended up with underwhelming Chinese-ish dishes, but once I found the sweet spots on the menu, hot damn! There's a vegetable listed as "Vietnamese water spinach" (the waiter wasn't sure if it had another name in English) that they serve in garlic sauce - it has to be the tastiest leafy green I've ever had. I'm also a big fan of the "tiny rice stick" dishes (again, I wonder about the translation), wherein you take super-flavorful grilled meets and roll them in a leaf of lettuce with vinegar sauce, pickled veggies and this sticky rice-noodle stuff.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

lachha paratha - is there some non-obvious way to pronounce the first word here?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

INDIAN FOOD ROCKIN MY WORLD HERE

(Chinese food is still good though)

(I'm speaking in strictly Westernized terms here)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 January 2007 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

gabbneb there must be either an obvious or non-obvious way to pronounce it, and there sure as hell isn't an obvious way

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 5 January 2007 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

REVIVE!

So I went to Chinatown after lunch and bought some readymade char sui buns (cha siuew paw is something along the lines of what they were called so I no doubt have bought something entirely different)! I gather I should steam these, except, they are frozen and I don't know whether I should defrost them first! The packaging doesn't say so I'm guessing they are ok from frozen? Actually, the packing has pictures of all cooking methods known to man so I guess the world is my lobster.

I *really* had to resist the bakery though - I was in one of those really hungry states where if I started eating before I got home I'd just scoff a lot of expensive JUNK and my poor leftovers and greens at home would languish and I would feel fat and guilty. I resisted succesfully and my greens and macaroni cheese were v. nice!

― Bhumibol Adulyadej (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

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