Perfect Take-Away

[ferretchucker]

There are those nights where you think about cooking, you think about the effort and the washing up...and then the menu catches your eye. Sitting there, taunting you with it's promises of free delivery.

I think most people like to have a take-away. Well, technically what I'm talking about is a delivery, but we always call them takeaways. Pizza, Chinese, Thai, chicken etc. What's your favourite treat?

For me it has GOT to be Indian. Chicken Tikka Masala (probably the least Indian curry you'll ever find), Pilau Rice and a nice big helping of Saag Aloo. The spices infused, the creaminess combined with just so much love and care! NOM NOM NOM!

http://www.thecurrysupperclub.com/Pix/chicken_tikka_masala.jpg

[Ferox13]

Good indian take away tastes less like take away than most others - so my choice too. Dhal+Paneer yum...

I do like chips and onion rings too.

[crabapple]

Evil Ferret-- EE-VILLLLLLE!! Posting pictures and descriptions of the most delicious food in the world. Now I'll be thinking about those curries and the basmati rice all night!

[Elvis_Christ]

Totaly back the Indian call. It's always top of my list. I do dig Pizza a bunch too.

[newb]

usually Chinese food

http://www.nanchang.se/culture/food/chinese_food.jpg

or pizza

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or subs

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I would love to try some Indian food...but the wife would never go for it [ too spicy ]

[Elvis_Christ]

Chinese food is top notch for sure. Just polished off some before :D

You can get a few mild curries like the creamier ones. Over here they ask if you want mild, medium or hot.

[ferretchucker]

I used to be a huge fan of Chinese food but I've gone of it, probably since I discovered Indian a few years back. And Elvis is right, there are quite a few mild curries she might enjoy. Kormas are pretty creamy.

And do Subways out there do deliveries? If they do then that's AWESOME.

[Elvis_Christ]

I'm sure there's better joints for subs over there than Subway dude.

[cheebacheeba]

Love a good souvlaki.
Adana kebab
A GOOD burger with quality ingredients (like...pretty fucking rare)
Those Vietnamese rice paper rolls with shredded noodles, pork and/or prawn, lemon juice, chilli, chive, mint....excellent. Very light, refreshing, yet doesn't leave you empty at all.
I think the common theme here is presence of salad ingredients...I guess now at 29 I'm just becoming a bit sick of more junk-ish food. I find most of what they call "Chinese" food repulsive.

Still love pizza, though try to make it a bit healthier with salad too.

If I want something junky and greasy?
I'll hit up a local take-away and order a grilled kransky in a breadroll with onions and tomato sauce.

Love Indian...though I find too many an indian diner will focus on north indian food...I quite like south indian too.
We make our curries (indian and thai, some others) from scratch anyways, considering the expense of indian takeaway/thai takeaway, it's more practical, and yeah...we make it pretty well.

In my haste I forgot to mention my absolute favourite. Korean street food called DdukBokKi
http://seoulbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ddubokki_20090729_seoulbeats.jpg

[ferretchucker]

Love a good souvlaki.
Adana kebab
A GOOD burger with quality ingredients (like...pretty fucking rare)
Those Vietnamese rice paper rolls with shredded noodles, pork and/or prawn, lemon juice, chilli, chive, mint....excellent. Very light, refreshing, yet doesn't leave you empty at all.
I think the common theme here is presence of salad ingredients...I guess now at 29 I'm just becoming a bit sick of more junk-ish food. I find most of what they call "Chinese" food repulsive.

Still love pizza, though try to make it a bit healthier with salad too.

If I want something junky and greasy?
I'll hit up a local take-away and order a grilled kransky in a breadroll with onions and tomato sauce.

Love Indian...though I find too many an indian diner will focus on north indian food...I quite like south indian too.
We make our curries (indian and thai, some others) from scratch anyways, considering the expense of indian takeaway/thai takeaway, it's more practical, and yeah...we make it pretty well.

In my haste I forgot to mention my absolute favourite. Korean street food called DdukBokKi
http://seoulbeats.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ddubokki_20090729_seoulbeats.jpg


Wow, pretty big variety there, bro. Can't say I'm a huge fan of Burgers or Kebabs. Too greasy for my liking. In fact, I think that was one of the things that put me off of Chinese food.

And good point Elvis, there probably is. Shame that's not the case here...

[cheebacheeba]

I think you may be thinking more along the lines of a "donner kebab"?
Adana kebabs are seldom greasy at all. Lean-ish minced lamb or beef cooked on a stick over hot coals, served on/in oven baked turkish bread with lots of fresh salads: http://www.julietmae.com/product_images/uploaded_images/kebab%20urfa.JPG that kinda thing.
Yeah "kebabs" though...are pretty hit and miss, and more miss than hit...cheap quality products, poor instore hygeine, processed meats...yech. If you get a good quality one they can be great, but there's so many shitty stores selling them.

[scouse mac]

Definitely Indian food is the best, my personal tastes run to the hotter end of the scale to the madras and vindaloos (never been brave enough to try phal's though) accompanied by mushroom pilau.

Always got to have a peshwari naan on the side and started with a load of poppadums with mango chutneys. Lovelyness incarcerated!


Korma's and Bhuna's are very mild, my wife hates spicy food but she loves korma which is like a creamy coconut taste, really nice. I challenge Mrs Newb to try a korma and I believe she would love it.

[ferretchucker]

@Cheebs - I think it mainly comes down to my hatred of onions. I don't know what it is but if they're anything but finely chopped and unnoticable then I can't handle them. Could be the flavour, could be the texture but either way, bleugh.

I sometimes go for a Madras but I think that if the heat is more noticeable and more on my focus than the flavour then I'm not enjoying it. That's why I stick with Tikka Masalas mostly. Dad's a Phal man, apparently Vindaloos don't cut it anymore.

[crabapple]

Just give me a smear of that saag paneer, right over here. And serve me twice that basmati rice, it's so darn nice.

[ferretchucker]

And then there's the pappadums and their mouth watering Mango Chutney (fuck the other dips, Mango Chutney is GOD).

[cheebacheeba]

What about the pickle type things?
The sour/green mango pickle I love, and the gongura leaf one, awesome.
They only generally sell those at the shops though...

[newb]

damn....you guys are really making me crave Indian food....and I've never had it

[ferretchucker]

damn....you guys are really making me crave Indian food....and I've never had it

It is easily one of the best cuisines you can try. Screw Thai, Fuck Chinese, hell, I'd even blow off Sushi for Indian.


When we go to the Indian the dips that usually come with papadums are Mango Chutney, some creamy dip which is a bit minty, a very acquired tasting Lime Pickle and just red onions on their own to be mixed with any of the dips.

I also used to be more of a Bombay Aloo (spicy boiled potatoes) person, but I've since started going for Saag Aloo (same thing but with spinach). And of course, Scouse is right, Peshwari Naan completes it all (coconut naan bread).

I'd be interested to hear from V or Roshiq in particular on the matter, I'd be interested to see how standard these things actually are in genuine Indian cuisine or are they like Crumpets - seen as being typically English but we rarely tend to actually have them.

[_____V_____]

I can only wonder what would happen to you all if you actually made a field trip to India and had some of those dishes at someone's home (like mine), instead of the stuff they churn out at restaurants, cafes and hotels wherever you are.

I hate restaurant stuff. Homemade Indian food is the best, specially when the females in your family are kickass cooks. The spices, masalas and the thickening, boiling, greasing, technical aspects of cooking, etc. are always done in the right proportion and near to perfection.

North Indians tend to have their food a bit more soft-boiled and coarse. South Indians make it too spicy and hot. The Central Indians - people living in West Bengal, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra & Gujarat...the central belt of India - usually have the near-perfect Indian cuisine. Its yummy, its healthy and its very easily digestible.

Not to mention the very best of homemade pickles, marmalades and sauces.

[ferretchucker]

I definitely do want to try it in a real setting made in a real situation. Nom nom nom, just the thought of it is covering my keyboard in drool.

And that's interesting about how the scale of heat seems to grow from North to South.

[scouse mac]

I can only wonder what would happen to you all if you actually made a field trip to India and had some of those dishes at someone's home (like mine), instead of the stuff they churn out at restaurants, cafes and hotels wherever you are.

I hate restaurant stuff. Homemade Indian food is the best, specially when the females in your family are kickass cooks. The spices, masalas and the thickening, boiling, greasing, technical aspects of cooking, etc. are always done in the right proportion and near to perfection.

North Indians tend to have their food a bit more soft-boiled and coarse. South Indians make it too spicy and hot. The Central Indians - people living in West Bengal, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra & Gujarat...the central belt of India - usually have the near-perfect Indian cuisine. Its yummy, its healthy and its very easily digestible.

Not to mention the very best of homemade pickles, marmalades and sauces.


One of my closest friends got married last year and his family originate from India (although cant remember where). Two things struck me.................

1: Hindu weddings are really long

2: They used a specialist caterer which did all the food based upon original family recipes from the home country with all the right ingredients and, so I was told, prepared in the same way. It was absolutely delicious with a definate difference to the Indian food Im used to