Who likes Indian food?

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A little Chicken TiKka Masala and Palak Paneer w/ naan and hard boiled egg... Only thing not scratch made is the naan and the tahini on the egg...

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draco88;n8257 said:
Hope it tastes better than I can pronounce it :)
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It's a LOT of work but tastes AMAZING! Easily the most time consuming cooking I do, and that includes things like baking bread, making sausages, and the like...
 
I love Indian food, but I cheat and buy the pre-made sauce and basmati rice. All you've got to do is brown some chicken, let the sauce simmer and in 20mins dinner is ready.
 
Hub;n8306 said:
I love Indian food, but I cheat and buy the pre-made sauce and basmati rice. All you've got to do is brown some chicken, let the sauce simmer and in 20mins dinner is ready.
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I do that too normally, and there's some good options out there, but sometimes ya gotta do it right. The difference is palpable...
 
bigfelipe said:
draco88;n8257 said:
Hope it tastes better than I can pronounce it :)
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It's a LOT of work but tastes AMAZING! Easily the most time consuming cooking I do, and that includes things like baking bread, making sausages, and the like...
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Hmmm...then Im going to need a few hours notice next time you're cooking.
And directions. Can't forget the directions
 
WeepingAngel said:
If I had to choose a way to die, my choice would be overeating Indian food until I explode like the dude in Life of Brian.
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mmmm... just one more thin mint...
 
I'm pretty open minded about asian foods so I must have chosen poorly when I ate Indian because I have never liked it. I love curry - where should I go in Charlotte to not be disappointed?
 
Catfish;n8508 said:
I'm pretty open minded about asian foods so I must have chosen poorly when I ate Indian because I have never liked it. I love curry - where should I go in Charlotte to not be disappointed?
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Wahoo95 knows good Indian food. Bet he can send you somewhere that way...
 
bigfelipe;n8236 said:
A little Chicken TiKka Masala and Palak Paneer w/ naan and hard boiled egg... Only thing not scratch made is the naan and the tahini on the egg...

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That couple days I was in Calgary the guys were mostly Indian. We had a spectacular lunch on the Friday before I flew back.

Butter chicken, tandoori chicken, and a bunch of other stuff. The naan was fabulous with the butter chicken, didn't even need a fork.
 
burnedoutgeek;n8581 said:
that couple days i was in calgary the guys were mostly indian. We had a spectacular lunch on the friday before i flew back.

Butter chicken, tandoori chicken, and a bunch of other stuff. The naan was fabulous with the butter chicken, didn't even need a fork.
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Calgary teaching a class.

NOT Toronto
 
BurnedOutGeek said:
bigfelipe;n8236 said:
A little Chicken TiKka Masala and Palak Paneer w/ naan and hard boiled egg... Only thing not scratch made is the naan and the tahini on the egg...

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That couple days I was in Calgary the guys were mostly Indian. We had a spectacular lunch on the Friday before I flew back.

Butter chicken, tandoori chicken, and a bunch of other stuff. The naan was fabulous with the butter chicken, didn't even need a fork.
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The goal is, you should be able to eat everything with the naan as your utensil...
 
I like Tandoori bread. The rest all tastes the same to me (not bad). I don't know that I've ever had good Indian food, but have tried.
 
htperry;n8635 said:
I like Tandoori bread. The rest all tastes the same to me (not bad). I don't know that I've ever had good Indian food, but have tried.
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I get that. That's a common response I hear when discussing Indian food. That and, "I hate it." Both are usually because people have only been to crappy places that serve slop of varying colors and call it Indian food. If you can't tell the dishes apart, you need to go elsewhere. While the spice palate can be monotonous at times, the same is true of many ethnic foods. Take Mexican for example. A lot of the same packaged differently...
 
bigfelipe;n8668 said:
I get that. That's a common response I hear when discussing Indian food. That and, "I hate it." Both are usually because people have only been to crappy places that serve slop of varying colors and call it Indian food. If you can't tell the dishes apart, you need to go elsewhere. While the spice palate can be monotonous at times, the same is true of many ethnic foods. Take Mexican for example. A lot of the same packaged differently...
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Yep - for a while when living in upstate NY, the office was about half mile from an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet. According to a coworker who was born and raised in India, it was better than he could usually find back home. We ate there a LOT.
 
To my knowledge there are two Indian restaurants in CLT. The one with the best reviews (King of Spice) is only about 5 miles from my house. The owners are quite proud of their buffet. It is limited and seems to be all chicken cut different ways in the same dull orange spices. I love their Tandoori bread though. I could go there just to eat bread. It is made the correct way, except I doubt there is cow dung in the ceramic of the oven.
 
bigfelipe said:
Catfish;n8508 said:
I'm pretty open minded about asian foods so I must have chosen poorly when I ate Indian because I have never liked it. I love curry - where should I go in Charlotte to not be disappointed?
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Wahoo95 knows good Indian food. Bet he can send you somewhere that way...
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I like Aroma over across from Concord Mills
 
WeepingAngel said:
bigfelipe;n8668 said:
I get that. That's a common response I hear when discussing Indian food. That and, "I hate it." Both are usually because people have only been to crappy places that serve slop of varying colors and call it Indian food. If you can't tell the dishes apart, you need to go elsewhere. While the spice palate can be monotonous at times, the same is true of many ethnic foods. Take Mexican for example. A lot of the same packaged differently...
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Yep - for a while when living in upstate NY, the office was about half mile from an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet. According to a coworker who was born and raised in India, it was better than he could usually find back home. We ate there a LOT.
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Buffets almost always suck. Can't judge a food group by that. And Upstate NY is not known for its food variety. Can't neleive you found the only Indian place within 300 miles!
 
I like Blue Taj in Ballantyne. Last I had in uptown was one of those places where it's cooked offsite and brought in. Something crunchy in the rice tasted just like a Christmas tree - wasn't a fan of that.
 
Love me some Indian food! I have made my own paneer, and gotten compliments on my curry from a young'un from Ceylon (Long time ago...). Don't do it often enough anymore.

Mela (restaurant here in AVL) has a pretty good Vindaloo. They're on Lexington St. if you come up this way.
 
Hub;n8306 said:
I love Indian food, but I cheat and buy the pre-made sauce and basmati rice. All you've got to do is brown some chicken, let the sauce simmer and in 20mins dinner is ready.
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Is that the Patak's sauce? Because my Indian friends back home use that stuff too. Not so much the cook in sauce but the jars of paste. Toss/brown the meat in the paste, add water, simmer.

Good stuff.
 
I think that the Indian place at Ayersly is pretty good for lunch. There is a place on South near Tyvola called Jaipur that is sometimes good and sometimes not. There is a fancy place on West that I just don't like.
 
Some of the best Indian food in the world can be had in England. I was eating Indian food all the time when I was living in London - it was either that or fish and chips or bangers and mash, so it was a no-brainer. And the native English know good Indian food (after football, lots of guys go for curry and a beer the way guys here would go for burgers or wings), so mediocre Indian restaurants do not survive long there.
 
drypowder said:
Some of the best Indian food in the world can be had in England. I was eating Indian food all the time when I was living in London - it was either that or fish and chips or bangers and mash, so it was a no-brainer. And the native English know good Indian food (after football, lots of guys go for curry and a beer the way guys here would go for burgers or wings), so mediocre Indian restaurants do not survive long there.
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I have heard this, went there on vacation with the family and couldn't convince them to try it. I have had great Indian in Vancouver and Austin TX. Oh crap, maybe I am Ted Cruz.
 
NCLivingBrit;n9025 said:
Is that the Patak's sauce? Because my Indian friends back home use that stuff too. Not so much the cook in sauce but the jars of paste. Toss/brown the meat in the paste, add water, simmer.

Good stuff.
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Yes it is, I've never tried the paste though. Maybe next time
 
Hub;n9423 said:
Yes it is, I've never tried the paste though. Maybe next time
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The paste is basically ground spices in oil. Excellent stuff.
 
drypowder;n9161 said:
Some of the best Indian food in the world can be had in England. I was eating Indian food all the time when I was living in London - it was either that or fish and chips or bangers and mash, so it was a no-brainer.
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I was introduced to Indian food in Manchester, UK and fell in love with it. Best food on the planet in my humble opinion. Also remember eating an All On sandwich with black pudding and having chips served in yesterday's Times. Been wanting to make some homemade tikka masala (which even the cat likes) but have trouble finding all the ingredients locally.

For packaged stuff, the Kitchens Of India spice packets are pretty decent and MUCH better then the jars like Patak's. It helps that it's imported from India I suspect.
 
The bread I can handle, the food, not so much! I had the Asian DFAC right behind my what passed for living accommodations in Kandahar, so we ate there a good bit. The next one was a mile across base. They had some Indians there cooking and everything, I mean EVERYTHING had curry poured in it! I haven't been able to stand curry every since! We got a Tandoori type bread from a stall in Kandahar City. The guy that made it said that the oven was over 2000 years old and the fresh baked bread was great! I've got a picture of it somewhere.
 
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