British Pub Curry Vs Indian Restaurant Curry - What's the Difference?
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- Who makes the better Chicken Tikka Masala? Is it an British pub. Or is it an Indian Restaurant? In this video I compare versions from both places to see who's best.
Location:
Hungry Horse, Leeds
Kerala, Leeds
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The curry house curry looked really good but the hungry horse one looked ok for a fiver too obviously preferred the Indian restaurant.
No comparison the curry house wins easily
I bet the pub can do a really good curry for £22.40. 😊
Pub food looks beautiful considering the prices at this inflation then curry house
You ordered the wrong food. Kerala is in the south of india and ctm isnt part of the cuisine. The chutneys you didnt like are fermented pickles and are eaten differently.
The papadam is north indian. Kerala makes something called appalam.
Alright done with my indian food coaching, I have a date 😅
Definitely the Indian restaurant wins it looks so much better but for £5 the hungry horse wasn't too bad
Its difficult to beat that value
Did you see the quantity of the rice? It looked as if you can complete it in 3 bites lol
At the The Hungry Horse you are just eating a microwave ready meal. That said you can't complain for £5. You pay your money, you make your choice
Its hard to complain about a £5 meal
Papadums are not meamt to be dipped into chutneys. Proper way is to take a bite of your food, and eat a bit of papadum and then break a small piece of chutney to eat after. But to each their own. Chicken tikka is generally made on a skewer first and in a tandoor oven and then put into a curry. Gives that tandoor oven flavor.
I was always taught that you dip it in chutney but then again you can honestly have it any way you like, as a snack, appetizer, while eating, after eating anyway lol
break a small piece of chutney?? what?? What does that mean?
There is no ' proper ' way of eating a poppadom. I am an Indian and I eat poppadoms (we call them papad here) in a multitude of ways.
Those last 2 aren't chutneys, they're pickles and you're not supposed to have one big bite. Usually just a small bit along with the papad or the rice.
They did taste a bit too strong to have with the poppadom
@@everydayimeating3407 literally no one calls it a poppadom in India lmao. It’s called papad.
@@skrtfghs yeah still nowhere close to poppadoms
Exactly, chutneys and pickles are totally different like day and night 😂. That's why our vlogger didn't get it, which any Desi Indian gets it especially a keralite. It's like carrying coal to Newcastle, any way. Problem is the only pickles English and Americans know is that pickles the fast food hamburger joints put into their hamburgers. That's gross. If I order hamburgers I tell no pickles before ordering also light lettuce because lettuce is just green leaves better suited for bovine animals like cows 😂😂 ciao everybody
@@GeezusKhryst LMAO that Indian 'experts' don't know either, but you love criticizing others!
Times are tough - the cheaper pub meal looked good enough for the price. The Indian restaurant meal didn't look to be worth 4 times as much.
If you’re happy to settle for food with no flavour
He noted which spices he tasted in the rice and called the chicken spicy' so I'm sure there was enough flavor for the price.
@@Dinki-Didepends. I’d question it had ‘no’ flavour - it is likely he just didn’t find it as stronger as other curries. And when you are in a pub you have to cater for all tastes. I thought the rice stingy and the salad very underwhelming. For £22!
Just say you can't afford it don't be comparing pub curry to a actual Indian restaurant curry 😂
Forget the pub for a moment, that didn’t look like a great example of an Indian restaurant meal. Small portion and expensive.
The "Indian" restaurant name is Kerala, which is a state or province if you will in the south of India. Chicken Tikka Masala is not a native dish of that region. If any chance anyone does go to that restaurant please ask the staff for local "Kerala" cuisine. Asking for Chicken Tikka Masala in a restaurant called Kerala is like asking for a Phylly Cheesestake in a restaurant called "Louisiana"
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Love your videos mate, so chill 👍🏼
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First one for me mate. For the price and Yorkshire Tea that's an amazing price. The problem with curries is they can't make them too hot in places like Hungry Horse as they'd just have people moaning. Whereas in an Indian restaurant people expect a nice heat to them. I'd of sooner had a Naan bread with them both though :)
Naan bread would have been great with both 😋
Not strictly true. The “hot” curries in Wetherspoons are genuinely pretty hot
I always change the Popadom for a Naan bread a Hungry Horse.
Naan literally means bread u can js say it once💀
You said pappadam .. love from Kerala ❤
Straight away I liked the look of the Kerala dish better than the hungry horse.
It was tastier too
The reason your curry was so quick at the Hungry Horse, is because there is a big steamer in the kitchen with about 10 shelves inside each shelf will have either chicken breasts, curry pouches, rice pouches, mash pots etc. All pre portioned and hot ready to pour onto your plate.
Order for a curry comes into the kitchen.. It's out and onto your table in a minute and half.
Good to know!
Deffo prefer the indian restaurant as most pub curry's am just microwaved meals and thanks for another great video mate 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Great video! Gotta love Kerala food!
I fully agree with you, the Indian curry by far looked the best, regardless to the cost.
It was soo tasty!
Second curry for me chap….they say you pay for quality…👌👌
It was a good quality meal
Top video, I do enjoy the curry at the Hungry Horse but sometimes I feel I'd need two for a proper meal out.
Then again when I use my Tesco Club Card points to get a meal for nothing there can be no complaints.
Great idea for a vlog mate 😅
I love your videos
Thanks 😀
Nice pomme accent by an Asian guy doing Indian food... From a African guy from Kerala, India:-)
11:33 basically what the waiter is saying 'we give a portion of rice suitable for a mouse so you spend more money and buy a nan bread' I woundn't eat there based on the waiters response. I'd ask for more rice FREE. Congratulations restaurant you win the stingiest rice portion I have ever seen award. 🏆When rice per portion decent 120g is approximately 15 pence. Great job!
Someone never got their hole last night Mr. Grumpy Pants.
South Indian here and I must say, the pub was humane with more rice.
And also it is either chai or tea because chai = tea, just as milk = latte.
My auntie had her wedding reception back in 1996 at that Kerala restaurant! I think it used to Shebabs a few years ago. Might have found myself in there after an Otley Run once or twice 😅
It was shebabs a couple of years ago then the moved near the train station it was the place Togo a top curry house
I am so hungry now watching your old videos. I think Papadoms and Samosas are so important as intros
I’m disagreeing with you on this one buddy. Purely on price and portion size. Of course an Indian restaurant will be taster. But an egg cup of rice? What’s the salad got to do with a curry? To bulk out the plate is all. £22 is robbery for what you get. Gimme the £5 all day long. Good comparison though. 👍
Agree. The Indian cooked by an Indian should automatically taste better (one hopes although tbh any good cook will cook well). But was it worth the mark up - don’t think so. The cheaper one wasn’t ‘bad’ - it just wasn’t full of flavour and it would have been filling. Now if the cheaper one was totally disgusting then yup the higher price would have been worth it.
Guys, using super generic term like "Indian curry" is extremely confusing. There are few thousand types of curries in India, and just a "chicken curry" has atleast 50 different varieties that taste different from one state to the other.
Pub grub can be cheap fills your tummy. Local pub USED to serve LIDL Lasagne
Lime pickle is qn acquired taste! Can you do Caribbean food next?
Its definitely an acquired taste
11:12 Just because people usually order a naan doesn't mean they should serve a tiny portion of rice - what kind of weird excuse is that for serving such a small portion of rice?
Hello,EIE
I loved the look of the Indian restaurant. A lot of special touches enhance the flavor. This one is for me, Hungry Horse didn't even look appetizing. Fantastic video 😊😊😊
The presentation and environment sometimes make a difference
If you love the look of this Indian restaurant then you need to look up a restaurant called (Veeraswamy) it's in London. Just take a look at the images on Google
Pretty sure that the chutney that you didn't like was achar, which is pickled fruits, vegetables, and garlic. It can have pieces of whole lime or lemon in it, including the peel, which would taste bitter.
It was so bitter 😝
Very small portion for £22.00! I like the Wetherspoons Curries
In glasgow we hwve spiced onions with popodom delicious
Its pretty obvious which one is going to win
The Rice looked a little on the dry side with the hungy horse meal although fairly good portion size to the full meal itself, the indian restaurant curry was the winner for me ! Lovely presentation, the rice looked much nicer as did the curry, i would prefer not to have the chutneys with this & the chia tea was somthing different. Thank you for sharing, take care 💜
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Good review but when you can’t afford to buy a expensive meal the £5 looked nice 👍 thank you 🙏 for sharing your vlog
Great review . The Indian restaurant looked great.. have you tried Wetherspoons chicken tikka masala on a Curry Thursday, its fantastic and off memory less than £9 inc your drink . Also you get 2 popadoms and a nan bread included ... which you can upgrade to a garlic nan. Their jalfrezi is also spot on .
I like jalfrezis too 😋
the £5 one wins it for me just on price alone where else could you get that price
I don't think you could get it cheaper anywhere else
It's £7.00 with a drink any Wednesday, even better value, I had one today.
That pub one looked well
Waiting for the day when people stop saying Curry sauce & Naan bread, as an indian, its quite annoying to hear. The food from the second restaurant did look yum ! Glad you enjoyed :)
Hi from a Very Cold (59F/15C) Los Angeles 🙋♀️
I'm not a curry fan at all! It's a shame too, as I live 2 miles from the Little India district of Artesia Calif which has some amazing Indian restaurants.
The meal at Kerala has my vote! Great presentation. But the poppadums alone would draw me in. A crispy fresh poppadum with anything saucy is always a treat.
Wait! 59f is cold? Greetings from 18f Scotland! As recently documented in the media the CTM has transitioned from the curry house to taking its place on an English pub menu. Despite what you may read it's by no means Britain's favourite dish, a distant third at best behind a Sunday roast dinner and a full English breakfast.
@@alexf7377 Yes, for Los Angeles, 59F is practically freezing. I know, we here don't know "real" cold. 🤣
Cold is all relative, mate. 59 is cold if you're used to 70 and 89 f summers in Los Angeles mate 😂 lol cheers anyway to all of you guys !!!!!!
Another superb review,E.I.E. I prefer the look of curry number two from Kerala. Although curry number one from Hungry Horse still looked alright, and for a fiver, that's good value for money.
Theres pros to both
@@everydayimeating3407 indeed 👍🏻.
Has to be the restaurant ...presentation was immaculate and the curry looked sooo good. I suppose you get what you pay for. The pub curry may have been cheap but it showed. Good review I enjoyed this,
Exactly!!
Hi,you know the famous saying you get what you pay for!I don’t particularly agree with that on this occasion,yes the restaurant was better quality but the portion size was ridiculous.i get 2 large curries(madras&bhuna)plus large saag aloo rice for£16 at my local curry house and thats enough for 2 meals each,been using the same place for 10 years now and that price includes delivery!!
I think you should have qualified your decision for rating the much more expensive curry more highly than the £5 one. Is it really 5x better for 5x the price?
hello m'love! hope you are well! I reckon i'd go for the pub curry only as a quick cheap lunch if i was rushed. nothing but sustenance. indian curry looked more of a real cared for eat. real food and real time. not just a rushed money maker 😄
I agree, the pub curry for a quick lunch and the restaurant curry for a nice dinner
As I mentioned in the other HH review, if you like spicy then go for the Chicken Jalcrazy….. it’s hot!!
Lawnswood takes it for me, I’d probably go for the fish & chips though
I'd go for the fish and chips over the curry too
He's reviewing currys numb nut what's the point of saying you will have fish n chips so when he reviews fish n chips you write in saying you prefer a curry DOH
So unfair to compare these 2 try 2 authentic Indian restaurants,you can’t compare a £5 pub curry to a real Indian restaurant 😂
Yes you can, he just did
Huh ?
I won't even compare the both
This is a really difficult one. The pub meal was very good value although the restuarant meal was of superior quality. You'd be better off grabbing a ready meal curry from the supermarket than putting up with a poor meal in a pub but if you are out and about then the pub is convenient. If your pocket permits it I'd go for the better quality meal.
I agree
Do they have any Kerala foods in Kerala restaurant?
The Lawnswood Arms used to be a lot more classy. Was my local for me and my mate back in the day. Those portions wouldn't fill me. The rice portion at the Indian was tiny.
Very rarely is the significantly more expensive version of the exact same dish between two restaurants actually drastically better. I'd probably go the pub curry. English indian food is so good we used to have an indian restaurant in my small American town say it had british style and authentic indian food on the menu on their sign above the restaurant.
If you’re lucky enough to enjoy both and compare them, then you’re lucky, seems to me! 😀
I think at the restaurant they gave you two mango chutneys as they'd probably not got any mint yoghurt, I've never seen the other ones in a pickle tray, it's usually lime (or chilli) pickle and onion salad.
I would have loved some mint yoghurt
@@everydayimeating3407 yes it’s definitely the best one
Even though I don't eat Chicken I'd say the one that wins it for me is the Indian restaurant the pub curry looked really oily.
The Indian looked lovely but the price is a bit steep for what you get. Thwt rice portion was tiny
Definitely the Indian for me. Why not do a comparison between a couple of the Indian chains, like The Aagrah and Akbars?
Another great video!!
That would be interesting!
Those chutney you were eating are actually lime and gooseberry pickled with chilli and vinegar for months..they are not meant to be eaten with a spoon but just a small drop for the rice to be a bit more appetising 😅😅I was like what the heck that must hurt because these stuff has high concentrations of Kerala chillies and vinegar..
You need to do a Indian Restaurant comparison with a home cooked curry by an Indian family, 90% of so called "Indian" restaurants in this country are nothing of the sort, when you ask these people where they come from the a large proportion are from Bangladesh. It's only when you eat home cooked food that you can do a genuine comparison with a pub or restaurant.
I would never opt for this meal but honestly you are better off with the £5 meal for the following reasons :
# 1 : The chicken is anyhow caged chicken that probably never experienced the sun on its back and was fed antibiotics and gmo feed to make it grow bigger faster.
It is not healthy and also causes these chickens a fair amount of suffering.
Restaurants buy these wholesale and its cheap so why pay more if yoj actually hate your body enough to eat it?
# 2 : The amount of rice you got in the Kerala restaurant is miniscule and the £5 meal evidently had more spices so it is probably healthier (i.e anise seeds, cardamom, cloves which someone who is clueless about Indian spices and how beneficial they are is lucky to get into his system once in a while).
# 3 : The two mango chutneys yohlu got are indeed identical plus to cut costs they probably use lots of white sugar instead of tamarind.
When there is no authentic pudina (mint) sauce is when you know you are in a low quality Indian restaurant.
# 4 : Indian food is the most varied and delicious in the world (say I and anyone who knows a thjng or two about food) but Kerala regional food and habits come at the bottom of the barrel (Malayalees which is the term for people from Kerala are more interested in making money, trading etc. than they are producing satisfying and wholesome meals).
If you want to eat better Indian food you should opt for a Tamil, Karnataki, Andhra or North Indian cuisine.
Stay away from Kerala, Maharashtra and Rajashtani restaurants because they are at best mediocre.
As I'm sure previous comments note, a Kerala restaurant is not the most obvious place for a TCM.
My local pub does a curry of the day plus thursday is curry day choice of 8 curries includes popadom and freshly made nan bread would give most indian restraunts a run for there money
Hi…thank you for your vlog, I am not a curry lover,but I know good food when I see it, The second curry looked lovely,even though it was more expensive, much appreciated as usual, best wishes Sue (Woodhall Spa) xx
The second one looked far more appetising...
I agree 😀
The chutneys were lime and garlic pickle I’d of thought 😂
They weren't my favourite
@@everydayimeating3407 aquired taste aernt they I love it personally
That's like comparing a Vauxhall Corsa to a BMW M3.
Fun fact: Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Scotland.
Kerala restaurant takes it for me
Me too
The difference, The Price!
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2:32 it seems to be sweet lemon pickle
Hungry Horse curry and rice is already precooked and delivered to site frozen (as is around 90% of the menu).
They don’t employ chefs either only minimum wage ‘cooks’ that’s how they can sell at that price point.
When I was the kitchen manager in the kitchen we used to ‘pull’ 5 or 6 curries ready to go into the Microwave ready for a customer to order.
On busy nights (Curry clubs - Wednesday or Thursday nights) we used a Bain Marie to keep up with the volumes.
Incidentally, once the curries were out of the freezer they had 3 days to sell them or discard them. If the HH didn’t sell them that would show up as a loss on their stocktake. The managers earned bonus on good stock results though so go figure….
As an Indian I am appaled at the ratio of gravy vs rice!!
Nice video but a few things:
- please stop saying "chai tea". You're essentially saying "tea tea". Also in Kerala, the word for tea is "chaiya".
- the little tumbler provided with the steel cup is so that you can cool your tea by using the "pulling" technique. You pour (or pull) the tea from cup to tumbler (and vice versa) in order to cool the tea as well as giving it some extra froth.
- they shouldn't provide the "free rice" cos the amount is ridiculous. They should just get the customer to order a portion.
- although I do think £22 is pretty steep, I can't really comment on the price cos there are multiple factors which contribute to prices such as ingredients, staffing, rent, location, etc.
- the £5 meal... well, you get what you pay for
Great video! I'd go for the Indian restaurant too, if only because the pub curry was swimming in oil. It really ruins the look of the curry, and is pretty unhealthy also! A Tikka Masala should be a creamy, yet packed with flavour, in my opinion - I've cooked a fair few!
The taste of the restaurant curry was a lot better too 😋
Those are not a chutneys in India restaurant which said it's not my cup of tea, those are the pickles, an Indian pickles and you eat them like a chutney. The right way to pickle is take a pinch of pickle put it in your rice and add curry in the rice and then it.
look to paying more than 4 times the amount. there was not much rice so to get more would cost more. it does seem a lot of money for it.
the salad i do not think belongs if they did away with that and doubled the rice.
if you are not sure about it then may be having a curry that is not going to be too much for you.
how does the £5 go vs the wetherspoons curry. which costs a little more.
Plus take it on the 9th Feb these £5 items will no longer be done. and the price will go back up.
*The last two in the second dish were pickles (achar) not chutney*
Where is this? I heading over
It is in Leeds
It is Karela with the bitter flavour
Chicken Tikka Masala is not a dish from the Indian state of Kerala which is in southern India. This dish is from north India.😅
So if you are going to dine in a restaurant named Kerala, ask for dishes from Kerala and not from northern India.
"A Packet"!
Basmati rice is the type of rice regardless of the spices or colour 🤙
£22 bit steep for me.
The way in to the Kerala is impossible for my wife to contemplate. So that is right out , unless they have a disabled entrance somewhere. Pubs have a good idea of disabled access so full marks to them. Of course the Kerala may have access somewhere else but there was no indication.
The disabled access is irrelevant. It's about the food.
Obvious which the best one was, don't think it was worth 22 quid.
You forgot to try THE *SaLaAaDdDd*!!!?!!! 😵💫😭 now we'll never know if it was worth the extra 15 pOuNdSsSsSa 😱
Thanks for another great video! 🙂
I'll have to remember it next time!
@@everydayimeating3407 we were very impressed at how you skillfully ignored it 😅 haha cheers dude!
I preferred the second curry. However, you know something tastes bad when you have to do a dentist-style swill with your drink to remove the taste. The garlic in the chutney looked gnarly as hell. I actually winced before you took a mouthful.
Luckily the chai tea was really nice
The special offer price of £5 is a bit misleading as I think the price is £9.99 when not on offer.
So when you compare it is very hard to imagine that the cheap version can beat a expensive one. or made by a specialised location.
Greene kings pubs had a £5 curry. it may be better to find prices that are closer to each other.
since the expensive will always for many people be too expensive for what you are getting and would make a family going there end up with such a High final bill.
I think the one that was bitter is lime
The chutney may be bitter gourd. Popular in Indian food. Too bitter for me but it is supposed to be good for you
Its a very bitter flavour, too bitter for me too
Its left over chuchney paxket rice and a cheap Iceland curry
Chicken tikka masala or other curries are best enjoyed with naan bread, paratha or kulcha.
Eating so much gravy with so little rice, salads or papadoms, is difficult.
Those portions of rice are so small, like how many spoonfuls do you get.
The last chutneys were actually Achar not a chutney and looked like lemon
No mint chutney no way
They are not chutney, they are pickle, its not to be consumed whole, use only one or two drops on rice