The mix vegetable curry you had was to accompany the biryani. My favourite order is Lamb Pathia , Saag bhaji with half chips and half fried rice, my partner has the Garlic chilli chicken. Have you tried a Balti yet? Invented in Birmingham. If you wanted to make these dishes at home, there's a guy on TH-cam called Al's Kitchen who does British Indian Takeaway Recipes.
You have to do british style chinese food. I just moved back to scotland from Maine and i craved the Chinese food in the UK that bad it was literally the first thing I did.
I live in Australia and miss uk Chinese so much. Over hear it’s healthy and full of vegetables. I want the deep fried oily UK stuff. Can’t even get crispy duck or salt and chilli chicken.
Coriander is the devils herb, it’s fascinating the genetics behind why we either taste it as sweet or sour (like soap) I taste soap- very strong, those that taste soap usually don’t like the taste of celery
I live in a small town in Suffolk called Sudbury and we have a shop called Raffis spice box where they make up a bag of spices that you add to whatever meat your having then slow cook absolutely gorgeous
Chicken korma is a really popular mild curry but I've found that the sauce can vary depending on where it's bought and sometimes it's too sweet. I usually go for meat samosas with the mint dip followed by chicken biryani with saag aloo. My Indian takeaway also gives me free poppadoms and a little bag of salad.
Im british and when going indian I rarely ever branch away from getting a tikka massala, I know I like that one and any of curry I get there's a chance I wont enjoy it the same and i'll have a disappointing tea. I have had a few others but cant remember the names. This video has inspired me to branch out next time though
The story I heard about the Tandoori chicken masala was, yes it was invented in Scotland, but it was because someone thought it was dry and wanted a gravy with it. Buy it could well have been what you heard, or a mix of the two tales. And you seemed to be eating the poppadoms / sauces correctly. I think also a lot of British curry houses are based on Bangladesh type food, or maybe that's mostly Bangladesh chefs - not sure. I may have that badly wrong and might be some parts of the country only. But dishes will have been very much Anglicised from original dishes and then become the norm. As good as the standard curry houses are, it's nice when you get variations from the norm, eg. South Indian, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, etc curry houses, and it would be great to see much more variety based on authentic dishes from all around the Indian subcontinent. Weirdest naan I've had was up in Scotland (Dundee area) - a banana naan. I've not seen it anywhere else in the UK. Sounds odd but it was actually nice.
The customer wanting a gravy to accompany the chicken tikka was the version I heard, from Stephen Fry on QI, so I'm assuming it's true! It was yoghurt and cream added to the spice mix.
Lamb tika biriani is not usually on the menu but it's amazing if you ask they will make it.... And all biriani is 2 containers..... 1 rice and meat and 2 the sauce....
spending so much time reading the comments and salivating! can't believe the amount of food you tried ....have to say the best indian food we've had was in kerala who knew the fish were so meaty..and the sauces wow ..also there are really good authentic indian spice based restaurants everywhere in the uk you find the ones in your neighbourhood that offer the non generic 'british' style (if that's your preference) and go for it if you're lucky. we are so lucky to have the choice from all of india
If you have a problem with ANY type of food with chilli DON'T expect water (beer, juice, etc) to cool your mouth down . The only thing that helps is something MILK -based. The only helpful DRINK to really have is lassi, which is a drinkable yoghurt/yoghurt & milk drink. My faourite is MANGO lassi, but you can also have plain. This will help cool your taste buds and line the tender skin of the gut. Another option is to EAT plain set yoghurt (or, for preference yoghurt with added mint sauce) with your curries. That way, two people can easily eat from the same dish,, even if they prefer differing levels of spice. Also handy to have a BIG pot of plain set yoghurt about if your local curry house is a bit heavy with the spices for a non-Asian palate, but like me you don't want to be limited to creamy Kormas! Again, ANY food that is heavy with chilli will tend to taste much spicier to people who don't partake on a daily basis, since chillli actually DAMAGES taste buds if eaten regularly enough. This is also why those who eat chilli-bssed foods will generally find more Northern European foods boringly bland - their taste buds have been KILLED!
My favourite Indian dishes to order is either, lamb pasanda, which is a mild coconut-based curry or a chicken makhani aka Butter Chicken, along with a Keema naan, stuffed with minced lamb to dunk into the sauce.
Try and get Naga Chicken, or Chicken Phaal. Also in the UK they don't very often sell Lamb curry, because it's actually Mutton. So instead they market it as meat curry. Mutton just needs tenderising/cooking a lot longer.
Now I really want a curry! LOL. I've never seen so much takeway in one sitting! Must have kept you fed for a week! I like most of those - but you missed korma. Very mild, but really nice.
Our favourite .. Chicken Jalfrezi, Mushroom Fried Rice, Bombay Potato, Peshwari Nan .. usually order one of the rice and one of the potato and we have half of each with individual Chicken Jalfrezi's. If your curry is too hot drink milk ... everything else makes your mouth hotter!
I’m surprised the food is in plastic tubs, ours tried that and they must have had complaints as they reverted to foil which is better for putting in the oven to keep warm whilst eating starter bits and to recycle.
Lamb Rogan Josh is a favorite of mine, also Jalfrezi, Madras & Vindaloo. Is it correct that sheep ranching is mostly confined to Montana & Wyoming , maybe a bit beyond ?
Hi guys, all the dishes are invented in the UK 🇬🇧 by restaurant chefs, some dishes exist before restaurants like chicken curry, biriyani, lamb curry, but the restaurants made a different version to the authentic biriyani. For example look up the recipe, you will find a sour sauce with mint meat and rice in layers, not what they serve up to customers. The chicken tikka story number 1 dish in the UK doesn't exist before a customer complaint that the curry does not have enough gravy and they didnt like dry dishes so it's created for the preference of the palettes here. Dansak the sweet curry with chicken lentils 100 percent made up but its so good.
Phaal which is one of the spiciest curries in the world also comes from England, a drunk guy was dared to walk in to the curry house and ask them to create the spiciest curry ever and they just threw everything in and created Phaal.
Indian food is spicy hot, not burny hot (like Texans like their chilli). The heat is from the quality of the spices, not from trying to overload the palate with chilli peppers or garlic.
For the complete British experience, you need to get a belly full of ale in you , order all that, find the biggest plate you can and put a bit of everything on it and get stuck in. What is left over you use in the morning to help sober you up.
Fun fact, Chicken Tikka Massala was invented in Glasgow, theoretically because the original Indian version was too spicy. However, Faal was invented in Birmingham because people didn't think the curry was hot enough, lol. Typical schizo British tastebuds. Just so you know, Faal is the hottest curry in the world (I think, it's certainly marketed that way!). Vindaloo is usually the hottest curry dish actually on the menu but Faal is often a secret item at many curry houses. Bangladeshi curry houses will often have the best Faal and that is where you are most likely to find it actually on a menu, but if you don't see it just ask and many good places will have it if you want to try it. A good faal can be pretty deadly though, so I recommend keeping the raita on standby!
You appear to have missed Tarka Dal, which is Indian Lentil Soup, a delicious starter, also Samosas, small tasty triangular pastries filled with vegetables or minced meat. Not forgetting my favourite Indian bread which is the Parotta. Enjoy.
the only mushrooms i like are the button mushrooms, halved or thinly sliced and then lightly browned with butter in a frying pan... very good for sandwiches, if its over cooked and too dark i dont eat mushrooms like that... the only issue is EVERY indian and chinese take away are all different from one or the other in cooking skills, like my local chinese is far better than the one down in the next village, to find a good chinese or idnian take away you have to shop around a bit... the indian take away near me do a long grain rice with black beans, sliced red onion, pea's, sweet corn and mushrooms... your faces when the heat kicked in was funny lol
Did you try prawn crackers which go with curries or just eat alone? I have found out that indian restaurants hide some sauces from everyone and some don't,if they bring out a small carousel of different sauces.
Most food sold by Asian restaurants in the UK is purely invented for the UK restaurant trade. Maybe less so today, but most Asian restaurants were owned/run by Bangladeshis. India is a vast place and the food varies enormously across the country, to get an idea of that you'd have to eat in some small restaurants that cater for large local Asian populations -places like Leicester, parts of Birmigham or Manchester. What any particular name is, varies from town to town, restaurant to restaurant - for instance, jalfrezi, to me, is an extremely hot dish, often with whole chillies in it. Go back long enough and lots of names did not exist - tinderloo, jalfrezi, even phall are reasonably recent - the last 30 years, they just got hotter and hotter because people thought it was clever. Before them there was madras - pretty hot, and then vindaloo - very hot, and that was it.
Have you guys tried “Curry Club” on Thursdays at any of the 900-or-so Wetherspoon pubs in the UK? You really should. Just £10 to £12.50 for a full curry meal, including a pint, I’m sure you have nothing like this in the US. Perfect material for a video.
I prefer to go for a curry like chicken tikka vindaloo and combine it with a chicken tikka biriyani. The rice is more enjoyable than the simple rices. Plus you get tons of meat that way!
That's the sort of buffet that you end up with after a heavy night on the ale and decide that you might be hungry on the way home! Top tip - a lot of Indian and Chinese foods taste better eaten for breakfast next morning..
Looks delicious. In the UK we love spicy food, I would say more than anyone else in Europe, and I've lived in Spain, Germany and Russia. Our own food does leave something to be desired... but we've opened ourselves up to world cuisine much more than most/all other European countries. I live in Madrid but I'm from London, and with the exception of Latin American food, all non native food in London is better and more varied than here.
You really need to go to an Indian restaurant the sounds of sizzling and the smells are amazing. You need a bigger table 😂 The salad and the dips go with the poppadoms. Halfway through the video and no naan bread yet??? Cobra beer is the standard Indian beer. Balti chicken tikka is my go to curry with a garlic naan and pilau rice.
I remember a visit to a Pakistani/Indian restaurant in London, and the waiter asked me how hot i wanted the curry. He looked like a gentle young man, so i said: make it as you would eat it... It was a great meal, but after that i became more modest...
My go to order is a chicken sagawala which is a spinach dish but you can choose your heat preference, I have that hot with a vegetable pilau and all the sides I can fit into my body! Then I have an all night fart party! 😊
Hey if your Vindaloo was spicy you picked the right restaurant. Also, please please avoid 'chicken' biryanis. They never will be 'as good' because chicken cooks fast and it'll almost always be overcooked [ and more so because to suit westerners, these restaurants try to make them 'boneless' and that's usually chicken breast ]. Always order 'Mutton' ( Chevon, not lamb ) Biryani. Those are the Grade-A stuff. If you can't get Chevon, then only go with Mutton ( Lamb ). Also, if you want a really authentic 'Aromatic' Biryani... order a Lucknow or Kolkata style biryani. These are cooked with the whole spices packed in cheese cloths and discarded afterwards - so no whole spice comes into your bites. And being 'Kachhi Style' ( where the cooking is started with a bottom layer of Raw Meat marinated for 24 hours... and finished in a 'Dum-Pukht' method), these are way juicier and therefore tastier.
Indian takeaways are the only takeaway I'll eat. Can't beat a good curry. Some of the best I've had are in the Darwen/Blackburn area. If you go to the right place, they're out of this world. Can't beat a good curry! For me, I'll have a vegetable dopiaza (increased heat to fairly hot,) garlic and coriander naan, onion rice and onion bhaji... BOOM!!
Meat Madras with chapatis, can't go wrong. Love your videos, you're such a genuine couple who really seem to enjoy what you do, well appreciated. Edit: The meat is lamb, by the way, hehe.
Madras, as in, you know, India. What is the hottest curry in the UK? As a little bit of an explainer for all who don't know what a phaal is; it's a curry which originated in the Bangladeshi-owned curry-houses of Birmingham, and is known as 'one of the hottest forms of curry regularly available'. What is the hottest supermarket curry? Morrisons have launched an eight-chilli rated curry that is “the hottest supermarket curry ever”. The Flaming Fiery Phaal was developed following complaints from customers that their six-chilli Volcanic Vindaloo wasn't hot enough.
My local "Indian" restaurant/takeaway is Indian and Bangladeshi run. Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, obviously part of Pakistan. but became an independent country in 1972 after a bloody civil war. Here ends the history lesson. The point is that Bangladesh is a Muslim country, so pork will NEVER appear on the menu, but they do seem very keen on fish (but never shellfish), and India is a Hindu country so beef will NEVER appear on the menu. Apart from that though, "Indian" food is gorgeous, possibly only outclassed by Thai food. Thais are predominately Buddhists, but seem to be prepared to tuck into anything!
Or a Chilli Massala with plenty of fresh green chilli. I need to get some more Mr Naga pickle, a teaspoon of that is what makes a Naga curry. At one time the Naga was the worlds hottest chilli
I find there's too much heavy sauce in British Indian dishes. The flavors can be similar in India but there's either much less sauce or the sauce is much less pronounced (at least the stuff I tried at restaurants in Panji). Personally, you can't beat Chicken tikka without the masala sauce, served with salad, rice and a side of aloo gobi. Either that or half a Tandoori chicken.
The best drink to alleviate the extra hot spiciness, is not a water based drink such as beer, but a yoghurt drink called Lassi. Chilli oil actually dissolves in the Lassi and is washed away, with beer etc the oil does not dissolve, it just floats and spread around in the mouth and can make it seem hotter My Indian and Pakistani friends always have a glass of Lassi at hand on the table, the beer is for afterwards. I can't believe that no one seemed to suggest beef Jalfrezi or Rogan Josh, they are delicious, I like plain chicken Tikka, Masala is simply a creamy tomato sauce which to me takes away the real taste of India - and they say food in England is bland!🥵🥵🥵
So many dishes started in the UK for the British palate and now served in India, mainly in hotels and tourist destinations, but the UK has a huge Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani population and the food is now part of the UK's diet ...
Indian takeaways/restaurants always seem great, whereas Chinese takeaway food seems a lot more "processed", but Indian food, always seem to be, well... Fresh and natural. Anyway, I love poppadoms and pickles, if it didnt come across as weird, but I'd happily scran poppadoms and pickles for starter, main and dessert! :D hehehe My typical setup is 2 poppadoms and any pickles (Though I say 2, I'm the poppadom hoover, if there's any left on the table, and the waiter tries to take them... Hell on,lol), erm, onion bhajis to start, for main a chicken pathia (Pronounced 'pat-hear'), onion pillau rice and finally, a good old garlic nan bread!!! \o/ Top nom noms hey! :)
Your 'extra rice' is part of the chicken Biriyani - it comes in 2 containers- the mixed vegetables (with the cabbage and possibly chick peas) is the sauce to pour over that rice. That's why it is dry. Well done for trusting our suggestions!
If something's too hot, you had the antidote right there… That 'yoghourt' dip is raita, which takes the fire away after a bite of something too hot (either drizzled on the curry, or as a spoonful after the hot food, to kill the burn). The way Indians deal with it is a yoghourt based drink called 'lassi'… either salty or sweet… or occasionally flavoured with mangoes… to wash down the curry. Often served in pint glasses in restaurants.
My vegetarian friend's go to is vegetable dhansak, and I'm forever proud of him for coining the phrase that his guts the following day are usually "ransacked with dhansak"!
I have one word to describe my feeling watching you both trying those meals....JEALOUSY!
Due to a bit of insomnia at the moment I am watching this at 4 am. I'm not only envious but bloody ravenous. 😅
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The mix vegetable curry you had was to accompany the biryani. My favourite order is Lamb Pathia , Saag bhaji with half chips and half fried rice, my partner has the Garlic chilli chicken.
Have you tried a Balti yet? Invented in Birmingham.
If you wanted to make these dishes at home, there's a guy on TH-cam called Al's Kitchen who does British Indian Takeaway Recipes.
Ohhh yeah Pathia is also my favourite!
What self-respecting indian restaurant/ takeaway have chips chips on the menu? 🫣🫨
Al's Kitchen is a brilliant suggestion. Watching that gives an excellent insight into how an indian dish is created.
Pathia is my absolute favourite
Chips as part of an Indian shouldn't be allowed
Great to see you folks enjoy, because we LOVE Indian takeaway over here!
The white dip is probably cucumber raita. Just a simple cooling yogurt dip
You have to do british style chinese food. I just moved back to scotland from Maine and i craved the Chinese food in the UK that bad it was literally the first thing I did.
yes!! i wanna know how different it is from american style chinese food
I live in Australia and miss uk Chinese so much. Over hear it’s healthy and full of vegetables. I want the deep fried oily UK stuff. Can’t even get crispy duck or salt and chilli chicken.
You've made my mouth water and change my dinner plans!
Coriander is the devils herb, it’s fascinating the genetics behind why we either taste it as sweet or sour (like soap) I taste soap- very strong, those that taste soap usually don’t like the taste of celery
Like you, I can't enjoy coriander at all... definitely soapy to me, yet celery, especially celery soup , is delicious to me 😊
Yep fresh coriander (cilantro for us Americans) tastes like soap to me too!🧼
I love celery, but not coriander.
I like coriander. Doesn't taste soapy to me.
Cardamom pods are the devils herb, 10 x worse than Coriander in my opinion.
The biryani comes with a separate sauce that you add to the rice and chicken and chicken tikka was invented here in Glasgow
The mixed veg curry accompanies the chicken biriyani!
I live in a small town in Suffolk called Sudbury and we have a shop called Raffis spice box where they make up a bag of spices that you add to whatever meat your having then slow cook absolutely gorgeous
My favourite dish is chicken jalfrezzi, a garlic naan and a pint of cobra . Curries can be quite filling, a lot goes a long way .
Chicken korma is a really popular mild curry but I've found that the sauce can vary depending on where it's bought and sometimes it's too sweet. I usually go for meat samosas with the mint dip followed by chicken biryani with saag aloo. My Indian takeaway also gives me free poppadoms and a little bag of salad.
Babies sick it's known as around here 😂.
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I prefer butter chicken
I just love the way that you are both up for trying everything.
Im british and when going indian I rarely ever branch away from getting a tikka massala, I know I like that one and any of curry I get there's a chance I wont enjoy it the same and i'll have a disappointing tea. I have had a few others but cant remember the names. This video has inspired me to branch out next time though
The story I heard about the Tandoori chicken masala was, yes it was invented in Scotland, but it was because someone thought it was dry and wanted a gravy with it.
Buy it could well have been what you heard, or a mix of the two tales.
And you seemed to be eating the poppadoms / sauces correctly.
I think also a lot of British curry houses are based on Bangladesh type food, or maybe that's mostly Bangladesh chefs - not sure. I may have that badly wrong and might be some parts of the country only. But dishes will have been very much Anglicised from original dishes and then become the norm.
As good as the standard curry houses are, it's nice when you get variations from the norm, eg. South Indian, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, etc curry houses, and it would be great to see much more variety based on authentic dishes from all around the Indian subcontinent.
Weirdest naan I've had was up in Scotland (Dundee area) - a banana naan. I've not seen it anywhere else in the UK. Sounds odd but it was actually nice.
The customer wanting a gravy to accompany the chicken tikka was the version I heard, from Stephen Fry on QI, so I'm assuming it's true! It was yoghurt and cream added to the spice mix.
Its chicken Tikka, and that is dumped in Tomato sauce... not tandoori
Lamb tika biriani is not usually on the menu but it's amazing if you ask they will make it.... And all biriani is 2 containers..... 1 rice and meat and 2 the sauce....
spending so much time reading the comments and salivating! can't believe the amount of food you tried ....have to say the best indian food we've had was in kerala who knew the fish were so meaty..and the sauces wow ..also there are really good authentic indian spice based restaurants everywhere in the uk you find the ones in your neighbourhood that offer the non generic 'british' style (if that's your preference) and go for it if you're lucky. we are so lucky to have the choice from all of india
Lamb saag is a good choice especially if you don’t like to much heat. Keema naan is a good side to go with it.
Madras uses coconut that’s why it has a hint of sweet with the heat
If you have a problem with ANY type of food with chilli DON'T expect water (beer, juice, etc) to cool your mouth down . The only thing that helps is something MILK -based.
The only helpful DRINK to really have is lassi, which is a drinkable yoghurt/yoghurt & milk drink. My faourite is MANGO lassi, but you can also have plain. This will help cool your taste buds and line the tender skin of the gut.
Another option is to EAT plain set yoghurt (or, for preference yoghurt with added mint sauce) with your curries. That way, two people can easily eat from the same dish,, even if they prefer differing levels of spice. Also handy to have a BIG pot of plain set yoghurt about if your local curry house is a bit heavy with the spices for a non-Asian palate, but like me you don't want to be limited to creamy Kormas!
Again, ANY food that is heavy with chilli will tend to taste much spicier to people who don't partake on a daily basis, since chillli actually DAMAGES taste buds if eaten regularly enough. This is also why those who eat chilli-bssed foods will generally find more Northern European foods boringly bland - their taste buds have been KILLED!
My favourite Indian dishes to order is either, lamb pasanda, which is a mild coconut-based curry or a chicken makhani aka Butter Chicken, along with a Keema naan, stuffed with minced lamb to dunk into the sauce.
That all sounds so good right now.
Try and get Naga Chicken, or Chicken Phaal. Also in the UK they don't very often sell Lamb curry, because it's actually Mutton. So instead they market it as meat curry. Mutton just needs tenderising/cooking a lot longer.
oh my gosh... I am full just watching this!! It all looked really good
Now I really want a curry! LOL. I've never seen so much takeway in one sitting! Must have kept you fed for a week! I like most of those - but you missed korma. Very mild, but really nice.
So many wonderful dishes but sorry you didn’t get your saag paneer, that’s my favourite!
Our favourite .. Chicken Jalfrezi, Mushroom Fried Rice, Bombay Potato, Peshwari Nan .. usually order one of the rice and one of the potato and we have half of each with individual Chicken Jalfrezi's. If your curry is too hot drink milk ... everything else makes your mouth hotter!
I’m surprised the food is in plastic tubs, ours tried that and they must have had complaints as they reverted to foil which is better for putting in the oven to keep warm whilst eating starter bits and to recycle.
The biryani comes with a separate curry sauce. 🏴 Thanx for mentioning the Glasgow tikka masala
The best curry I ever had was in Balbirs at the end of Byres road by the hospital
Chicken korma is nice for virgins,it's all I had for years till I tried special Chicken tikka masala off the bone with chips& rice & garlic naam.
Lamb Rogan Josh is a favorite of mine, also Jalfrezi, Madras & Vindaloo. Is it correct that sheep ranching is mostly confined to Montana & Wyoming , maybe a bit beyond ?
Pity you missed out on the Peshwari nan and also a dessert a Rasmalai, both are very different from the norm and both wonderful.
My daughter lives in Maryland and on her list when she comes home to the UK is to head out for an Indian..
Hi guys, all the dishes are invented in the UK 🇬🇧 by restaurant chefs, some dishes exist before restaurants like chicken curry, biriyani, lamb curry, but the restaurants made a different version to the authentic biriyani. For example look up the recipe, you will find a sour sauce with mint meat and rice in layers, not what they serve up to customers. The chicken tikka story number 1 dish in the UK doesn't exist before a customer complaint that the curry does not have enough gravy and they didnt like dry dishes so it's created for the preference of the palettes here. Dansak the sweet curry with chicken lentils 100 percent made up but its so good.
Phaal which is one of the spiciest curries in the world also comes from England, a drunk guy was dared to walk in to the curry house and ask them to create the spiciest curry ever and they just threw everything in and created Phaal.
Great video guys
We love our Currys!! Would of loved to of seen them try a Phaal
Indian food is spicy hot, not burny hot (like Texans like their chilli). The heat is from the quality of the spices, not from trying to overload the palate with chilli peppers or garlic.
For the complete British experience, you need to get a belly full of ale in you , order all that, find the biggest plate you can and put a bit of everything on it and get stuck in. What is left over you use in the morning to help sober you up.
Fun fact, Chicken Tikka Massala was invented in Glasgow, theoretically because the original Indian version was too spicy. However, Faal was invented in Birmingham because people didn't think the curry was hot enough, lol. Typical schizo British tastebuds. Just so you know, Faal is the hottest curry in the world (I think, it's certainly marketed that way!). Vindaloo is usually the hottest curry dish actually on the menu but Faal is often a secret item at many curry houses. Bangladeshi curry houses will often have the best Faal and that is where you are most likely to find it actually on a menu, but if you don't see it just ask and many good places will have it if you want to try it. A good faal can be pretty deadly though, so I recommend keeping the raita on standby!
Very impressed folks! Cobra lager with a vindaloo. We`ll make Brits out of you yet! 🤣🤣
After all that, you should play Johnny Cash "Burning ring of Fire" the next morning.
Ha ha was thinking of the next day but love the song choice🚾🔥🔥🔥🔥🧯
I really admire you both for doing this.
I’m a very fussy eater & hate spicy foods of any kind.
I only like plain food like fish fingers etc.
You should try it at least once, you may find you like it, most do!
You appear to have missed Tarka Dal, which is Indian Lentil Soup, a delicious starter, also Samosas, small tasty triangular pastries filled with vegetables or minced meat. Not forgetting my favourite Indian bread which is the Parotta. Enjoy.
the only mushrooms i like are the button mushrooms, halved or thinly sliced and then lightly browned with butter in a frying pan...
very good for sandwiches, if its over cooked and too dark i dont eat mushrooms like that...
the only issue is EVERY indian and chinese take away are all different from one or the other in cooking skills, like my local chinese is far better than the one down in the next village, to find a good chinese or idnian take away you have to shop around a bit... the indian take away near me do a long grain rice with black beans, sliced red onion, pea's, sweet corn and mushrooms...
your faces when the heat kicked in was funny lol
Papadums are available in the US, but (in my experience) they are all “seeded” with slices of peppercorns. Not great imho.
Chicken naga is the best curry, spicy but full of flavour
I love Indian food!
my go to is South Indian Garlic chili chicken coupled with a peshwari naan
Yummy. I loved hearing you butcher the Indian food names too 😂
He he!! Either way: they're now curry addicts.😅
Did you try prawn crackers which go with curries or just eat alone? I have found out that indian restaurants hide some sauces from everyone and some don't,if they bring out a small carousel of different sauces.
Most food sold by Asian restaurants in the UK is purely invented for the UK restaurant trade. Maybe less so today, but most Asian restaurants were owned/run by Bangladeshis.
India is a vast place and the food varies enormously across the country, to get an idea of that you'd have to eat in some small restaurants that cater for large local Asian populations -places like Leicester, parts of Birmigham or Manchester.
What any particular name is, varies from town to town, restaurant to restaurant - for instance, jalfrezi, to me, is an extremely hot dish, often with whole chillies in it. Go back long enough and lots of names did not exist - tinderloo, jalfrezi, even phall are reasonably recent - the last 30 years, they just got hotter and hotter because people thought it was clever. Before them there was madras - pretty hot, and then vindaloo - very hot, and that was it.
Have you guys tried “Curry Club” on Thursdays at any of the 900-or-so Wetherspoon pubs in the UK? You really should. Just £10 to £12.50 for a full curry meal, including a pint, I’m sure you have nothing like this in the US. Perfect material for a video.
My fave is lamb madras with chips. 😋🤪😋
I prefer to go for a curry like chicken tikka vindaloo and combine it with a chicken tikka biriyani. The rice is more enjoyable than the simple rices. Plus you get tons of meat that way!
That's the sort of buffet that you end up with after a heavy night on the ale and decide that you might be hungry on the way home! Top tip - a lot of Indian and Chinese foods taste better eaten for breakfast next morning..
You did the Poppadoms right. Just dip them in. 😋
Looks delicious. In the UK we love spicy food, I would say more than anyone else in Europe, and I've lived in Spain, Germany and Russia. Our own food does leave something to be desired... but we've opened ourselves up to world cuisine much more than most/all other European countries. I live in Madrid but I'm from London, and with the exception of Latin American food, all non native food in London is better and more varied than here.
You really need to go to an Indian restaurant the sounds of sizzling and the smells are amazing.
You need a bigger table 😂
The salad and the dips go with the poppadoms.
Halfway through the video and no naan bread yet???
Cobra beer is the standard Indian beer.
Balti chicken tikka is my go to curry with a garlic naan and pilau rice.
I remember a visit to a Pakistani/Indian restaurant in London, and the waiter asked me how hot i wanted the curry. He looked like a gentle young man, so i said: make it as you would eat it...
It was a great meal, but after that i became more modest...
My go to order is a chicken sagawala which is a spinach dish but you can choose your heat preference, I have that hot with a vegetable pilau and all the sides I can fit into my body! Then I have an all night fart party! 😊
What a lovely couple you seem to be, great energy! if ever in Stockholm lets hang out!
Hey if your Vindaloo was spicy you picked the right restaurant.
Also, please please avoid 'chicken' biryanis. They never will be 'as good' because chicken cooks fast and it'll almost always be overcooked [ and more so because to suit westerners, these restaurants try to make them 'boneless' and that's usually chicken breast ].
Always order 'Mutton' ( Chevon, not lamb ) Biryani. Those are the Grade-A stuff. If you can't get Chevon, then only go with Mutton ( Lamb ). Also, if you want a really authentic 'Aromatic' Biryani... order a Lucknow or Kolkata style biryani. These are cooked with the whole spices packed in cheese cloths and discarded afterwards - so no whole spice comes into your bites. And being 'Kachhi Style' ( where the cooking is started with a bottom layer of Raw Meat marinated for 24 hours... and finished in a 'Dum-Pukht' method), these are way juicier and therefore tastier.
I usually have peshwari naan and veg korma
Indian takeaways are the only takeaway I'll eat.
Can't beat a good curry. Some of the best I've had are in the Darwen/Blackburn area.
If you go to the right place, they're out of this world.
Can't beat a good curry!
For me, I'll have a vegetable dopiaza (increased heat to fairly hot,) garlic and coriander naan, onion rice and onion bhaji... BOOM!!
Lime pickle is minging but I love it 😂
Meat Madras with chapatis, can't go wrong.
Love your videos, you're such a genuine couple who really seem to enjoy what you do, well appreciated.
Edit: The meat is lamb, by the way, hehe.
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Chilli garlic meat ,chicken balti & butter chicken❤
Madras, as in, you know, India.
What is the hottest curry in the UK?
As a little bit of an explainer for all who don't know what a phaal is; it's a curry which originated in the Bangladeshi-owned curry-houses of Birmingham, and is known as 'one of the hottest forms of curry regularly available'.
What is the hottest supermarket curry?
Morrisons have launched an eight-chilli rated curry that is “the hottest supermarket curry ever”. The Flaming Fiery Phaal was developed following complaints from customers that their six-chilli Volcanic Vindaloo wasn't hot enough.
My local "Indian" restaurant/takeaway is Indian and Bangladeshi run. Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, obviously part of Pakistan. but became an independent country in 1972 after a bloody civil war. Here ends the history lesson. The point is that Bangladesh is a Muslim country, so pork will NEVER appear on the menu, but they do seem very keen on fish (but never shellfish), and India is a Hindu country so beef will NEVER appear on the menu. Apart from that though, "Indian" food is gorgeous, possibly only outclassed by Thai food. Thais are predominately Buddhists, but seem to be prepared to tuck into anything!
You must try a ‘Naga Chicken’ curry. It’s quite spicy though but so so good.
Chicken naga is my fave from my local Indian here in Leicester ! sheeeeesh, hungry now lol !!
Or a Chilli Massala with plenty of fresh green chilli. I need to get some more Mr Naga pickle, a teaspoon of that is what makes a Naga curry. At one time the Naga was the worlds hottest chilli
Try the super spicy runtadaloo
You should have a hot sauce or veg curry with the biryani
Biriani comes with the veggie curry
That chicken tikka masala looks like squares of chicken in gloop
Try chicken phal and crisp the nan bread in the oven.
I find there's too much heavy sauce in British Indian dishes. The flavors can be similar in India but there's either much less sauce or the sauce is much less pronounced (at least the stuff I tried at restaurants in Panji). Personally, you can't beat Chicken tikka without the masala sauce, served with salad, rice and a side of aloo gobi. Either that or half a Tandoori chicken.
You need to come to Birmingham and go to some proper restaurants there it's a million times tastier than a takeaway
the woman is the enthusiastic food vloger... and the bloke is like "yeah its nice".. i love it
No cusine better I live in the North of England curry from takeaways here are the best food I've eaten ever .....
"Not a fan of lamb".... There's no hope for you...😂😂😂😂
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I bet that cost you a fortune 🤣 indian seems to have gone right up!
The best drink to alleviate the extra hot spiciness, is not a water based drink such as beer, but a yoghurt drink called Lassi. Chilli oil actually dissolves in the Lassi and is washed away, with beer etc the oil does not dissolve, it just floats and spread around in the mouth and can make it seem hotter My Indian and Pakistani friends always have a glass of Lassi at hand on the table, the beer is for afterwards. I can't believe that no one seemed to suggest beef Jalfrezi or Rogan Josh, they are delicious, I like plain chicken Tikka, Masala is simply a creamy tomato sauce which to me takes away the real taste of India - and they say food in England is bland!🥵🥵🥵
Dairy is much better than water for that, but we didn't know about Lassi, Thank you!
I was once recommended to have a cup of tea with a spicy curry, says it helps to keep your body temperature at a good level.
They weren't wrong.
All Indian food is spicey because it contains spices but some are mild and some are hotter.
I'm starving after watching that
You did the popodoms right
You missed out not trying a pathia curry or balti curry
So all the Brits watching this are just re pronouncing all the names of the dishes 😅.. as the food is so rich it's a treat to us and my family
Samosas are my favourite
Next you need to find a good Thai restaurant.
Pakora
Samosa
Lamb pasanda
Chicken balti
Chana masala
Peshwari naan
Lamb Karachi
Chicken Naga Naga Phall
Chicken Pathia
Vegetable Dal Dhansak masala
King Prawn Rogan Josh
Brinjal Bhaji
Tandoori Salmon with basmati rice
Dal Makhani
Roti
Mango lassi ✨😏
Kingfisher lager beer 🤗🍺
The vegetable curry you had goes together with the Chicken Biryani! The mixture wets the rice to make it less bland! 😅😅😅
No it doesn't lol ...
@@juliecobbina2024it does in every Indian restaurant I’ve ever been to.
If your biryani is bland then it isn't being made properly
@juliecobbina2024 of course it does!
We usually mix the Tikka Masala with the Chefs special biriyani.
We also has Peshwari naans
Gosh! I don't think I've ever seen so much food for two people. Enjoy the next few days! It all looks delicious! 😎😎
2nd or 3rd day curry just as good.
You've obviously never been to Amurca.
a standard serving of food for a typical american!
That was the nicest most respectful review of food in the UK that Ive ever seen by an American. Thank you. It was fun watching you enjoy it
So many dishes started in the UK for the British palate and now served in India, mainly in hotels and tourist destinations, but the UK has a huge Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani population and the food is now part of the UK's diet ...
haha a drunken doner kebab wrap.. is the best thing in the world
Indian takeaways/restaurants always seem great, whereas Chinese takeaway food seems a lot more "processed", but Indian food, always seem to be, well... Fresh and natural.
Anyway, I love poppadoms and pickles, if it didnt come across as weird, but I'd happily scran poppadoms and pickles for starter, main and dessert! :D hehehe
My typical setup is 2 poppadoms and any pickles (Though I say 2, I'm the poppadom hoover, if there's any left on the table, and the waiter tries to take them... Hell on,lol), erm, onion bhajis to start, for main a chicken pathia (Pronounced 'pat-hear'), onion pillau rice and finally, a good old garlic nan bread!!! \o/
Top nom noms hey! :)
Most Indians make big batches of 3 or 4 bases and modify them
As a starter. Tandoori mixed is absolutely wonderful in my opinion. Different meats in a tandoori coating. Wow.
That 's also my favourite starter.
I had one of those starters at my local curry house in Bodmin,Cornwall and I was too full to eat the main,it was excellent.
Doggy bag please!
Your 'extra rice' is part of the chicken Biriyani - it comes in 2 containers- the mixed vegetables (with the cabbage and possibly chick peas) is the sauce to pour over that rice. That's why it is dry.
Well done for trusting our suggestions!
We also ask for the mild veg curry accompanying the biryani to be madras hot, which makes the dish 👌
Just no, if the rice and the dish are cooked separately, it's not a biryani. If it comes separate, you're being ripped off.
If something's too hot, you had the antidote right there… That 'yoghourt' dip is raita, which takes the fire away after a bite of something too hot (either drizzled on the curry, or as a spoonful after the hot food, to kill the burn). The way Indians deal with it is a yoghourt based drink called 'lassi'… either salty or sweet… or occasionally flavoured with mangoes… to wash down the curry. Often served in pint glasses in restaurants.
My vegetarian friend's go to is vegetable dhansak, and I'm forever proud of him for coining the phrase that his guts the following day are usually "ransacked with dhansak"!
😂 Nice!