[Food] Poppadoms in an Indian restaurant / curry house

[Cowfold Seagull]

Ok Smithy
Post in thread 'Crisps in the pub'
https://www.northstandchat.com/threads/crisps-in-the-pub.401907/post-10704959

And how is Ness these days? baby Neil?

 

[Papak]

I've noticed a bit of a trend to just the sweeter condiments with poppadoms – especially very sugary mango chutney. I wonder if people are just not eating the spicier ones and so they no longer bother even bringing them to the table? I like a good lime pickle or anything else with a bit of a kick but in some restaurants I'm definitely seeing less of it.

For me, there is nothing better than "discovering" a new condiment or a variation of something in an establishment.

I do wonder how much of the condiment selection gets "recycled" for future use - not for too long though...

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Yes but the great majority of so called Indian restaurants are Bangladeshi owned and serve Bengali cuisine.

TBF India is a massive country with loads of different cultures and food in different regions. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are all countries created post WW2 out of this cultural melting pot (apologies, I couldn’t think of any alternative to this cliche). I used to live in Singapore where you could eat vastly different meals in Little India whilst all were referred to generically as Indian. There is no one ‘Indian’ cuisine. I worked with someone from India who ate ‘Indian’ food but never curry. Basically all are Indian but they are not all the same.

 

[Papak]

TBF India is a massive country with loads of different cultures and food in different regions. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are all countries created post WW2 out of this cultural melting pot (apologies, I couldn’t think of any alternative to this cliche). I used to live in Singapore where you could eat vastly different meals in Little India whilst all were referred to generically as Indian. There is no one ‘Indian’ cuisine. I worked with someone from India who ate ‘Indian’ food but never curry. Basically all are Indian but they are not all the same.

Plus some "Indian" dishes are fabricated e.g. Balti and Tikka Massala.

Curries were created to make inedible food edible AIUI

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Two pages in and haven’t seen it yet

 

[Papak]

Two pages in and haven’t seen it yet

It was in the crisps thread that Bozza started which inspired this one.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

It was in the crisps thread that Bozza started which inspired this one.

Haven’t got to that one yet. looks like I need to find something else to do tomorrow

 

[BN9 BHA]

Two pages in and haven’t seen it yet

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[HHGull]

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