another version of this scam has a phone no. for you to ring - it is a premium no. that charges you @ ?35  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just received her latest copy of this book for Xmas - looks brilliant and my daughter tells me her mate (cypriot) has tried them all and they are as good if not better than any restaurant.  I look forward to trying her recipes out

I have another friend - a scouser called Maureen - we were living in Dubai as was Maureen & her hubby.  When we had them round for a curry evening, we had to give Maureen a full roll of bog paper to take with her.  There was something in a curry that meant a curry (any curry !) would go straight through Maureen - so inevitably on their  1/2 mile drive home you could guarantee she would be taken short and have to take off into the nearest desert scrub for a rapid dump !  She never failed.  Strangely, back in the UK - curries here do not have the same effect on her 'system'.

I have another mate Willy - loves curries - and he went to a curry cooking class at an Indian restaurant.  It was here he sussed out that coriander was the ingredient that had been causing him serious upset tummy problems.  I must confess i hate the overpowering taste of the now godforsaken obligatory garnishing of curries and side dishes with coriander leaves.  I never used to see this pre 1980s - so christ knows why it suddenly seemed to appear on the scene - but I now explicitly ask when ordering - NO CORIANDER

Brilliant post - had me in tears.

Reminds me of a time in the late 1960s when my mate Pete - on leave from Army duties (Yemen) to get married - so his stag do after many beers ended up in the Taj Restaurant as was then on Princess Street Manchester. 

This place was pretty good and the Madras was as much as I could manage in there.  Pete asked 'what is the hottest curry?'.  That would be the Phaall sir said the waiter.  'Chicken Phaall it is then' said Pete.

My Madras was excellent - I tried a tiny snippet of Petes dish - Wow !! - I left him to it.

After 3 full pitchers of iced water, 2 pints of cold lager and a bucket of sweat pouring off his head - Pete finished his meal and the waiter came over and asked how it was.  Pete said 'Bloody fantastic mate - one of the best curries I 've ever had.

The waiter replied - 'That was the Vindaloo sir - bloody good job we didn't give the Phaall !'

hi buttercup - I used to live in Dubai - '76 to '84.  With all the fantastic eating places in Dubai - don't know why you would bother making your own while you are there.

I see you know Ravi at Satwa - brilliant chicken tikka, naan & curry sauce.  Their butter chicken is pretty good too.  Also try the Khyber Restaurant - near Bur Dubai police station - again fantastic food - their chicken butter boneless & Khyber special veg is brilliant.  Kwality restaurant is excellent too.  Don't forget to give the lamb shwarmas a bash too - fantastic taste.

I have been back in '93 & 2007 - whilst the food hasn't changed one bit - a lot of Dubais 'old charm' has vanished