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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Visit from takeaway owner
« on: December 22, 2012, 12:03 PM »
Well done. Every time I had something wrong, I'd call and ask them for new food and had it back, is this not standard policy across the uk?

Also, If it was something missing, I've often heard the guys "We will give it to you next time you order" and I'd insist I wanted it now and I've never had anyone refuse it.

Although, this reminds me my second favourite restaurant in Cambridge, which I don't include the name for the following reason: After missing a ton of requests over the period of 1year and half (it was every second delivery - I'd order 3+ times per week) had something missing from the order. One time, I called them and during my order I explicitly asked them for "fresh onion bhajis" and if that wasn't possible that I wouldn't want to order them this time.  The guy on the phone said "no problem, they are fresh" , the owner came in to deliver the order. As he was about to leave (I paid by card) I ask him to wait a minute to check everything. The first thing I do is to check the onion bhajis consistency from the outside of the bag and they were dry and crispy, so I told him "I explicitly asked for fresh onion bhajis" to which he replied "I'm sorry, we can't bring you fresh onion bhajis". That same night, about 5mins later, I notice one of the rices was plain. I call them again to ask for the pilau rice delivery ASAP and he told me "Hey, I'll bring you the rice, but this is the last time you order from us."

Granted I'd always be with a bit of a bad humour every time I ordered food and got something wrong and call them incompetents over the phone, but in fairness, they preferred to lose the customer rather than fix the underlying problem of paying attention to every delivery. Just to re-iterate: they'd miss every second delivery, I shit you not. The reason why I kept using them was because I didn't know better. My company had a curry club, every thursday and we would order from them. Their food was upper standard price st, but the flavours were very good and they were a close enough takeaway.

N.B: In hindsight, I recognize I wasn't right in getting all vocal

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Thanks guys. After this post, I bought the curry 2 go ebook. I'm reading it now and he seems to suggest the use. However, it's a bit of a recursive chicken and egg problem, as his seasoned oil requires the frying of several bhajis which requires seasoned oil, which requires g&g.. I guess you get it! :)


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I was wondering if you would use seasoned oil to make your ginger and garlic puree mix or if there is any reason not to do so :-)

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The TA nearest to me also does different currys that are remarkable similar.  They slipped up one night and sent me a chicken madras and a bhuna that were obviously identical.  Phoned them up but they reckoned there were no onions in the madras.  Funny as there was loads in it.  More often though I think its the use of jar pastes that accounts for why dishes that look different can taste quite similar.

Rob  :)

Very true Rob. I should notice though that none of the takeaways or BIR restaurants never tasted like they had been made out of jarred content. However, I should agree with you.

I'm not big into Madras, but the difference between a madras, a jalfrezi or a bombay potatoes was peppers and potatoes. The underlying flavour was more often than note the same.

I remind now they used to add leek on top of the curry which added a very good flavour and improved looks too

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Take-away only.
At the southern end of the Milton Road
01223 313233 / 319999
http://renus.co.uk/

Flavour-wise, this is not the best takeaway in Cambridge, but they are BY FAR the most reliable one in my opinion. The prices are quite acceptable, the quantities are the BEST in Cambridge. Their naans are simply huge. The staff is super friendly. The owner is incredibly friendly and he never missed anything in an order and would always offer extras. Occasionally he would play the trick of "I lost your visa number, could you spell it again" after 20 mins from placing the order to justify the fact that he was going to be starting the food only then (probably too busy or short-staffed). I also find him it to be the freshest take-away, but one downside was that different curries tasted all almost very similar, though you can ask for bazillion of chilies and they will hear you (sometimes too well.) -- this is could very easily be the best takeaway in Cambridge

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The address and phone are:
529C Newmarket Road  Cambridge, CB5 8PA, United Kingdom
+44 1223 57778

I've used it as restaurant for the most part, but have ordered at least 3-4 times over the phone. My advice for anyone interested would be to use it as restaurant only and not as takeaway.
The prices for takeaway are the same as in the restaurant and the quality is the "quick curry" type, which is way below the threshold. This is, however, by far the best indian restaurant I've been in to date. The flavours, textures are just unreal. The starters are orgasmic, their chutneys and poppadoms are really out of this world and the food is full of flavours. I'm a fast eater and I find myself taking time to appreciate the taste whenever over here. The staff is friendly, especially after you become familiar. Out of the 4 regular staff members, there is one guy (the youngest one) that seems a little rude, but if you can cope with that, the curry makes up for it.

One other downside is in fact the size of the place and as it gets busy, you find yourself listening to other people's conversations. Tables have little space between each others.

http://www.pipasha-restaurant.co.uk/
The two lads on the front page are the owners and they are very welcoming and sympathetic. Last time I was going over I sprained my ankle. While I was in a lot of pain, I still carried myself over for about 300 meters until I got the restaurant and as I had ripped my jeans on the knee after the fall, they were all sort of worried about me and trying to make me feel comfortable, pulling an extra chair to put my leg up, etc.

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Curry Base Chat / Re: My Local Takeaway Base Gravy
« on: December 13, 2012, 06:46 PM »
Even a good food analysis will not give you proper proportions and can have trouble differentiating between different type of chili or even cassia/cinnamon.

Not to mention the DNA of animals in touch with these spices/veggies.

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Madras / Re: The Madras 100% Clone (of my local BIR)
« on: November 24, 2012, 05:11 PM »
Let's almost brought tears to my eyes.

Kormas do that to me as well!  ;D

We seem to understand each other's pain then, I presume. Making the right korma is almost like art!

The things I've done different from CA's recipe are:

I've left a bowl with dessicated coconut in water and added almonds.
I've also added banana pieces, though I should've added it closer to the end, as the banana turned caramelized, but the end result was very very sweet. I

Thanks again!

Some more things I forgot to mention, which I did differently:

In absence of turmeric, I used extra curry powder (schwartz, mild)
And I've fried with the chicken with vegetable oil, knorr chicken stock and a good bit of butter too

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: The Curry Crunch - ISBN 978095634030-6
« on: November 23, 2012, 11:08 AM »
Seeing as this book is out of stock, could you please post the recipe for the base sauce? :)

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Madras / Re: The Madras 100% Clone (of my local BIR)
« on: November 23, 2012, 02:33 AM »
Hi Darthphall,

Thank you for your recipe for a curry base. I'm on this forum for less than 24 hours and I quickly became aware of your base sauce. I first heard of it from someone who used your base sauce to make korma so I decided to give it a try. I should note I failed to make a proper korma more than 10 times. None of these times I used any base sauce.

It took me about 3 hours from starting to getting the food ready. I also only had 1/2 of the ingredients, so had to halve the portions in your recipe. I picked Cory Ander's Chicken Korma recipe and made a slight adaptation to it, which I'll explain below. Let's almost brought tears to my eyes. It was by far one of the nicest korma's I've ever had. Even better than my favorite restaurant (pipasha in Cambridge -- they suck with korma, but are great otherwise!)

Regarding your sauce, after you add the vegetables to the pan, do you bring it to the boil?

The things I've done different from CA's recipe are:

I've left a bowl with dessicated coconut in water and added almonds.
I've also added banana pieces, though I should've added it closer to the end, as the banana turned caramelized, but the end result was very very sweet. I

Thanks again!

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