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PostPosted: 21:38 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Curries in manchester Reply with quote
Twice now I had to come to Manchester for work, both times I have been out for a curry and beer, both times have been utterly gash.

Mancunians cant have taste buds.
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PostPosted: 21:41 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Manchester is pants. Thumbs Down
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PostPosted: 21:49 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
seems to be.

I'm here for a course for work so and they weren't running it any where else so its not as if I have a choice.
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PostPosted: 21:58 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Where were you? Oxford Road?
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PostPosted: 22:10 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Portland street
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PostPosted: 22:13 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
It might be the ingredients they use....

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bin-bag-full-of-cats-heads-found-near-manchesters-curry-mile-could-have-been-racially-motivated-9677340.html
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Only one I can remember from a few visits is "Spicy Hut". Although the name sounds gash, the food was awesome. IIRC they won some awards not long ago.

https://www.manchesterrestaurants.com/indian/spicyhut.htm
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PostPosted: 22:18 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shocked it tasted like chicken.
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PostPosted: 22:38 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
East Z East knocks up a reasonable curry in Manchester but whenever I'm in that area, I find Chinese fare preferable. The Rice Bowl is my favourite.
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PostPosted: 22:44 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
East Z East in Manchester is indeed great, but the best curry i've ever had is Tandoori Flame in Chorlton (just outside Manc). Fantastic, proper indian food.
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PostPosted: 22:44 - 15 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
They've gone to shit since teaming up with PC world..
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PostPosted: 00:31 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
swampy wrote:
They've gone to shit since teaming up with PC world..

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I was talking about curries with an Asian colleague last week who informed me that Birmingham is the place to go for the food in question.

I'll take his word for it. Hand
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PostPosted: 07:51 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Re: Curries in manchester Reply with quote
duhawkz wrote:
both times have been utterly gash.

Gash, lips, hooves, it all goes in.

What specifically was wrong? I find most professionally cooked food to be saltier than a seaman's semen.
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PostPosted: 09:06 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Like every city there are crap restaurants, where did you go?

Akbars on Liverpool street has always been top notch for me.
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PostPosted: 09:10 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Re: Curries in manchester Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
...I find most professionally cooked food to be saltier than a seaman's semen.
I'll take your word on that taste test Sick
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PostPosted: 09:43 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Re: Curries in manchester Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:

What specifically was wrong? I find most professionally cooked food to be saltier than a seaman's semen.


it's interesting that you have a basis for comparison Puke

The chicken tasted like it had been frozen and thawed out, the sauce was on a par with something out of jar from the supermarket and it wasn't spicey enough.

I have had better ready meals to be honest
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PostPosted: 10:06 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
duhawkz wrote:
Portland street

Oxford Road / Wilmslow Road's curry-mile is worth going to, just for tourism value as much as anything. Dozens of restaurants = mundo competition. Visiting that place for the dining experience is a bit like visiting Vegas for the architecture - not necessarily authentic but interesting regardless.
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PostPosted: 10:14 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
slightly off topic, but over the last couple of years I've noticed that all Indian (and Chinese) takeaways have gone downhill quality-wise. The meat is of poorer quality (tastes defrosted and rubbery), the sauces have become more generic and oily. I've tried about 6 different ones in my city and they are all the same. The only saviour was a Nepalese restaurant which does takeaways, and is proper job
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PostPosted: 11:06 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Could be a symptom of changing from competing on novelty, quality and flavour with chippies, to competing on price with similar outlets.

My local Indian has gone all stringy meat, oil and salt, but there's a Thai place opened up that's still producing interesting flavours.
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PostPosted: 11:17 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Baffler186 wrote:
...Chinese...

...rubbery...


I'll get my coat.
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PostPosted: 11:24 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Manchester is no longer the capital of Curry land it seems. I've recently been told its Lincoln.

Though the curry I had in Manchester on a work trip was good, all be it 15 years ago Shocked
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Go to the Briton's Protection for a decent boozer especially if you like whisky. It's over the road from the gmex tram stop.

Spicy Hut on the curry mile is great, get the lamb handi.
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PostPosted: 17:33 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Baffler186 wrote:
slightly off topic, but over the last couple of years I've noticed that all Indian (and Chinese) takeaways have gone downhill quality-wise. The meat is of poorer quality (tastes defrosted and rubbery), the sauces have become more generic and oily. I've tried about 6 different ones in my city and they are all the same. The only saviour was a Nepalese restaurant which does takeaways, and is proper job



It's inflation substituting cheaper ingredients for inferior ones, for instance a 20kilio box of chicken breasts used to be £16, it then went to £21 and is now £39 from wholesalers. The cheaper stuff has higher water content due to inflation. Margins are also thinner due to more competition.

Secondly the Chinese and Indians of the 70s 80s 90s and early 00s are retiring or dying off. The ones that lasted a long time were the ones who cared about quality and the long term. Back in the day there were many shops which opened up and shut within 6 months. Though with less competition it was easier to survive.

For instance the Chinese that came in the 70s were mostly Southern Chinese. Ergo we all spoke Hokkien, Hakka or Cantonese. Todays migrants are Fujian, Hunan and Anhui people you... well I can tell by their dialects.

Almost all my parents' generation have retired or died off. Mr Hui nearby is pushing 79 and wants to retire soon. My dad lasted 47 years in the industry and all the tea in China couldn't convince him to go back. He won't even tell me how to make his signature yam and fat pork loaf.

Shops change hands regularly replaced by chancers from those provinces, as such they look to make a very quick buck and vanish before the tax man realises they are there. Therefore don't take into account the long term.

Some do and the ones that do will survive for years to come while shops around them will change hands regularly.

For Chinese ones ask the question: What is the word for shower.

Southern Chinese always say Chung Leung. Mandarin folks will say Zai bak bak.
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PostPosted: 21:27 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
Itchy wrote:
For Chinese ones ask the question: What is the word for shower.

Southern Chinese always say Chung Leung. Mandarin folks will say Zai bak bak.

Ask the same question in a lot of curry houses and the answer is likely to be, 'What's a shower?'
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PostPosted: 21:49 - 16 Dec 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote
There's loads of decent ones on the curry mile, I'll be buggered if I can remember one from the other mind.

I like Akbars at Deansgate. Theres another one we go to but the name escapes me.

Best curry I ever had was Abdul's in Daventry - it looked naff from outside, we nearly didnt go but twas amazing. My 'air dirts' in the morning were proper foul mind.
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