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just wondering how many of you participate in the great tradition of a curry on friday or saturday night?

i tend to go for curry on a friday night... after a busy week at work a few pints of cobra and something hot and spicy is a really nice way to unwind.

we've got a regular place we go to, the waiters are so friendly and the food it just wonderful, they give us loads of free food and drinks. i tend to go with a standard chicken curry or madras though... the thought or ordering something different appeals to me, but i'd be gutted if i didn't like it, and it seems like a waste to order two dishes just in case because i've never them.

i love the desert menu, nearly every indian restaurant i've been to have the exact same things in plastic pots, but the yellow egg man thing has disappeared recently.

I'm more a Saturday night curry guy either that or Thursday night!

But I'm with you on the dishes love the thought of ordering others, but know someone else will order what I normally do, and I'd end up regretting it if I'd ordered something else.

there is nothing better though than a nice Curry and pint of cobra.

I'm more for sausage/chips/curry sauce on a Friday, and/or Cantonese pork with sweet & sour sauce, egg fried rice and chips and John Smith's on a Saturday, as was last night's choice.

Only time I do have a Korma is in normal rotation of foodstuffs, possibly Tuesday with the football.

Dr Lobster* wrote:we've got a regular place we go to, the waiters are so friendly and the food it just wonderful, they give us loads of free food and drinks. i tend to go with a standard chicken curry or madras though... the thought or ordering something different appeals to me, but i'd be gutted if i didn't like it, and it seems like a waste to order two dishes just in case because i've never them.

If there are few of you who go regularly have any of your mates not ordered something that you like the sound of; surely they would let you have a taste so you would know for the next time you went?

Perhaps the restaurant would let you try a free small sample of one of the other dishes that appeals. It's worth it for them to keep the regular punters happy.

I tend to be very conservative with spicey indian dishes. I usually just end up ordering Korma (or similar), but we often have a taste of each others' meals if we've all ordered something different.

I always used to just order the same thing, namely a chicken korma, but I've recently become a bit more *daring* and had a chicken tikka balti last time. It were beltin.

When I was in London a couple of years back, I remember we had curry a couple of times from a local takeaway in West Ealing. Absolutely magnificent. I've never had anything like it before. We just don't do curries nearly as well here in Australia.

Mr Q wrote:When I was in London a couple of years back, I remember we had curry a couple of times from a local takeaway in West Ealing. Absolutely magnificent. I've never had anything like it before. We just don't do curries nearly as well here in Australia.

They don't do anything like it in India either. Perhaps one of the 'jewels in the crown' of our multi-racial society is the creation of a style of cuisine that would not otherwise have existed.