: Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:14 pm  

Bowel Research Update

About every fortnight I take the family to Omars for a curry. Most weeks I have a curry at dinner time one day either at the Punjab, International or most likely Karachi. I never have any after effects following any of these visits - not even after Thursday's chapple kebabs.

What these events have in common is that I don't drink beer with them.

On that basis maybe its not the curry that causes us to pebble dash the porcelain but the beer and curry combined, but curry always gets the blame?

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:13 am  

smiffythebull wrote:

Do you remember your very 1st curry.?

Yep... I thought it was fantastic at the time but it was poop really.

It was called The Islamabad opposite Leeds University (main building where the steps are) on Woodhouse Lane. This will have been in the late 70's and I can even remember what I had.

Onion Bhaji starter.
Meat Curry... that's right... meat curry
Three chappatis.
My mate had tomato soup for his starter

Other places I went to not long after that were Nafees (at Woodhouse) who sold naan's which were microwaved pitta breads and Chakwal a few doors up from there... Kaghan Valley and Rajput at Headingley (both utter crap) and Corner Cafe at Sheepscar. Then there was the Taj Mahal near the Hyde Park pub. Tripti in Leeds city centre between Vicar Lane and New Briggate wasn't too bad, nor was one place next door to that Bowls place outside Merrion Centre, but I wouldn't set foot in places like that these days. Then there was Naseeb's at Armley and another close by on Carr Crofts... oh dear... didn't mind at the time though as I was usually p1ssed anyway and starving

Went to a fair few in Nottingham when I was at Uni down there too (Dilshad at Hyson Green and one on Mansfield Road spring to mind) though none of them were much to write home about.

Also consumed a fair few Balti's in Birmingham (Balsall Heath area) in the early 80's in the days when nobody outside Birmingham had even heard of Balti's.

I'm going for a curry in Bradford tomorrow night (Monday) with a mate of mine..... not sure where yet though.

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:01 am  

I'm going for a curry in Bradford tomorrow night (Monday) with a mate of mine..... not sure where yet though.

Try the sweet centre on lumb lane...done it a few times recently and is A1.
Not many whiteys about...no bar...just great food.

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:03 am  

smiffythebull wrote:

Do you remember your very 1st

Very first curry, The Green Mask, Portsmouth (Southsea more accurately)1978, Bombay duck for starters (why can't you get that here?) Followed by mushroom madras, basically a bowl of brown lumpy soup with bigger black lumps floating around. I was hooked from then on.

1st Bradford curry was also 1978 in what is now Omar Kyams (can't remember what it was called then) this was after a night out at the Yarnspinners (any of you remember that one?) anyway the curry was basically a bowl of brown lumpy soup, but up here you got raita, what a revelation. All this was eaten with chapatis no knives, forks or spoons, no scented towels and no ill after effects.

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:24 am  

smiffythebull wrote:

Do you remember your very 1st curry.?

Mum's Vesta out of a packet. MMmmmm........sultanas.

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:26 am  

smiffythebull wrote:

Do you remember your very 1st curry.?

Yes, and I was hooked straight away. It was at the Silver Jubilee up Oak Lane. I remember nothing about it other than where it was though.

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:33 am  

my first one was a take away from the khyber house in wyke.i had a meat curry, a kebab snadwich & a bag of bhaji's.my first sit down was at the kharachi ( or karrakeye as my brothers mrs calls it).i had a chicken madras with a side order of bhaji's.

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:42 am  

smiffythebull wrote:

Try the sweet centre on lumb lane...done it a few times recently and is A1.
Not many whiteys about...no bar...just great food.

Been there a couple of times before, though it was quite a while ago. I can only assume the place has improved dramatically because on the occasions I've been there it was bloody awful. I sifted all the orange oil out of my main dish and still managed to fill almost 2 glasses with it (that'd be around half a pint of the stuff!) Rockerfeller would have been impressed with the find!

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:48 am  

The last report I had about The Sweet Centre was one of unbridled excellence, I've been meaning to go for a while now. It's a pain to get to for me though.

: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:23 pm  

vbfg wrote: The last report I had about The Sweet Centre was one of unbridled excellence, I've been meaning to go for a while now. It's a pain to get to for me though. Well I'll have to assume it has improved significantly from the days when I went there. http://website.lineone.net/~bradfordcur ... sweetc.htm

vbfg wrote: The last report I had about The Sweet Centre was one of unbridled excellence, I've been meaning to go for a while now. It's a pain to get to for me though. Well I'll have to assume it has improved significantly from the days when I went there. http://website.lineone.net/~bradfordcur ... sweetc.htm