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Seems like a few @rseholes here are singing along with Johnny Cash this morning, eh?

Chapple Kebabs by plenty!

Well, 3 visits later I'm off.

Just hope I've got the worst of it out of the way!

I might have known you'd call yours Sue.

3 was all it took. I've now been declared a safe area

3 for me too.

Unfortunately the third came as I was in Bradford Interchange waiting for a train, I may have missed the train, but I felt a big sense of relief after doing what I had to!!

So the famous interchange pong was you afterall?

Ok, Punjab spotted last night.

Now I've just got to somehow convince our lass to agree to go, when we're supposed to be on a "healthy food" drive

Erm, you could try the "it's all fresh ingredients" angle.

Perhaps ask for less oil to be used in the cooking when they take your order, it's what Mrs Bullseye does.

I've tried the fresh ingredients type pitch. It didn't work.

I couldn't ask for less oil or I'd think I wasn't getting the proper food and it wouldn't taste as good. I couldn't do that and feel I'd given them a proper go



I'm currently aiming at the "we can do it for a special occasion" angle. But finding that occasion is becoming difficult since there aren't any for quite a few months!

tell her its my birthday.or, tell her that curry is a bradford salad.

or

the anniversary of you passing your driving test
the anniversary of the first time you wore long pants
chop sauce's centenary
curry awareness week
research for a book you're writing

work through those, cock, and i'll think of some more for you

That one works for me. Curries are fattening and too hot. Oil carries the spices, so use less oil and you have less heat.

It's , obviously, but it has enough superficial logic about it to enable those who want to be talked into it to go for a cuzza.

Very nice trip to Karachi last Thursday - I was stuffed.

Now for today's dilema: Omars, Karachi or the Punjab. Its a nice problem to have.

Rather unbelievably, that worked!!

And I really aren't joking here. When I told her we could go for your birthday, she laughed and said ok then. So we went last night.

Tried the infamous chapple kebabs and they are bloody nice. Her Chicken Pakora was nice too, although I must admit, I've had better of that.

As far as the curry goes, I tried a medium strength Keema Mushroom, and must admit, I was very pleasantly surprised. I wasn't sure if I was expecting it to be too good, but it was bloody lovely.

Definitely a good recommendation!

As yet, no backlash. I think I can feel something brewing, and if it is coming, I'm hoping it does so before I set off to Hull! If it hasn't come by then, I wouldn't sit anywhere near me at the match today...

happy to have helped.you can go again in march when it really is my birthday

Which is the nearest weekend mate? We might have a celebration in your honour. You can come if you like. icon_wink.gif

saturday the 10th is the nearest, cock.and i may just do that.

We went to the Punjab Sweet Centre last night and it was really nice. I had a mild dish with lamb and spinach (can't remember the name of it) and mild it was not! I am a bit of a wimp when it comes to curries but it was the hottest curry I've ever eaten - very tasty though.

The poppadoms were ok and the pickle tray was very nice.

I am a lady and so, unlike some of the more uncouth members of the board, shall not be divulging any details of my toiletry habits.

Btw - not sure about it not being a 'whitey' curry place - the warm lemon scented napkins and individually wrapped chocolates are about as whitey as it gets!

I bet Jane's suffering today





Shhh! You'll ruin it for AP

It's white next door to work, that's good enough for me.

Ahem! 14th Feb happens to be Valentine's Day. That's less than 3 weeks away. You might even be able to swing a return visit.

Went to the Punjab Sweet Centre on Thursday.

A mixed report.

The chapple kebabs were fecking gorgeous again - crammed full of chillis and coriander seeds. 10/10

Rotis were very nice. 8/10

The side salad I ordered was big and varied, if a little wet. 8/10

I had a lamb dish (whose name escapes me) but it was a 'traditional dish' with the lamb cooked on the bone. The lamb itself was lovely, it wasn't particularly spicy and what very little sauce there was was absolutely swimming in butter. That meant you just ate a pile of meat and because of the unavoidable butter it was lovely at first but left me feeling a bit queasy for a couple of hours after. 5/10

Our lass had a Punjabi chicken karahi (another one of the 'traditional' options). It was small pieces of chicken (many containing bones) and was again swimming in butter, so much so that it had a slightly cheesy smell and taste. It was so rich that she could only eat half. Because of that she'd give it 5/10.

There were ten others who ate there while we were there on Thursday dinner. None were whiteys. I did notice that most (and I noticed this before) ordered grilled meats and fish with a curry and salad almost as a side dish. The place does call itself a grill house too. Reckon I might give that a try next time.

Do you remember your very 1st curry.?

I always remember when i was about 12.. (33 years ago

) a curry house opened in oxford road Gomersal...it was the only one outside Bradford, i think it was called fizanns..i remember the smell from a mile radius was awesome and the kebabs were very very hot, but the curry....hhmmm lamb or chicken was always on the bone and always had a good half inch of butter or ghee which had separated nicely from the sludge in the bottom....ahhh the good old days..the taste of that curry was pure artery clogging bliss....could Fizann have moved to the Punjab Sweet Centre ?...im gonna have to try out those chapple kebabs one lunchtime and see .. now the diets over..

I can barely remember my last one....