Almost all of the Chinese / Fish shop / Pub curries are from the Bookers or Costco curry powder (just add water), supplied by Dinaclass or similar.
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Cardiff now has some really good Indian restaurants but nowhere that does balti like Birmingham. I’ve eaten balti in Bradford and Leeds but it just doesn’t capture the Birmingham experience somehow. When I lived near Birmingham it was quite common to get a taxi to Ladypool Road at 2am and go for a balti until 3-4am. This was back in the 90s. I went to Shabab’s about 5 years ago with old colleagues and we were there until after 1am when people were still arriving!
Almost all of the Chinese / Fish shop / Pub curries are from the Bookers or Costco curry powder (just add water), supplied by Dinaclass or similar.
Yes, it takes in Balsall Heath, Sparkbrook and Sparkhill. It’s a trainable loosely formed by Stoney Lane, Ladypool Road and the Stratford Road. But “balti” has spread all over greater Birmingham and the surrounding areas since the 80s. A curry house in Bromsgrove in the late 90s did the most amazing balti dishes and was run by a chap who started as a waiter in the balti triangle. His brother was the chef.
***Sorry I was replying to a different thread when I write my original reply***
Yes, absolutely, you’d go and fetch your booze from “the outdoor” before going in. The Shereen Kadah on Moseley Road literally turned their upstairs lounge into extra seating. I remember the TV ariel cable still hanging loose on the horrid pile carpet while we were eating. Menus were underneath glass table tops and onion salad starters were just sliced raw onion in a thin chilli soup. I loved it and still do if you can find a restaurant that sticks to tradition but they are few and far between now.
The restaurant mentioned above used to do katlamas which are a challenge in themselves. They are like a naan crossed with an American pancake!
Agreed. Akbars near Bradford was a great restaurant. Naans like Dumbo’s ear hanging on hooks!
A lot of the curry houses in Bradford didn't do naans when I lived there , apparently that was an Indian and Bangladeshi thing and most of the Asians in Bradford were of Pakistani origin ?
One thing that did make me laugh was one day after shopping in town I went for an early evening curry in great Horton near Bradford University
Asked waiter if he did half rice half chips he said you from Wales innit 🤔 lol 😆
Chips with a curry is so wrong, yet, on occasion, so incredibly right!
“Chinese” Curry sauce is lovely in its own right.
It’s daft to equate it to Indian cuisine and just our own vernacular really.
I’m going to make some this evening.
How I miss Kon Seto’s curry sauce from the bottom of Somerton Bridge in Newport.
Would be my last choice of meal!!