Your first ever curry

[DulwichFox]

bob Wrote:

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> Curry Mahal in New Cross 1972/3 two chicken Kormas

> plain rice 1/2 bottle Nuit St George ?2.97p we

> use to leave ?3.00

> Bob S

Curry Mahal.. Yes.. on the one way system.. You could park outside in those days..

Foxy.

[bob]

Yep and we did.

Bob S

[Jeremy]

1% tip? Wow. You were brave to return after that...

[Michael Palaeologus]

The Padma in Cannock about 1980.

Having never eaten a chilli, I think it was a Korma.

[bob]

J I can't remember but back then I think a lot of people left the right money/cash no cards.

Bob S

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Was struggling to remember the name of that one. Mine as well. Business mans lunch...good value that! Then onto The Carousel for an underage swally....

Peckhamrye Wrote:

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> Mine was when I was 18, first year at Stirling

> University at the Qismat, in 1980...never looked

> back, love curries, eating them and making them.

[maxxi]

Vesta was the inspiration for my first taste too - though having seen the tv adverts and then the prices my mother decided she could do it "at half the price."

Ended up with something made using mince, onions, half a tub of Lions curry powder and a good wallop of sultanas. She garnished with (well put a Pyrex bowl on the table containing...) the traditional curry accompaniment of sliced banana and dessicated coconut.

Feckin' marvellous.

[indiepanda]

My Dad was also a "none of that foreign muck" sort (I say was, he still is) so we didn't ever have curry growing up. Or even rice come to that. All main meals came with potatoes, all light meals with bread/toast of some description - but only ever white.

I went for my first curry with friends I met working in the Wimpy bar which I started doing at weekends when I left school and carried on for a while at sixth form college - so I would have been 16 or 17 at the time so late eighties. Am pretty sure it involved chicken tikka for a starter and then probably a korma (they were kind and tried to break me in gently!). I can't recall quite where it was, somewhere not far from home in Essex anyway.

Still not a big curry eater to be honest - tend to go when friends want to rather than choose it myself (I'd plump for thai, italian or chinese before curry) and never got a taste for the really spicy stuff. I could eat onion bhajis till my stomach burst though.

[stringvest]

My first curry was not long after I had left school and started work in a large company. They had a staff restaurant. There was a nice variety of food, the curry was a mild one with sultanas in it. They must have got lots of sultanas ... they were in the grated carrots and in the beansprouts too! The subsidised bar was great too, although before spellchecker ....

Deer Sir,

Furher ot our telephone converstation ....

[JohnL]

stringvest Wrote:

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> My first curry was not long after I had left

> school and started work in a large company. They

> had a staff restaurant. There was a nice variety

> of food, the curry was a mild one with sultanas in

> it. They must have got lots of sultanas ... they

> were in the grated carrots and in the beansprouts

> too! The subsidised bar was great too, although

> before spellchecker ....

>

> Deer Sir,

> Furher ot our telephone converstation ....

My mother did the mild sultana curry thing (would it be called Moroccan today).

Until I was 16 that's what I thought currys were.

[DaveR]

My dad loved a curry. Can't remember how old I was the first time we kids went along - eight or nine? - but it was a fairly regular family treat. Lamb bhuna, tandoori chicken, naan, onion bhajis, bombay potato, pilao rice, probably other dishes that I've forgotten. After eights and hot towels at the end. You can get much better and more interesting Indian/South Asian food these days but I love a proper old school curry house feast.

[KidKruger]

Dictated whilst out shopping - and copped a few weird glances...

I'm not sure when my first curry was, probably as a young child living on the south coast. the family didn't eat curry very often it was a foreign food. however I used to have the occasional taste - but it was not to my taste.

It was probably in college when I had a first curry to myself, surely at the Taj Mahal which had a brothel above.

What I do know is that the student curry occasions quickly deteriorated into a series of sessions of who could eat the hottest curry or who can eat the most food.

I was accomplished at neither.

Over time I became accustomed and quite liked the madras curry it was not too mild and had a bit of a kick, the restaurant would give fresh chilies which you could chop and put into the curry to suit your taste.

This is probably where my fetish began, hot curry on hot sweaty summer nights with students before / after a bout of drinking or a nightclub.

I would like to think that I have now progressed from using curry as a tool of testosterone and actually appreciate a good curry - often curries from various cuisines / countries.

If I haven't had a curry for three or four weeks my belly starts aching and moaning and whining and belching - begging for a curry, begging for some spice, begging for my pallet to be tantalised with gorgeous curry.

Being a fan of curry I have an obsession with cooking curry Pakistani Indian Bangladeshi Thai Malaysian Indonesian and West Indian. Whilst not an expert I can cook up a great curry for the guest Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum.

[numbers]

Dopamine1979 Wrote:

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> They served us 'curry' at school. Horrible

> gelatinous sauce with raisins/sultanas in it. It

> almost put me off for life.

Same here! (Though thankfully, it didn't).

My mum had a 'curry' cookbook, very 1970s. Each recipe had an accompanying photograph that was....brown. Not just the food but the crockery too! I tried experimenting with that book leading to inevitably disastrous results. I cannot remember the first time I ate curry in a restaurant though, it was probably some flock wallpaper, cheesy place that bears no resemblance to the real thing.

However, I am pleased to say that I can cook Indian food now and love all of it, whatever the region - Keralan, Goan, Andhra-style, Maharashtrian :)