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Originally Posted by Sundae
Butter chicken!
I love that!
My Pakistani/ Indian friends used to make it when we had celebration meals at work. I don't know what the packet mix is like, but their version was hot! 
It always mildly amused me - all the dishes were labelled and every time someone picked the most innocuous soundind dish because they weren't too keen on "foreign food". Snicker.
ETA - that's really mean of me. I shouldn't have written it to sound as if the person deserved it. Generally they didn't - they simply did not enjoy spicy food. It was still funny though. In the same way seeing someone drop their shopping on the bus is funny. Especially when the oranges or potatoes go rolling around and everyone is trying to catch them. |
I love butter chicken too. I've found that one needs to be careful with the sauce one chooses (and I may have posted this somewhere previously)...Patak is DIRE. I once made up a lot of my version of butter chicken (which I normally love) with this brand and basically had to get rid of the lot because the sauce was so foul. Sherwood brand isn't bad, but the Curry Makers one is the best in my opinion.
Not sure if I've told this story previously either, but it's on topic, so here it is. Sibling and wife had Indian food at their wedding. I think the labels on a couple of the dishes must have got switched (it was a serve yourself from the
bain marie kind of deal). I don't deal well with hot food (which also obviously limits my eating options here) so I served myself a tiny bit of what I thought was vindaloo and quite a bit of the rogan josh (which I believe is mild...the dishes were ordered from mildest to hottest on the serving table). When I got it back to where I was sitting and started eating. I think I managed a mouthful of what was meant to be rogan josh and this was followed by about 6 mouthfuls of naan to stop my mouth burning. To this day I am sure that the rogan josh and vindaloo labels had been switched.