You ordered the wrong food. Kerala is in the south of india and ctm isnt part of the cuisine. The chutneys you didnt like are fermented pickles and are eaten differently. The papadam is north indian. Kerala makes something called appalam. Alright done with my indian food coaching, I have a date 😅
Papadums are not meamt to be dipped into chutneys. Proper way is to take a bite of your food, and eat a bit of papadum and then break a small piece of chutney to eat after. But to each their own. Chicken tikka is generally made on a skewer first and in a tandoor oven and then put into a curry. Gives that tandoor oven flavor.
I was always taught that you dip it in chutney but then again you can honestly have it any way you like, as a snack, appetizer, while eating, after eating anyway lol
@@Dinki-Didepends. I’d question it had ‘no’ flavour - it is likely he just didn’t find it as stronger as other curries. And when you are in a pub you have to cater for all tastes. I thought the rice stingy and the salad very underwhelming. For £22!
My auntie had her wedding reception back in 1996 at that Kerala restaurant! I think it used to Shebabs a few years ago. Might have found myself in there after an Otley Run once or twice 😅
The Lawnswood Arms used to be a lot more classy. Was my local for me and my mate back in the day. Those portions wouldn't fill me. The rice portion at the Indian was tiny.
I’m disagreeing with you on this one buddy. Purely on price and portion size. Of course an Indian restaurant will be taster. But an egg cup of rice? What’s the salad got to do with a curry? To bulk out the plate is all. £22 is robbery for what you get. Gimme the £5 all day long. Good comparison though. 👍
Agree. The Indian cooked by an Indian should automatically taste better (one hopes although tbh any good cook will cook well). But was it worth the mark up - don’t think so. The cheaper one wasn’t ‘bad’ - it just wasn’t full of flavour and it would have been filling. Now if the cheaper one was totally disgusting then yup the higher price would have been worth it.
You need to do a Indian Restaurant comparison with a home cooked curry by an Indian family, 90% of so called "Indian" restaurants in this country are nothing of the sort, when you ask these people where they come from the a large proportion are from Bangladesh. It's only when you eat home cooked food that you can do a genuine comparison with a pub or restaurant.
A bit underwhelming is perhaps the most devastating comment I've heard you make about food on here. That would be like most of us slapping the owner and declaring "swords or pistols sir?" It did look a bit underwhelming, but the price tag is the big selling point. The Indian restaurant clearly had much better food. EDIT: I missed the "dislike" on the chutneys from the second place. A very bitter chunk of onion or garlic would not be on the top of my eating preference either.
It's ment to come with mango chutney onion salad lime pickel and mint sauce not 2 mango chutney n 2 lime pickel the server was not doing his job properly
Didn't rate either of them. I'm getting quite sick of places not being able to do a poppadom starter correctly. No onion salad, no yogurt based one and the ultimate pet peeve is runny mango chutney. The mango chutney actually looked better in the pub which is just crazy.
First of all, It's not called as Poppadom it's called as Pappad. Secondly stop calling tea as chai tea, the literal meaning of chai is tea lol it's just the hindi word for tea, and finally it's not Naan Bread it's just Naan, again you're calling it bread bread lol. Good video tho, but yeah I'd appreciate it if you put some effort into learning the actual terms.
Indian curry hands down but I've had better for less money and think they're not a true representation of what value for money there is out there. Pub curry .....never.
The "Indian" restaurant name is Kerala, which is a state or province if you will in the south of India. Chicken Tikka Masala is not a native dish of that region. If any chance anyone does go to that restaurant please ask the staff for local "Kerala" cuisine. Asking for Chicken Tikka Masala in a restaurant called Kerala is like asking for a Phylly Cheesestake in a restaurant called "Louisiana"
Exactly, chutneys and pickles are totally different like day and night 😂. That's why our vlogger didn't get it, which any Desi Indian gets it especially a keralite. It's like carrying coal to Newcastle, any way. Problem is the only pickles English and Americans know is that pickles the fast food hamburger joints put into their hamburgers. That's gross. If I order hamburgers I tell no pickles before ordering also light lettuce because lettuce is just green leaves better suited for bovine animals like cows 😂😂 ciao everybody
First one for me mate. For the price and Yorkshire Tea that's an amazing price. The problem with curries is they can't make them too hot in places like Hungry Horse as they'd just have people moaning. Whereas in an Indian restaurant people expect a nice heat to them. I'd of sooner had a Naan bread with them both though :)
I would never eat a curry from a pub. Absolute garbage, pre-made stuff with people not knowing what an Indian food is. Indian food is just something you cannot make on the cheap and expect good results. But the proper restaurant did do the chicken right, as authentically, creamy chicken currys should be.skewered and cooked in a tandoor. Saying that, you did order the worst possible Indian curry. For chicken, butter chicken is the best if you like the mild/sweet/creamy flavour, or go for a chicken karahi (it's a better version of the balti) if you want something spicy. For lamb, roganjosh is the best, but there's also bhuna which is amazing. Plus you always have to order pilau rice or garlic fried rice, and a butter naan/garlic naan, etc. Popadoms don't really go *with* a curry. They're more of an amuse-bouche to get you into the flavours. The 2 first chutneys you tried were both mango chutneys. Traditionally, it should be mango chutney, and a tomato/onion chutney. You do see others which are meant for other times of the food, ie; raita should be served with a spicy curry to cool you down, mint and coriander chutneys are supposed to be paired with tandoori meats, tamarind chutneys are for fried pasty foods, lime pickles are for parathas, etc etc. They all have a role and meaning rather than just thrown together for poppadoms. Also, at the proper restaurant you got the chai, which is Indian tea. It's usually cooked for hours so it has a very rich and luxurious texture. Traditional ingredients are black tea leaves, green cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds, carom seeds, and optional ginger, all seeped in water and cooked for a couple of hours, sweetened with jaggery, and luscious natural milk.
Nice video but a few things: - please stop saying "chai tea". You're essentially saying "tea tea". Also in Kerala, the word for tea is "chaiya". - the little tumbler provided with the steel cup is so that you can cool your tea by using the "pulling" technique. You pour (or pull) the tea from cup to tumbler (and vice versa) in order to cool the tea as well as giving it some extra froth. - they shouldn't provide the "free rice" cos the amount is ridiculous. They should just get the customer to order a portion. - although I do think £22 is pretty steep, I can't really comment on the price cos there are multiple factors which contribute to prices such as ingredients, staffing, rent, location, etc. - the £5 meal... well, you get what you pay for
I think you should have qualified your decision for rating the much more expensive curry more highly than the £5 one. Is it really 5x better for 5x the price?
Guys, using super generic term like "Indian curry" is extremely confusing. There are few thousand types of curries in India, and just a "chicken curry" has atleast 50 different varieties that taste different from one state to the other.
Top video, I do enjoy the curry at the Hungry Horse but sometimes I feel I'd need two for a proper meal out. Then again when I use my Tesco Club Card points to get a meal for nothing there can be no complaints.
The reason your curry was so quick at the Hungry Horse, is because there is a big steamer in the kitchen with about 10 shelves inside each shelf will have either chicken breasts, curry pouches, rice pouches, mash pots etc. All pre portioned and hot ready to pour onto your plate. Order for a curry comes into the kitchen.. It's out and onto your table in a minute and half.
Pretty sure that the chutney that you didn't like was achar, which is pickled fruits, vegetables, and garlic. It can have pieces of whole lime or lemon in it, including the peel, which would taste bitter.
Great review . The Indian restaurant looked great.. have you tried Wetherspoons chicken tikka masala on a Curry Thursday, its fantastic and off memory less than £9 inc your drink . Also you get 2 popadoms and a nan bread included ... which you can upgrade to a garlic nan. Their jalfrezi is also spot on .
The Rice looked a little on the dry side with the hungy horse meal although fairly good portion size to the full meal itself, the indian restaurant curry was the winner for me ! Lovely presentation, the rice looked much nicer as did the curry, i would prefer not to have the chutneys with this & the chia tea was somthing different. Thank you for sharing, take care 💜
11:12 Just because people usually order a naan doesn't mean they should serve a tiny portion of rice - what kind of weird excuse is that for serving such a small portion of rice?
11:33 basically what the waiter is saying 'we give a portion of rice suitable for a mouse so you spend more money and buy a nan bread' I woundn't eat there based on the waiters response. I'd ask for more rice FREE. Congratulations restaurant you win the stingiest rice portion I have ever seen award. 🏆When rice per portion decent 120g is approximately 15 pence. Great job!
Hello,EIE I loved the look of the Indian restaurant. A lot of special touches enhance the flavor. This one is for me, Hungry Horse didn't even look appetizing. Fantastic video 😊😊😊
If you love the look of this Indian restaurant then you need to look up a restaurant called (Veeraswamy) it's in London. Just take a look at the images on Google
Hi,you know the famous saying you get what you pay for!I don’t particularly agree with that on this occasion,yes the restaurant was better quality but the portion size was ridiculous.i get 2 large curries(madras&bhuna)plus large saag aloo rice for£16 at my local curry house and thats enough for 2 meals each,been using the same place for 10 years now and that price includes delivery!!
look to paying more than 4 times the amount. there was not much rice so to get more would cost more. it does seem a lot of money for it. the salad i do not think belongs if they did away with that and doubled the rice. if you are not sure about it then may be having a curry that is not going to be too much for you. how does the £5 go vs the wetherspoons curry. which costs a little more. Plus take it on the 9th Feb these £5 items will no longer be done. and the price will go back up.
This is a really difficult one. The pub meal was very good value although the restuarant meal was of superior quality. You'd be better off grabbing a ready meal curry from the supermarket than putting up with a poor meal in a pub but if you are out and about then the pub is convenient. If your pocket permits it I'd go for the better quality meal.
Hi from a Very Cold (59F/15C) Los Angeles 🙋♀️ I'm not a curry fan at all! It's a shame too, as I live 2 miles from the Little India district of Artesia Calif which has some amazing Indian restaurants. The meal at Kerala has my vote! Great presentation. But the poppadums alone would draw me in. A crispy fresh poppadum with anything saucy is always a treat.
Wait! 59f is cold? Greetings from 18f Scotland! As recently documented in the media the CTM has transitioned from the curry house to taking its place on an English pub menu. Despite what you may read it's by no means Britain's favourite dish, a distant third at best behind a Sunday roast dinner and a full English breakfast.
So when you compare it is very hard to imagine that the cheap version can beat a expensive one. or made by a specialised location. Greene kings pubs had a £5 curry. it may be better to find prices that are closer to each other. since the expensive will always for many people be too expensive for what you are getting and would make a family going there end up with such a High final bill.
Chicken tikka masala or other curries are best enjoyed with naan bread, paratha or kulcha. Eating so much gravy with so little rice, salads or papadoms, is difficult.
I would never opt for this meal but honestly you are better off with the £5 meal for the following reasons : # 1 : The chicken is anyhow caged chicken that probably never experienced the sun on its back and was fed antibiotics and gmo feed to make it grow bigger faster. It is not healthy and also causes these chickens a fair amount of suffering. Restaurants buy these wholesale and its cheap so why pay more if yoj actually hate your body enough to eat it? # 2 : The amount of rice you got in the Kerala restaurant is miniscule and the £5 meal evidently had more spices so it is probably healthier (i.e anise seeds, cardamom, cloves which someone who is clueless about Indian spices and how beneficial they are is lucky to get into his system once in a while). # 3 : The two mango chutneys yohlu got are indeed identical plus to cut costs they probably use lots of white sugar instead of tamarind. When there is no authentic pudina (mint) sauce is when you know you are in a low quality Indian restaurant. # 4 : Indian food is the most varied and delicious in the world (say I and anyone who knows a thjng or two about food) but Kerala regional food and habits come at the bottom of the barrel (Malayalees which is the term for people from Kerala are more interested in making money, trading etc. than they are producing satisfying and wholesome meals). If you want to eat better Indian food you should opt for a Tamil, Karnataki, Andhra or North Indian cuisine. Stay away from Kerala, Maharashtra and Rajashtani restaurants because they are at best mediocre.
You lucky devil, get to eat all sorts of grub. I like your presentation, no BS, just down to earth. You're a doppleganger of Elon Musk, are you related?
The Indian restaurant gave you a small portion of rice because people usually order a naan bread, what kind of flimsy answer is that? For £22 I would expect twice as much rice, that's a rip off
Waiting for the day when people stop saying Curry sauce & Naan bread, as an indian, its quite annoying to hear. The food from the second restaurant did look yum ! Glad you enjoyed :)
The Indian restaurant meal looked terrible. The pickle pots looked like purée, the rice was the smallest portion I’ve seen. The tikka masala looked ok but let’s be honest here, that food wasn’t from a quality Indian food establishment.
Those chutney you were eating are actually lime and gooseberry pickled with chilli and vinegar for months..they are not meant to be eaten with a spoon but just a small drop for the rice to be a bit more appetising 😅😅I was like what the heck that must hurt because these stuff has high concentrations of Kerala chillies and vinegar..
I want morer of rice and i go a nan bread .for rhe 2nd restaurant. The 1st at the hungery horse was a to me curry dip and rice it was skiping 😮,but a a £5 people wi have to keep in mind if it sounds to good to be true it is ,it was served fast because it was left over .
I suppose you get what you paid for. The pub version is probably out of a can or tin, and the poppadom is out if a packet. Question is whether you want the real thing or a pretender.
Indian pickles are pungent and strong like wasabi. They are not meant to be eaten with papadams. They are not like sauce or ketchup so do not eat a spoonful at once. :)
I think you selected the wrong Indian restaurant, the food you ordered was North Indian but the Indian restaurant was South Indian which mght have added t the cost as they are not specialised in it. But I could be wrong and they are really excellent in the north Indian dishes too but in any case their signature dish is not what you ordered.
Great video! I'd go for the Indian restaurant too, if only because the pub curry was swimming in oil. It really ruins the look of the curry, and is pretty unhealthy also! A Tikka Masala should be a creamy, yet packed with flavour, in my opinion - I've cooked a fair few!
Those are not a chutneys in India restaurant which said it's not my cup of tea, those are the pickles, an Indian pickles and you eat them like a chutney. The right way to pickle is take a pinch of pickle put it in your rice and add curry in the rice and then it.
hello m'love! hope you are well! I reckon i'd go for the pub curry only as a quick cheap lunch if i was rushed. nothing but sustenance. indian curry looked more of a real cared for eat. real food and real time. not just a rushed money maker 😄
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The curry house curry looked really good but the hungry horse one looked ok for a fiver too obviously preferred the Indian restaurant.
No comparison the curry house wins easily
I bet the pub can do a really good curry for £22.40. 😊
Pub food looks beautiful considering the prices at this inflation then curry house
You ordered the wrong food. Kerala is in the south of india and ctm isnt part of the cuisine. The chutneys you didnt like are fermented pickles and are eaten differently.
The papadam is north indian. Kerala makes something called appalam.
Alright done with my indian food coaching, I have a date 😅
Definitely the Indian restaurant wins it looks so much better but for £5 the hungry horse wasn't too bad
Its difficult to beat that value
Did you see the quantity of the rice? It looked as if you can complete it in 3 bites lol
Papadums are not meamt to be dipped into chutneys. Proper way is to take a bite of your food, and eat a bit of papadum and then break a small piece of chutney to eat after. But to each their own. Chicken tikka is generally made on a skewer first and in a tandoor oven and then put into a curry. Gives that tandoor oven flavor.
I was always taught that you dip it in chutney but then again you can honestly have it any way you like, as a snack, appetizer, while eating, after eating anyway lol
break a small piece of chutney?? what?? What does that mean?
There is no ' proper ' way of eating a poppadom. I am an Indian and I eat poppadoms (we call them papad here) in a multitude of ways.
Times are tough - the cheaper pub meal looked good enough for the price. The Indian restaurant meal didn't look to be worth 4 times as much.
If you’re happy to settle for food with no flavour
He noted which spices he tasted in the rice and called the chicken spicy' so I'm sure there was enough flavor for the price.
@@Dinki-Didepends. I’d question it had ‘no’ flavour - it is likely he just didn’t find it as stronger as other curries. And when you are in a pub you have to cater for all tastes. I thought the rice stingy and the salad very underwhelming. For £22!
Just say you can't afford it don't be comparing pub curry to a actual Indian restaurant curry 😂
Forget the pub for a moment, that didn’t look like a great example of an Indian restaurant meal. Small portion and expensive.
I fully agree with you, the Indian curry by far looked the best, regardless to the cost.
It was soo tasty!
My auntie had her wedding reception back in 1996 at that Kerala restaurant! I think it used to Shebabs a few years ago. Might have found myself in there after an Otley Run once or twice 😅
It was shebabs a couple of years ago then the moved near the train station it was the place Togo a top curry house
The Lawnswood Arms used to be a lot more classy. Was my local for me and my mate back in the day. Those portions wouldn't fill me. The rice portion at the Indian was tiny.
I’m disagreeing with you on this one buddy. Purely on price and portion size. Of course an Indian restaurant will be taster. But an egg cup of rice? What’s the salad got to do with a curry? To bulk out the plate is all. £22 is robbery for what you get. Gimme the £5 all day long. Good comparison though. 👍
Agree. The Indian cooked by an Indian should automatically taste better (one hopes although tbh any good cook will cook well). But was it worth the mark up - don’t think so. The cheaper one wasn’t ‘bad’ - it just wasn’t full of flavour and it would have been filling. Now if the cheaper one was totally disgusting then yup the higher price would have been worth it.
You need to do a Indian Restaurant comparison with a home cooked curry by an Indian family, 90% of so called "Indian" restaurants in this country are nothing of the sort, when you ask these people where they come from the a large proportion are from Bangladesh. It's only when you eat home cooked food that you can do a genuine comparison with a pub or restaurant.
I love your videos
Thanks 😀
Those portions of rice are so small, like how many spoonfuls do you get.
A bit underwhelming is perhaps the most devastating comment I've heard you make about food on here. That would be like most of us slapping the owner and declaring "swords or pistols sir?"
It did look a bit underwhelming, but the price tag is the big selling point. The Indian restaurant clearly had much better food.
EDIT: I missed the "dislike" on the chutneys from the second place. A very bitter chunk of onion or garlic would not be on the top of my eating preference either.
The taste of those chutneys were just too strong for me
It's ment to come with mango chutney onion salad lime pickel and mint sauce not 2 mango chutney n 2 lime pickel the server was not doing his job properly
it is Indian chai, chai is the same as tea, it is not a distinct tea flavour, just tea!
Chutney with the curry💀
I would prefer Naan instead of papadam
Me too
Some, Indian Restaurants, alway seem to be mean with the meat.
Didn't rate either of them. I'm getting quite sick of places not being able to do a poppadom starter correctly. No onion salad, no yogurt based one and the ultimate pet peeve is runny mango chutney. The mango chutney actually looked better in the pub which is just crazy.
First of all, It's not called as Poppadom it's called as Pappad. Secondly stop calling tea as chai tea, the literal meaning of chai is tea lol it's just the hindi word for tea, and finally it's not Naan Bread it's just Naan, again you're calling it bread bread lol. Good video tho, but yeah I'd appreciate it if you put some effort into learning the actual terms.
Indian curry hands down but I've had better for less money and think they're not a true representation of what value for money there is out there.
Pub curry .....never.
At the The Hungry Horse you are just eating a microwave ready meal. That said you can't complain for £5. You pay your money, you make your choice
Its hard to complain about a £5 meal
The "Indian" restaurant name is Kerala, which is a state or province if you will in the south of India. Chicken Tikka Masala is not a native dish of that region. If any chance anyone does go to that restaurant please ask the staff for local "Kerala" cuisine. Asking for Chicken Tikka Masala in a restaurant called Kerala is like asking for a Phylly Cheesestake in a restaurant called "Louisiana"
Those last 2 aren't chutneys, they're pickles and you're not supposed to have one big bite. Usually just a small bit along with the papad or the rice.
They did taste a bit too strong to have with the poppadom
@@everydayimeating3407 literally no one calls it a poppadom in India lmao. It’s called papad.
@@skrtfghs yeah still nowhere close to poppadoms
Exactly, chutneys and pickles are totally different like day and night 😂. That's why our vlogger didn't get it, which any Desi Indian gets it especially a keralite. It's like carrying coal to Newcastle, any way. Problem is the only pickles English and Americans know is that pickles the fast food hamburger joints put into their hamburgers. That's gross. If I order hamburgers I tell no pickles before ordering also light lettuce because lettuce is just green leaves better suited for bovine animals like cows 😂😂 ciao everybody
@@GeezusKhryst LMAO that Indian 'experts' don't know either, but you love criticizing others!
So unfair to compare these 2 try 2 authentic Indian restaurants,you can’t compare a £5 pub curry to a real Indian restaurant 😂
Yes you can, he just did
Huh ?
I won't even compare the both
First one for me mate. For the price and Yorkshire Tea that's an amazing price. The problem with curries is they can't make them too hot in places like Hungry Horse as they'd just have people moaning. Whereas in an Indian restaurant people expect a nice heat to them. I'd of sooner had a Naan bread with them both though :)
Naan bread would have been great with both 😋
Not strictly true. The “hot” curries in Wetherspoons are genuinely pretty hot
I always change the Popadom for a Naan bread a Hungry Horse.
Naan literally means bread u can js say it once💀
I would never eat a curry from a pub. Absolute garbage, pre-made stuff with people not knowing what an Indian food is. Indian food is just something you cannot make on the cheap and expect good results. But the proper restaurant did do the chicken right, as authentically, creamy chicken currys should be.skewered and cooked in a tandoor.
Saying that, you did order the worst possible Indian curry. For chicken, butter chicken is the best if you like the mild/sweet/creamy flavour, or go for a chicken karahi (it's a better version of the balti) if you want something spicy. For lamb, roganjosh is the best, but there's also bhuna which is amazing. Plus you always have to order pilau rice or garlic fried rice, and a butter naan/garlic naan, etc.
Popadoms don't really go *with* a curry. They're more of an amuse-bouche to get you into the flavours. The 2 first chutneys you tried were both mango chutneys. Traditionally, it should be mango chutney, and a tomato/onion chutney. You do see others which are meant for other times of the food, ie; raita should be served with a spicy curry to cool you down, mint and coriander chutneys are supposed to be paired with tandoori meats, tamarind chutneys are for fried pasty foods, lime pickles are for parathas, etc etc. They all have a role and meaning rather than just thrown together for poppadoms.
Also, at the proper restaurant you got the chai, which is Indian tea. It's usually cooked for hours so it has a very rich and luxurious texture. Traditional ingredients are black tea leaves, green cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds, carom seeds, and optional ginger, all seeped in water and cooked for a couple of hours, sweetened with jaggery, and luscious natural milk.
the £5 one wins it for me just on price alone where else could you get that price
I don't think you could get it cheaper anywhere else
It's £7.00 with a drink any Wednesday, even better value, I had one today.
Deffo prefer the indian restaurant as most pub curry's am just microwaved meals and thanks for another great video mate 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Lime pickle is qn acquired taste! Can you do Caribbean food next?
Its definitely an acquired taste
Second curry for me chap….they say you pay for quality…👌👌
It was a good quality meal
Straight away I liked the look of the Kerala dish better than the hungry horse.
It was tastier too
Chicken Tikka Masala is not a dish from the Indian state of Kerala which is in southern India. This dish is from north India.😅
So if you are going to dine in a restaurant named Kerala, ask for dishes from Kerala and not from northern India.
Nice video but a few things:
- please stop saying "chai tea". You're essentially saying "tea tea". Also in Kerala, the word for tea is "chaiya".
- the little tumbler provided with the steel cup is so that you can cool your tea by using the "pulling" technique. You pour (or pull) the tea from cup to tumbler (and vice versa) in order to cool the tea as well as giving it some extra froth.
- they shouldn't provide the "free rice" cos the amount is ridiculous. They should just get the customer to order a portion.
- although I do think £22 is pretty steep, I can't really comment on the price cos there are multiple factors which contribute to prices such as ingredients, staffing, rent, location, etc.
- the £5 meal... well, you get what you pay for
THANKS FOR THE TIME YOU PUT IN ,MAKING THESE VIDEOS
Thanks for watching 😀
I think you should have qualified your decision for rating the much more expensive curry more highly than the £5 one. Is it really 5x better for 5x the price?
Guys, using super generic term like "Indian curry" is extremely confusing. There are few thousand types of curries in India, and just a "chicken curry" has atleast 50 different varieties that taste different from one state to the other.
Top video, I do enjoy the curry at the Hungry Horse but sometimes I feel I'd need two for a proper meal out.
Then again when I use my Tesco Club Card points to get a meal for nothing there can be no complaints.
I am so hungry now watching your old videos. I think Papadoms and Samosas are so important as intros
The reason your curry was so quick at the Hungry Horse, is because there is a big steamer in the kitchen with about 10 shelves inside each shelf will have either chicken breasts, curry pouches, rice pouches, mash pots etc. All pre portioned and hot ready to pour onto your plate.
Order for a curry comes into the kitchen.. It's out and onto your table in a minute and half.
Good to know!
Pretty sure that the chutney that you didn't like was achar, which is pickled fruits, vegetables, and garlic. It can have pieces of whole lime or lemon in it, including the peel, which would taste bitter.
It was so bitter 😝
Great video! Gotta love Kerala food!
You said pappadam .. love from Kerala ❤
There are 2 Ts in better. Please try and pronounce them. Your reviews are good, but this annoys me.
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Great review . The Indian restaurant looked great.. have you tried Wetherspoons chicken tikka masala on a Curry Thursday, its fantastic and off memory less than £9 inc your drink . Also you get 2 popadoms and a nan bread included ... which you can upgrade to a garlic nan. Their jalfrezi is also spot on .
I like jalfrezis too 😋
The Rice looked a little on the dry side with the hungy horse meal although fairly good portion size to the full meal itself, the indian restaurant curry was the winner for me ! Lovely presentation, the rice looked much nicer as did the curry, i would prefer not to have the chutneys with this & the chia tea was somthing different. Thank you for sharing, take care 💜
Thanks for watching 😀
11:12 Just because people usually order a naan doesn't mean they should serve a tiny portion of rice - what kind of weird excuse is that for serving such a small portion of rice?
11:33 basically what the waiter is saying 'we give a portion of rice suitable for a mouse so you spend more money and buy a nan bread' I woundn't eat there based on the waiters response. I'd ask for more rice FREE. Congratulations restaurant you win the stingiest rice portion I have ever seen award. 🏆When rice per portion decent 120g is approximately 15 pence. Great job!
Someone never got their hole last night Mr. Grumpy Pants.
The chutney may be bitter gourd. Popular in Indian food. Too bitter for me but it is supposed to be good for you
Its a very bitter flavour, too bitter for me too
22 quid for a curry omg, daylight robbery.
Obvious which the best one was, don't think it was worth 22 quid.
Disappointed for 5 quid?
Good review but when you can’t afford to buy a expensive meal the £5 looked nice 👍 thank you 🙏 for sharing your vlog
Your supposed to mix,both chutneys together, on the poppadom....to be fair, this Indian restaurant, doesn't look the best.....Great vlog....respect..
Hello,EIE
I loved the look of the Indian restaurant. A lot of special touches enhance the flavor. This one is for me, Hungry Horse didn't even look appetizing. Fantastic video 😊😊😊
The presentation and environment sometimes make a difference
If you love the look of this Indian restaurant then you need to look up a restaurant called (Veeraswamy) it's in London. Just take a look at the images on Google
Hi,you know the famous saying you get what you pay for!I don’t particularly agree with that on this occasion,yes the restaurant was better quality but the portion size was ridiculous.i get 2 large curries(madras&bhuna)plus large saag aloo rice for£16 at my local curry house and thats enough for 2 meals each,been using the same place for 10 years now and that price includes delivery!!
look to paying more than 4 times the amount. there was not much rice so to get more would cost more. it does seem a lot of money for it.
the salad i do not think belongs if they did away with that and doubled the rice.
if you are not sure about it then may be having a curry that is not going to be too much for you.
how does the £5 go vs the wetherspoons curry. which costs a little more.
Plus take it on the 9th Feb these £5 items will no longer be done. and the price will go back up.
This is a really difficult one. The pub meal was very good value although the restuarant meal was of superior quality. You'd be better off grabbing a ready meal curry from the supermarket than putting up with a poor meal in a pub but if you are out and about then the pub is convenient. If your pocket permits it I'd go for the better quality meal.
I agree
The Indian looked lovely but the price is a bit steep for what you get. Thwt rice portion was tiny
Not onion its lime pickel
No mint chutney no way
Hi from a Very Cold (59F/15C) Los Angeles 🙋♀️
I'm not a curry fan at all! It's a shame too, as I live 2 miles from the Little India district of Artesia Calif which has some amazing Indian restaurants.
The meal at Kerala has my vote! Great presentation. But the poppadums alone would draw me in. A crispy fresh poppadum with anything saucy is always a treat.
Wait! 59f is cold? Greetings from 18f Scotland! As recently documented in the media the CTM has transitioned from the curry house to taking its place on an English pub menu. Despite what you may read it's by no means Britain's favourite dish, a distant third at best behind a Sunday roast dinner and a full English breakfast.
@@alexf7377 Yes, for Los Angeles, 59F is practically freezing. I know, we here don't know "real" cold. 🤣
Cold is all relative, mate. 59 is cold if you're used to 70 and 89 f summers in Los Angeles mate 😂 lol cheers anyway to all of you guys !!!!!!
Even though I don't eat Chicken I'd say the one that wins it for me is the Indian restaurant the pub curry looked really oily.
99.999% of INDIANs will get pissed off after hearing CHAI TEA word hahaha and NAAN BREAD...LOL
So when you compare it is very hard to imagine that the cheap version can beat a expensive one. or made by a specialised location.
Greene kings pubs had a £5 curry. it may be better to find prices that are closer to each other.
since the expensive will always for many people be too expensive for what you are getting and would make a family going there end up with such a High final bill.
Chicken tikka masala or other curries are best enjoyed with naan bread, paratha or kulcha.
Eating so much gravy with so little rice, salads or papadoms, is difficult.
I would never opt for this meal but honestly you are better off with the £5 meal for the following reasons :
# 1 : The chicken is anyhow caged chicken that probably never experienced the sun on its back and was fed antibiotics and gmo feed to make it grow bigger faster.
It is not healthy and also causes these chickens a fair amount of suffering.
Restaurants buy these wholesale and its cheap so why pay more if yoj actually hate your body enough to eat it?
# 2 : The amount of rice you got in the Kerala restaurant is miniscule and the £5 meal evidently had more spices so it is probably healthier (i.e anise seeds, cardamom, cloves which someone who is clueless about Indian spices and how beneficial they are is lucky to get into his system once in a while).
# 3 : The two mango chutneys yohlu got are indeed identical plus to cut costs they probably use lots of white sugar instead of tamarind.
When there is no authentic pudina (mint) sauce is when you know you are in a low quality Indian restaurant.
# 4 : Indian food is the most varied and delicious in the world (say I and anyone who knows a thjng or two about food) but Kerala regional food and habits come at the bottom of the barrel (Malayalees which is the term for people from Kerala are more interested in making money, trading etc. than they are producing satisfying and wholesome meals).
If you want to eat better Indian food you should opt for a Tamil, Karnataki, Andhra or North Indian cuisine.
Stay away from Kerala, Maharashtra and Rajashtani restaurants because they are at best mediocre.
The Hungry Horse would be served quick it only takes two minutes to warm up in the microwave😆😆looked like a supermarket curry, utter shite.
The hungry horse curry like weatherspoons is a microwave curry ... u cannot beat a real Indian.. not from bengal😂😂
You lucky devil, get to eat all sorts of grub.
I like your presentation, no BS, just down to earth.
You're a doppleganger of Elon Musk, are you related?
The Indian restaurant gave you a small portion of rice because people usually order a naan bread, what kind of flimsy answer is that? For £22 I would expect twice as much rice, that's a rip off
Waiting for the day when people stop saying Curry sauce & Naan bread, as an indian, its quite annoying to hear. The food from the second restaurant did look yum ! Glad you enjoyed :)
In glasgow we hwve spiced onions with popodom delicious
The Indian restaurant meal looked terrible. The pickle pots looked like purée, the rice was the smallest portion I’ve seen. The tikka masala looked ok but let’s be honest here, that food wasn’t from a quality Indian food establishment.
*The last two in the second dish were pickles (achar) not chutney*
Those chutney you were eating are actually lime and gooseberry pickled with chilli and vinegar for months..they are not meant to be eaten with a spoon but just a small drop for the rice to be a bit more appetising 😅😅I was like what the heck that must hurt because these stuff has high concentrations of Kerala chillies and vinegar..
I want morer of rice and i go a nan bread .for rhe 2nd restaurant.
The 1st at the hungery horse was a to me curry dip and rice it was skiping 😮,but a a £5 people wi have to keep in mind if it sounds to good to be true it is ,it was served fast because it was left over .
The chutneys were lime and garlic pickle I’d of thought 😂
They weren't my favourite
@@everydayimeating3407 aquired taste aernt they I love it personally
I suppose you get what you paid for. The pub version is probably out of a can or tin, and the poppadom is out if a packet. Question is whether you want the real thing or a pretender.
What's chai-tea 😂? Chai is the Indian word for tea! Do you call sausages wurst-sausages?
If you’re lucky enough to enjoy both and compare them, then you’re lucky, seems to me! 😀
Indian pickles are pungent and strong like wasabi. They are not meant to be eaten with papadams. They are not like sauce or ketchup so do not eat a spoonful at once. :)
Kerala restaurant takes it for me
Me too
As I'm sure previous comments note, a Kerala restaurant is not the most obvious place for a TCM.
Man 5pound is not cheap it is 500₹ that is very costly not at all cheap
STOP calling it "Chai Tea" !!! its either Chai or Tea . We dont call it "Bagel bread".
I think you selected the wrong Indian restaurant, the food you ordered was North Indian but the Indian restaurant was South Indian which mght have added t the cost as they are not specialised in it. But I could be wrong and they are really excellent in the north Indian dishes too but in any case their signature dish is not what you ordered.
That's like comparing a Vauxhall Corsa to a BMW M3.
Great video! I'd go for the Indian restaurant too, if only because the pub curry was swimming in oil. It really ruins the look of the curry, and is pretty unhealthy also! A Tikka Masala should be a creamy, yet packed with flavour, in my opinion - I've cooked a fair few!
The taste of the restaurant curry was a lot better too 😋
South Indian here and I must say, the pub was humane with more rice.
And also it is either chai or tea because chai = tea, just as milk = latte.
Nice pomme accent by an Asian guy doing Indian food... From a African guy from Kerala, India:-)
The last 2Cutneys are pickles 😂, those ar not ment to eat like cutney shld eat a minute serve, they are flavour bombs.
Those are not a chutneys in India restaurant which said it's not my cup of tea, those are the pickles, an Indian pickles and you eat them like a chutney. The right way to pickle is take a pinch of pickle put it in your rice and add curry in the rice and then it.
They are not chutney, they are pickle, its not to be consumed whole, use only one or two drops on rice
Bro, chutni & papad is a dessert combo.. don't mix it with chicken & rice 😞
You forgot to try THE *SaLaAaDdDd*!!!?!!! 😵💫😭 now we'll never know if it was worth the extra 15 pOuNdSsSsSa 😱
Thanks for another great video! 🙂
I'll have to remember it next time!
@@everydayimeating3407 we were very impressed at how you skillfully ignored it 😅 haha cheers dude!
Please don't say Chai Tea because Chai means Tea in Hindi. So basically you are saying Tea Tea 😅
Why would you want to eat something that looks like it comes from a baby's nappy
Very small portion for £22.00! I like the Wetherspoons Curries
hello m'love! hope you are well! I reckon i'd go for the pub curry only as a quick cheap lunch if i was rushed. nothing but sustenance. indian curry looked more of a real cared for eat. real food and real time. not just a rushed money maker 😄
I agree, the pub curry for a quick lunch and the restaurant curry for a nice dinner
Fun fact: Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Scotland.