Indian food

Hello People,

First of all lemme introduce myself:

I am Christine from India,studying in Munich for the last 4 years(almost done!! yipee).

Being an Indian..I have always liked Indian food (spicy and exotic , that is) and would like to know your opinion on the same.

How do U prefer ur food , spicy or flat? Do U guys have ur dinner at 18:00 like the Germans and do u like to eat Brötchen 7 days a week ??

PS:- there are over 100 Indian restaurants in Munich..unbelievable, huh?!

I suggest a look at the Curry Thread may enlighten you somewhat Christine

Check Curry night - Wednesday evenings, Curry Night - Wednesdays and perhaps Curry Night - Wednesdays.

I have never been to India but I love the Indian cuisine in England although for all I know it could be completely different. Being a vegetrian I have to say that I find the Indian food served in Munich terrible. Admittedly I have only tried about 15 restaurants here, but none have rated higher than 1.5 out of 10.

Just personal opinion of course. However the first thing I do whenever I get back to England is go to the pub for a few beers followed by a decent curry. It's one of the few things I miss about England actually, as I certainly don't miss the beer!!!

I think it’s very relative. I personally prefer spicy food, but I need a time out after a meal or two.

Judging from the high attendance in curry night I reckon plenty others also fancy spicy food. (Can’t say how much & for how long).

I am still stuck to the Indian habit of eating my dinner around 9:30-10 pm, couldn’t defend it being healthy but well that’s our way.

ps: Where in India are u from?

Yes I like Indian food and I am about to have some tonight in fact, as a lot of us are.

@wibble

Well I would strongly recommend the Indian Restaurant "Shere Punjab" at Münchner Freiheit..being a vegetarian myself..I know its good

welcome to TT!

i love indian food. i had the pleasure of living in an area in Britain famous for some fantastic restaurants. plus my best friend's parents were from the sub-continent and she loved to cook for us.

Indian food here pales in comparison. I find typical German dishes waaay tooo bland and boring.

No, i hardly ever eat dinner at the same time. I do tend to eat lunch around the same time, though, except at weekends. I eat Brötchen quite often but not every day, more like twice a week.

so as I see , u guys normally go out about every wed. to an Indian Restaurant..in that case I would strongly recommend "shere punjab" at Münchner Freiheit .

For Non-Vegetarians: try chicken jalfarezi
For Vegetarians: Malai Kofta

I am from Delhi @Rahul

spicy or hot? for me they are two different worlds apart, especialy when i cooking. german curries usualy suck. i alwys order in english to make sure its something ok. i cook curries for the wife and myself (and as payment for babysitting;-) at least three times a week and usualy a mixed dahl everyweekend - great beer and film food.

My opinion and reasons for the opinion are pretty much the same as OG's.

German food is pretty bland but I still eat plenty of it without complaining.

I don't start eating at 6, I start pre-prandial drinkiing at 6.

Oh and chicken jalfrezi is my staple anyway

@gideon..
did u say dahl?

Well I am a big consumer of german food myself...cooking Indian food..huh..thats weekend job

Shere Punjab is a bit too small for the number of people who usually turn up for the curry nites. And also, its good for a quick meal , without pinching your wallet so much. But having been in 5-6 curry nites myself, I can safely say that there are quite a lot of places like deeba, maharani etc which serve better food than shere punjab. Maybe you should come for one of the curry nights and see what the other places have on offer.

@ TheDevilHimself

I would love to join U guys some time..

Christine, I would not exactly call the Shere Punjab a good restaurant. The one at Munchener Freiheit is one of the worst restaurants I have been to. After the slow and terrible service, I have vowed not to go there at all. I actually recommend and prefer Goa, Maharaja, and Maharani Indian Restaurants. After I got home, I was not feeling well. Something about the masala was not right, and the chicken and lamb did not seem fresh at all.

PS, I am from Delhi too.

Vishal

yep a full batch takes 45 minutes and then we can take a dish when we feel like it. some people here have tried my dahl, i'll eventualy post the recipee.

I would love to try ur version of Dahl

does that smilie mean - ha your dahl is probably rubbish and i'd ever taste it if i was starving to death - or is it a - yum yum smilie? confused.

Your version what does that mean? As in not authentic?

That was me drooling

every Indian family has its own "version" of Dahl..and with that I mean that they all taste quite different, which is pretty surprising (considering the fact that they all use the same spices)

i'd hoped so!

@Christine
Fair enough.
@Gideon
I don't get how you can do it in 45 mins though. I love Dahl with a passion but am usually disappointed as nothing comes close to the stuff my friend used to make in England.
I used to be able to make sort of ok ish dahl. I haven't done it for years now so I doubt it would be any good.
She used to make me leave it simmer for hours and hours though. Often it got left to sit overnight.
How do you do it?

I find German curry to be a really poor relative of the English cuisine specially prawn pathia or even the every day sags, not only are they bland but also mean on portions. I had a really expensive curry in Ismanning and the devils put cheese in the Korma. I told an Indian restaurant owner friend of mine back in the UK and he is threatening to come over and open up a place here.

A lot of the cuisine in the UK has been developed in the UK by the Pakistani Chefs, coming from London I assume that it's the sad absence of these culinary masters that leaves German curry to be dodgy.

I will come along to a curry night I would love to be proved wrong my Family are already planning a trip back to the UK for Curry and decent seafood and beef come to that.

Not wanting to attract the comment well why don't you bugger off back home I hasten to add that I love it here the people and the other cuisine are great as is the fantastic beer.

I can personally vouch for Gideon's dahl and his curries in general.

you couldn't get him to bring a Balti chef with him, could you, Clive? Preferably one from a Sparkhill Balti House. And also ask him if he could set up his restaurant near Arabellapark. There is definately a need for more Indian restaurants in that area.

edit: and oh yeah, Gideon's Dahl rocks.

Gideons Tasty testicles!!!

I'll get me coat!

Owain
You have done it now, one mention of Balti and even my Irish Wolfhounds ears pricked up (he loves the doggy bag following a take away).

I dream of; Prawn puri starter withe mixed popadoms, King Prawn Pathia (balti is great) Keema Nan, onion bahji sad aloo, oooh god where are those flight numbers

I just saw this ad in The Laimer Anzeige by an Indian restaurant called Madras. It is Muenchen-Allach. When I called to find out, I was told they have a 'mixed' menu. Can you guess what they serve ?