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
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
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"
@@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!
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 :)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 😅
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.
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
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 💜
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?
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.
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 .
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.
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,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!!
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.
I think at the restaurant they gave you two mango chutneys as they'd probably not got any mint yoghurt, I've never seen the other ones in a pickle tray, it's usually lime (or chilli) pickle and onion salad.
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 😄
Very rarely is the significantly more expensive version of the exact same dish between two restaurants actually drastically better. I'd probably go the pub curry. English indian food is so good we used to have an indian restaurant in my small American town say it had british style and authentic indian food on the menu on their sign above the restaurant.
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?
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..
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 :)
Another superb review,E.I.E. I prefer the look of curry number two from Kerala. Although curry number one from Hungry Horse still looked alright, and for a fiver, that's good value for money.
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.
Has to be the restaurant ...presentation was immaculate and the curry looked sooo good. I suppose you get what you pay for. The pub curry may have been cheap but it showed. Good review I enjoyed this,
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.
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
Hungry Horse curry and rice is already precooked and delivered to site frozen (as is around 90% of the menu). They don’t employ chefs either only minimum wage ‘cooks’ that’s how they can sell at that price point. When I was the kitchen manager in the kitchen we used to ‘pull’ 5 or 6 curries ready to go into the Microwave ready for a customer to order. On busy nights (Curry clubs - Wednesday or Thursday nights) we used a Bain Marie to keep up with the volumes. Incidentally, once the curries were out of the freezer they had 3 days to sell them or discard them. If the HH didn’t sell them that would show up as a loss on their stocktake. The managers earned bonus on good stock results though so go figure….
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.
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!
He's reviewing currys numb nut what's the point of saying you will have fish n chips so when he reviews fish n chips you write in saying you prefer a curry DOH
Hi…thank you for your vlog, I am not a curry lover,but I know good food when I see it, The second curry looked lovely,even though it was more expensive, much appreciated as usual, best wishes Sue (Woodhall Spa) xx
I preferred the second curry. However, you know something tastes bad when you have to do a dentist-style swill with your drink to remove the taste. The garlic in the chutney looked gnarly as hell. I actually winced before you took a mouthful.
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.
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.
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.
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The way in to the Kerala is impossible for my wife to contemplate. So that is right out , unless they have a disabled entrance somewhere. Pubs have a good idea of disabled access so full marks to them. Of course the Kerala may have access somewhere else but there was no indication.
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 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
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.
