EvanRoberts wrote:Mr Blue Sky wrote:EvanRoberts wrote:
Yes what we want is good traditional Curry, you know like from Birmingham. Not these Hipsters from Kerala or Karnataka, which I think are districts in London, bordering Islington. Don't they know that if it is not drowning in liquid it is not curry, if only they could just stick to authentic dishes like Chicken Tikka Masala.
There is also Bwyta Bwyd Bombai in one of the arcades, I had a decent masala dosa there once.
I’ve never eaten Chicken Tikka Massala. Many people like boring traditional Bangladeshi British curries and there aren’t enough good examples of this type of restaurant in central Cardiff. Thera are plenty in the inner city, on the periphery of the city centre but a dearth in the centre itself. Maybe that is because Cardiff city centre is plagued with post-ironic bearded no-marks who flaunt their insecurities by making tedious put downs disguised as banter.
I actually quite like traditional British-Bangladeshi style curry as well, but there is nothing wrong with the curry inspired by other regions, I just don't get the need to label it 'artisan' 'hipster' food when arguably it is more authentic to actual Indian food and is often cheaper as well. Nor is there anything intrinsically wrong with 'street food', which is often nothing more than a meaningless label anyway.
While my previous reply was certainly guilty of sarcasm, the point wasn't snobbery (which I hate) but to suggest that maybe your outlook of what is 'curry' maybe a little too narrow and a little unfair.
If you’d cared to read the thread you would see that I brought the subject up initially by bemoaning the lack of curry houses in the city centre. There are only three, I think. Mango House, the Juboraj and Spice Quarter. The latter two aren’t very good.
Chai street
http://chaistreet.com/menu/ doesn’t appear to mention the word “curry” on either its menu or its website so maybe you should take your own suggestion, flip it 180 degrees, and narrow your outlook of what is “curry”.
Anyway, my point is that there aren’t enough traditional Bangladeshi curry houses in Cardiff city centre. There are plenty in Canton, Roath, City/Crwys/Whitchurch Road, Whitchurch itself and Penarth. Often when I’m in Cardiff city centre, day or night, I think to myself and say to my friends/family “fancy a curry?” Which then necessitates a trip to Canton or City road. I’ve never thought “I really fancy some authentic Indian streetfood”. Never. I had a Punjabi partner for many years, plus I lived in the West Midlands and Bradford for nearly two decades, so I’ve eaten plenty of Punjabi, Kashmiri and Gujarati curry in England.
Interestingly the Mowglis Steeet Food restaurant chain coming to Cardiff began in Liverpool. Its second branch in that city, on Water street, is in a building that used to be General Accident’s (now part of Legal and General) Merseyside office. I worked in that building for a year in the 1980s. I visited Liverpool last year and might have eaten in there and reminisced, but I’d already gorged myself at Bem Brasil. I’m sure that you will be first in the queue when it opens in Cardiff though. Enjoy your Himalayan Cheese Toast - only £4:95!