curry sauce like chinese

This is the link for Sing Li mentioned in the other thread. You can get it in Dundalk but not sure where else.

http://www.singli.ie/

fionntan g wrote: »

TBH you wont make any curry sauce similar to a take away unless you add buckets of MSG.

The sauces I mentioned do have MSG, and apparently plenty of it in.

Just like you won't make an indian takeaway one with out buckets of sodium chloride, I think one pataks curry paste I got was either 8 or 11% salt.

fionntan g wrote: »

ive tried that mc donnells one and its hopeless,not near enough msg to match the take aways lol

aha- an MSG fan I thought it was one of these nanny posts you always get saying "you do know thats full of deadly MSG, you are killing yourself".

You can get bags of pure MSG in asian food stores pretty cheap.

Pataks is nothing like chinese curry sauce in case anybody thought thats what I was saying. I emailed sing li to see who sells it in dublin

dubh101 wrote: »

You got too try this stuff.GOLD FISH BRAND,

Thats a coincidence, I was just looking up a site 2 minutes ago and it recommended it!

Which particular shop did you get it in?

http://www.videojug.com/filmsuggestion/how-do-i-make-authentic-chinese-curry-sauce

I will point out that most Take Aways do not make their sauce from scratch, they buy in a concentrate, such as Goldfish, Wing Yip and Mayflower. You can buy these online if you Google them.

I got the goldfish sauce today in the oriental emporium on georges street. None in the Filipino shop in dun laoghaire, nor the spice bazaar in blackrock market. It was worth the search! it is far better than bensons (which I did rate highly). I doubt I could tell the difference in a blind test with my local chinese takeaways, it has some extra spice or something that bensons did not have. Better value than bensons too, a 405g tub was €2.30 and bensons is only 200g. Like bensons you add 3-4 times of water to the paste.

http://www.keejayscurry.co.uk/

There are 3 flavours to choose from:

Classic Chinese – blended to offer a delicious creamy curry sauce, traditional and truly appetising.

Spicy Chinese – a unique blend of spices t create a richer and more aromatic curry sauce for a more full bodied taste and aroma without too much of the chilli heat.

Madras – for the caterer who demands a robust curry sauce, this curry sauce concentrate provides a strong spicy sauce using a unique blend of spices for that well known Madras flavour.

I got the standard chinese and "chinese hot & spicy", have only tasted the standard one. My local chinese will be losing a lot of business!

Took too researching chinese curry paste's a bit more,and found that there are a number off other brands that do a similar product too Gold Fish Brand,these include KKbrand,winyip,dragon brand,tiger tiger,mayflower,maysan,and youngs.lol but I can only personaly vouch for goldfish.:D

Just bought the Dragon brand, will try it today, hope it is like the chinese curry sauce.

bought in the oriental shop on abbey st. the one just beside the jervis luas stop. I think it was only Eur 2.

I went out and picked up some of the normal gold fish brand there today and i'm going to put the left overs of last nights chicken in later and see how it works out. Looking forward to it now.

Although maybe i should have went for the hot and spicy one.

It was nice, very like a take away chinese curry. A nice change from the Indian style curry I make at home normally. Will defo get the Hot and Spicy one next time. I'll have to add a few chillis and fresh ginger next time i'm using the normal one to "jazz it up". But for €2.30 you cant got wrong really.

It would be lovely poured over a few chips:pac:

I also put onions into mine nearly at the last moment so they are still nice and crunchy also peas caus I like them in it too.

I've had the Goldfish brand curry paste before and it's pretty close alright.

I also made a little find in the Chinese supermarket yesterday. Prawn crackers. I thought I'd post it in here as it fits in there nicely.

The packet cost €0.95 and I'd say there's enough in there to make up about eight or ten batches.

To make them I poured about 1cm depth of oil into the smallest pot I have and when it was at the correct temperature, started frying them in batches of five.

The crackers are little, semi-translucent discs and they expand (dramatically! ) after about five seconds in the oil.

Good tip with tipping the pot to one side. Why didn't I think of that? These things flare up after only about five seconds so it would be do-able to do them one by one while holding the pot like that.

What are these garlic crackers? The same, but with garlic flavour? I'd go for them too!

Not dissing the Tesco prawn crackers, but are they the same as the takeaway ones? The ones I got are the exact same... and they're unbelievably cheap. The markup on them must be astronomical as takeaways charge €1.50 or more for a bag.

We made a Chinese takeaway to feed six for the craic over the weekend.

Prawn crackers:



They come in a box of about 100 and cost €0.95. They need to be briefly fried for them to expand. One box would be four or five takeaway portions.

Crispy duck:



The duck was €10 in Tesco, reduced to €5. It was coated in roast duck seasoning and twice baked. The sachet of seasoning was about €1. The pancakes came in a packet of 17 portions of six pancakes for about €4. They probably come in smaller packets, too. The (large) bottle of hoisin sauce was about €2 and was made by Heinz of China.

Chicken curry:



We roasted a chicken and used all the white meat for the curry. The sauce was made with one tub of "Goldfish" brand curry sauce - the one that's mentioned in above posts, which cost about €3. An onion was added, too.

The rice was boiled with a little of the duck and chicken juice and then egg-fried with a few peas.

Fortune cookies:



€1.50 for 10.

All the stuff we made is not "Beat the Takeaway" or whatever it's called... it IS the takeaway. Of course, it's not "real" from scratch cooking and it's absolutely riddled with salt/MSG, sugar, fat and artificial this, that and the other, but... it tastes good!

All ingredients were sourced in a Chinese supermarket in Dublin... if you are trying to recreate a particular takeaway dish just go in and ask them how it's made!

Searched Chinese curry sauce and found this thread! Quality. Maybe in a year or two i could manage meal that Little Alex put together BTW looks delicious.