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what do you make of our international cuisine?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭nkav86


    I've no idea, I don't eat much pizza. I'm not saying that it's just them that price pizza too high, it definitely isn't, but it doesn't make sense to me that a simple product like pizza can be that overpriced and some think that's perfectly fine. And the idea that the chef/owner sources ingredients and makes it themselves can be a justification, I'd expect them to do nothing less that's the point surely


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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Maybe I will, 21euro in Italy I'd be expecting truffle on it.

    You can make great pizza at home for about a euro. A fool and his money and all that jazz!

    sure you can.

    break that down for me there's a good chap.

    you need at least 3 euro for decent mozarella


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    nkav86 wrote: »
    I've no idea, I don't eat much pizza. I'm not saying that it's just them that price pizza too high, it definitely isn't, but it doesn't make sense to me that a simple product like pizza can be that overpriced and some think that's perfectly fine. And the idea that the chef/owner sources ingredients themselves can be a justification, I'd expect them to do nothing less that's the point surely

    Every plate of food is 'simple' if you break it down.

    What's more simple than a fried piece of cow, but people pay 25 euro and more for a steak.

    If the argument is that good steak is expensive, then by the same token the 21 euro pizza will have meat on it and guess what - it will be good quality meat.

    I guess some people don't want to eat out and think it's a rip-off, which is totally fair enough. But it's nonsense to be shocked that a pizza eaten in a restaurant might cost more than a tenner because it's just flour and water.

    (edit) oh and in the pizza business it would be extremely unusual that the chef sources all ingredients and makes all the pizzas from scratch him or herself.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    go to Good World on Georges St in Dublin and ask for the chinese menu. The menu has limited english translations as well. the hotpot is fantastic.,

    Good World hasn't had authentic Chinese food available in years. Don't know why this recommendation is still floating around. They are a standard Chinese restaurant/takeaway these days - everything bought in preprepared from the same supplier and reheated.

    Your chicken chow mein in Phuq You in Westport is the same as it is in Mr. Kim's in Wexford. Same sauce, vacuum packed meat and veg combo, fried rice, tray, brown bag. The supplier even prints the menus for them - with deliberate charming spelling mistakes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,573 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Good World hasn't had authentic Chinese food available in years. Don't know why this recommendation is still floating around. They are a standard Chinese restaurant/takeaway these days - everything bought in preprepared from the same supplier and reheated.

    Your chicken chow mein in Phuq You in Westport is the same as it is in Mr. Kim's in Wexford. Same sauce, vacuum packed meat and veg combo, fried rice, tray, brown bag. The supplier even prints the menus for them - with deliberate charming spelling mistakes.


    Now its been a little while since i've been there but are you telling me that the chinese menu with the hotpot and chicken feet is gone?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,048 ✭✭✭Rumpy Pumpy


    Now its been a little while since i've been there but are you telling me that the chinese menu with the hotpot and chicken feet is gone?

    I had the misfortune of being there last month and the Chinese menu wasn't available. They had a dim sum menu, but I'd be extremely surprised if they were being prepared from scratch.

    M&L is another joint that gets recommended for its authentic Chinese fare. Has some stuff they specialise in, but much of it is standard teeth cloying sauce stuff. I realise they have to cater for an audience who expect chips as an option with their curry, but authentic Chinese it ain't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,573 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    I had the misfortune of being there last month and the Chinese menu wasn't available. They had a dim sum menu, but I'd be extremely surprised if they were being prepared from scratch.

    M&L is another joint that gets recommended for its authentic Chinese fare. Has some stuff they specialise in, but much of it is standard teeth cloying sauce stuff. I realise they have to cater for an audience who expect chips as an option with their curry, but authentic Chinese it ain't.


    well that is an awful pity. Have to scratch that off the list.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    go to Good World on Georges St in Dublin and ask for the chinese menu. The menu has limited english translations as well. the hotpot is fantastic.,

    Thanks for that tip - most Sundays I'm looking for somewhere decent to eat in that area. Will try that place out...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭kingtut


    branie2 wrote: »
    I don't like spicy food.

    Spicy and hot are not the same thing.
    Food can be spicy and not hot, not spicy and hot or both spicy and hot.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Maybe I will, 21euro in Italy I'd be expecting truffle on it.

    You can make great pizza at home for about a euro. A fool and his money and all that jazz!

    sure you can.

    break that down for me there's a good chap.

    you need at least 3 euro for decent mozarella

    You clearly know nothing about food 'chappy'. People pay 5 quid for chips, most people know F about food so paying 21quid for pizza is normal for the average pleb


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackdog2


    I had the misfortune of being there last month and the Chinese menu wasn't available. They had a dim sum menu, but I'd be extremely surprised if they were being prepared from scratch.

    M&L is another joint that gets recommended for its authentic Chinese fare. Has some stuff they specialise in, but much of it is standard teeth cloying sauce stuff. I realise they have to cater for an audience who expect chips as an option with their curry, but authentic Chinese it ain't.

    Never been a big fan of M&L, for some reason it seems to get rave reviews in the media all the time but every meal I have had there has been absolutely average, from dumplings to saucy concoctions. That said, their mouth-watering chicken (no idea what the actual english name is) is the best in Dublin.

    Lee Kee on parnell street is the best authentic Chinese restaurant I've tried in Dublin, as good as most restaurants that I have tried here really.

    Still no decent beef curry for me :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    Man, I hope that €1 Pizza dude doesn't work in a restaurant and if they do, I hope I never walk into it...


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    Oranage2 wrote: »
    You clearly know nothing about food 'chappy'. People pay 5 quid for chips, most people know F about food so paying 21quid for pizza is normal for the average pleb

    You haven't answered my question.

    How do you make your pizza for a euro?

    I'm not the one who doesn't know about food. I know that good food made from high quality ingredients by someone who knows what they are doing costs money.

    You think anything over a tenner is a rip off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    cant get enough Indian Food

    Chinese is just bland slop


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭kingtut


    Love a lightly spiced but super hot indian curry myself. Not one where it burns the mouth of you but one where you get a little tingle :)

    Although knowing from people who have been to Indian what we get here is not even remotely authentic which isn't all that surprising!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Doctor Nick


    blackdog2 wrote: »
    Never been a big fan of M&L, for some reason it seems to get rave reviews in the media all the time but every meal I have had there has been absolutely average, from dumplings to saucy concoctions. That said, their mouth-watering chicken (no idea what the actual english name is) is the best in Dublin.

    Lee Kee on parnell street is the best authentic Chinese restaurant I've tried in Dublin, as good as most restaurants that I have tried here really.

    Still no decent beef curry for me :(


    Lee Kee is where I had my lunch today. Beef curry, 'twas delish :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I tried a fried rice special years ago, and my stomach paid for it the next day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Doctor Nick


    branie2 wrote: »
    I tried a fried rice special years ago, and my stomach paid for it the next day

    That was the MSG, not chilli's or it being spicy.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    PGE1970 wrote: »
    So Mum, Dad and 2 kids go for a pizza and coke each and it costs €100?

    Leaving aside the suggestion about it being "too rich" for me which is hopelessly irrelevant as the comment is about the product and not about the poster, I think that pricing a basic dish such as pizza at this level in crazy.

    Well, what is crazy is the costs associated with running a business in Ireland.
    Eating out in Germany is generally a lot cheaper than Ireland and that is certainly not because Germany is a low-cost, low wage economy with less hygiene and health and saftey demands than Ireland, but Ireland is an STB* country. You get fcuked for rates, insurance and tax to an extend that you simply wouldn't see anywhere else.
    Anyhwere else a tax is "we have to regulate the market and make sure the government gets a fair cut" in Ireland it's "Ah jaysis, you want to make some money, we'll soon see about that, bend over that barrel please and bite down on that, sorry, there is no lube".
    At least for small to medium businesses resident and originating in Ireland. It's like the government wants to destroy that entire scene. The philosophy is "tax take is down 20% because businesses are going bankrupt". "Well, the answer is in the question, up tax by 20%!"

    *
    Screw the Bastard (for anything you can get)
    This is because Ireland is a small island with little competition. Remember when we were all "unpatriotic" when we followed Mary Harney's advice and shopped around on the internet? I remember when wood pellet burners had a price rise exactly equivalent to the government grant that was offered at the time. In fact you could import the exact same burner from Italy to Ireland for less money than you could get it from a shop and after deducting the grant. And not just a bit, I think the price was roughly half.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,036 ✭✭✭Wossack


    irish representation is very unauthentic. Those wishing to recreate the real indian experience, need only down half a bottle of dulcolax prior to their meal


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,166 ✭✭✭Are Am Eye


    "It was like living in a foreign country"
    Ian Rush on life in Italy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    I have lived years in Dublin, never had a good pizza here. I think ovens not wood, not hot enough, ingredients not fresh enough and too much

    I've been to Italy a number of times recently and Naples or in Neopolitan restaurants were the only places where the pizza was really nice. In most restaurants the pizza was fairly mediocre and the same as you'd get here.


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    blackdog2 wrote: »
    Never been a big fan of M&L, for some reason it seems to get rave reviews in the media all the time but every meal I have had there has been absolutely average, from dumplings to saucy concoctions. That said, their mouth-watering chicken (no idea what the actual english name is) is the best in Dublin.

    Lee Kee on parnell street is the best authentic Chinese restaurant I've tried in Dublin, as good as most restaurants that I have tried here really.

    Still no decent beef curry for me :(

    I agree about M&L. I want to like it but it just doesn't do it for me.

    It's a mystery why you can't get decent chinese food in Dublin, you can get good chinese in Manchester or London so it's not as if it isn't possible.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,702 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    The best places IMO for Chinese food in Dublin are hailan on Capel Street and M&L just opposite the spire. www.mlchineserestaurant.com/
    Both do proper Chinese food.

    Capel street has a few restaurants that do hotpots as well. There are also some Korean restaurants here that are ok too.

    +1 on ML, very good food in there
    cant get enough Indian Food

    Chinese is just bland slop

    Try Pickle on Camden Street, food there is out of this world. You need to book a
    table around 2 weeks in advance if you want to eat on a Friday or Saturday, it is that popular. Early bird menu is a bargain at 21 quid for starter and main. Chef there used to run Ananda in Dundrum Shopping Centre and has won stacks of awards for his northern Indian cooking, it is a real treat.

    As for the poster whinging about Da Mimimos well their pizzas are huge and would easily feed two people so 12-21 quid is actually very reasonable. I used to get them until I discovered their beef shin ragu with tagiatelle which is just divine and only 12 quid. I find the prices in Da Mimimos very reasonable and it is always packed with tons of people dropping in for takeaways. He could easily put up his prices and it would still be packed, the food there is just that good. It is proper authentic Italian using high quality ingredients, it reminds me of the superb meals I had in Tuscany last year


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Mimmos doesn't have any €21 pizza's think their highest is €15. I haven't been since they opened the other building next door which is awhile now but I've heard the mains are amazing these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Was in one of those all in one take away places that have a half Chinese and half Thai menu. As I was waiting I seen the guy in the kitchen take a carton of milk from the fridge and pour some into a wok. I had just ordered a Green Thai curry and so I went up the girl on the counter and asked her was milk being used to make Thai curries and she said, 'Yes, coconut milk'. I asked her to check as I have severe allergic reaction to cow's milk (not true, but thought it would be the only way I'd get the truth). She goes to the kitchen comes back and says 'Yes, a little cows milk added to the coconut milk, sorry',

    Bastards were steaming off milk in the wok rather than using Coconut milk.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    If that goes beyond the szechuan sauce dishes we see on menus in Chinese restaurants / takeaways then I've never tried it (but would like to) and would love a recommendation. If it refers to the aforementioned szechuan sauce dishes then no, it's not. I do enjoy a nice chicken or duck szechuan but spicy it ain't.

    ETA: In my opinion of course.

    Just to hark back to this for a moment,the sweet, slightly spicy and very gloopy sauce that you get when you order Szechuan Whatever in a take away is basically an invention for the irish market, it's nothing like actual szechuan food.

    Get yourself a jar of laoganma chili crisp from the asian supermarket and bung some into some pan-fried noodles or fried rice and you've got yourself a tasty meal going :)

    (Black bean laoganma makes THE most excellent beef stirfry too - so so good...)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭kingtut


    Was in one of those all in one take away places that have a half Chinese and half Thai menu. As I was waiting I seen the guy in the kitchen take a carton of milk from the fridge and pour some into a wok. I had just ordered a Green Thai curry and so I went up the girl on the counter and asked her was milk being used to make Thai curries and she said, 'Yes, coconut milk'. I asked her to check as I have severe allergic reaction to cow's milk (not true, but thought it would be the only way I'd get the truth). She goes to the kitchen comes back and says 'Yes, a little cows milk added to the coconut milk, sorry',

    Bastards were steaming off milk in the wok rather than using Coconut milk.

    A lot of chinese places uses surimi (crab sticks) instead of crab in the crabmeat soup also which pisses me off as surimi is as cheap as chips!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Wossack wrote: »
    irish representation is very unauthentic. Those wishing to recreate the real indian experience, need only down half a bottle of dulcolax prior to their meal

    I spent 2 months in India, the good Indian dishes are basically a British twist to it, food in India is very different unless you go to the western Indian restaurant s


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I spent 2 months in India, the good Indian dishes are basically a British twist to it, food in India is very different unless you go to the western Indian restaurant s

    I don't think that's what he meant. ;):D

    cough link cough


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I'm also very fond of the Spanish omelette.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,576 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    If that goes beyond the szechuan sauce dishes we see on menus in Chinese restaurants / takeaways then I've never tried it (but would like to) and would love a recommendation. If it refers to the aforementioned szechuan sauce dishes then no, it's not. I do enjoy a nice chicken or duck szechuan but spicy it ain't.

    ETA: In my opinion of course.

    If you've not tried twice cooked pork it's delicious and fairly easy and cheap to make. There are many variations but this one doesn't need too many exotic ingredints that you'll never use again.
    http://thewoksoflife.com/2014/11/twice-cooked-pork/

    I haven't tried it in a restaurant in Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Doctor Nick


    If you've not tried twice cooked pork it's delicious and fairly easy and cheap to make. There are many variations but this one doesn't need too many exotic ingredints that you'll never use again.
    http://thewoksoflife.com/2014/11/twice-cooked-pork/

    I haven't tried it in a restaurant in Ireland.

    That sounds beautiful, thanks. I'll definitely have to attempt it or see if I can find it in town somewhere. Parnell Street may have it. Most if not all of the Chinese restaurants there do be full of Asian people. Pretty sure there's one with schezuan in the title too. If I find it I'll be sure to post back for anyone who might be interested.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Is everyone here from Dublin? :pac:

    Some good international food in Cork. Lovely Thai restaurant in Douglas called Golden Elephant. Iyers is a great South Indian veggie cafe/restaurant.

    I really want to try Miyazaki which is a Japanese takeaway/small restaurant. Suppose to be amazing. There is also a Spanish place on Douglas Street that is supposed to be great. Not a fan of Chinese food.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,308 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I'm from Co. Clare


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    branie2 wrote: »
    I'm from Co. Clare

    Ya poor fecker...
    Robsweezie wrote: »
    italian..obviously a lot more to it than just pizza and pasta but thats what id go for, the restaurant stuff is not bad at all...takeaway is good for what it is.

    You summed up Italian restaurants, pizza and pasta :P
    nkav86 wrote: »
    You're joking right?? It's a pizza, bread with sauce and toppings.....

    Don't operate a business, you will never make a profit. There's a lot more to consider which effect the cost.
    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Maybe I will, 21euro in Italy I'd be expecting truffle on it.

    You can make great pizza at home for about a euro. A fool and his money and all that jazz!

    Please explain this miracle 1 euro pizza.

    Our international cuisine is grand. It nothing like what you would get in the original country, but it's very nice, and we have tons of variety too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,388 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    Maybe I will, 21euro in Italy I'd be expecting truffle on it.

    You can make great pizza at home for about a euro. A fool and his money and all that jazz!

    :pac::pac:

    Aye right, says a man/woman that's never made pizza or else never done the shopping.

    Quality flour, say enough to do 10 pizza's probably averages about 50c per pizza.
    Yeast, can't remember what a pack was but guessing about 30c
    Passatta or your sauce 47c
    Mozzerella, even cheap €2
    assorted meats €2
    Veg €1
    All the spices and herbs you should already have, but say you use a little from each of them 20c
    Cost of running the oven for 20 minutes (pure guess) 30c

    So to make a really top quality Pizza at home you're talking already over €6. Add in the time to make it, allow the dough to rise etc.

    So if going into a really nice little restaurant and paying what looks like a minimal mark up on the raw materials, to allow them to pay staff, overheads and maybe make a little profit then €14/€20 for a decent pizza is nothing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Jayop wrote: »
    :pac::pac:

    Aye right, says a man/woman that's never made pizza or else never done the shopping.

    Quality flour, say enough to do 10 pizza's probably averages about 50c per pizza.
    Yeast, can't remember what a pack was but guessing about 30c
    Passatta or your sauce 47c
    Mozzerella, even cheap €2
    assorted meats €2
    Veg €1
    All the spices and herbs you should already have, but say you use a little from each of them 20c
    Cost of running the oven for 20 minutes (pure guess) 30c

    So to make a really top quality Pizza at home you're talking already over €6. Add in the time to make it, allow the dough to rise etc.

    So if going into a really nice little restaurant and paying what looks like a minimal mark up on the raw materials, to allow them to pay staff, overheads and maybe make a little profit then €14/€20 for a decent pizza is nothing.

    Staff in Ireland are overpaid just like all workers here. Inflation here means prices will keep going up and up and up.

    In Italy and even in the UK prices in restaurants are low because most people are paid lower wages than in Ireland but the standard of living remains more or less the same.

    Simple economics would tell you that higher wages equals inflation but yet our goverment in order to win votes keeps on raising the minimum wage forcing prices of day to basics to skyrocket. If it keeps going it'll be like Scandanivia in no time. Meaning €30 pizzas, €10 pints and €5 Mars bars all because our elected representatives can't grasp the concept of simple economics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Staff in Ireland are overpaid just like all workers here. Inflation here means prices will keep going up and up and up.

    In Italy and even in the UK prices in restaurants are low because most people are paid lower wages than in Ireland but the standard of living remains more or less the same.

    Minimum wage is higher in France and restaurants are a lot cheaper (outside of Paris of course). My Dad lives over there and can't get over the cost of eating out when he visits Ireland.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    Minimum wage is higher in France and restaurants are a lot cheaper (outside of Paris of course). My Dad lives over there and can't get over the cost of eating out when he visits Ireland.

    Well its also probably because eating out is something that is regularly done in France and has been for the last god knows how long. Its something that dates back to Roman times and since the Romans never came to Hibernia eating has only popular here in the last 20 or so years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,281 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Szechuan cuisine is very spicy.

    True Szechuan dishes are extremely tasty and by far my dish of choice when I go to a good Chinese restaurant/takeaway.

    However, many Chinese restaurants (especially the fancier ones surprisingly) tend to treat a Szechuan dish as an extension of a Satay dish, and they can be extremely disappointing.

    Also, what's up with the sweeter than spicy spice bags?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭Academic


    jonnycivic wrote: »
    Ah you just havent tried some of the hidden gems that do pizza so ;)

    [...]

    Real Naples-style pizza has very strict requirement. Among other things you need an oven capable of 905 degrees F. I've never found anything like a real Neapolitan pie in Dublin. If you know of a place please share.

    See:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_pizza


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,388 ✭✭✭✭Jayop


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Well its also probably because eating out is something that is regularly done in France and has been for the last god knows how long. Its something that dates back to Roman times and since the Romans never came to Hibernia eating has only popular here in the last 20 or so years.

    Or maybe it's that you're looking very narrowly at the cost of doing business. In Ireland staffing is just one of a huge list of reasons why prices are high and they're one of the last things I'd blame.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    They range from about €14 to €20, yes.

    If that's too rich for your blood you could get a frozen job from Aldi or try McDonalds down the road.

    Do people seriously expect to eat out well in Dublin 2017 for a tenner or something?

    In 2010 I paid 4.50 for a pizza in a small, simple restaurant in Gent, Belgium.

    So, yes, I do expect pizza to be 10.00 in Dublin.

    It often isn't, but it should be,


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    Staff in Ireland are overpaid just like all workers here. Inflation here means prices will keep going up and up and up.

    No.

    Our min wage is very close to the German min wage.

    Pizza is from 9.50 in a restaurant in central Berlin.

    http://www.marinelli-berlin.de/speisekarte

    Non-wage costs are too high here.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,898 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    Well, what is crazy is the costs associated with running a business in Ireland.
    Eating out in Germany is generally a lot cheaper than Ireland and that is certainly not because Germany is a low-cost, low wage economy with less hygiene and health and saftey demands than Ireland, but Ireland is an STB* country. You get fcuked for rates, insurance and tax to an extend that you simply wouldn't see anywhere else.
    Anyhwere else a tax is "we have to regulate the market and make sure the government gets a fair cut" in Ireland it's "Ah jaysis, you want to make some money, we'll soon see about that, bend over that barrel please and bite down on that, sorry, there is no lube".
    At least for small to medium businesses resident and originating in Ireland. It's like the government wants to destroy that entire scene. The philosophy is "tax take is down 20% because businesses are going bankrupt". "Well, the answer is in the question, up tax by 20%!"

    *
    Screw the Bastard (for anything you can get)
    This is because Ireland is a small island with little competition. Remember when we were all "unpatriotic" when we followed Mary Harney's advice and shopped around on the internet? I remember when wood pellet burners had a price rise exactly equivalent to the government grant that was offered at the time. In fact you could import the exact same burner from Italy to Ireland for less money than you could get it from a shop and after deducting the grant. And not just a bit, I think the price was roughly half.

    Note that taxes are way higher in Germany than here.

    The high prices here are due to other reasons.

    One of which you mention, massive gross profit margins here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭flaneur


    Is there any good Chinese restaurant in Ireland??

    I’ve yet to find one.

    What we are being served up as Chinese food is very unrepresentative of good Chinese cuisine.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,941 ✭✭✭✭Realt Dearg Sec


    flaneur wrote: »
    Is there any good Chinese restaurant in Ireland??

    I’ve yet to find one.

    What we are being served up as Chinese food is very unrepresentative of good Chinese cuisine.
    There is, or at least was, a great Szechuan place on cathedral street off o Connell street. Don't get the Irish menu, and don't let them tell you the broth will be too spicy. We went there and got huge heaping plates of raw meat and seafood to dip in the broth at our own pace and it was one of the best meals I ever had in Ireland.


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    flaneur wrote: »
    Is there any good Chinese restaurant in Ireland??

    I’ve yet to find one.

    What we are being served up as Chinese food is very unrepresentative of good Chinese cuisine.

    Lee Kee on Parnell St is decent


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    flaneur wrote: »
    Is there any good Chinese restaurant in Ireland??

    I’ve yet to find one.

    What we are being served up as Chinese food is very unrepresentative of good Chinese cuisine.

    China Sichuan in Sandyford is very nice, though quite pricey.


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