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Why are Indian takeaway food so expensive in Ireland?

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  • #52
    tecknika
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭tecknika


    Wang King wrote: »
    Chances are if you're ordering an Indian, it's actually Bangladeshi or Pakistani chefs, very few true Indian restaurants around in the sticks,

    Yes Bengali's tend to run the restaurant game but you know what i meant.


  • #53
    Shemale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭Shemale


    tecknika wrote: »
    Anyone who has eaten Tofu and chicken knows well that they don't and also Chicken is as cheap as Tofu if not cheaper. Say argument for the Cats and Dogs racists...they don't do it. If any went to the effort to kill a local dog which I find hard to believe then the likely reason would be for a delicacy for themselves and give the dumb public the cheap auld chicken.

    Well you must go to some Michelin Star chinese as the "chicken" in my local places doesn't look like chick breast, taste like chicken breast and doesn't appear to have any fibres through the "meat".


  • #54
    tecknika
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭tecknika


    Shemale wrote: »
    Well you must go to some Michelin Star chinese as the "chicken" in my local places doesn't look like chick breast, taste like chicken breast and doesn't appear to have any fibres through the "meat".

    It is boiled in chunks and left to cool....a handful is grabbed and thrown into the wok with what ever glup you order. Pretty much all do it this way. I have lost count how many chinese chefs I know and non would eat the chinese food we do. I have also been told countless times if they did proper chinese food it would not sell, we want Chicken balls, MSG and Glup it seems.


  • #55
    Vincent Vega
    Registered Users Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    Links234 wrote: »
    because most often, we dont have Indian takeaways, we have Indian restaurants that offer takeaway

    I think this is pretty much it.

    One place did pop up near me that sold indian food at the price of an average chinese takeaway.

    It was less appetising and tasted less authentic than something i could have microwaved for half the price.

    I'd prefer to pay the restaurant prices for the quality of the food alone.


  • #56
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    tecknika wrote: »
    Yes Bengali's tend to run the restaurant game but you know what i meant.

    Didn't read your comment, wasn't aimed at you


  • #57
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    Nee Hi, most of them

    His brother bang wan inn is a fine footballer


  • #58
    cloud493
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    So many nice indian places to eat in Liverpool/Mersyside, I've never found anywhere here thats even half as good :(


  • #59
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    tecknika wrote: »
    It is boiled in chunks and left to cool....a handful is grabbed and thrown into the wok with what ever glup you order. Pretty much all do it this way. I have lost count how many chinese chefs I know and non would eat the chinese food we do. I have also been told countless times if they did proper chinese food it would not sell, we want Chicken balls, MSG and Glup it seems.
    I have eaten a couple of actual chinese dishes from a chinese place in london which catered to chinese people exclusively (menu in Chinese with only a couple of dishes translated into english) and I can tell you, to the average european, they would be classed as inedible. That's why we end up with 3 in 1s and chicken's balls.


  • #60
    tecknika
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭tecknika


    suicide_circus wrote: »
    I have eaten a couple of actual chinese dishes from a chinese place in london which catered to chinese people exclusively (menu in Chinese with only a couple of dishes translated into english) and I can tell you, to the average european, they would be classed as inedible. That's why we end up with 3 in 1s and chicken's balls.

    I liked the food in China


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  • #61
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    tecknika wrote: »
    I liked the food in China

    Ok


  • #62
    Tar.Aldarion
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    eviltwin wrote: »
    Why is it impossible to get a vegetarian Korma here too. Very annoying.:mad:

    You can't really mention choosing not eating meat to the philistines here.
    But any Indian will just cook you a veggie korma when you ask. It's nearly always on the menu anyway


  • #63
    BeerWolf
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    I don't mind going if it's a GOOD restaurant... such as Cinnamon Gardens in Ashbourne, great staff and dining area and high quality food, not the jarred crap you often find in other so called "restaurants" that is pretty often in Chinese takeaways.


    That being said, I do agree that they are very expensive.

    Of a simple dish for €9 here in Ireland you could get that in Asia for €1, and in MUCH bigger portions.


    Alternatively, OP, Supervalus are selling Chicken Tikka Masala, Korma and Jalfrezi for €5 [used to be €4] per tray... and they're just as good as restaurant quality... and pick up a pack of 2 naans for €0.79 ["Pana"] --- nice budgeting for some decent stuff.


  • #64
    The_Captain
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    tecknika wrote: »
    Is there a reason why Indian food in Ireland so expensive here. I have made many trips to Manchester and Liverpool many times and always enjoy going for Indian food, its good value and the prices on an average Restaurant/Take Away are around 1/3 of that of an average suburban Restaurant/take away in Ireland. Is this due to having a small Indian population compared to the UK because the population here has increased a fair bit as has the number of Indian places yet the prices are still really high.

    Demographics mainly I would think.

    There's an awful lot of people of Indian/Pakistani extraction in the UK, so there's going to be far more Indian food available.

    More supply, lower prices; with a much wider scale of quality from top-level food to dirt cheap takeaway curries.

    The only actual Indian takeaway I know of in Ireland is the one on Hanlons corner. Everything else is a sit-down restaurant where you'll pay restaurant prices.
    In somewhere like Liverpool, you have Indian takeaways set up like chippers here.


  • #65
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    I like an Indian feed-up now and then, I do. The local one here is indeed a full restaurant and the takeaway is a little pricey, but not anything like as bad as it was a few years ago. And the food is outstanding.


  • #66
    Egginacup
    Site Banned Posts: 2,922 ✭✭✭Egginacup


    cloud493 wrote: »
    So many nice indian places to eat in Liverpool/Mersyside, I've never found anywhere here thats even half as good :(

    You should go to Rusholme in Manchester. The Curry Mile they call it.


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  • #67
    Robsweezie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    in my local it's 10 euro for chicken tikka masala without rice.sound reasonable to you?

    on average it would cost 20-25 for the stuff I would get. rice, chips, naan bread and maybe an onion bhaji or two, you get two for 4 quid.


  • #68
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,310 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Any of the absolute dirt cheap indians in England I find terrible.
    This place is amazing, here's an example of sit in menu prices in case anyone is wondering:
    http://www.akbars.co.uk/bradford/akbars-bradford-menu


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