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    Chinese or Indian? (Sponsored by DQuincy)

    Shove yer Italian up yer hole.

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    It really depends on the quality of your local. China gets my vote because I think a shit Chinese is far more edible and less damaging than a shit Indian.

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    Indian is much, much better. Even the good Chinese is not all that.

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    Indian. Hotter curries, innit?

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    Chinese but I love both.

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    I much prefer Indian.

    Preferably cheap and cheerful too where it's quantity over quality. Naan bread from a proper Indian is so good.

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    Indian every time.

    Great Indian >>> great Chinese.

    Average Indian >>>>> average Chinese.

    Shit Indian >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> shit Chinese.

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    Indian by a wide margin.

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    Indian by a mile.

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    Chinese but they're both very close.

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    I'd take Indian overall, but I'd take a spice bag from the Chinese as an individual dish over anything from either.

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    Indian but I'd take Thai over both.

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    Indian but the sides with Chinese are better. Prawn toast

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    This is properly hard. Crispy duck, with pancakes and Hoisin sauce is a top 10 food. BUT it has to come down to mains and ultimately a good Madras beats the shit out of Crispy Beef.

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    Fuck that. Mushroom Pakora, Poppadoms, Lime Pickle (not all together lol) > *

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    I live so close to a few Chinese's that they stopped being special. I don't get an Indian very often, so enjoy it much more when I do.

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    The red sauce they do with poppadums is amazing. Why can’t you buy it in shops?

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    The issue with Chinese is that everyone likes the shit stuff. Hoisin sauce? Sweet and Sour? Fuck off. Black bean is where it's at.

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    Say another word about Hoisin sauce and I will give Harold my account.

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    Hoisin is the greatest sauce in the world you tube.

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    Most of what they can offer me is of no interest, but I can get with the duck and other tortured meats that the Chinese specialise in (I don't like spicy stuff, so with the Indians I'm just left with rubbish chicken in rubbish), so them out of the two.

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    Indian.

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    Indian by a mile.

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    Of course Lewis doesn't like spicy food.

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    I imagine him with leather elbow patches grafted onto his skin.

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    I got a load of grief about this the other week off a Greek woman. You have to build a tolerance! Yeah, and how many wasted meals I'm I going to sweat through doing that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    I got a load of grief about this the other week off a Greek woman. You have to build a tolerance! Yeah, and how many wasted meals I'm I going to sweat through doing that?
    I love spicy food but you don't have to do anything except eat what you enjoy yourself. I hope she got a full and hearty fuck off.

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    You can to some extent but you can't train yourself to like it, brainwash maybe. Spice wankers like to tell you it's all about conditioning and tolerance but that's because otherwise they'd have to admit it was just a genetic lottery and they're massive dickheads.

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    Greeks generally don't have a clue when it comes to spicy food. Put a Jalapeno in their food and it'll blow their face off.

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    That's quite interesting because in Cyprus they're fiends for chilli.

    A lot of people grow their own and they're always crazy hot.

    Probably get it from the Turks.

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    I like Spicy food, but anything above a Madras is just hot for the sake of it. Usually at the expense of flavour. I’ve also had a Korma on occasion, they taste about as authentic as the omelet does, but it’s good shit. Come at me.

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    I love both but I could happily eat Indian food every single day, whereas Chinese is something I only fancy every so often.

    re: spicy food, I think it depends on how much of a fanny you're being. I know a guy who hasn't had anything remotely spicy to eat since he was about 12, and he's never eaten a curry other than a korma, which I think is just a bit weird. he says he just doesn't like spicy food but I don't buy it because i'm not sure how he could actually know. he "doesn't like hot drinks" either, while similarly not drinking a cup of tea since he was about 7.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I like Spicy food, but anything above a Madras is just hot for the sake of it. Usually at the expense of flavour. I’ve also had a Korma on occasion, they taste about as authentic as the omelet does, but it’s good shit. Come at me.
    I love a korma now and then, they're delicious.

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    Yeah korma and passanda are both gorgeous. Wouldn't be bothered with the hot tomatoey ones all the time.

    Tried a shahjahan a couple of weeks ago for the first time too and it was excellent and another very mild one.

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    This is such a hard question. Probably Indian. My top 5 (ethnic) cuisines though are

    1) French
    2) Korean
    3) Mexican
    4) Italian
    5) Greek

    and then Indian, Ethiopian, Chinese. Don't really like Japanese (sushi and ramen are meh) and Thai is so boring.

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    I have said a few times and always get told I’m wrong, but Thai is bland and watery shite.

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    If the Thai your having is bland then it's shit Thai.

    I've made a few things from here https://www.eatingthaifood.com/ and they were absolutely delicious, although I used about a fifth of the amount of chillies for the green curry paste and it was still sweltering. I've since learned that Thai people eat stuff ridiculously spicy.

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    @Spikey M

    Absolutely nailed.

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    I’d go Indian over Chinese. And the spicier the food the better. Cuisine wise I don’t think anything can beat Italian for diversity. All cuisines have decent dishes though, so it’s hard to rank them. I’m maybe a tad surprised for the lack of love shown for North African cuisine as it really is the tits.

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    We eat quite a bit of Thai and I dovreally like it, but the if you think its bad you haven’t tried a decent one is the worst argument in the world.

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    What even is French food? Baguettes and cheese?

    Mexican food though. Oh yes.

    No mention of chicken tikka masala is disappointing. Dipping the naan into the excess sauce

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pen View Post
    We eat quite a bit of Thai and I dovreally like it, but the if you think its bad you haven’t tried a decent one is the worst argument in the world.
    I didn't say it wasn't 'bad' since people like different things, I said it wasn't (or at least decent Thai food isn't) bland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foe View Post
    What even is French food? Baguettes and cheese?
    ...really?

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

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    Indian is the king, but Chinese shits on Thai. Lol @ "French" too.

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    Anything in a sauce from an Indian gives me instant shits (ghee, maybe), so I can only have the tikka main or whatever it is. Whereas beef in blackbean sauce is always a winner, on the rare occasion I actually fancy a Chinese. Give me Mexican any day of the week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    I didn't say it wasn't 'bad' since people like different things, I said it wasn't (or at least decent Thai food isn't) bland.
    Read bland for bad. I agree. It can be many things, but bland it aint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    I love both but I could happily eat Indian food every single day, whereas Chinese is something I only fancy every so often.

    re: spicy food, I think it depends on how much of a fanny you're being. I know a guy who hasn't had anything remotely spicy to eat since he was about 12, and he's never eaten a curry other than a korma, which I think is just a bit weird. he says he just doesn't like spicy food but I don't buy it because i'm not sure how he could actually know. he "doesn't like hot drinks" either, while similarly not drinking a cup of tea since he was about 7.
    Does he eat ketchup with everything too? And not like vegetables?

    Infantile palates like that are just the sign of people who were over-indulged as children.

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    Korean food is my favourite I think. Vinegar and chilli are good, and they understand this. The notion that you can just juch a poached egg on anything to enhance it is a winner as well.

    I've said this before I think, but Greek cuisine is shit. They have the best ingredients in the world though so you can just chuck vegetables in a bowl and it tastes amazing.

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    After a bit of a think, my top five at the moment are:

    Italian, Korean, Russian, Bosnian and English. I ate a ton of really nice sea food dishes in Croatia during the summer, but it's a bit how Dino put it about Greek cuisine.It's quite hard to fuck it it up when the ingredients are so good.

    French cuisine is probably the worst there is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dino View Post
    Korean food is my favourite I think. Vinegar and chilli are good, and they understand this. The notion that you can just juch a poached egg on anything to enhance it is a winner as well.

    I've said this before I think, but Greek cuisine is shit. They have the best ingredients in the world though so you can just chuck vegetables in a bowl and it tastes amazing.
    Greek food is like Italian food, but made by ethnics.

    I usually hate sweet foods / desserts, but Greek loukoumades is un-fucking-real.

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