Mahow's all new, all new, all new food thread

[randomlegend]

Honestly I think that improves it in my head. I absolutely wouldn’t, but I appreciate the passion and interest. Bet it was a cracking experience for you.

Are you even based down that way, or was it a journey too?

To add some flavour to the discussion - do you have a bucket list of posh restaurants across the country you’re working through?

We're in Norfolk. I booked the restaurant for my wife's birthday as it's the place she really, really wanted to go. It happened to fall on the weekend of our anniversary so we stayed down in London for a couple of nights and made a joint celebration of it.

The place in the UK I'd most like to go is L'Enclume. Second would be The Fat Duck. Ynyshir also appeals to me but my wife's pescatarian so that one isn't happening. There's loads of other places I'd like to go but those are the really special ones I've got my eye on at the moment.

Further afield, I'd love to go to one of the top places in Copenhagen (Noma or Geranium).

[Shindig]

Doesn't he have an egg carousel as well? The eggy-go-round was probably cheap as chips but damn it if I'm not jealous.

[Foe]

Get some Kendal mint cake when you’re there and send it my way please thanks.

[randomlegend]

Well, apart from the knives and the pepper grinders.

And some sort of boy racer wagon.

Haven't bought a car yet because I haven't saved up the money to.

Obviously I do occasionally buy things other than just going to restaurants. But I tend to obsess over something for a while, spend a fair amount getting what I actually really want once I can afford it, and then I don't spend on that again. The pepper mill I will have probably forever. The three knives I have will last probably 20 years.

[niko_cee]

Doesn't he have an egg carousel as well? The eggy-go-round was probably cheap as chips but damn it if I'm not jealous.

Those little egg rollercoaster things are great. Until you go to someone's house and think it is some sort of rollercoaster for eggs and start one from the top before watching it ramp off the end onto the floor. :cab:

[Adamski]

We're in Norfolk. I booked the restaurant for my wife's birthday as it's the place she really, really wanted to go. It happened to fall on the weekend of our anniversary so we stayed down in London for a couple of nights and made a joint celebration of it.

The place in the UK I'd most like to go is L'Enclume. Second would be The Fat Duck. Ynyshir also appeals to me but my wife's pescatarian so that one isn't happening. There's loads of other places I'd like to go but those are the really special ones I've got my eye on at the moment.

Further afield, I'd love to go to one of the top places in Copenhagen (Noma or Geranium).

I went to L’Enclume in November. Was outstanding.

Cartmel the little village its in was such a great place as well, really made the weekend a brilliant experience.

[randomlegend]

I went to L’Enclume in November. Was outstanding.

Cartmel the little village its in was such a great place as well, really made the weekend a brilliant experience.

I am very jealous.

[Adamski]

We did two nights stay and one night at the restaurant, assume it was a late cancellation as we only booked a few weeks before but it tied in nicely with my wife’s birthday so we just did that plus both our Christmas presents as it wasn’t cheap!

The breakfast in Rogan & Co was pretty sensational as well. Would recommend that for sure. A couple of great little pubs and beer/wine shops as well considering how tiny the village is.

I have photos I’ll try and post at some point if you wanted a look.

[Ben]

Core does look amazing to be fair. Not sure I'd be prepared to spend £700 once wine is factored in because there's plenty of other Michelin accredited restaurants knocking around for a fraction of the price. But that being said, I'm not a sucker for a tasting menu so each to their own I guess.

[Ian]

I did my first tasting menu recently because there was a voucher for it to make the price a bit less lol and while I can confirm I wasn't hungry after I didn't find the whole thing very satisfying even though some.of it was really tasty.

And some of the presentation. Christ.

[randomlegend]

Just to be clear, I'm not wedded to tasting menus every time I go out for dinner.

Two of my favourite places I went last year (Benoli and The Gunton Arms) weren't tasting menu affairs. But at a place like Core or Martin Berasetagui, I like the opportunity to experience a wide range of what such a chef has to offer, which is where tasting menus are great in my opinion.

[phonics]

Gonna get my first ever Morrisons Pizza tomorrow. :cool:

[Dark Soldier]

Missus' birthday today so took her for the best kebab in Manchester

Chicken shwarma, lamb, cheesy fries and garlic mayo:

https://i.ibb.co/v3v0vnd/20230514-144453.jpg

Lamb shwarma with some other stuff I dunno

https://i.ibb.co/GF8hJ7f/20230514-144508.jpg

Greek fries with olives and tatziki in the pic as well.

[Kikó]

Where's the best Kebab in Manchester?

[Dark Soldier]

Where's the best Kebab in Manchester?

Bab in NQ

https://babnq.co.uk/

Just off a side street where they have all the outdoor seating in Spring/Summer. Banging food.

[Giggles]

DS with the goods :drool:

[niko_cee]

I guess it shouldn't surprise me that kebabs have had the burger treatment, but it does and it's a bit saddening.

Although not as saddening as finding out this place permanently closed down.

https://www.allinlondon.co.uk/images/venues/images_all/10481190.jpg

[Kikó]

I'll have to give that one a go next time. I'm still loyal to Abdul's in fallowfield but always time for a decent Kebab.

[Giggles]

You must be half Turkish at this stage considering the amount of them in Germany.

[niko_cee]

What is the crack with 'German Doner Kebab'? I've seen them about so assume it's some sort of chain, but, other than a large Turkish immigrant population, what is special about German Doner Kebab? Some googling suggests they put beef in the elephant leg, is this correct?

[Baz]

There's one near here but I've never had one.

Helpful, I know.

Did eat from somewhere called KG's Street Kitchen yesterday though and it was mega. This kind of thing, taken from their social media, plus two burgers (salt and pepper chicken and minted lamb):

https://scontent-man2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/301849868_109905871841753_8753481622541226917_n.jp g?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=174925&_nc_ohc=r-y8cogzmkoAX9Qwghq&_nc_ht=scontent-man2-1.xx&oh=00_AfCl85nupmIjtN1gw1nHlhnzdY_nUUIdYerbb3CzasK3 FQ&oe=6466AE5D

[phonics]

I had one. It was quite nice for a chain.

[Spikey M]

What is the crack with 'German Doner Kebab'? I've seen them about so assume it's some sort of chain, but, other than a large Turkish immigrant population, what is special about German Doner Kebab? Some googling suggests they put beef in the elephant leg, is this correct?

Yeah, it's beef or chicken. It's just a fast food chain, but doner kebab's instead of burgers for once. They're pretty good if unspectacular. The lahmacun wraps are their best item.

[Kikó]

You must be half Turkish at this stage considering the amount of them in Germany.

Working on it. I did have a lahmacun the other night and it was belting. The main differences in Döner to the UK is the lamb pieces are much smaller and taste less like whatever UK lamb donor is supposed to taste like. Plus the sides are just more part of the dish rather than token lettuce. People actually eat it here sober as well.

[Dark Soldier]

I'll try Abduls in Fallowfield

[Ian]

The lahmacun wraps are their best item.

Correct. The doner spring rolls are a solid little snack too.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I was getting a kebab last night, from the great place in my town, and a load of drunk women came in and ordered, off menu, 'cheese in bread'. What the fuck is happening in this country? Heads not only gone but now fucking grated and melted into a warm pitta at quarter to midnight.

[John Arne]

I was getting a kebab last night, from the great place in my town, and a load of drunk women came in and ordered, off menu, 'cheese in bread'. What the fuck is happening in this country? Heads not only gone but now fucking grated and melted into a warm pitta at quarter to midnight.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaBQmiJq8Io&ab_channel=DavidGreenburg

[phonics]

Correct. The doner spring rolls are a solid little snack too.

This discussion has led me to order one today.

[Ian]

Excellent. Countdown to you calling us bastards for getting your hopes too high in 3.... 2.....

[phonics]

Was fine. Lamacun was lacking in spice.

[Ian]

That's about right. Not the best kebab you'll ever have, but as the doner answer to [insert burger mega chain of choice] it's a solid option.

[Baz]

The lahmacun wraps are their best item.

The Berlin Strasse?

[Baz]

The lahmacun wraps are their best item.

The Berlin Strasse?

[Baz]

This?

https://i.imgur.com/VrF4efI.png

[Ian]

The Berlin Strasse?

Yes. (x2)

[Baz]

Would never have again.

[Lewis]

I was in Plymouth yesterday, and I went to 'Steak & Omelette', whose self-explanatory gimmick ought to be a more common sight because it really works.

[Ian]

Fair play to them if they're getting people to pay £12 for a ham omelette.

[Spikey M]

I struggle with Omelette. I love them for about 5 mouthfuls, then I'm just immediately full up. Pancakes are the only other food with this mysterious power.

[niko_cee]

Steak and eggs is mega, so I'm going to assume that's their gimmick.

[Lofty]

Omelettes are class, top them like pizzas.

[Giggles]

Fair play to them if they're getting people to pay £12 for a ham omelette.

Especially if people notice there's no steak with it.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm not big on eggs but I make a mean sausage omelette.

[niko_cee]

Looking at that menu, I always thought Porterhouse and T-Bone were essentially the same thing.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They are.

Porterhouse just has a bigger filet bit.

[Jimmy Floyd]

One of my weaknesses in life is not really knowing what different steaks are. All I know is fillet = bad and other ones = good.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I'm a ribeye man. All that marbling is amazing.

Filets are for mongs who don't actually like steak.

[Boydy]

+1 for ribeye.

[Spikey M]

2nd. Ribeye is the best of the normal cuts.

Edit: 3rd, apparently.

[randomlegend]

Yes ribeye is awesome.

Fillet of beef has it's place but it's not as a "steak".

[niko_cee]

Fillet is underrated, but rib eye is the obvious king.

Sirloin the dark horse shithouse.

[Disco]

I was in Plymouth yesterday.

My condolences.

[Ian]

Fillet is obviously not the best steak but thinking it's bad is for pretentious wankers who've heard on telly it's bad and have decided that's also their opinion.

[Ben]

I can’t fathom how it would be construed as bad if you like beef. But I’ll eat anything.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's the Dasani of beefs. Why pay more for something so bland.

[phonics]

Whats the big fat one. Not a Medaillon. Pave de Boeuf or whatever? Im a fan.

[Ian]

It's the Dasani of beefs. Why pay more for something so bland.

It's certainly not worth the extra that gets charged for it but no steak is particularly exciting unless you season the fuck out of it.

[Clunge]

Sirloin every time. Scorn all you like, but Lidl's 30-day aged steaks are absolutely excellent, especially if you spend a few mins hunting through them all to find the most marbled ones. Season them simply, fry on both sides for a couple of mins, butter in for a minute or so + garlic and herbs. Rest and voila.

[Lewis]

I had a sirloin with a ham omelette. The chips were sound, and the banoffee pie was top drawer as well.

[randomlegend]

It's certainly not worth the extra that gets charged for it but no steak is particularly exciting unless you season the fuck out of it.

Fat has flavour so fillet is definitely the blandest. It's good as part of a dish where other things make up for the lack of flavour - that's where it's texture shines - but I'd never order one just as a steak.

[Lofty]

Miller and Carter's Banoffee Pie is also excellent, if you are that way inclined.

[Spikey M]

Fillet is great in a Wellington, but that's about it. Anywhere else you want the fat. And a fuck tonne of peppercorn sauce, obvs.

[Jimmy Floyd]

One of the top five meals of my life was a 'Steak fromage' (to rhyme with 'page') in New York, massive fucking thing for about $40, smothered in blue cheese sauce. The taste sensation as you were brutally attacked by the blue cheese before it gradually melted away into the marbled, seasoned steak, my goodness, I'm having palpitations just thinking about it.

Must have skipped breakfast the next day.

[Raoul Duke]

I had a wagyu steak at a Michelin place in Amsterdam for my 40th and it was outrageous. If you ever get the chance to tackle what is basically "peak steak" then give it a try

[niko_cee]

Fillet isn't generally more expensive these days I don't think, maybe slightly by weight, but probably not by edible mass.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I had a wagyu steak at a Michelin place in Amsterdam for my 40th and it was outrageous. If you ever get the chance to tackle what is basically "peak steak" then give it a try

I bought a wagyu steak (Australian because the Japanese ones were double the price) from my butcher last year and it was incredible.

I can't imagine what a Japanese wagyu cooked at a Michelin place would be like.

[phonics]

I'm sure Wagyu meant something at some point but now it's just a buzz word that implies quality but doesn't guarantee it. Like when all the fancy furger places slapped an Angus tag on things.

[randomlegend]

I'm sure Wagyu meant something at some point but now it's just a buzz word that implies quality but doesn't guarantee it. Like when all the fancy furger places slapped an Angus tag on things.

Wagyu comes from specific breeds of cow.

In the UK Japanese Wagyu has protected destination of origin status and there is an assurance scheme for British Wagyu.

[niko_cee]

I bought some olive waygu a while back and I can't recall if I mentioned it in here or not [think I did] but I didn't feel it was worth it.

[Giggles]

Give me a nice bit of roast beef over any steak.

[Dark Soldier]

New place just opened

https://i.ibb.co/qJy47rM/20230603-194627.jpg

[Luca]

randomlegend

Both Pujol and Quintonil were exceptional. I will upload photos in a bit.

Pepe

El Remolkito del Sirloin in Pedregal de San Angel next time you’re back. Thank me later.

[John Arne]

I just a fried soft shell crab bao, and it looked exactly as you would expect it to look. Any it was pretty tasty.

https://gyazo.com/2e28127a2e996016d0a9de7c819b51f8.jpeg

[randomlegend]

randomlegend

Both Pujol and Quintonil were exceptional. I will upload photos in a bit.

Pepe

El Remolkito del Sirloin in Pedregal de San Angel next time you’re back. Thank me later.

Get these photos up lad.

[randomlegend]

Also Luca, if you are in London at some point and can get a table (they often have late night tables at short notice), just get yourself to fucking Core.

Normally when I go somewhere amazing, my mind is "that was brilliant, where next?" but with Core I am genuinely tempted to go back. It was outstanding.

Went to Store at Stoke Mill the other day which was great.

I think I have sold the wife on Ynyshir for next year's big one.

[Luca]

Pujol


https://i.imgur.com/USPr9XG.png
Baby corn, coffee mayonnaise, ant powder

https://i.imgur.com/rTm6pN1.png
Yellow corn masa, tuna belly

https://i.imgur.com/9dttexs.png
Conch snail ceviche, peas, heart of palm juice, esquites

https://i.imgur.com/F01Ckmg.png
Mussels al pastor tostada, pineapple purée, avocado, coriander

https://i.imgur.com/MHheCPV.png
Bluefin tuna, cherry tomato, capers, pearl onion, romeritos

https://i.imgur.com/g6Xuqd3.png
Off-menu prawns with chile sauce (we asked if there was anything off-menu)

https://i.imgur.com/BnRBkpG.png
Beans tamal, salsa martajada, avocado leaves, ocosingo chesse, black truffle (a highlight)

https://i.imgur.com/GJcJQC6.png
Mole madre 3114 days, mole nuevo made with seasonal fruit (not pictured - the tortillas to mop it up)

https://i.imgur.com/JkSPZzr.png
Tamarind nicoatole, guava ice cream, lime - apple cream

https://i.imgur.com/YvZOhRy.png
A blueberry cheesecake they sent because we said we were celebrating

https://i.imgur.com/ibdhdVd.png
Mamey-based petit fours

[Baz]

Off-menu :sick:

[Baz]

Put all that together on a normal sized plate and you’re still hungry. I’d need a takeaway on the way home after that.

[Kikó]

You really aren't. It's deceptive how filling it all adds up to be.

[Jimmy Floyd]

There's a weird category of person who needs to see all their food on one plate instead of consecutively. Went for tapas with my brother and he almost had a full toddler tantrum even though we had way more food than you'd get in a normal main course.

[Ian]

Did he not know what tapas was before he went or something?

[Jimmy Floyd]

He did, but probably hadn't had it for a while so had forgotten that seeing food on several small plates turns him into the incredible hulk.

[niko_cee]

British style tapas [I'll call it that although it isn't unique to us], where everything arrives at the same time in a massive orgy of food, is the worst.

I still have a deep seated antipathy towards anyone photographing their food when out, and as for 'off menu', well . . .

[Baz]

I used to but then I remember I take a photo of, and rate, every pint I have.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I always assume 'off menu' is five day old stuff they haven't bothered to throw away yet. Which in the case of prawns in chile sauce (Paraguay sauce?) doesn't sound the one.

[randomlegend]

Looks :drool: Luca.

We should get our own thread away from these uncultured swine.

[niko_cee]

I pass no judgment on the food, which I'm sure is exceptionally good, and whilst I personally think it's an odd stag do idea, I would agree those sort of things are better experienced as part of a group.

I'm also old and cynical and got over my tasting menu phase 15 years ago.

Taking pictures of pints also obviously worse and frankly borderline deranged.

[Giggles]

As usual nearly all of it sounds horrendous, but this time a lot of it looks it too.

[Lewis]

I spewed at those hands in the first photo and couldn't stomach to look at the food.

[Disco]

At a place where they clearly take care with presentation you'd think less of it would look like it was found on the floor in the woods.

[Pepe]

You can get an incredible meal for like $1 in Mexico. Not sure why anyone bothers with that kind of stuff. None of it looks appetizing to me, but I am sure that it is good. I'll still take the $1 tacos from the stand outside, uncultured swine that I am.

[Luca]

We did both, and they were both enjoyable in their own way. The stand near our AirBnB had banging tacos de moronga.

It was an ‘odd’ stag do by classic standards - we went museum hopping, did a food tour, did tasting menus. But then again we also got blackout drunk and did the LADS boat cruise. It was a good balance.

‘Off menu’ is usually a) stuff they’ve got in as a bonus from the supplier; b) stuff they are trialing for the main menu. This case I think it was b).

I sort of get the antipathy on the photos (especially the cunts standing on chairs with a DSLR), but food is an experience like any other and I one that I like to remember.

[randomlegend]

There is room in this world for both.

[Pepe]

Indeed, and I rather do just one of them. We all spend our money on whatever shit we want, of course.

[Pepe]

My wife says she wants to go.

[Spikey M]

Well in Luca. Treat her well.

[Lofty]

My brother in law just did these on the bbq and fair play they were fucking good:

https://www.meatchurch.com/blogs/recipes/smoked-shotgun-shells

[CJay]

Have some focaccia dough on a second prove after sitting overnight in the fridge. First time doing it; hope it works. It at least seems to have swelled as it should have.

[randomlegend]

Have some focaccia dough on a second prove after sitting overnight in the fridge. First time doing it; hope it works. It at least seems to have swelled as it should have.

Get some pictures up when it's done.

In other news, I made a lemon tart recently. The first pastry case had a crack somewhere and the filling leaked out all over the oven, so I had to remake it. The second time I forgot to put the sugar in the filling so I had to scoop it all out and remake it again (fortunately only the filling as the case survived).

I am patissiere.

[phonics]

Making this tonight.

https://i.imgur.com/aXidSyT.png

[phonics]

Update. They were good. And easyt. Reccomend it.

[randomlegend]

randomlegend

Both Pujol and Quintonil were exceptional. I will upload photos in a bit.

Pepe

El Remolkito del Sirloin in Pedregal de San Angel next time you’re back. Thank me later.

Quintonil just got 9th in the best restaurants in the world list (although since they made it so you can't be on it if you've won it before I think it's a stupid list).

EDIT: Oh Pujol got 13th as well.

[Raoul Duke]

What's the list?

[niko_cee]

the best restaurants in the world list

[randomlegend]

https://www.theworlds50best.com/list/1-50

[Lewis]

How do you split the top - say - fifty restaurants in the world? The entire world.

[Foe]

And decided by who?

I don’t see a single Nando’s in there.

[randomlegend]

How do you split the top - say - fifty restaurants in the world? The entire world.

You can't and I generally think it's a bit wank (the UK entries are always baffling).

[Waffdon]

Didn’t realise Lima was the sort of place to be well represented

[Luca]

Quintonil



https://i.imgur.com/4hw6Xc5.png
Lettuce from Tepotzotlán, anchoiade and hibiscus

https://i.imgur.com/j0fy22h.png
Melon and tomatoes salad, rice horchata and pumpkin seeds

https://i.imgur.com/xbxwx4c.png
Marinated Margarita scallop, aguachile de brassicas with chile chiltepin and wasabi, nori

https://i.imgur.com/0Rc7xNx.png
Taco placero
Charred avocado tartar with escamoles; oyster mushrooms alambre with salsa macha and chintextle de chapulin; vegetables ceviche in smoked cactus leche de tigre; Crottin cheese from Rancho 4 Encinos with pico de gallo and chili oil; chicatana ants homemade chorizo with oats; santanero beans from Oaxaca and confit onions; salsa roja with jumiles and epazote; criollo corn tortillas from Santa María del Llano

https://i.imgur.com/Fm9MgJn.png
Striped bass in adobo de chapulin, grilled green beans, celeriac dressing

https://i.imgur.com/6mVpFxy.png
Aged duck, mole de chichilo negro, charred eggplant

https://i.imgur.com/ux6qxQy.png
Cactus paddle sorbet

https://i.imgur.com/TLQD1hR.png
Crème fraîche, physalis, caviar

https://i.imgur.com/CUGvbGc.png
Mamey fruit panna cotta, pinole crumble, piloncillo reduction and pixtle ice cream

[Foe]

Each to their own, but a hard pass on all of them from me.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'd eat most of that but I dread to think what 'smoked cactus leche de tigre' is.

The cactus paddle sorbet looks rather refreshing.

[Luca]

Just a citrus marinade with a rather eccentric name.

[Disco]

These places should automatically take pictures and email them to you afterwards to avoid the awful tableau seen in picture 4.

[Shindig]

"Oh, I can take a picture of an empty plate with the caption, 'All gone! :) ' That'll impress my three followers."

[niko_cee]

These places should automatically take pictures and email them to you afterwards to avoid the awful tableau seen in picture 4.

They'd have to make sure there were other customers on their phones/taking photos of the food in the background of their photos, for authenticity.

[Manc]

The fella in the blue shirt might have the worst hands going.

[niko_cee]

I say customers, probably more of a patron thing.

[Pepe]

These places should automatically take pictures and email them to you afterwards to avoid the awful tableau seen in picture 4.

Now that I have Luca's pictures I don't have to go anymore.

[Disco]

Confirmation that restaurants with pictures on the menu were ahead of the curve all along.

[Don]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/24/ynyshir-wales-head-chef-gareth-ward-verbal-abuse-diner-claims

Had been a while since I saw a good Onion piece :D

[Giggles]

All sounds pretty standard chef.

[niko_cee]

She should have stabbed him with one of his doubtless pointlessly expensive knives, or those shitty tongs.

Sounds pretty dickhead driven, by dickheads, for dickheads, which I guess you should probably go into with your eyes open.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

"With a DJ “curating” music that cranks up as the night proceeds to a level that one reviewer compared to a “Rotterdam techno dungeon” and atmospheric effects such as birch smoke, dinner takes up to five hours."

Fuck that shit.

[niko_cee]

This is what you get on the back of 20 years plus of telling cooks that they're artists.

They aren't, and every aspect of the culture created by/around these places appears to be rancid, from the slave labour needed to run them, to the elitist nature of it all, and all the wildly misplaced self importance in between.

[Spikey M]

Luca is booking flights as we speak.

[Giggles]

Off Menu is probably a 15 year old Armenian in shackles.

[Manc]

Steady on.

[randomlegend]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/24/ynyshir-wales-head-chef-gareth-ward-verbal-abuse-diner-claims

Had been a while since I saw a good Onion piece :D




I think I have sold the wife on Ynyshir for next year's big one.

:cool:

[Pepe]

:harold:

[Pepe]

This is what you get on the back of 20 years plus of telling cooks that they're artists.

The concept of 'celebrity chefs' is one I do not quite comprehend.

[Lewis]

'What, you think I'm here to cook you a fucking fried egg?'

[Luca]

Luca is booking flights as we speak.

I am tempted, but it would involve going to Wales. Decisions.

[Baz]

Go Smiffys hotel too

[Luca]

randomlegend

Mirazur booked for August.

[randomlegend]

Will be very interested what you think of it.

[niko_cee]

I think I might have had an inclining about the existence of this place (https://www.bemorekaren.com/) from things overheard or some such [probably on the radio], but I have just become more fully aware of its existence and seriously, what the fuck is this? It sounds like one of the worst, most excruciating experiences imaginable.

Rude service is only 'fun' when it's in the Vietnamese Cultural Centre [probably no longer exists] or something where it's not at all put on, but is, in fact, just what the people are like.

Somewhere like Wong Kei (https://chinatown.co.uk/en/restaurant/wong-kei/) would be another example, but apparently no longer reading that. Sad times.

[Lewis]

The example I saw of it ages ago was just the waiters going 'Duh hurry up!', and most of them were fat and/or ugly women, so lol at the rules (https://www.bemorekaren.com/rules) against giving it back to them on easy mode.

[Spikey M]

Yeah, I saw that a while ago. The worst kind of forced fun.

[Shindig]

What good is any of that when the good insults are off the table? What are these cowards going to do when a real kicking off happens?


But in order to maintain a shred of sanitty here

Fucking amateurs. :D

[Spikey M]

My boy decided he wanted a burger for dinner tonight, but we don't have any buns, so he's got some garlic bread slices from the freezer and passed me them.

He has a big future in the food world. Good lad.

[Baz]

Not quite Sama’s crumpets but it’s good.

[Giggles]

At least he didn't take out two big mushrooms and have to be escorted out of the house.

[Luca]

Will be very interested what you think of it.

I thought the food was great, but indeed quite expensive for what it was. Review to follow.

[Ian]

Not quite Sama’s crumpets but it’s good.

Mixing everything from a Chinese takeaway into one amorphous blob on his plate is still the worst of Sama's many food crimes.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He did give us the word "pipe" for Pringles though.

Swings and roundabouts.

[Spikey M]

Mixing everything from a Chinese takeaway into one amorphous blob on his plate is still the worst of Sama's many food crimes.

What was the Pizza one? I remember being disgusted, but the brain-bleach I poured on that particular memory has worked for the most part.

[phonics]

There was something blue on it.

[Ian]

Can't remember the pizza one. Honestly there are so many it's just a case of which ones manage to cling on limpet-like to my brain.

[Baz]

I shall be buying a Subway sandwich on Saturday afternoon with the intent to keep it in my fridge, and then take it on a train on Sunday morning and eat it at about midday.

Considering the sog factor, what is the best possible sandwich to get? Mention bread, main ingredients, salad and sauce.

[Spikey M]

Whatever you get, just ask them to put the sauce between the meat and the salad so it isn't in direct contact with the bread.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Steak with peppers and red onion, on who-cares bread. If you must have a sauce, whatever the tomatoey ones are.

Any of the white/yellow/orange sauces will turn into a fatty mess in the fridge.

[Lewis]

I shall be buying a Subway sandwich on Saturday afternoon with the intent to keep it in my fridge, and then take it on a train on Sunday morning and eat it at about midday.

Considering the sog factor, what is the best possible sandwich to get? Mention bread, main ingredients, salad and sauce.

What's the thought process behind this and not just making/having something else?

[Waffdon]

And is Subway not open on a Sunday?

[Baz]

What's the thought process behind this and not just making/having something else?

Early train to London on Sunday morning. Don’t have time to get anything on Sunday morning, and Subway is substantial enough to absorb copious amounts of £9 cans of Budweiser.

[Waffdon]

Give Tony a call and he’ll sort you out rather then hoping food does the job

[Don]

As Lewis says, get a fucking baguette, filling and cling film/foil and make it in the morning you sick fuck. Subway is doing nothing you can't recreate at home with minimal effort.

[Dark Soldier]

Subway is fucking shite, and I'll eat any old shit.

[Baz]

Minimal effort is something I lack.

[Giggles]

Make tuna and onion sandwiches just to annoy every cunt on the train.

[Spikey M]

With an egg mayo chaser.

[Boydy]

Egg and onion for full smell potential.

[Spikey M]

Morning Baz, what did you get and how shit is it?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Egg and onion for full smell potential.

Yeah, when my dad used to take me to the cricket when I was a kid he used to make us this egg and onion sarnie which must have taken out a couple of the crusty old boys at the Oval each time it was unwrapped.

[Ian]

As well as your appetites one assumes.

[Boydy]

Egg and onion sandwiches are banging, shut up Ian.

[Raoul Duke]

The only acceptable form of egg in a sandwich is a fried egg sarnie

[Spikey M]

Egg and onion sandwiches are banging, shut up Ian.

No.

[-james-]

A good egg mayo is up there with the very best of the sandwich world.

[Baz]

Morning Baz, what did you get and how shit is it?

Not been yet. Getting it this afternoon to eat on Sunday. :baz:

Probably turkey and ham on whatever the crustiest bread is, olives and mayo.

[Giggles]

Put your own mayo on it in the morning.

[Baz]

Put your own mayo on it in the morning.Good plan that.

Might be a bit risky opening and re-wrapping it, but the sog factor makes it a worthwhile endeavour.

One other thing I must consider is it’s going in the same bag as my clothes, so don’t want anything too whiffy.

[Dark Soldier]

Who the fuck eats olives they're scum

[Lewis]

Now that you're adding your own sauces you might as well just make your own sandwich you maniac.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The SOG FACTOR would be negated if you just bought a mini French stick and one of those sandwich filling tubs from a supermarket.

[Spikey M]

Just have breakfast before you leave home and grab something for lunch when you get to London. This is lunatic behaviour.

[Raoul Duke]

There'll probably be a thing on the train that sells food

[Baz]

Half gone already. Was fine.

[Baz]

https://i.imgur.io/JY6hAvL_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

[Spikey M]

dat hairline.

[Waffdon]

https://i.imgur.io/JY6hAvL_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

Couldnt look more like a stereotypical wrestling fan if you tried. Well, a skinny version of such. Love it

[randomlegend]

Is that a personalised wrestling t-shirt?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It is.

[Baz]

Is that a personalised wrestling t-shirt?

I have two. Normal one for travelling and a rainbow one for the event.

[randomlegend]

:cool:

[Lewis]

dat hairline.

Teeth like a cocker spaniel.

[Shindig]

I didn't even clock that. :D

[Don]

Geezers coming out of 5 month lurking marathons to send negative comments, keep doing your thing Baz son, these mans are beyond saving.

[Dquincy]

Geezers coming out of 5 month lurking marathons to send negative comments, keep doing your thing Baz son, these mans are beyond saving.

You're quite right. Apologies Baz, it was a shit joke. I've deleted it.

[Spikey M]

From toplipless to spineless. :nono:

[Lofty]

Sog factor champion.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Never used to be a fan of whole fish but I'm big into it now.

Had tilapia today with roasted beetroot (hated it for most of my life but I was recently converted), tenderstem broccoli, turnips and rice.

Absolutely incredible and so little effort.

[Don]

Fish, beetroot...you begin to move your considerably sized arse and suddenly the body begins to awaken. It's beautiful to witness.

[Lofty]

Blue twisters are shite.

[Dark Soldier]

present to you what the French call cuisine

https://i.ibb.co/Jk9gbVz/20230913-183943.jpg

[Pepe]

Is that cassoulet? :drool:

[Dark Soldier]

Is that what

[randomlegend]

That is baked beans and sausages. And sausages. Mate.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Farm-reared Cumberland pork sausage, served with haricot beans in a fresh plum tomato sauce.

[niko_cee]

:D

Pepe should show that to his wife if he wants to off her.

[Dark Soldier]

Pepe do you want the recipe

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Might be too complicated for him.

[Ben]

Love the extra sausages. :D

[phonics]

I made a quiche then couldnt be bother to make a side and fried up a couple hot dogs and jalapenos and thought I was disgusting. Glad this place exists.

[Shindig]

Hot dogs on pasta.

[Spikey M]

I'm still on a diet so I had chicken breast, broccoli and brussels for dinner. I am stunned to find that my dinner was not the most disappointing in the land, but I'm more astounded to find that there is somehow an arse more toxic than mine right now. Top, top work DS.

[Giggles]

Broccoli and brussels sprouts on the one plate would need such a heavy dose of gravy that you'd near be better with a kebab.

[Spikey M]

I put some sriracha on the chicken and that did the job.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Roasted chicken thighs with cous cous, roast cabbage, roast cauliflower and roast green beans for me tonight.

With some hot sauce on the side.

The cabbage is genuinely top tier, just cut it up chunky then put it in a foil pouch with a touch of butter and some fresh dill.

Also made a soup yesterday for lunch in my rice cooker for the first time. Chicken, bacon, lentils and vegetables (carrots, celery, leek, onion, green beans, cabbage, cavolo nero). Came out really well.

[Boydy]

What type of cabbage and how long are you giving it in the oven?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I've tried it with white and sweetheart, works great with both.

30-35 minutes.

[Ian]

Is that cassoulet? :drool:

:D

[Pepe]

Now that I have access to a device where I can watch the full picture I see the error of my ways. Still, cassoulet looks essentially the same, just replace whatever those little sausage things are with a duck leg.

[Disco]

Just about to order curry for breakfast (sort of), I'm thinking Jalfrezi with some peshwari naan and bhajis, maybe some pakoras or tandoori if I'm feeling extra hungry.

[Raoul Duke]

Just had a Lamb Madras, pilau rice and a garlic naan myself :drool:

[Giggles]

I was meant to get my first one in ages last weekend (mixed tandoori platter for 2 :cool:) but I was guilted into barbecuing because it was sunny :(

[Manc]

Palaak paneer for me. Yum.

[Baz]

Just about to order curry for breakfast (sort of), I'm thinking Jalfrezi with some peshwari naan and bhajis, maybe some pakoras or tandoori if I'm feeling extra hungry.Breakfast?

[phonics]

COnsidering he posted it at 7pm I'm going to take a wild guess at him being in India.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Or he's keeping it as leftovers for tomorrow.

[niko_cee]

Disco?

Does he ever leave the South West?

[Giggles]

Do they even have jalfrezi in India?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I assumed it was all some in-joke or reference which I didn't get.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Do they even have jalfrezi in India?

Yeah, it's an actual Indian dish.

Peshwari Naan is Pakistani though so doubt it's readily available in India.

[Giggles]

I'm definitely going for leftovers. Or eating enough tonight because you won't have time to get anything in the morning.

[Disco]

I work nights so it was the equivalent of 8am for me. It was great (although the pakoras were a bit wobbly), I'm having an ice cream now.

[Lofty]

Dominos doing large pizzas for £7 at the moment.

[Don]

I had a couple of them (BOGOF obvs) recently as it'd been years. Horrendous stuff, I felt like I might enjoy it as there was a period when it did a job but nah, find your nearest proper pizza gaff.

[Baz]

Dominos makes me thirsty for about 24 hours. Worth it though.

[Spikey M]

It's overrated and overpriced. All Takeaway pizza is really. There's nowhere near enough difference in taste or quality between a Dominos and an ASDA pizza to justify the price.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Pizza Hut is opening in my town soon, from which it has been absent since the late 90s. Although I'd rather eat baked sawdust, it feels reassuringly Brexit to see them back, and the faux-American shithead takeaways can do one.

[Don]

Pizza Hut is on my to-do list sponsored by nostalgia. Is the all-you-can-eat salad bar still a thing? :drool:

[Spikey M]

Last time I went to Pizzahut a kid put his mouth over the nozzle of the ice cream machine and another crotch gobbling was grabbing up fist fulls of sweetcorn from the aforementioned salad bar, with his snot covered hands. It's been about 5 years and it'll be atleast another 5 before I go back.

[Don]

Well played, I'd completely overlooked those very real concerns. That's the permanent death of that dream.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The Pizza Hut lunchtime buffet of pizza and pasta used to be tremendous value.

Think they stopped it ages ago though.

Dominos is wank, with Papa John's being the only "acceptable" chain fast food pizza.

[Giggles]

Apache is handily the best one.

[Lewis]

I used to love the Pizza Hut buffet, but they barely have them in towns anymore, and I can't be arsed to go to the local retail park for one. I think they were still only a weekday thing when I last went, where as now they are seven days a week, albeit a bit pricey on a weekend. The last time I went I broke the drink machine pressing the screen too hard, scuttled off, and then watched some kid get a bollocking off his mother because she thought he did it.

[Lofty]

It was an eye opener for me having previously lived the Pizza Hut buffet dream off peak in sleepy Barrow, going to one in the city and seeing the absolute carnage everytime a pizza was brought out.

[Kikó]

I went to a pizza hut in Portugal last time I was there (lack of options rather than first choice) and it was easily the worst pizza I've eaten. Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so expensive.

[Manc]

Stone baked is the only acceptable option in 2023.

[randomlegend]

I know we've been over this ground before, but I still cannot express enough how great an Ooni is.

[Lofty]

Mine is a pain in the arse, is yours the wood pellet one? I suspect it might be pellets that are the problem.

[randomlegend]

Yeah wood pellets. I use these:

https://wildstoves.co.uk/product/premium-wood-pellets-pizza/

If the pellets get damp at all they don't work in my experience. Otherwise not had any trouble.

[Manc]

Sweet chilli jam has become my go to condiment. Works with almost everything.

[Spikey M]

Can confirm. Nectar of the gods.

[niko_cee]

Think I'd prefer an LGBT.

[Kikó]

One for you randomlegend - today's selection https://imgur.com/a/4Z1us6K

https://i.imgur.com/9SEupno.jpg

[randomlegend]

Looks yum.

[Giggles]

Today's selection? It's Christmas day lad.