Paddy O'Dors
Striker
In India itself they don’t recognise many of the names we have for curries over here.
I’ve been to 4 different places in India and yet to have anything I would consider really spicy despite asking for it to be hot. One lad I worked with in Chennai (madras) took up the challenge and got his chef to make me some spicy food at home and brought it in. At lunchtime loads of people came to watch me eat it expecting me to combust. It was no more than a jalfrezi over here, but I hammed it up for him as he’d gone to the trouble
I must say though that the food in India is so delicious that is has put me off the stuff over here, which is mainly Bangladeshi, so much so that if we have an Indian take away I’ll get my grub from the Chinese*
* yes I do see the irony but haven’t been to China yet
Some of the stuff in Sri Lanka was fairly hot. Vegetable curry for breakfast got a bit tedious though. Was clamming for a bacon sarnie.