Where in the world did you eat the best curry you've ever tasted?

[flake99please]

2=. Specially cooked breakfast @ Bentota Beach hotel Sri Lanka in 1982 with the kitchen staff peaking out of the kitchen in awe at the westerners who had requested Sri Lankan breakfast

2= Workman's caff, just round the corner from Bentota Beach

+1 Sri Lankan curry & tea is to die for.

Breakfast @ the triton hotel, Ahungalla. Bettered only by the generous offerings of the local fishermen whom I sent most days assisting with their drag nets.

 

[midlife]

Palace or Plaza? (Run by different brothers after a falling out circa 1975)

I could have sworn it was the Palace but Plaza rings a bell........... too many beers before the event

Shaun

 

[Fnaar]

I used to work with loads of Sri Lankans, Malaysians and Mauritians, all of whom regularly produced the most amazing veg curries.

 

[accountantpete]

Basingstoke back in the 80's when the chef knew how to make a proper Phall.

eg Wiki

The Brick Lane Curry House in New York uses ten different kinds of chilies and preparation requires the use of a gas mask to prevent choking

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Unfortunately I've never been to the Indian subcontinent, so my best curry memories are 1. one of those tiny cafes in Bradford in the early 90s - all formica tables and no-concessions-to-English-tastes curries for $2 a dish; and 2. the original Rasa in Stoke Newington, which is round the corner from where my sister used to live; and 3. an amazing 'jungle curry' made by two Thai sisters in Whitley Bay. Unfortunately their restaurant didn't last long because it was a little too authentic. Last I head they were working in a not-anywhere-near-as-good local Indian place...

 

[User482]

3. an amazing 'jungle curry' made by two Thai sisters in Whitley Bay. Unfortunately their restaurant didn't last long because it was a little too authentic. Last I head they were working in a not-anywhere-near-as-good local Indian place...

The squat toilet didn't prove to be popular, then?

 

[s7ephanie]

not the best, but the first. was in a restarant at London Bridge (many many years ago) the waiter said 'do you want it hot?' i replied 'of course i want it hot'!!! ie hot NOT COLD!!! i ended up passed out in the ladies !!!!! was years before i tried curry again !!!

 

[Moodyman]

A truckers roadside cafe off the Grand Trunk road (Pakistan) at 4am. This was in the late 90s.

There was nothing special about the curry - chick peas, but it was at the end of a long day's (and night) travel and we were starving. It was the most enjoyable curry I've ever had.

Having a South Asian background and coming from Bradford I've eaten better curries, but that meal at the roadside was special.

 

[PK99]

I could have sworn it was the Palace but Plaza rings a bell........... too many beers before the event

Shaun

There were two. the Plaza was the original but the brothers fell out and one opened the Palace just off the Curry Mile.

 

[Julia9054]

Any little cafe in Bradford back in the late 80's. My husband used to teach many of the restauranteur's children - sometimes they would not let us pay.
Fast forward to today, Mumtaz in Bradford is really good. A lot posher than it used to be though!

 

[Dec66]

Loads of posts to read, which I will in a mo, but the best curry I had was served to me outside a place in the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia.

A whole range of dishes, all served in individual little portions on a banana tree leaf, all absolutely delicious, all for 6 Ringit (just over a quid at the time, early 2000).

 

[Kajjal]

Jaipur resturant in Dublin, unlike most place each dish tastes very different and the food is very good quality.

 

[arranandy]

Had a couple of cracking curries when I was working in Singapore last year. As for in Scotland the Nazma in Aberdeen and the Bombay Cottage in Hamilton take a lot of beating

 

[GM]

Just had a mega curry in Tayyabs, Whitechapel. Very nice!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

A Sikh friend took me to a pub in Coventry that did the most amazing kebabs and then to a Sikh working men's club where they just had whatever curry they were cooking that day. Don't know what it was but it was delicious.

Also a Gentleman's Curry Club somewhere in North London where I had the rather unusual pelican curry. It was ok but the bill was massive.