Favourite non-pizza take out?

[SkidsFox]

Nando's chicken? Kofte kebab?

A good burrito is hard to beat, but also hard to find...

[foxile5]

It's either a chippy - I started a thread on this a while back - or a Chinese. It entirely depends on my mood.

[SkidsFox]

1 minute ago, foxile5 said:

It's either a chippy - I started a thread on this a while back - or a Chinese. It entirely depends on my mood.

You've got a point with a good Chinese. Or top class fish n chips for that matter.

[Raj]

Turkish food.

Chinese.

 

[MPH]

There’s not many Mexican delivery places is there. There’s time I’m sitting at home and would love a few proper tacos.

[Bordersfox]

Proper Greek/Turkish kebab, shish, kofte whatever.  

 

Or a donner 🤭

[Tuna]

Fish n Chips of course with mushy peas and curry sauce.

[Nalis]

Depends on my mood but generally speaking it goes

 

Indian

Lebanese

Thai

Vietnamese 

Nepalese

 

 

[Bordersfox]

6 minutes ago, foxile5 said:

It's either a chippy - I started a thread on this a while back - or a Chinese. It entirely depends on my mood.

Used to live in a place where a little van would come by every other Friday and they cooked your Chinese in front of you in massive woks.  Best Chinese takeaway I've ever had. 

 

All I've got now is those stodgy, overly sweet type Chinese takeaways sadly. 

 

A lot of it comes down to what you've got locally that's actually worth ordering from. 

[Parafox]

40 minutes ago, SkidsFox said:

Nando's chicken? Kofte kebab?

A good burrito is hard to beat, but also hard to find...

Isn't this a line from a Feargal Sharkey song?

[Unabomber]

Has to be a curry for me. 
 

[bovril]

chinese

[Parafox]

41 minutes ago, Bordersfox said:

Used to live in a place where a little van would come by every other Friday and they cooked your Chinese in front of you in massive woks.  Best Chinese takeaway I've ever had. 

 

All I've got now is those stodgy, overly sweet type Chinese takeaways sadly. 

 

A lot of it comes down to what you've got locally that's actually worth ordering from. 

 

Almost all Chinese T/A's are the same generic menu using the same mass produced ingredients and bottled sauces. Not authentic at all. If they were, you wouldn't want to eat them. Proper Chinese street food (in China) is pretty awful to our English palate. I've been once. So I know from experience albeit, limited.

 

We went to a proper Chinese cafe in Nottingham a few years back. Never again. Pigs stomach was, among other things, inedible.

 

In China they don't do sweet n sour or Kung Po or anything that we would find on a menu in this country.

 

You could look at any Chinese T/A menus in Britain and they'd all be the same.

Edited 14 May 2023 by Parafox

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

Can't beat a Chilean for me

[Voll Blau]

Curry.

[SystonFox]

Curreh, Chippeh, Donnah Keebab

[Bordersfox]

54 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Almost all Chinese T/A's are the same generic menu using the same mass produced ingredients and bottled sauces. Not authentic at all. If they were, you wouldn't want to eat them. Proper Chinese street food (in China) is pretty awful to our English palate. I've been once. So I know from experience albeit, limited.

 

We went to a proper Chinese cafe in Nottingham a few years back. Never again. Pigs stomach was, among other things, inedible.

 

In China they don't do sweet n sour or Kung Po or anything that we would find on a menu in this country.

 

You could look at any Chinese T/A menus in Britain and they'd all be the same.

Oh yeah of course.  I don't fancy cows vagina thanks.  But there's still good Anglo Chinese and bad Anglo Chinese.   Most of it though is pretty bad.

[Countryfox]

Thai chicken penang with some jasmine rice ..  getin !  

[VLC86]

Unfortunately for the waistline I eat absolutely everything.

 

Chinese

kebab

Burger

Curry

Indo Chinese

Grilled chicken 

 

Favourite of all of that is probably indo Chinese, some unreal places in the county for that but a bit of a drive for me.

[Samilktray]

Turkish is king here 

[Milo]

13 hours ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Can't beat a Chilean for me

Where can you get a Chilean takeaway? 
 

I mean, I’m all for it, I just don’t think I’ve ever seen one

[Ashley]

13 hours ago, Voll Blau said:

Curry.

As a take away? 

 

I mean I've had one before but doesn't come close to eating on a restaurant.

[Voll Blau]

2 minutes ago, Ashley said:

As a take away? 

 

I mean I've had one before but doesn't come close to eating on a restaurant.

Fair point, can be a mixed bag but then I've found that to be the case with any takeaway.

[foxfanazer]

Turkish or Chinese. Don't feel quite so unhealthy after a Turkish and love the bread they give you

[Tommy G]

17 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Almost all Chinese T/A's are the same generic menu using the same mass produced ingredients and bottled sauces. Not authentic at all. If they were, you wouldn't want to eat them. Proper Chinese street food (in China) is pretty awful to our English palate. I've been once. So I know from experience albeit, limited.

 

We went to a proper Chinese cafe in Nottingham a few years back. Never again. Pigs stomach was, among other things, inedible.

 

In China they don't do sweet n sour or Kung Po or anything that we would find on a menu in this country.

 

You could look at any Chinese T/A menus in Britain and they'd all be the same.

I've been to China twice unfortunately and the food there is almost unedible unless you have a very exotic taste. First of all it's hard to know what you are getting unless you are fluent in reading Chinese, there isn't an english translation on the menu so you have to rely on whoever you are with to let you know - ''that's beef'' can mean anything from steak through to cows brain or stomach. 

 

One of the regions where our business is, called Chengdu, their traditional dish is the hot pot - in simple terms a big boiling cauldron of beef fat and water in the centre of the table where you dip and cook various meats - think cheese fondue but 100x worse - the meat is effcetively offal and they go mad for it, poached duck tongue is also a delicacy. 

 

Best bet is to stay in a western hotel and fill up at breakfast and spend the rest of the day hungry.