i like it SPICY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[teashoci]

Originally Posted by Lithgae

to me, madras is for amateurs... if i want a really painfully hot curry, i go for a PHALL!!
But i normally stick to a madras just because they use a lot of cumin in those, and that's my favourite spice.

arent phals hotter than vidaloos , can you get chicken tikka styles of phals?

[aNonnyMoose]

Phaals make vindaloo look on the low end of the scale. I remember many years ago, when Indian restaurants were still few and far between, a group of us went into my local one with a friend who had travelled fairly extensively in the Far East. We ordered our usual, but he asked the waiter if the chef could make him a phaal. The waiter headed off, then came back and said it wouldn't be a problem. Drinks arrived, then starters, then the meal itself... we sat back in amazement as our friend started chucking it down his neck like he hadn't seen food in weeks - (only 2 of us had dared to try just a taste and that was enough - and I quite like vindaloo) and then I noticed the waiters were gathered in one corner by the kitchen door. The chef was staring out, looking at my friend and shaking his head in disbelief.

When he finished, the chef came over and shook his hand, as he said he had initially thought it was someone just taking the piss. He'd made it extra hot just to teach my friend a lesson, and couldn't believe he'd finished it. They gave him his meal 'on the house' and brought us all a free round of drinks!

That would have been around 1974-5, to my best recollection. A wee while back...

[teashoci]

sounds like a good day out nonny.