Bollywood

[Chaos]

Tripe:

I actually have noticed that it is VERY hard to find good Indian food on this side of the pond, regardless of where you are (even in the big cities like  Toronto, LA, New York, etc.) - we just can't seem to get it right over here.

I eventually had to resort to making it myself. I'm a bit of a spice aficionado, so I love experimenting with all of the different flavours until I get it just right. I do the same with Chinese, Japanese, African, Mexican, Cajun... I'd be glad to share a few of my Indian recipes with you, if you're jonesing for a good fix.

[Tripe]

Chaos, thanks and feel free. I do cook a few Indian things (I make a great Vindaloo ) but it's the restaurant experience that's lacking; there are a few nice ones but they're of the incredibly high price variety. So the sort of everyday eating out or taking away that would, in England have been mostly involved Indian food has been jerry rigged with Thai instead (which I never really ate back in Stratford because there it's Thai that's the pricey exotic cuisine, or at least was when i was living there).

I'm with you on spices, i love all sorts of spicy cuisines. If it weren't for the high failure rate of restaurants I would open a fusion restaurant. I'd serve Crasian food (a mash up of Creole and Asian).

[Chaos]

Chaos, thanks and feel free. I do cook a few Indian things (I make a great Vindaloo ) but it's the restaurant experience that's lacking; there are a few nice ones but they're of the incredibly high price variety. So the sort of everyday eating out or taking away that would, in England have been mostly involved Indian food has been jerry rigged with Thai instead (which I never really ate back in Stratford because there it's Thai that's the pricey exotic cuisine, or at least was when i was living there).

I'm with you on spices, i love all sorts of spicy cuisines. If it weren't for the high failure rate of restaurants I would open a fusion restaurant. I'd serve Crasian food (a mash up of Creole and Asian).

I hear ya.

Where I live, out in the stalks (it's like the sticks, but we're a legume-based economy), we don't actually have any good restaurants at all... just some local crappy Fish & Chip places. In Halifax, the exotic food is (believe it or not) Mexican - there are only 2 restaurants in town, one of them a very high priced "trendy" tex-mex style restaurant, and the other a tiny, grotty looking hole in the wall with fantastic authentic food made by a guy and his Spanish wife. There ARE a few indian places, but they either suck, or cost $20+ for a plate of only-sort-of-sucky curry.

I will go ahead and send you a couple of my recipes though, as soon as I get my normal computer back. I've got a faboo Butter Chicken, a really tasty mild curried side-vegetable dish, a nice spicy rogan josh, and my current favourite is a dry-baked yogourt beef. I have some other stuff too, but none of it is written down. Lately I've been working on perfecting gumbo, so haven't had time to write down any of my "staple" dishes that I make all the time, since I just know how to make those off the top of my head.

[Tripe]

Cool, I'll send you my gumbo recipe in return.

[gbeenie]

I must just be lucky. Here in Metro Atlanta, there's a large Indian community, and many excellent restaurants.

[Tripe]

Yeah there's a lot of Desis down in Atlanta right?

[Sharktopus]

I never get tired of seeing Dave get obviously flustered when beautiful women have half a brain.

[Junkyard]

It's why he tends to avoid having that kinda woman on the show.

[Hebs]

Worcester has a very diverse community, which makes for some really great food, like this place:

http://www.bollywoodgrill.com

*drooling*   gaaahh....

[Tripe]

Worcester has a very diverse community, which makes for some really great food, like this place:

http://www.bollywoodgrill.com

*drooling*   gaaahh....

Sounds lovely, incidentally Mr India is available from Netflix.

[ChrisHanel]

You live in Worcester? I was a guest at a convention there a couple years back and fell in love with the town.

[Hebs]

You live in Worcester? I was a guest at a convention there a couple years back and fell in love with the town.

Really? Are you sure you're thinking of the right country?  What convention?

Worcester is a great place, and Andy and I find more and more things to like about it.  Besides the fact that Warner Oland lived near us - well, before we were born, but still

[ChrisHanel]

It was a convention called Fanzillacon, it was a smaller event held for amateur filmmakers, mostly of the fanfilm persuasion. Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galctica) was the headlining guest, and he was supposed to pick a "Best in Show" for the convention, and never did. Very nice guy, but you definitely got the sense he was trapped a bit in the past.

I was a guest there to show off my film and co-host a few panels, as well as our MST3k-esque barbeque of Tron, which was a huge hit. (We're in the process of rewriting it for usage on Geekza.)

In any case, I snuck out a couple times to walk around town and was not disappointed. Definitely want to go back sometime, but as of now I have zero excuse, as I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell there will ever be another Fanzillacon. The organizers were passionate, the sponsors less so.

-Chris

[Tripe]

Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galctica) was the headlining guest, and he was supposed to pick a "Best in Show" for the convention, and never did. Very nice guy, but you definitely got the sense he was trapped a bit in the past.

He is a nice guy, I had an e-mail correspondence with him a couple of years ago (just a few based on a sequel to BG he'd made,) and he's very polite .

[ChrisHanel]

Yeah, he came over to my apartment at one point to record a commercial for the convention. That was awesome, if surreal.

We both flew into Logan at the same time for the convention and the staff picked us up in the same van. The conversation during that drive was probably the most philisophical discussion I've had, and I had it with Richard Hatch.