h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Ah, but I was remarking on the difference, RF.

In Bavaria, all I could find to eat was huge slabs of meat slathered with cream sauce. If I asked for vegetables they looked shocked and assured me it came with vegetables. Yeah, it did. A garnish.

That's not really long ago then. Seems much has changed since I moved to the south. I wouldn't want any lettuce for breakfast, either.

And I despise cabbage, And I don't eat pork often. Seems it's not a place to move back to then.

I have to agree about Indian restaurants. I think we have *one* in Frankfurt (not sure, though).

I've had sauerkraut and sausages and beer in Munich. It were fabulous. My dumbass friend, on the other hand, actually left the place we were drinking in to go to McDonald's.

How do Glasgow curries compare to Bradford & Bingley ones Ben? I've heard Glasgow's the curry capital yadda yadda but I've never eaten (or indeed been) in B/B.

And as for Italian restaurants in Italy, they serve 5 courses; antipasti, pasta, starter, main, dessert. Not necessarily in that order though..

Glasgow's not bad for curry, though you get some interesting fusion food there: lamb chop pakora, or so it was rumoured.

German food has as bad a rep as British food but it all depends where you go, doesn't it?

Pub food is rarely prepared by someone who knows their trade, and if it is, it's expensive and people don't generally want to buy it. But I have to laugh at my - he works for an agency and has actually been sent away by some German companies because he's British. He now carries around an article about just how many Michelin stars are to be found in the respective countries (clue: Germany does not come out ahead of Britain)

Breakfast here (NRW) tends to consist of one or several types of yummy bread or bread rolls, cheese, ham or sausage if you like, and lots and lots of good coffee. There isn't much that can beat a really good meal of fresh bratwurst, mashed potatoes & sauerkraut. Or Düsseldorfersenfrostbraten or venison, red cabbage and knödel.

On the other hand there's not much that can beat fresh fish and chips, or good toad in the hole, or beef wellington.

Oh my, I'm hungry now.

As for Indian food, as far as I remember, isn't there a restaurant in Bradford that is regularly voted best Indian food in the world?

I don't know about that, but there is one which has a banner outside saying it is the "Best Restaurant Outside Leeds 2008".

Ben

The curry we had in Bradford was pretty damn good, but if you find the right resturant anywhere else its not exactly any differnce... but find the wrong one and its not good... but that isn't relaly anything diffeernt from any other kind of takeway or shop or restaurant...
The price was certainly cheaper up in Bradford, but as tins of heinz beans from a tescos store once you start getting 'north' go down in price, that just seems run of the mill for the north south price devide,

I always thought you could identify an American restaurant -- excluding "fast food joints" -- if, on the menu, there's a specialty-of-the-house hamburger, usually named after the restaurant.

Bonobo took me to a lovely curry house near the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. I'm fairly certain it was this one.

http://www.motherindiaglasgow.co.uk/index.php?action=cms.argylest

Was it maybe this one Christopher?
http://www.list.co.uk/place/103073-cafe-salma/

The Dude only eats in restaurants that have pictures of the food following a nasty experience in Tokyo.

My son has just returned from Tokyo with pictures of restaurants - he says the middle-priced restaurants all have wax models of their dishes on display and they are very realistic, so you know exactly what you're ordering AND can point out what you want.

Not sure pedro, the first one looked familiar. Would have to ask Ed.

The Dude, do you only refer to yourself in the third person?

"Bill Bailey would like the eggs of numbing inevitability."

The Dude writes in the third person mainly when the Dude remembers to. The Dude is prone to slippage linked to imbibage.

The Dude long ago decided that the second person wasn't worth talking to and the first person was a bit up himself.

Trilian - the Dude suspects that the wax model routine was possibly a direct result of the Dude's visit.

I'm always amazed just how many
'Berger bars', trying to style themselves on the 'Traditional American diner' utterly fail to be able to do the most simplist thing with minced/ground beef... like turning it into edible burger shaped and sized pieces of meat and then remembering to cook it in a way that won't make it taste like absolute ... crap...
One of the best I've had recently was in a traditional English pub... their self-named burger... was ... is... Just Two burger's, one giant* roll, Bacon, cheese, salad,and
Yet, the not-that-distant-'Authentic-American-diner's attempt at the same... well was mor e like the inedible crap they serve at the Scottish sounding place located just round the corner from Kings X overground station...

But it's all protein dude. Amino acids are amino acids at the end of the day. When the munchies strike its all good.

Didn't the British invent curry's? the menu in the typical one would mean nothing to someone from India. Also I think you'll find that most of the chef's in such establishments are from Pakistan or Bangladesh.

Out here in Trinidad & Tobago the national dish appears to be KFC. We do have one typically British curry house though and some good Italian restaurants as well, penty of Chinese too.

Well, I´ve been in Irish restaurants abroad that just didn´t feel right. None of the people working there were Polish you see.

I was shocked once walking down the main street in Singapore and coming across a Danish hot dog stand, with proper red sausages. It had been a few years since I´d had it last, but they tasted like back home as far as I could recall. There was also a German restaurant nearby, but I didn´t try that.