I've just been for a good meal at a Chinese Restaurant. Which do you prefer, Chinese, Indian or other?
This post was edited by Mal Ware at July 5, 2013 6:42 PM BST

Tough one Mal, I love em both but I have to favour Indian xxx

depends on mood and levels of alcohol/drugs intake

Love both, but why just stop at those. What about Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai...

I'm kinda indifferent, any I guess

i do love both really do xxxxxxxx

has to be Indian...xxxx

Chinese. The only food you can order using numbers only.

Debbie

Totally depends on mood and which way we drive home. BTW you forgot the best take-away fish and chips.

With both it depends on how good is the food.

There are some good Chinese restaurants in Chinatown in Manchester, but the best I have been to here was in a really shitty area and other than my beau everyone else eating there was Chinese - must have been about 40 tables all full at lunchtime.

Indian food - after eating it in India I am spoiled, so finding a really good one here outside of an area with a large Indian community is difficult.

I have the same problem with Italian food. Good Italian restaurants in the UK are like hens teeth.

My theory is that any cuisine adapts to the local clientele and what is available. As an example Italian food in Mumbai is very spicy, and in the same city McDonald's big macs are lamb burgers and they do a roaring trade in veggie burgers. So most of what "we" call Indian or Chinese or Italian is changed to suit us and our palates. I can assure you that travelling round Italy with an Indian business colleague was interesting - he kept saying..."but this isn't Italian its so bland."

Perception and reality are not always the same

I'm in the same situation as pauline in that I grew up with a lad when I was at school, and his family owned an Indian reatsurant and I used to eat with the family, especiall when i worked there while at college. So when I go to a restaurant/take away and end up with something that is based on a traditional dish but is altered to cater to the Western palate it does kind of spoil it for me. It can be hard to find a place where you can get anything close to the real deal.

I'm omnivorous! if it's on a plate, I'll eat it...................actually even if it's not on a plate I'll eat it!.....I had a deprived childhood at boarding school!

There are more Indian Takeaways where I live. But I like both.

What about Italian this can be nice as well and many other types like Vietnamese Indonesian Mexican all can be good depending on mood

Italian tops out my list! It's hard to get in the UK, but the closest I've come to real Italian food is Ristorante Sul Lago in Holingworth, near Oldham. Gusto Bueno.

Debbie
This post was edited by Deborah Taylor at July 5, 2013 4:07 PM BST

When I lived in Aberdeen there used to be a fabulous Italian restaurant in Bridge St which my darling ex Wicked Witch of the West used to go to but they were exposed as having links to Cosa Nostra and that was the end of the restaurant.

Chinese for me

My cookbooks range across the world - a dish for every day and taste - as Pauline says depends on how well it's cooked. As for the question Mal - both, though Rick Stein's current series on India is alerting me to the fact that there are many types of Indian food and our restaurants sadly don't reflect that xxx

Got to be Indian for me x

Got to be Chinese for me

definitely Chinese for me

I love Indian, however i am quite partial to Italian - without blowing my own trumpet "which i can't do" i also cook them very well - so i have been told! xxx

Wow, Liz, I'm impressed! xxx

yep liz and shar do cook italian and indian not just very well but fookin fantastic and delight on the taste buds and its a good job liz cant blow her own trumpet because she wouldnt have time to cook all the yummy scrummy dishes lol xxxx

fankuuuu liz and shar xxxxx

and i must say shar's cheese on toast is the best ever to

and thats a fact xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Awww Fankuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu from both of us lol xxx