/ck/ - Food & Cooking

did they at least give you raita with it

I still ate it though, now my stomach is hurting. I forgot to use the yogurt sauce until the end, oops

>>19166669
Yeah and I forgot to use it, fuck

>>19166675
dang, well at least you can save it for a future meal or something

>>19166679
i used the leftovers from my cramming sesh

>>19166673
what the fuck is this description

>>19166667
I think you got ripped off man, you probably ordered that from a scam website.

Doesn't terrible, doesn't look great. Pretty weird to eat nothing but a giant box of rice for a meal.

looks dry AF

>>19166753
that's pretty much what everyone in the world has eaten since we started growing food

>>19166841
how savage

>>19166667
Thats the problem when i get it from restaurants, theres not enough meat to rice. Like the rice is good but you need more more meat for the protein and nutrients. When i make it at home i use like 3 times as much chicken or lamb.
>>19166778
Yeah? Its supposed to be firm and dry, not sticky and moist like short rain rice.

>>19166705
Why, what's up?

>>19166753
There's two pieces of chicken buried in it. Bone in. It is definitely mostly rice though

>>19166778
What, no, definitely not dry, it's very moist and absolutely packed with flavor

POO IN WATERLOO

Good evening sir

>>19166950
>>19166981
I know you won't believe me so its a waste of time, but not even, surprisingly

>>19166937
english str8 out of india

I never buy indian food from restaurants

They charge you $20 a dish and proceed to gouge the shit out of you on how much meat or paneer they add

I've been cooking my own Indian food & been thoroughly enjoying it at half the price.

The annoying part about cooking it is the amount of spices you have to buy to get started but once you bought it all its easy to stretch it out throughout the year as you don't need that much to flavor curries or biryanis.

Thank god they have a Patel brothers grocery store near me but you can definitely buy some from any asian grocery stores.

The only Indian restaurant I don't hate is Indigo in DC. They're not stingy as fuck & pricing isn't bad also they're flavors are excellent compared to the dime a dozen Indian joints

A bullshit dish like this that is 98% rice should not cost more than $2.

>>19166667
I have been cooking this recently. Delicious and pretty healthy. Basically just chicken and rice with some yogurt and spice.

>>19166841
People would mostly eat whatever primary grain they grew for every meal, but they would also add whatever to accompany it. That's just a big box of rice. Of course people ate much smaller portions of just rice for one meal a day and I should be glad about how good I have it. My problem is more that that's a BIG box of rice, and eating all that rice as a single meal doesn't sound very good.

>>19167007
It's Indian food, maybe it's influencing me

>>19167012
I hear that, this was a pretty big portion even though everyone is complaining it looks like rice only, there was 2 pieces of chicken in it.. it was $10.95

>>19167013
Yeah ok. Have you looked at the price of even the previously cheapest takeout recently?

>>19167029
Very nice! How has it turned out?

>>19167033
The tandoori chicken is under the rice. Not pictured. That is how Biryani is served. Here is someone else's picture from Google, same exact dish but he pulled the chicken out on top.

>>19167067
>That is how Biryani is served
That's weird. I've never seen it served that way. Anywhere in the US they'd be putting the chicken on top within days of opening after hearing the same question a thousand times.

>>19167013
uh oooh we got a youngin. you wouldn't care to be paid less than $2 if you made that meal for someone?

>>19167088
It keeps the chicken warm I guess, I'd actually say it's the total opposite situation here - I've never had one where it wasn't buried. Maybe it's a Canadian thing

>>19167089
one more drop

>>19167089
Lmao. Exactly

>>19167067
it's been coming out great. Very easy to make actually

>>19167089
what gay porn is this from

Indian food rules, I make it all the time at home. Biryani is hella cheap at home. Get some chicken thighs, get some basmati rice, get your spices (that's the hardest part of indian food, learning the spices), and make it.

>>19167098
I used to cook in a pretty nice wine bar/café type place where people would come in and spend a few hours ordering multiple courses and drinking bottles of wine, and it just wasn't the kind of place very many people ordered food to-go from. Then covid happened and all of a sudden all our regulars (lots of old people) were ordering food to-go and it was like we had to relearn the entire menu to figure out how to put things into boxes, because lots of things would get soggy, or wilted, or any number of things. Giant pain in the ass, and we had to come up with a ton of creative ways to make sure the food was as good as possible by the time they got home (which I'm most most of them never realized we were doing. That said, if any restaurant, café, food stall, food truck, street vendor, or whatever sold take-out and the main thing wasn't visible when you opened the box they'd hear about it pretty quick.

>>19166705
It's hype (approbative)

>>19167127
You're right, I actually just went and glanced at their reviews, there's a fair bit of people complaining about not having the right amount of chicken, lots of ppl saying they only received 2 pieces instead of the 4 or 6 piece meals, etc.

You definitely have a point but I feel like someone who orders it knows to expect it in the rice in Canada

>>19167142
It's probably just more ubiquitous there. I actually live in an area with lot's of Indian and Pakistani food (in the US you can pretty much look for an Intel location on a map if you want to find good food from either of those places), but they still get enough other customers that they've kind of adapted to it. Also, chicken biriyani just isn't really a super popular take-out thing as far as I know.

>>19167179
Exactly yeah, It's extremely popular here.. there's places literally called Biryani King and stuff like that. They often will have crazy lineups and wait times

A big Mac combo will cost more than a 2 piece tandoori chicken Biryani box , guaranteed

>>19167199
Yeah, that's kind of how it sounded. There might be some areas that have places like that closer to the border, but none that I'm aware of. Is that a Canadian thing or more of just a Toronto thing? Now that I'm thinking about it, last time I was in Montreal I picked up some late-night take-out that might have been similar to what you're talking about. Do they dish it up right in front of you?

>>19166673
>ARE YOU READY!!
>no question mark
not going to make it

>>19166705
ARE YOU READY!!

>>19166673
Looks like you weren't ready!

>>19167249
>*YOU ARE READY!!

>>19167249
>>19167256
I'm not fucking ready

>Local Biryani (not sneaky) ghost kitchen's anniversary tomorrow
>3 for $16 deal
My body is ready

I like the dish but i like the vegetarian version the most just because I enjoy the contrast of the veggies with the rice. Whenever I order Indian take out I get about $60 worth of dishes so one meatless dish doesnt bother me.

>>19166673
Heh yeah lil white bois can’t handle it. What I thought.

>>19166667
I moved away from Waterloo about a year ago and feel homesick lol

:-(

>>19167067
>it was $10.95
Thats not bad. In the coastal US you cant get a half-decent full meal for under $15 anymore.

>>19166667
>Southern Ontario IND/PAK food thread
Hey nice. Does anyone know if there's a good place to get lamb/mutton nihari? Zeerah in Mississauga tastes pretty good to me, but sometime around the beginning of COVID they stopped offering lamb and chicken nihari and only serve beef now. I can't find another place around that will do lamb.

>>19166667
>scammed by third world business
shocked.

>>19167067
I think you have the box upside down dude.

>>19166667
>extremely spicy

sure it is sweety