/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Mostly jellied eel and boiled mutton. Seriously, it's bad.

>>4341893

UK is for faggots, please don't go op, food is shit and you will get robbed by pakis have on a shitty trip op!

warm beer and cold mutton.

There isn't really "authentic british food".
Find a good cornish pastie.
Find some good fishnchips.
Find some good englisized indian if that's new to you
Try a pizza express, blows any other pizza chain out of the water

fried or boiled
every ingredient

Authentic brit food is curry. Try to comprehend that; the world's worst food was replaced by the world's second worst food.

Battered Fish and Deep Fried Potatoes
Bacon, Eggs, Ham, Sausage, Deep Fried buttered potatoes

>>4341920
>curry
>worst food

Fish 'n' chips is the way to go OP

Boiled meat, tomatoes, beans, toast.

Avoid everything but fish and chips or tea, they're the only things the British do right.

What do you mean by non-expensive? Are you looking to eat out at restaurants that aren't absurdly expensive or do you want to spend as little money as possible?

Actual pubs themselves are hard to recommend since there are just so many around. I'd say you'd just have to try your luck with those but try looking on TopTable. Try fish and chips and try kebabs but most of these places while good are still nonetheless junk food.

If you are looking for good but relatively inexpensive restaurants, I recommend two.
The Balcony: http://thebalconlondon.com/menu/balcon-marchemenu.pdf
Dinner: http://www.dinnerbyheston.com/menus#SetLunchMenu

The best thing about food when it comes to London is the high quality and diversity of the food. Go to China Town for dim sum. There's a woody looking restaurant (I'm afraid I don't know the name) that does very good xiao long bao and good jujubes. Four Seasons has good duck. Most of the dim sum restaurants are pretty good no matter what you get. Try changfen and xiajiao/har gau. Get some lotus leaf wrapped rice. Don't be an idiot and go for the buffets.

Go to New Malden for Korean food. I'm afraid I again can't recommend places because I don't know the names, though. Ha Ru is good food. Across the street is Kj that has better decor and larger portions.

I recommend curries but unfortunately I don't know much about those.

Never go into a pub with a flat roof.

Oh, and if you want to try out some better British chains, do try out Pret a Manger, Pizza Express and Gourmet Burger Kitchen.

>>4341932
Whoops, as for the places in New Malden, I ended up looking up the names in Google Maps but forgot to delete the sentence about not being able to name restaurants.

ok no bigge. i'm not a 'foodie' so i could not care less. i'll stick with americanized food or chinese food etc

def want to eat fish/chips

i want spend little money, but i don't mind paying a bit extra if it's worth it.

>>4341937
My nukka.
Hot food served.
>Microwaved sausage rolls with tomato sauce.

>>4341948
Go to asda. It's owned by walmart.

>>4341948
Don't forget the curry sauce on the chips anon

>>4341893
we don't really have it.

try to find a good scampi and chips or fish and chips shop
I recommend having mayo with chips like the dutch. I find it far superior to ketchup.

make your own english breakfast (if you want one, they're really overhyped) or make one with a fellow brit. make sure you have:
>bacon
>fried eggs
>fried bread or hash brown
>SMALL portion of beans
>fried mushrooms
>fried tomato (optional)
it's best to have this when you're hungover

we have some good thai food and some good indian food about, but i doubt it's authentic.

>>4341969
I'm not sure where this guy is staying so that might not be possible. Just thought I'd say that if this guy isn't aware, he could just go to a café and buy it (though it probably wouldn't be as good as home made) for around £5, depending on the area. I see it around £3 to £7.

Sausage rolls, fish n' chips, steak and kidney pie. Try some local ales.

Other than that, Indian and Chinese/Thai.

i'll be staying at a hostel, so i wont have access to a kitchen. they will be serving free breakfast though. so my meals will consist of mainly lunch/dinner

>>4341973
good point about liquor

i loathe beer. however i am a whiskey guy. are bars/pubs generally expensive?

>>4341932
thanks man. will write this down

This is a nice restaurant in London:
http://www.thefollybar.co.uk/

Serves pretty much everything including local stuff. I had a Christmas turkey dinner there was quite impressed.

As others have said, try and get a decent Cornish pasty, also try buttered scones with jam, clotted cream and a cup of tea.

>>4341996
Very much depends on where you are. Down south (London and surrounding areas) prices can get pretty crazy.

Bars and pubs tend to be cheaper in Northern cities (Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield etc.)

Wetherspoons pubs tend to be cheap where ever you are.

Right your going to London which is down south so DONT get fish and chips. Fish and chips are only good up north, honestly dont waste your money. Everywhere will be relatively expensive by the way, its London.

Some ideas:

Your best bet it to go to a pub that serves food or a carvery!
Get yourself a roast beef or chicken dinner
Full English Breakfast
Cottage or Shepherds pie
Get a good home made pie n chips, chicken and leek or something.
Beef wellington
Get yourself a nice big sandwich from a sandwich shop somewhere, seek one out! Pork and apple sauce barm?
Lamb shank
Maybe get a good Chinese take away. Crispy shredded beef/chicken or something
Try an indian takeaway or restaurant

britbongs eat plenty of this

>>4341928
>Avoid everything but fish and chips or tea, they're the only things the British do right.

Eh, they do great meat pies - something Americans seem to suck at for whatever reason. Also they're top-tier for boiled sweets and other hard candy.

Never understood why British beef is so shit though, since their lamb & mutton is quite good.

>go to a good pie and mash shop
>put vinegar all over that shit

you'll thank me for it

>>4342023
thanks man. i'm staying almost in the dead center of london, near st pancras station.

also, a huge question, visa is widely accepted, yes? i don't want to bring a lot of money, but i will obviously bring some. but i prefer to use my cards. i was just going to bring a few hundred dollars in cash just in case

>>4342021
OP don't go to wetherspoons. I can't vouch for all wetherspoons everywhere but my local and the ones i've been to in towns close to me are always filled with cunts because its the cheapest pub.

>>4342037
>meat pies

That's the Irish or Scots, not the Brits

>>4342041
credit & debit cards are basically accepted everywhere. the only places i can think of that wouldn't are villages. but in london everywhere will take your card.

>>4342023
My fuckin nigga. Hartlepool here and fish and chips are the absolutely kiddy up north.

>>4342044
But that's wrong.

>>4342044
but the scots and northern irish are the brits

i dont think i've ever eaten boiled meat

do JF's still think it's the middle ages over here

>>4341937

This is surprisingly accurate advice.

Any pub with a flat roof is not likely to take kindly to yanks.

>>4342067
Why is that?

>>4342070
Inbreds

>>4342070
banter

Have a good sunday roast. Most gastropubs do one. Cheaper pubs usually have a carvery. Try a curry. English food is actually better than a lot of american food these days.

>>4342070
racist, ignorant fucks who are the worst of british society.

>>4342070
Most flat roof pubs are, or were, council estate pubs.

The clientele will be xenophobic, stupid, and extremely violent.

>>4342041
We're getting to the point where you can get by almost without cash. Everywhere has a chip & pin machine. Some smaller shops/cafes might have a minimum purchase to use a card though, or might charge a fee under a certain amount, since they have to pay a percentage to the card company.

>>4342125
>The clientele will be xenophobic, stupid, and extremely violent.
Sounds like my sort of place.

>>4342041

Yep Visa will work everywhere and best to not take a lot of cash out with you!

Another piece of advice is there are a lot of bulgarian and romanian immigrant pickpockets working the London public transport system, so watch out on the underground tube.
>if someone bumps into you hard or is being overly friendly chances are your being mugged


>>4342049
Yo bro :) Next time you go to the chippy give a "lightly battered fish barm" a try, gotta have butter on the bread too... fucking heavenly. Emphasis on LIGHTLY BATTERED

>>4342128
>chip & pin

>>4342155
What? It's pretty standard here. Its meant to be more reliable, or more secure, or some shit.

Go to an Indian Restaurant on Brick Lane in London, most are reasonably priced round there, and order yourself a Chicken or Lamb Jalfrezi with a naan bread and whatever extras you fancy.

authentic british food? try the indian place

>>4342177
i was referring to the term.

over here, across the pond we call them "clap'n'cash"

>>4342203
In Canada we call them "Eh'n'Pays"

per capita, we have more michelin star restaurants than the US. we still lose to france and japan though. Mainly because the japanese never sleep, and reproduce by budding, and the french give the awards out. Either way, the stereotype of shitty british food hasn't been true since about 1990, when we started to give a shit.

>>4342217
michelin stars mean exactly jack shit in first world countries.

>>4342224
>look guys I can type words on the internet

>>4342217
That's because they only have reviews for select US cities. Do you think they have enough food critics for the whole country?

>>4342224
It's a pretty respected award. you sound upset.

>>4342228
>on an American website where michelin stars still mean nothing

>>4342236
>implying cornhole, idaho is going to spawn a world class restaurant.

>>4342240
Must be why American restaurants don't compete and reject it when they are awarded stars.

>>4342240
>on an American website where michelin stars still mean nothing
I know you only eat at Taco Bell, but this is not the case for everyone.

>>4342241
According to Wikipedia, they haven't updated their guide for Las Vegas since 2008. And Vegas has world class chefs.

>>4342240
>on the food board, on the British internet, on a computer based on British technology.

>>4342241
It's not any less likely than a europoor state

>>4342205

>>4342150
lel i grew up/live in jersey city and i work in nyc. i've seen my fair of beggers and homeless. i'm not some white tourist. i will tell niggas to back the fuck up quickly if i see persistence

i dont care for indian, although i've never had it. i do fancy asian foods though. also, i am hispanic, so i am willing to try spanish food there

bacon butties, buckfast wine and the occasional buttf__k
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>>4342037
>meat pies - something Americans seem to suck at for whatever reason.

You've never had a Pasty from U.P. Michigan.