{"id":3933,"date":"2016-01-10T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3933"},"modified":"2016-01-10T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:22:40","slug":"a-proper-british-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3933","title":{"rendered":"A Proper British Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-21.52.03.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-21.52.03-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-03 21.52.03\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-21.52.03-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-21.52.03-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-21.52.03-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-21.52.03-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-21.52.03-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-21.52.03.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris&#8217;s sister gave us some vouchers for one of the best curry houses in the Slough area, the Akash, so it gave us an excuse to go out for one more curry before we left.<\/p>\n<p>They do especially nice <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papadum\" target=\"_blank\">poppadoms<\/a> at there, in that, in addition to the usual four toppings (mint yogurt, a blend of onions with coriander and tomato, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_mango_chutney\" target=\"_blank\">mango chutney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Asian_Pickles\">lime pickle<\/a>), they do a red one that seemed to be based on red onions and something sweet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3939\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.19.33.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3939\" class=\"wp-image-3939 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.19.33-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-03 20.19.33\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.19.33-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.19.33-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.19.33-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3939\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris demonstrating the size of a poppadom, though you don&#8217;t generally eat it all in one go \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Something that British Indian does that I haven&#8217;t seen in most other cuisines (including Indian food in the US) is having two starter courses, one being the poppadoms, then the actual starters with the usual amount of options rather than just the question &#8216;how many&#8217; (one per person usually suffices). A typical British Indian starter that we hadn&#8217;t had the whole time we were in the US as it wasn&#8217;t on the menus is onion bhaji, which is basically Indian fried onions, but it&#8217;s just lovely:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.48.12.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3940\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3940 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.48.12-e1451920050948-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-03 20.48.12\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.48.12-e1451920050948-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.48.12-e1451920050948-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-03-20.48.12-e1451920050948-1024x609.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a bit of a hiccough in that this was the second time we were ever asked to stop filming in a business, the other being in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=1867\">voodoo shop in New Orleans<\/a>. \u00a0After the staff realized Chris was local, they changed their minds and allowed it. I&#8217;m not sure why they had an objection in the first place, but we were pleased.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_59200\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PpYLKnKwIbM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chris&#8217;s sister gave us some vouchers for one of the best curry houses in the Slough area, the Akash, so it gave us an excuse to go out for one more curry before we left. They do especially nice&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slough","category-uk","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3933"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3933\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}