Punjabi Palace @ West End

mmmm ... so good .. this is also our regular.

Wonder what a vegitarian varient on this curry would turn out like.

I've had 3x indian hot vindaloo from punjabi palace, and trust me, its f***en hot, I just have normal hot these days.

i always ask for hot hot hot indian hot; (beef vindaloo)

its not hot;

if i go to kumas cafe at coopers plains, he does propper hots

i always ask for hot hot hot indian hot; (beef vindaloo)

Maybe you have to give them a wink or something.

This guy said its not supposed to be like a restaurant korma its traditional or some s***.

*shrug* Every Korma recipe I have ever seen has had coriander and cumin, plus some form of cream/yogurt (the last bit I assumed was westernisation ... but Indians do like the yogurts)

I mean when I order a korma I expect a mild to medium dish with cumin and coriander flavours and usually a thick almost creamy sauce. Maybe that's all these Indian restaurants trying to trick me with non traditional dishes. Next you'll be telling me saag dhal shouldn't have lentils or spinach!

I don't know the details of the traditions of Indian korma.

The guy said he learnt it in the north of India.

I do know that if you follow the recipe it's quite hot and tastes good but not like you would buy from punjabi palace who's korma is some top shelf s***.

blahnana and I nabbed some takeaway from punjabi palace today to suss it out, I rate it as fairly good

I rate it as fairly good

I'd rate it as fairly awesome.

nah it's definitely not awesome

nah it's definitely not awesome

Youve had better curry? tell me where, I must go there and eat it. Also, what did u get, I generaly only get the vindaloo, sometimes the butter chicken, been meaning to try the korma.

Prince of India (down Fairfield Road) is better than Punjabi Palace for Hot Chicken Vindaloo imo. I don't mind the Punjabi vindaloo though, and they deliver to Annerley for $5 (cheaper than Pizza Hut down the road, luls).

id probably rate my local as good as punjabi, if only for doing hot better

kumas cafe at coopers plains!

kuma is awesome!

Youve had better curry? tell me where, I must go there and eat it. Also, what did u get, I generaly only get the vindaloo, sometimes the butter chicken, been meaning to try the korma.

yeah I've had better curry at southern spice at upper mt. gravatt before it changed hands (it's not as good now), a night in india at toowong and today in india at maroochydore, as far as local outfits go. I've also had better curry in sydney and melbourne before. and my wife's curries are getting reeeeally good too


I'll definitely go back there again for a mid-week lunch curry fix cos a night in india is only open for lunch on fridays, and I'll try some of their other curries


I had rogan josh and a peshwari naan

Taj Mahal on Brunswick St is awesome. Never tried Punjubi Palace though.

a night in india at toowong

OK, thanks, I work in toowong, ill try them and report back, you know if they open for lunch?

Does a night in india do a decent vindaloo? I still haven't tried anything from there yet (milton sux).

night in india toowong has gone down hill big time since they opened their 2nd joint across town. All the good chefs must have moved over to the new one. Punjabi Palace is much better.

they're open for lunch on fridays

I don't eat that many vindaloo's so I dunno how theirs rates comparatively. I've had it a couple of times and thought it was fairly tasty and had interesting flavours but I don't like it as much as the southern style curries

Taj Mahal on Brunswick St is awesome.

yup! that's my regular place for good currys... opposite the brunswick hotel. i'm not a super-hot curry person myself but i love the indian flavours :D you gotta get a decent group together (about 6 is perfect) so you can sample all the dishs n get all the awesome indian condiments like naan, rotis, raita, samosas, pekoras, chutneys & the like... orrrjeh! :D years ago they had a grotty little back room that i guess was for overflow if the main room filled up... my mates & i would ask if we could eat in there coz not only is it totally private then... it's grotty & reminds us of when we were in india! :D

punjabi palace is good too imo but i've only been there like twice... i've been to the taj about 100 times :P

(edit) & that recipe looks damn tasty pornopete! :D

last edited by demon at 14:18:37 23/Jun/09

yeh totally agree about condiments

well I went back over to punjabi palace today and grabbed a vindaloo, it's quite nice compared to their rogan josh

shame it's such a bitch to get to from indooroopilly otherwise I could easily make a daily habit of this :)

delivery is your friend!~

Brisbane City 5.50

between a few people is nothing (this also helps with the min order of $25 for delivery) ô¿ô

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yeh true I saw delivery on their site and forgot to suss it out

kumas cafe at coopers plains!

They are 5 mins from me, another good reason to be on the south side. The guy who owns it is a champ and is always trying to give you free stuff.

The guy who owns it is a champ and is always trying to give you free stuff.

kuma is awesome, obviously unless you work for him;

everytime we go in there, hes yelling at his poor kitchen staff

and yer, hes unreal for giving out free stuff!

so today we got a bunch of people and phoned in a delivery order to punjabi palace at 11:30am, supposed to be delivered at 12:30

it's now 1:30 and it's still not here - fail

No soup for you!

heh it turned up just after that post and asif 1 hour late wasn't bad enough, it wasn't labelled at all so there was another 10 minute guessing game working out which was which :)

we never order in, we just order ahead for authentic sitting in indian restaraunt experience

they dont even roll their eyes when we rock up with our carton anymore!

Yeah but was it good? :)

I don't think we've had too many issues with either of those although granted sometimes it is 5-10mins late.

yeh it was good =]

spook it wouldn't be very authentic if they rolled their eyes at you - rocking up with a carton is the customary thing in india

its unaustralian to not have curry on friday

f*** you all, I was so dreaming of curry today, but had f***en mcdonalds instead, didnt have time to go over to punjabi.

I've never bothered with the delivery, just order at least 30 mins before then go pick it up.

well that's what I did on tuesday and wednesday
then someone suggested delivery, so I gave it a go

We've gotten delivery from there twice now. It's never been on time, but never that late either. It's okay if you're being super lazy and don't really mind when it turns up.

What do they charge for delivery?

It's pretty cheap, only $5 to get it delivered to Annerley. Cheaper than Pizza Hut or Dominos!

Delivery

Ok so I had vindaloo from a night in india for lunch today, it wasnt the worst curry i've had, but no where near punjabi palace quality. I dont know if its because im just used to punjabi palace, but this just wasnt the same, rice wasnt as good, the acutal curry had some weird flavour in it.

Ill stick to punjabi palace.

sounds like you're used to less flavoursome/spicy western-ised curries, so that's probably a good idea

I had punjabi palace 3 times last week and going back to a night in india today was a treat, apart from the lame way they chuck their chicken in. that part punjabi palace beat them in cos 2 times out of 3 they had nicely saturated chicken in theirs.

sounds like you're used to less flavoursome/spicy western-ised curries, so that's probably a good idea

I dont know about that, I reckon punjabi is more flavoursome/spicy, at least with the vindaloo.

punjubi palace is fairly good but it's not all that

It's definately one of the better indian food joints around Brisbane.

Any recipe that requires more than 2 or 3 really f***ing obscure ingredients, in really small amounts, is fail.

Turmeric ½ teaspoon.
Mustard oil 4 teaspoon.
Red chilies whole 8 nos.
Mustard seeds 1 tsp.
Cloves 5 nos.
Asafoetida A pinch
Red chili powder 1 tsp.
Cumin seed 1 tsp.
Kalonji 1 tsp. (black cumin oil) or onion seeds.
Jaggari (brown) 25 gms. (sugar) this is some sort of cane sugar block

Unless you have a few recipes that use those things.

that's not actually true unless you care less about the taste and flavour of the resulting food than you do about the convenience of acquiring and using all of the ingredients you need before they go out of date

if so, might as well just go to coles for some pataks

i tried lazy mans curry last week: pataks. it wasn't bad but nothing like the real thing.

well you aren't gonna pay 5 bucks for a jar of spice that you'll only use 1 tsp of, and if you are... well then that is a bit disgusting, there are people who can't afford noodles for their kids, and you're throwing away exotic spices...

Sounds good pete, but needs photos

maybe not, but that doesn't mean the recipe fails

and practically everyone can afford noodles for their kids if they make the right choices (such as which supermarket they shop at, or whether they let the local militia rape them causing them to have kids in the first place). additionally, whether or not I throw away $5 of exotic spices has little bearing on whether or not someone can't afford noodles for their kids _unless_ they know how to make noodles out of exotic spices

I half agree with you thermite, some recipes I have come across have annoying niggly little f***ing amounts of s*** you've never heard of, and in subsequent sessions I have left them out with no discernible difference in taste, but having said that some things, esp spices, can have a big effect in small qty's

Yeah I can tolerate a few such ingredients, but when there are 10 ingredients I would have trouble even finding in the shop, it starts to become impractical for the home cook, living in apartment with no pantry, and for people who don't cook much that can be very discouraging.

I've had A Night in India, and I still rate Sitar's korma and vindaloo a lot higher than I would A Night in India's. I haven't tried Punjabi Palace, but Sitar's korma/vinda is consistently f***ing brilliant in my books.

well you aren't gonna pay 5 bucks for a jar of spice that you'll only use 1 tsp of, and if you are... well then that is a bit disgusting, there are people who can't afford noodles for their kids, and you're throwing away exotic spices...

...what?

you're meant to use the whole thing btw (which we did)

We need some sort of secret squirell way of recognising other QGL members, probably walked right passed you guys at the indian place today. Dont the freemasons have a ring or something that they show to get discounts and special treatment.

Anyway, night in india bad, punjabi palace good. Making your own curry at home, seems to be hit and miss for me the 3 tims ive tried.

yeah I'm with greazy pataks for the for the lazy win!

viper ask them if they have seen kat.zip

just make sure its not kathleen youre asking

nah punjabi palace isn't better than a night in india
once you gain some experience in taste you'll understand

you should keep trying to make your own curries, that'll help speed up the process - you're basically a huge curry nub if you've only made 3


last edited by Jim at 01:06:54 04/Jul/09