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[architect]

That's actually pretty interesting - I cook a lot of Indian (and it's worth mentioning that there's no better way to discover goat than in curries, whether South Asian or Jamaican), and I've been wanting for years to try chicken nihari, which is a breakfast curry that I think is a biryani. The problem is that it's insanely complicated in the number of pots and steps, just as you describe, and I seem to never be able to get my act organized to tackle it.

Seriously: To anyone who thinks they're put off by Indian - but have never actually had it - start at the shallow end. Drop by a local restaurant that has a lunch buffet so you aren't stymied by a menu full of weird-sounding stuff. Have some butter chicken (the scared white person's curry) and some tandoori chicken and mop it up with good naan. I promise you'll get over yourself in no time at all.

Not retired so don't have much time to cook as much as I want so saving it for retirement. My curiosities of people and culture are in part understood through foods and their practices.

The goat curry was amazing. The Turkish fellow also brought a lamb dish paired with roasted eggplant yogurt sauce over it. Too good.

I need to fit back into my motorcycle jackets and pants so back to regular winter programming of arugula tomato pesto salads...argh

 

[slow-poke]

Seriously: To anyone who thinks they're put off by Indian - but have never actually had it - start at the shallow end. Drop by a local restaurant that has a lunch buffet so you aren't stymied by a menu full of weird-sounding stuff. Have some butter chicken (the scared white person's curry) and some tandoori chicken and mop it up with good naan. I promise you'll get over yourself in no time at all.

I think this is good advice.^

If I rewind about 30 years, I had never tried Indian food, my perspective was I don’t like spicy hot food. Then a colleague with Indian ancestry convinced me to try. First time he ordered some of the above and I started to realize that there is a lot of flavour in these dishes and I pretty quickly went from not for me to wow this is really good. There is such a wide variety of dishes and flavours. It’s not cheap but it sure is good. Mississauga had a lot of great options for diverse food, some of the Caribbean places were also great.

Our kids never ordered from the kids menu in their life. They were ordering dishes like octopus at the restaurant when they were 10 years old. Eating the same old typical US/Cdn food all the time is just missing out on life.

 

[architect]

Much of it food preference is socialisation. I never liked spicy food in my early days. Never grew up with spicy anything at home. But meeting folks in university and at work got me uncomfortable and eating things I wasn't familiar with. Also helped that the ladies I was seeing at the time wanted to eat those foods so I obliged 😛 😉 My parter grew up in Mississauga so she became familiar with Indian food early, and got me into it as well.

I still don't love spicy food but my tolerance is way better. I suffer for the flavours! My friends feed their kids all types of food when they were 5 and now very adventurous.

 

[Doggggboy]

I think this is good advice.^

If I rewind about 30 years, I had never tried Indian food, my perspective was I don’t like spicy hot food. Then a colleague with Indian ancestry convinced me to try. First time he ordered some of the above and I started to realize that there is a lot of flavour in these dishes and I pretty quickly went from not for me to wow this is really good. There is such a wide variety of dishes and flavours. It’s not cheap but it sure is good. Mississauga had a lot of great options for diverse food, some of the Caribbean places were also great.

Our kids never ordered from the kids menu in their life. They were ordering dishes like octopus at the restaurant when they were 10 years old. Eating the same old typical US/Cdn food all the time is just missing out on life.

I'll try not to be racist, but most white folk think making food spicy means putting 1/2 cup of cayenne pepper in their chili.
Sure it's hot, but it's also inedible. People who come from spice cultures know that it is the combination of spices that make the meal, not just lots of hot shit. There is a place in town that is rated to have the hottest wings in Regina. I went with a friend and ordered the DO NOT EAT THESE WINGS.
Its a bit of a production. You have to sign a waiver, they ask if you want gloves and then arrive wearing gloves and a mask. They are made with a blend of peppers all rated over 1 million scoville. They were fantastic and perfectly edible. No ring of fire afterwards but the drain hose was bit hot (TMI?). The waitress asked if I was OK because I was tearing up a bit. I said I needed a hug and she obliged.
I guess my point is don't say you hate something you have never tried, but only smelled. The world is a big place and if you are a Canadian, I can pretty much guarentee that more people like the thing you say you hate, than agree with you.
Eat the food.
Drink the wine.
Life is short.

 

[whydontu]

A few meals I remember:

Guinness stew in Dublin - sublime.
Beef and cabbage in Belfast - going to stop there again on the next oversees trip
Pyrogies and sausages in Krakow - gained a lot of weight
Shepherd's pie in an odd hole-in-the-wall cafe in East End London. I've tried dozens of times to get my S/P as good as theirs.
Bizarre little Mexican restaurant in Amsterdam - better than some I've had in Houston.
Burgers in Houston - maybe an 8 out of 10, and SWMBO and I went to dozens of burger places when we were courting, trying to learn about each other and trying to find the best burger. (Moderne Burger in Vancouver, ground sirloin steak on in-house made perfectly hemispherical buns, with custom-cooked fries.)
Pizza in Edinburgh - strangely enough, easily as good a pizza in Chicago
Dim Sum in Richmond, BC - bit of an advantage here, as my sister-in-law is mainland Chinese so she can order the best stuff without having to guess what's on offer
Pastrami on rye at Kaplans Deli in New York - good, not as good as home made but perfectly acceptable
Lee's Donuts in Vancouver

Good food requires suspension of disbelief and asking the wait staff what's good, and going with their recommendations. Has never failed me yet.