Indian food in Hua Hin

[sticks]

The food in smor is quite nice but limited on curry options, the chicken tikka and sheek kebabs are nice but the Ayurvedic clinic is much better and they will cook you any dish you require the only problem with the place is there drinks menu and they only bring you a glass of beer instead of the bottle when you order, also the settings not as nice of smor, the tandoori chicken in Ayurvedic clinic is the best I've tasted in hua hin it's moor or less the same as the UK and you get some lovely condunmons with it, if you require a specific dish it's best to call them first

[dtaai-maai]

The UK - the benchmark for Indian food!
Just kidding, sticks, I know exactly what you mean, and it's true that the average UK Indian restaurant/takeaway bears little comparison to most restaurants in India and neighbouring countries.

As far as the Clinic restaurant is concerned, I see all this business of limited menu but will cook what you want (provided you ask, but they don't tell you to ask until after your meal), warm beer if you're lucky, and I can only wonder if they're serious about the service they want to offer.

S&S - haven't been for quite a while. It seemed to me that they were victims of their own success, with falling food standards and too few staff.

[sticks]

As any one tried the maharaja in khao takiab I know JW tried it when it first opened and was talking to the white telephone all night.
But you never know it might of got better,

[cookmanchef]

If you ever fancy a trip out and a great location there is an Indian restaurant on the beach road at Dolphin Bay, main meals are very good, starters and side dishes not as much. Go about 6ish and enjoy the colour changes of the sea and offshore islands as the sun goes down.

[Majestic Creek]

Went to the Indian buffet at Sam Sherrif's , called Samor Spa. It was excellent. The food was superb, great range of many dishes, with the Lamb being the best.

Fantastic value at 350 bht per head, for as much as you can eat and drinks were a bit above bar prices, but this is a restrauant, so no problem to pay a few bht more. Large glass of red wine 100 bht.

The buffet is every other saturday evening, but it is open as an Indian to eat from the menu other evenings.

Great location, as you are on a terrace overlooking the sea, with a three piece group playing and singing live music.

Thoroughly reccommend.

[richie22]

As any one tried the maharaja in khao takiab I know JW tried it when it first opened and was talking to the white telephone all night.
But you never know it might of got better,

It's up for sale I think.
Hua Hin Ham and bacon are stocking a range of British style Indian curries and Naan bread now.
JW like em.

[Big Boy]

Hua Hin Ham and bacon are stocking a range of British style Indian curries and Naan bread now.

My son has been telling me how good they are, but I haven't tried one yet.

[blue05]

off to ham and bacon in the morning then

[Big Boy]

off to ham and bacon in the morning then

They're closed on Tuesdays

[Siani]

[quote="dtaai-maai"]The UK - the benchmark for Indian food!
quote]

Most UK Indian restaurants are not true Indian.
I wonder if the "Indian restaurants" in Thailand are actually real Indian, cooked by indians? I wonder if they are just called "Indian" like the majority of them in the UK. Most Indian restaurants in the UK are in fact Pakistani. They call them Indian because they know that a lot of people would not eat in them if they were from Pakistan If they write "Pakistani cuisine", then Indians will never enter the restaurant
Although most Hindu's are veggies, some I think eat pork but not beef. I have never seen pork in any of the Indian restaurants I have been to, so I think they must be Bangladeshi restaurants, Muslims.

[caller]

Most Indian restaurants in the UK are in fact Pakistani.

That's not strictly true, originally most were owned by those from Bangla Desh (which I know used to be East Pakistan and also India), but I think ownership is more generic now, especially in the more modern Indian restaurants and also where a certain group are the largest i.e. Sikhs in far West London. It's in such areas that you'll often find the best food!

[Siani]

Most Indian restaurants in the UK are in fact Pakistani.

That's not strictly true, originally most were owned by those from Bangla Desh (which I know used to be East Pakistan and also India), but I think ownership is more generic now, especially in the more modern Indian restaurants and also where a certain group are the largest i.e. Sikhs in far West London. It's in such areas that you'll often find the best food!

London might be a different story, you may get authentic food there. Generally in the rest of the UK not Indian
There are 8,500 Indian restaurants, of which roughly 7,200 are Bengali
I think it is bordered by the Republic of India?

Anyway, I was wondering if they are true Indian restaurants in HH or Bengali/ Bangladesh ?

[caller]

London might be a different story, you may get authentic food there. Generally in the rest of the UK not Indian
There are 8,500 Indian restaurants, of which roughly 7,200 are Bengali
I think it is bordered by the Republic of India?

The Bengali thing was the point I was making and London is by and large no different to anywhere else.

[Dannie Boy]

Not sure how authentic this article is but I picked up from the Internet.

"I think the figure is something like 90% of Indian restaurants are owned and run by Bangladeshis, often from the Silet region. This is unsurprising due to the mass emigration of Bangladeshis after the 1971 war. Naturally resourceful they modify and reinvent traditional recipes to suit the British palate - the most famous being the Chicken Tikka Masala which satisfied the British expectation of meat and gravy - the original fusion food. Notwithstanding there are plenty of regional 'Indian' restaurants in the UK i.e. Nepalese, Gujerati, Bengali, Goan, Sri Lankan etc etc. You'll probably find that proper regional Indian food is drier and more vegetable based than the formulaic 'curry'."

Source(s):
Curry monster.

We detract from the subject of Indian food in HH so

[Siani]

Not sure how authentic this article is but I picked up from the Internet.

"I think the figure is something like 90% of Indian restaurants are owned and run by Bangladeshis, often from the Silet region. This is unsurprising due to the mass emigration of Bangladeshis after the 1971 war. Naturally resourceful they modify and reinvent traditional recipes to suit the British palate - the most famous being the Chicken Tikka Masala which satisfied the British expectation of meat and gravy - the original fusion food. Notwithstanding there are plenty of regional 'Indian' restaurants in the UK i.e. Nepalese, Gujerati, Bengali, Goan, Sri Lankan etc etc. You'll probably find that proper regional Indian food is drier and more vegetable based than the formulaic 'curry'."

Source(s):
Curry monster.

We detract from the subject of Indian food in HH so

No did not detract from Indian food in HH I asked also in my last quote ..."Anyway, I was wondering if they are true Indian restaurants in HH or Bengali/ Bangladesh ?"
So in my book it's not off topic at all