Million&1things

1.      Curry is Officially the UK’s favourite dish, with the British invented Tikka Masala being on top of the list. 2.      It’s amazing, 18 tonnes of chicken Tikka Masala is eaten across the UK each week.   That’s equivalent to more than the weight of 3 double decker buses.   3.      Korma doesn’t actually mean Mild, instead it’s the word that represents the slow cooking of the dish. 4.      Over 2.5 million UK customers buy curry every week 5.      The word Balti translates as Bucket.   But don’t worry your food isn’t cooked in a bucket, the dish is originally from Baltistan in Pakistan 6.      The first ever British curry restaurant was opened in 1809 in London’s Portman Square and it was called Hindustani Coffee House. 7.      For every 1 Chinease restaurant there are 2 Indian restaurants in the UK. 8.      The UK spends £3.2 billion pounds on Indian food. 9.      In the UK two thirds of our meals are made up of Indian Food. 10. There are more Indian rest

As usual I was feeling hungry and seeing as it was a Friday night I decided to pick up the stash of takeaway menus that have nested on my doormat. I casually went through the pile looking for something that caught my eye and I came across a rather adventurous looking Indian takeaway menu.   It was from an Indian Takeaway in Basildon called the Maharaja’s Express Indian Takeaway. The menu design was themed in an Indian locomotive style, similar to the actual Maharajas Express train in India. Once I opened the menu, I was welcomed by the fact that I wasn’t bombarded with a gazillion dishes to choose from, and I was equally impressed by the design inside and the fact that the curry’s where not just named by their usual names, but had the location of where the curry came from.   Excited by the sounds of a British Tikka Masala, I hurried along to grab my mobile and make an order.   The lad that answered took my order in a very express fashion and my food arrived in a