And when I say "my stomach", I mean "people who make things I can enjoy putting in my stomach". And by "things I can enjoy putting in my stomach" I mean "food", even though it's only one category of thing really.
I want to talk about favourite restaurants. And by "restaurants", I mean "places which make take-away food". Possibly even "places which make take-away food which MrLefty could order when he's too lazy to get up off the couch, walk over to the refrigerator, defrost some meat, turn on the stove, prepare some kind of spices and... actually, I'm exhausted typing out that much". I don't mean "place which has its own website".
My favourite used to be the Carlton Curry House on Rathdowne St, which made a spectacular chicken vindaloo (or alternatively, if you were a wuss, a lamb sashi). The curries ran from the normal vindaloo (which was pretty hot) to the +13 (which was a WMD), depending on how many of whatever makes curry hot they'd put in. If you finished a whole +13, your name was
They also made delicious puri (fluffy hollow bread) and raita (that yoghurty accompaniment). My mouth waters remembering them.
Sadly, the CCH shut down a few years ago and its proprietor
So, like a spurned harlot with a liking for spicy food, I have turned my affections to a new slightly dodgy suburban venue, Mitcham Thai. It's just a shopfront on the Maroondah Highway with a kitchen out the back, but they make this delicious dish called "chicken pad prig". "Chicken", because it's got chicken in it, and "pad prig" because it's padded with prig. It is kind of difficult to describe. You have it on rice, and it's quite spicy (particularly if you bite on the chillis). The sauce the meat's been marinated in is... also delicious. (You know, I've suddenly figured out why I'm not a food critic.)
Anyway, strongly recommended
However, I've been having it once a week recently and I think my horizons/stomach need/s expanding somewhat. So - any suggestions? What's your favourite slack-night-in standby?
