Popadoms Indian Restaurant Farnborough

I wouldn’t say I’m an expert in Indian cookery, after all I don’t cook the meals in our restaurants, we have highly trained chefs that do that.

But I do know a good curry when I try one. I kind of instinctively know if a curry dish has been made from a packaged sauce and believe me, many restaurant owners use these shortcuts to save money.

So when I checked out the competition last week I was pleasantly surprised.

Last week, Lisa and I took a break, we went to Westbay in Dorset, a lovely seaside village near Lyme Regis, (another beautiful town). We rented a chalet belonging to a friend, which was less than 50yds from the sea, truly brilliant and convenient, especially when walking our dog Shannon. It was a great week.

(Our chalet was just the other side of the sand dune on the left obviously)

Now I’ll be honest, I don’t eat at other local Indian restaurants in Farnborough, Camberley, Mychett. Well it wouldn’t look right if one of my customers come in and see me in a competitor’s restaurant would it?

But when I’m outside the area and I’m on holiday and I NEED a CURRY fix, well it’s just gotta be done….

So Lisa and I traipsed off to the local Indian in Bridport, which is the nearest local town and checked out the Taj Mahal,( where did they get that name).

The owners, were an Indian family from Kenya, very friendly, with the mother, probably aged around 55-60 taking orders and the husband working in the kitchen and two sons as waiters. Real old skool.

In fact it was a little old fashioned, which I rather liked, a little dark inside with seating booths containing four seats on either side of the restaurant between which you walked from the door to the serving counter/bar where your orders were taken.

Now I have to admit that, we had a takeaway, reason being our dog is a puppy and she was in a new environment, we didn’t want to leave her too long. We could have sat in, but for us it was more convenient.

So how was the food you ask!! Well it was rather good, I think that it certainly was different, the special fried rice for instance, they must have added a curry powder mix when they were boiling the rice and added little pieces of chicken, as I said it was different.

I thought that Indian restaurants stopped using those metal foil dishes a long time ago and there was no label on each dish box, so we didn’t know which dish was which. I kind of take it for granted that everybody uses printed labels like we do, but of course the Taj Mahal didn’t even have a computer and took the orders by hand. Real Old skool!

The food was good, full flavoured, if a little oily, but that happens from time to time as the oil rises to the top, (all you do is spoon it off) and we had a great meal, in fact we had two takeaways, which does say something! So if ever you want to visit a lovely Dorset fishing village and you like walking in particular, then Westbay is a good choice. And for a good Indian check out the Taj Mahal in Bridport

Sean

Hi there, I was talking to a customer in the restaurant last night who told me that last year he went on holiday to Spain and when he arrived his camera was missing from his case. He thought he had left it at home.

But when he got home two weeks later, it wasn’t there. It had been put in the case….

Of course, the suitcase was not damaged, so he couldn’t prove that the camera had been stolen. If when he arrived in Spain, saw that his suitcase had been tampered with, he could have checked his case and made a claim immediately.

Long story short…………Insurance company gave him the money after agreeing with him that the camera was “lost” in Spain.

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THIS IS AMAZING I never thought of this before, but its just so easy to steal from your LOCKED suitcase.

I rarely pass on information or jokes to my list of customers, but I thought that I would share this with you.

I am grateful to Steve Bays of Farnborough, for sending me this video which will open your eyes and your suitcase.

Take a look.

Please comment if you wish below.

Sean

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