http://www.popadoms.com/blog Popadoms is an Indian restaurant situated in Farnbrough Hants UK Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:17:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yep Christmas in Farnborough is coming way to early, not just Farnborough but everywhere else as well.. Hi there, Is it me or is Christmas coming too early this year! Last year's Christmas parties that were held at Popadoms are still vivid and yes I remember them well, some were rowdy others were ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/christmas-in-farnborough-is-a-coming-up-way-too-early/ Are you having a Christmas Party in Fanborough this year. I've just put up our Christmas party menu on the website, you can view the page here. In these credit crunch time, we have decided to have two menus. A cheaper two course one at £12.95 and a three course menu at ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/christmas-at-popadoms/ 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 ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/i-tried-the-competition-and-it-was-great/ In case you haven't met them before, I'd like to introduce our chefs. On the left as you look at the picture is Khim our second chef, he's been with us 3 years. In the middle is our Head Chef Deep Singh who has worked with me for over 5 years. ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/have-you-met-the-chefs/ Hello there,   As I write this email to you its still overcast on this Thursday morning, after nearly three days of perpetual rain, you would not believe that it was British Summer time…   Now I must tell you that all this rain is good for our business in some ways, because it ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/free-chicken-tikka-recipe-and-other-things/ I recently wrote this email to some of our regular customers, you may be interested to read it if you are a customer or you live in the area and are thinking of placing an order with us. Dear Customer,   Following up on my email that I sent yesterday, (I don’t normally ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/were-giving-free-popadoms-away-agai/ If you are local to Farnborough, you will no doubt be aware that the annual Donkey Derby was cancelled due to bad weather. This is the second time it has been cancelled and its twice in a row, last year and this, I blame "Global Warming" well its the one ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/donkey-derby/ On Bank holiday 26th May its the annual Donkey Derby at the King George the 5th playing fields. Always a great day out especially for the kids, but adults do enjoy themselves too. I belong to Farnborough Rotary Club and am involved with the running of the event, in fact I am ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/donkey-derby-farnborough/ Hello there, These high temperatures that we're having are fantastic and hopefully they will continue for a while. Having installed Air Conditioning a couple of years ago was one of the best moves we ever made. It seemed to cost so much at the time, but it really has its ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/thank-god-for-air-conditioning/ Farnborough Air Show is coming soon in fact the show is open 14-20th July. As always there is a great influx of people from all over the world. I have found that a lot people who visit the air show come in on the train in the morning and leave on ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/farnborough-air-show/ 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 ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/opening-a-locked-suitcase-with-a-pen-pt2/ 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 ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/are-you-going-on-holiday-beware/ Popadoms, Poppadoms, Pappadums, Popadums….. A customer phoned the other evening because they couldn’t order a curry on-line for a delivery. They phoned to ask if we had changed our front page, or had we stopped our ordering on-line facility. This was a regular customer who I knew well. As we had already taken ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/how-do-you-spell-popadoms/ Just come back from my regular skiing holiday in Switzerland, (lot of snow high up but a bit slushy close to the town. The resort I went to is Zermatt, its famous for its views of the matterhorn and that you can ski across to Italy and back in the same ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/skiing-in-switzerland/ Our first Karaoke night was held a couple of weeks ago at Popadoms to great success. We didn't advertise it because I wanted to see how it went with a small group of people and I must say it was great fun. Now I can't sing, well I can, kind of, but not very ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/our-first-karaoke-night/ Valentines night this year fall on a Thursday, as always its the one night for romantics, the young at heart, etc. However what about all the other people who want to go out on this night and it’s to celebrate another occasion like a birthday, or they just want to go ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/valentines-night/ First of all may I wish you a happy 2008. The new year's eve party we held at Popadoms was great and if you came I really hoped you enjoyed yourself, but wherever you were on NYE, I'm sure you had a great time, unless you were stuck indoors,(then again you ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/happy-2008/ I love some of those old Christmas songs, my favourites are "Driving Home for Christmas" by Chris Rea, "The Christmas Song" by Nat King Cole, (you know, chestnuts roasting on an open fire....) and the Carpenters "Merry Christmas Darling". I never get tired of hearing those ones. Of course there are ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/its-christmaswhoa/ The guys from Cobra invited myself and Lisa to Christmas party, well actually it was a "festival" party not just Christmas, because there was a huge number of people, mostly Asian and of course round about this time of year they are celebrating Dewali and Eid. The guy who started Cobra, ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/a-night-out-with-cobra/ We recently ran a competition for our delivery customers. This was because we wanted to launch our on-line ordering service. We were giving away 4 cases of Cobra beer. Anyone who ordered  a delivery or takeaway in October would have their name (email address) entered into a draw and 4 names ... http://www.popadoms.com/blog/and-the-winners-are/