25-04-2018, 08:16 AM
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Re: Indian restaurant etiquette
Originally Posted by realspeed
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I would not touch indian food let alone put it in my mouth, even if offered a million pounds. It smells horrible let alone tasting it
25-04-2018, 08:18 AM
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Re: Indian restaurant etiquette
Eating out anywhere is a risk. There can be no guarantees of what goes on in the kitchens and It's necessary to have a bit of faith in a restaurant's practices no matter what type of food is being served. Either that or not eat anything that others have prepared.We and some friends have takeaway Indian or Chinese meals when we have an evening together. We have other friends who we meet up with occasionally for a meal in the local Indian Restaurant. None of us have ever had problems with the food. I'm fairly sure most of these places have good practices but as with any other sort of restaurant/takeaway, there might always be the exception.
25-04-2018, 08:48 AM
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Re: Indian restaurant etiquette
Originally Posted by susiejaeger
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I think JBR is trying to put us all off.
Yes. Enjoy your meal out and take note what other dippers do! 
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28-04-2018, 09:08 AM
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Oh, the joys of communal food........yuck! I think eating poppadoms separately as a first course might be a western thing so there's probably no traditional correct etiquette.The essential thing is to avoid your saliva and bits of broken poppadom ending up in the communal bowls and prevent double dipping, so I think spooning them onto the plate is more civlised.
Besides, how does dipping straight into the bowls work on a big table?
You'd have to keep stretching across in front of the other diners, then trail your dip dripping poppadom back to your plate.
At least with take-away you get your own little pots of dips, but that's not to say they weren't filled from the communal bowl in the restaurant!
(My husband is saying the correct way is to use the little spoons in the dip to spoon the dip directly on your poppadom, but I swear he just made that up)
28-04-2018, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by twizzle
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(My husband is saying the correct way is to use the little spoons in the dip to spoon the dip directly on your poppadom, but I swear he just made that up)
And one breaks one's poppadom into smaller pieces not bite from a big piece and then spoon on to it again
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