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Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Methanar posted:

https://indianfusionrestaurant.ca/#anchor-u552

looks like the plain rice was 4.99.

They gave me the expensive one I guess

Crocodile Tika masala, huh?

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Richard M Nixon
Apr 26, 2009

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."
They're Canadian dollars so multiply by 0.75 for freedom money. Wow the looney is doing lovely.

The extra money goes towards your socialism and the privilege of being our hat.

E: perhaps you could get a discount if you have the means to display either bobs and/or vagene, op?

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

Richard M Nixon posted:

They're Canadian dollars so multiply by 0.75 for freedom money. Wow the looney is doing lovely.

The extra money goes towards your socialism and the privilege of being our hat.

gently caress canada

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week
:objection: those are canadian dollars


gently caress beaten, anyways looks like a nice restaurant where you're getting nicer food than sodexo chicken

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

Putty posted:

i have lots of money, OP

you don't maintain lots of money by spending it

Richard M Nixon
Apr 26, 2009

"The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker."

Methanar posted:

gently caress canada


Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013


Holy poo poo what is THIS from!? It's INCREDIBLE

E: I have never seen anything like this in my life. Jeeesus is that perfect. My God.

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

Sunswipe posted:

You're right, better stay home and eat chicken nuggets in future.

yeah im sitting alone in the dark eating chicken nuggets drenched in hot sauce today instead

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

Burt Sexual posted:

I don’t believe single serving $6 white rice.

everything I've ever posted is absolutely 100% completely true

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost
somebody give me 6 hours worth of entertainment/things to do.


i can't find anything to watch on youtube. i dont want to watch any movies because im saving those for my flight tomorrow.

gotta really ration the distractions you know

there is a little bit of work that I should do but I really don't care. I made some tea again but that was only 3 minutes. already did my laundry and packed, also about 5 minutes. maybe i could have another shower


actually i need to book parking at the airport tomorrow but thats about 3 minutes too.

JK Fresco
Jul 5, 2019

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

Just about every place I've ever lived had Indian lunch buffets for $10-15. You almost always get fresh naan n tandoori chicken at every one. Eat till ya plotz

Buying Indian food a la carte is a rip-off imo.

I had indian buffet and their deluxe weekend buffet was $16. If you order a la carte, every single one of their dishes starts at $15, even the literal poverty ones made of just beans or potato that contain like 30 cents worth of ingredients boiled together and which in India is sold for a penny.

Compare this to Chinese food which is almost always cheap even when it's been fried and flayed and cooked multiple ways and you csn see like a hundred tiny knife cuts all over the chicken or squid or whatever and also it comes in giant portions

My theory is that most indian restaurants are primarily there to fleece the wealthy Indian immigrants and students who want a taste of home. Whereas most American Chinese food is stuck in the ghetto of cheap immigrant restaurants made to fill up working class American stomachs and Americans now refuse ti pay more thsn $12 for any Chinese food

fist4jesus
Nov 24, 2002

Methanar posted:

somebody give me 6 hours worth of entertainment/things to do.


i can't find anything to watch on youtube. i dont want to watch any movies because im saving those for my flight tomorrow.

Jerkoff and take a few really good shits.
Or are you saving that for the plane too?

Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo

Methanar posted:

https://indianfusionrestaurant.ca/#anchor-u552

looks like the plain rice was 4.99.

They gave me the expensive one I guess

That place has too much goin on decor wise for me. But enjoy op.

Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

Methanar posted:

https://indianfusionrestaurant.ca/#anchor-u552

looks like the plain rice was 4.99.

They gave me the expensive one I guess

SHould of ordered the $14.99 rice. Are you poor?

lol if you
Jun 29, 2004

I am going to remove your penis, in thin slices, like salami, just for starters.

Methanar posted:

https://indianfusionrestaurant.ca/#anchor-u552

looks like the plain rice was 4.99.

They gave me the expensive one I guess

you should go there again and order the goat. goat is delicious

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

You got robbed OP I go at lunch time for the buffet and for $11.99 I eat an entire gallon of saag paneer and tikka masala and then before I leave I stuff my pockets full of vegetable pakoras

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost

bird with big dick posted:

You got robbed OP I go at lunch time for the buffet and for $11.99 I eat an entire gallon of saag paneer and tikka masala and then before I leave I stuff my pockets full of vegetable pakoras

agreed i should just go to the indian restaurant that definitely exists that will definitely sell me food for half the price as everything else

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

I got kicked out of a Thai buffet because I took a home Depot bucket that I duct taped over the logo and wrote 'The Bucket from Phuket' on and tried to fill up with pad Thai and leave.
But the Indian place doesn't care. I didn't even change the label. Those guys are cool with me.
The key is to use naan as insulation.

Methanar
Sep 26, 2013

by the sex ghost
im just going to take a nap because I don't want to do anything.

then i guess I'll do my parking booking, and little bit of work.

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

[snarky comment]

Methanar posted:

https://indianfusionrestaurant.ca/#anchor-u552

looks like the plain rice was 4.99.

They gave me the expensive one I guess

no panipuri or choice of chutneys, complete rip off

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

OMFG FURRY posted:

no panipuri or choice of chutneys, complete rip off

There are 3 different chutneys on the menu

Im Ready for DEATH
Oct 5, 2016

this place has pretty good prices for what you get, like 2 meals worth of food for 10 dollars CAN.

https://lazeezshawarma.com/

20 Blunts
Jan 21, 2017
its the loving saffron

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
They use the whole buffalo

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
make it yourself. its not that hard a billion indian people do it every day

Aishlinn
Mar 31, 2011

This might hurt a bit..


King of Bees posted:

Indian food? Not a fan.

:same:

i like almost all of the spices they use, but there's just a couple that's super common in a lot of their cooking that i just straight up don't like the flavor.

Could eat naan bread all day long though.

Whooping Crabs
Apr 13, 2010

Sorry for the derail but I fuckin love me some racoons
They take rupees right? You might be able to find some by smashing some nearby pots

Resting Lich Face
Feb 21, 2019


This case of an intraperitoneal zucchini is unusual, and does raise questions as to how hard one has to push a blunt vegetable to perforate the rectum.
Restaurant in question looks really pretentious; couple with the fact that Edmonton is a 4th rate city at best means they can charge whatever they want.

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe
Indians are poor and they need money

embykins
Jul 4, 2009
nawab skimped on their christmas lunch buffet this year and didn't have their usual mango ice cream and i'm still bitter about this, but as a jew, my restaurant options are limited on this day

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

embykins posted:

nawab skimped on their christmas lunch buffet this year and didn't have their usual mango ice cream and i'm still bitter about this, but as a jew, my restaurant options are limited on this day

Is it because you want to be home watching the football games?

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin
Because they have to deturd it first, OP.

Blockade
Oct 22, 2008

What fancy lad white people indian place did you go to?

I can't imagine paying more than 20 dollars a person for good legit Indian food

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Blockade posted:

What fancy lad white people indian place did you go to?

I can't imagine paying more than 20 dollars a person for good legit Indian food

Never, ever underestimate how much food a goon can eat.
Hell in the taco Bell thread that one dudes order was 3800 calories for ONE meal.
poo poo gets expensive I imagine.

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

The fact that you can go into a restaurant, order a dish, and have it appear before you is really quite amazing. There is an incredible dance of ordering, preparation, storing, cooking, and plating that must occur for it to happen. Each step costs money.


There is a tipping culture in Canada so some of the labor cost is passed on to the customer, however I'll assume you ordered carry-out and didn't tip (not a dig at OPs character, but hes a shut-in and people seldom do). The cost of exotic spices is almost negligible when it comes to food cost. Saffron is expensive as hell but it really only takes a couple strands to season an entire pot. The biggest cost is typically going to be animal protein. I've typically shot for a 22% food cost. That means If we charge $10 for a dish we can spend $2.20 to produce it. The other $7.80 goes towards wages, rent, gas, refrigeration, hood system maintenance, equipment repairs, cleaning chemicals, and other stuff like point of sale software. The margins are incredibly tight in restaurants, which is why so many of them fail. Places charge $5.99 for rice because they know you're buying it for the convenience and it allows them to pad their food cost a bit and give you more value on the other plates.

Indian food is expensive because restaurants are expensive to run, and probably should charge more. Concurrently, customers have been raised on Chipotle and Mcdonald's and think that restaurant food should always be affordable and within reach unless its a "fancy place". So now family run businesses serving authentic cuisine have to push their costs down to compete with multi-national chains. In addition, the trend of "mixed use" apartment blocks going up all over the place tends to subsidize restaurants. People really like the idea of having restaurants and cafes within walking distance of their new urban high-rise. Property developers now offer very inexpensive loans to fill the ground floors of their own buildings, and even throw in incentives like free dining room furniture for restaurateurs. The problem is that you now have a market that is inundated with new concepts that are being run by real-estate investors, and not chefs or true restaurateurs. The market gets flooded with mediocrity and people get tired of trying "that new place" because it inevitably sucks rear end. The consumers' "eating-out" dollar gets spread around hopelessly and honest to goodness mom and pop Indian places now have to charge $19 for the chicken tikka masala because they are only moving 50 units of it a week instead of 150.

I won't even get started on what these trends have done to the labor market.

ENJOY YOUR MEAL, OP.

Resting Lich Face
Feb 21, 2019


This case of an intraperitoneal zucchini is unusual, and does raise questions as to how hard one has to push a blunt vegetable to perforate the rectum.
I mean real talk though it should cost like $15 bucks including tip to get full as gently caress at an Indian restaurant unless you're fat as hell.

Go to the right Indian place.

Butternubs
Feb 15, 2012
Indian food in the UK is very cheap, have you tried oppressing them for a few decades?

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!
This thread is making me want Indian food but I don't know if any of the restaurants in my new city are any good and I don't like bad Indian food :(

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Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

500 good dogs posted:

This thread is making me want Indian food but I don't know if any of the restaurants in my new city are any good and I don't like bad Indian food :(

Suck it up and go get some curry you biryani bitch

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