www.jpgimage.co.uk/full.php?image=1091

A website i'm doing lists about 35-40 local takeaways and restaurants 
that provides a home delivery service .

While talking to one of the regulars on the website forum - he said he 
didnt always know what he wanted to eat - and wanted the website to make 
suggestions on what to have .

The above screenshot shows the chinese sub menu [1] and a list of 
suggestions that are displayed underneath .

Just curious if any of you lot have any problem in deciding what to have 
or if you would find this sort of (dish suggestion) thingy useful .


[1] i havent done the indian section yet or i would have used that for 
the screenshot

On 7 Jun, 18:49, Krustov  wrote:
> www.jpgimage.co.uk/full.php?image=1091
>
> A website i'm doing lists about 35-40 local takeaways and restaurants
> that provides a home delivery service .
>
> While talking to one of the regulars on the website forum - he said he
> didnt always know what he wanted to eat - and wanted the website to make
> suggestions on what to have .
>
> The above screenshot shows the chinese sub menu [1] and a list of
> suggestions that are displayed underneath .
>
> Just curious if any of you lot have any problem in deciding what to have
> or if you would find this sort of (dish suggestion) thingy useful .
>
> [1] i havent done the indian section yet or i would have used that for
> the screenshot

maybe knowing what *not* to have is more important when it comes to
take aways?

Quoting from message 

 posted on 25 Jul 2008 by wazza  I would like to add:

>> Just curious if any of you lot have any problem in deciding what to have
>> or if you would find this sort of (dish suggestion) thingy useful .
>>
>> [1] i havent done the indian section yet or i would have used that for
>> the screenshot

> maybe knowing what *not* to have is more important when it comes to
> take aways?

I think the problem is regional variations - most of the Indian 
restaurants/takeaways around here include potato in a vindaloo, in 
many other areas they don't.

Another problem is the degree of "hotness" - that which rural N. Wales 
regards as "very hot" could well be "medium" in Bradford.

I've eaten in Indian restaurants from the north of Scotland to the 
southwest/southeast of England and found a great difference in 
description of the dishes on offer, I assume takeaways would be the 
same.

An indication of vegetarian main courses could be a good idea.

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 writes

>> maybe knowing what *not* to have is more important when it comes to
>> take aways?

>I think the problem is regional variations - most of the Indian
>restaurants/takeaways around here include potato in a vindaloo, in
>many other areas they don't.

Arnold, north of Nottingham, I had a very nice series of dishes from a 
local takeaway where the vindaloo was a mild potato curry (Rollaston 
Drive?)

very nice indeed ...

Here it's brutal (I rarely try anything hotter than "Madras" locally) 
and most of the restaurants are Bengali / Bangladeshi run ... not really 
"Indian" at all ... the dishes some serve that they say *are* Bengali 
are nice ... and those that are that honest ... well, their *other* food 
seems a "cut above", too

In a local shop, on the counter, where you would find lollipops in some 
shops ... chilis ... (look like Scotch Bonnets)!!

A Bengali co-worker used to have raw chili with her chips ... her home 
cooking was lovely stuff; nowhere near so spicy as that would suggest
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Rex M F Smith