Few years ago, were were getting into fusion food. Following on from Big Pete's "Bum Burner" range, we started putting real Thai food made by real thai chefs into the pies. This fusion of Olde English cuisine and extreme chilli pastes works well, espescilly when the bars turn out.
Whilst not expecting a book out on the subject anytime soon, they were well received and almost everybody bought them. Most people revert to the more traditional waistline improvers during the daylight hours, but after dark... or more importantly, after the pub, it has to be hot.
The range so far is:
Pad Krapow
Green Curry
Penang Curry
Massman
Laab
They are fully chillied up and no concessions made to feeble western spice sensitivities. My Thai friends in Bangkok say they are aurthentic..... They are hot... beware.
Now a pie can satisfy those post binge cravings normally satisfied only by Kebab (with chilli and extra hot chilli sauce) or Pizza (hot and spicey) with jalapeno and chillies. In the days before the Kebab shop, we would go for a late night sit down curry to satisfy this craving, but it was expensive and dangerous. Often, customers would use the 30 minute waiting time to settle old scores, start a fight, generally insult the Indians with crappy immitations of their accents or in some cases pass out due to the previous 8 hours binging.
In one truly memorable incident in a pizza queue, a fight broke out as usual. Only this time, it was two people I knew and my friend also knew them both... Hello Sue. The case went to Crown Court and being the drunken act that it was, everybody was friends again by the time the case came up. So,we went to court all of us in the same car, I was a prosecution witness and Sue was a defence witness!!!! We had lunch together beers on the way home and other than 10 minute each in the witness stand, nothing was out the ordinary.
For sure the area around Ripon market place would have been tidier on sunday mornings if this treat had been available back then. Pad Kapao works the best in this situation, it's spicy beyond belief and a drier consistency in the sausage roll format than a more traditional Curry Pie or lesser spotted chilli con-carne pie.
As ever, we have new lines in the testing stages and there will be much more on this later in the year.
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