Monkeynuts
Hello sailor
littlebabyjesus said:
Sorry to be a pedant, but I have to claim Babur for Forest Hill (decent places are a little thin on the ground round here so we have to protect them jealously!)
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Sorry to be a pedant, but I have to claim Babur for Forest Hill (decent places are a little thin on the ground round here so we have to protect them jealously!)
Cultural differences innit. Not every country in the world shares the Brit obsession with personal space and public decorum. If you walk down a souk in Tangiers or the night market in Chang Mai or the beach in Montego Bay you'll get the same or more aggressive sales tactics. And a good thing too.
Monkeynuts
Hello sailor
phildwyer said:
Erm why would aggressive sales tactics be good? I'm unconvinced that Thais or Jamaicans would be all that appreciative either TBH, given the choice
gaijingirl
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phildwyer said:
Well not uniquely British - you don't see that in lots of places.
gaijingirl said:
Hmm... Japan and Western Europe are the only places I haven't seen it. It is especially funny to see British tourists' reactions to the kind of aggressive selling that goes on in Islamic countries. They can't handle it at all, it freaks them right out. The locals think they're terribly sensitive little flowers.
gaijingirl
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phildwyer said:
That's what I was thinking too - so quite far off being uniquely British really!!
Crispy
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Well, I wouldn't expect to do much business in an Egyptian market by being very british, quiet, with carefully labelled prices and maybe 5% off the slow-moving stock. I'd expect to have to muscle in with the other big boys and shout my wares.
Likewise, if I wanted to sell to timid brits in their native environment, I wouldn't shout at them. Simple, really.
Likewise, if I wanted to sell to timid brits in their native environment, I wouldn't shout at them. Simple, really.
gaijingirl
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Mind you - when you go to the fruit and veg market there's that whole "lovely apples £1 for 10" type thing going on - so maybe we're not as timid as we think??
Perhaps it's more about where you are within the country - I have seen some quite aggressive food selling of the souk type going on in Japan - just recently at a local products farmers' market outside a train station, you couldn't get through without being waylaid and made to sample (although nowhere near as full on - just "aggressive" for Japan).
Perhaps it's more about where you are within the country - I have seen some quite aggressive food selling of the souk type going on in Japan - just recently at a local products farmers' market outside a train station, you couldn't get through without being waylaid and made to sample (although nowhere near as full on - just "aggressive" for Japan).
DeadManWalking
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littlebabyjesus said:
Careful there are two Baburs, one opposite the Brockley Jack that is take away only, and one in Honor Oak Park that's eat in, different kitchens and the food is better in the HOP one. Well presented but not big portions.
Louloubelle
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You want to walk past at 5pm
they put the prices down to £2 to get rid of the last of the food and they all shout "ohlee too pouh, jus too pouh laydeee" while waving trays of food in your face
drives me nuts
they put the prices down to £2 to get rid of the last of the food and they all shout "ohlee too pouh, jus too pouh laydeee" while waving trays of food in your face
drives me nuts
good to see Dwyer's still generalising - incorrectly - as a way of life 
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
If people shout at me and piss me off, fair play to them, but they don't get my custom.
But my rather greater objection is the amount of sodium nitrite they load their meat with. On having finally bought what looked to be a half decent green chicken curry, I noticed as I bit down on the chicken that it had the consistency of soggy toilet paper.
That shit is out of order. By all means don't put as much meat in the portions, but conning people into thinking they're getting a good deal by pumping their food with chemicals that make you retain water, is pretty despicable.
But my rather greater objection is the amount of sodium nitrite they load their meat with. On having finally bought what looked to be a half decent green chicken curry, I noticed as I bit down on the chicken that it had the consistency of soggy toilet paper.
That shit is out of order. By all means don't put as much meat in the portions, but conning people into thinking they're getting a good deal by pumping their food with chemicals that make you retain water, is pretty despicable.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
For starters
Camden is shite, utter, utter shite, I ve seen mice, rats you fucking name all over those "food" places - wouldn't want my cat to die a painful death by eating any of the crap - I should point out I lived in Camden for 5 years, Kentish Yown for a couple etc so its not just some kneee jerk South of the River Bollocks, but over recent years it really has become utter crap-land
Babur is ace, their Chefs are all ex Oberoi guys, one from Jodpur one from Dehli - Oberoi Hotels regularly top polls in India for the best eats - I saw one Oberoi chef on TV in India a few years go completely and utterly berzerk when he was offered a taste of Chicken Tikka Masala - guess hes not keen on our UK version of Indian eats. He was also very amusing on the subject of Balti, saying it was actually a Punjabi word for bucket, well actually he pointed out that his family used to use a balti to relieve themsleves in at night so the results to be spread around the farm adding that the CTM tasted like it had been cooked in one of his old buckets. It was ace, I laffed and laffed, better than any cookery show I've seen in the UK, much better insults.
Camden is shite, utter, utter shite, I ve seen mice, rats you fucking name all over those "food" places - wouldn't want my cat to die a painful death by eating any of the crap - I should point out I lived in Camden for 5 years, Kentish Yown for a couple etc so its not just some kneee jerk South of the River Bollocks, but over recent years it really has become utter crap-land
Babur is ace, their Chefs are all ex Oberoi guys, one from Jodpur one from Dehli - Oberoi Hotels regularly top polls in India for the best eats - I saw one Oberoi chef on TV in India a few years go completely and utterly berzerk when he was offered a taste of Chicken Tikka Masala - guess hes not keen on our UK version of Indian eats. He was also very amusing on the subject of Balti, saying it was actually a Punjabi word for bucket, well actually he pointed out that his family used to use a balti to relieve themsleves in at night so the results to be spread around the farm adding that the CTM tasted like it had been cooked in one of his old buckets. It was ace, I laffed and laffed, better than any cookery show I've seen in the UK, much better insults.
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Mind you, the feeling of total exclusion can get a bit lonely from time to time.
Mind you, the feeling of total exclusion can get a bit lonely from time to time.
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RubyTwobikes
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bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
i'm sure i heard something. must have been the wind.
phildwyer said:
Chiang Mai night market?
Yeah, I guess if you walk down a street with one of the highest concentrations of people selling overpriced souveneirs to Western tourists in the whole of Southeast Asia you might encounter some slightly aggressive sales tactics. You´ll find things much more relaxed just about everywhere else in the region, though I can´t remember getting stuff shoved in my face even in Chiang Mai´s night market - maybe you just look like a mug?
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