Now that's what I call a Naan Bread

[Classic Jorge]

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A GIANT challenge for those with even bigger appetites has been laid down by a Bradford restaurant in aid of the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal.

Omar's Balti House in Great Horton Road is looking for curry lovers to have a go at their giant naan bread contest.

Customers will have 35 minutes to eat a balti dish of their choice and a naan measuring 3ft by 1ft 6ins on their own.

More than 700 people, from around the UK, have taken on the challenge over the last ten years but so far no-one has conquered it.


University of Bradford students often try to rise to the task, with some from a far afield as Australia trying their best.

A week's holiday to Barcelona and 100 spending money is up for grabs for anyone with a healthy appetite who can complete the task, which costs 25 for each participant.

Omar's will also be donating 500 from the cash raised by the feat to the Telegraph & Argus Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal.

The Telegraph & Argus is working in partnership with the University of Bradford, Yorkshire Cancer Research and Sovereign Health Care Charitable Trust to reach the target.

The cash will be used to buy a new piece of kit, called a proteomics mass spectrometer, for use by researchers at the university's Institute of Cancer Therapeutics.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Snin]

:calmdown:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

or cannot say. I put it top you that having coped thus far, I have no need of your input, so would request that you keep your advice to yourself. Thank you.

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

unnecessary but of course as you say you are an adult and can stomp your feet and do what you want so crack on by yourself looking for cheap arguments and have fun doing it..dont feel its pointless, immature and inane oh no..dont you feel that..you the TOP DOG you just go right ahead Sir..top of the morning to you toodle pip

[Snin]

thought i'd save you the trouble of doing the stock answer to that one ..just trying to help :thumbup:

[Berni]

25 quid to enter mind. And that's without drinks? Thieving f**ker's raking it in imo.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

The lamb ribs at Smoking Goat in Denmark St are quite stunning. Finer than the finest of pork ribs.

I'm going to try to make them tomorrow.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You might think it’s reprehensible to review after several strong ones, but you’d be wrong: Smoking Goat serves the ultimate pisshead food, bashing its way through the booze with a mighty mallet of heat and fat, spice and salt and smoke. There’s nothing subtle, nothing requiring a finely-tuned palate. The vinyl soundtrack is grungy and loud, as are the hooting, cocktail-glugging gals propping up the bar. I may or may not be imagining the ossified puffer fish dangling from the ceiling.

The menu is super-brief, so we have most of it apart from whole crab, which might be beyond our current motor skills. We’re soon up to our elbows in vast slabs of meat: pork belly fragrant with five spice, and lamb ribs fresh from the sparking wood-fired barbecue, tearing off strips with greasy fingers and slurping them through sauces sharp with lime and fish sauce and belligerent with vicious little scuds. What a blast. Som tam is indifferent, the papaya needing to be more finely shredded and muddled properly to marry the sour-sweet-fiery flavours, but sticky rice, delivered in little plastic bags, is all cloy and bite, and perfect for sponging up sticky juices.

It’s mostly more like northern Thai street food than anything you’d find in the restaurants of Bangkok, but fish sauce chicken wings point to Portland’s food hero Andy Ricker and his Pok Pok, and owe more to Vietnam than to Thailand. They’re very similar to Ricker’s, with their crackly, caramelised exterior (crisp from rice flour and pungent with garlic and fish sauce), and steaming, succulent, salty flesh.

We get into woozy conversation with the cool young guys at the next table; one turns out to be a chef at Som Saa, London’s other rock’n’roll Thai BBQ. They leave shortly afterwards, probably grossed out by our grins, Shane McGowan-esque thanks to brutally adherent chunks of carbonised lamb fat.

The food at Smoking Goat isn’t finger-licking good, it’s fist-and-wrist-and-possibly-elbow-and-knee-licking good. So here’s my advice for dealing with the whole reservations minefield: have two dinners. I realise it won’t work for everyone (wusses), but hey, no queuing.

[Snin]

who is this f**k head Sir C ? shirley you dont listen to a word the twunt says >?

[Berni]

[Berni]

And snin, with the best will in the world, you are not best place to judge prose.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Next time I'm ordering two portions of everything.

[Snin]

once its been decoded

[Berni]

http://static.bbc.co.uk/history/img/ic/640/images/resources/topics/enigma.jpg

[Berni]

I'm having defrosted chilli con carne tonight. :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You'll be eating a Pizza Hut pizza at 22:45, mate.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Saturday we'll be at the new Szechuan place in Oxford which is alleged to be amazing.

Sorry.

[Berni]

I might have to kebab it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

on a retail park?

[Berni]

What have I done? :-(

[Snin]

without checking if its ok with me ..its not beter than the opium den is it ?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

SoJo on Hythe Bridge St is the best chinese in the UK outside London - but this new place is also reckoned to be remarkable.

Also, since when was Reading Oxford?

Also, my wife comes from Oxford and I lived there for several years so *******s to you.

[Snin]

than reading thank you very much..forest hill raves ( you will pass te woods when on A40 towards M40) ..spiral tribe, D.i.Y :cloud9: I've not been out in oxford for years though tbh except to Olis Thai and The prison hotel but even that was while back but now im in marlow i must nip down there aGAIN and see old chums imo. sojo looks good and thanks for heads up on opium den

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

[Snin]

[Snin]

olis is newer and tucked down normal street but amazing thai

http://olisthai.com/

[redgunamo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Snin]

[redgunamo]

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

Those were the days, my friend :-|

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

There's a decent Lebanese just round the corner, past OUP. A very passable shawarma, for the provinces.

[Snin]

[Snin]

[Snin]

:banghead:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]