The great Asian B-B-Q debate

So after my post about the established This N That Curry Cafe in the Northern Quater, I thought I would tell you about one of the new Pretenders to the crown....Hunter B-B-Q and Asian take away.
This place is situated on the main road in teh Northern Quarter, just near This N That, and has only been open for a couple of years now. Its a small place withs eating for maybe 12 people but it does a

mean Chicken Tikka sandwich.

Now Hunters is famous around the area for two things....being open dead late and Game curry dishes. I'm not really a game kind of guy....I find it a bit to greasy for me....but if your down with game get into it. At Hunters, as with This N That" they do a selection of curries each day. i think they cook about 9. usually 3 or 4 veggie a couple of standard dishes (ie Chicken or lamb chops) and then a couple of game ones. I'll try and get a full menu at some point and add it on to my post but a sample of the dishes are: partridge curry, venison curry, rabbit curry and Full quall's in masala sauce...wow.

Along side this they also run a great coal B-B-Q. they have a range of things from fresh shish kebabs (spiced lamb mince sausages), chicken or lamb donnor (spiced meat strips layered onto a spit and slowly cooked) to chicken tikka. all come on afresh Nann bread (which is cooked down stairs in a clay tandorie to order) with a selcetion of sauces and salad.

I'll be honest and say that a good chicken Tikka Sandwich is one of my favourite things to eat at lunch time. Tikka is a method of marinading the chicken in a spicy yougurht sauce that preserves the meat and it gives it either a mustard yellow or deep red colour depending on the spice used. I always rated a place in a market in Cheatham Hill as the best, but i think that has now been surpassed by Hunters. The chicken is excellently spiced in tikka sauce and put onto a steel spit. They are put over the red hot coals to order and cooking time is about 4 minutes or so. The tender on the inside although I really like mine with a good amount of charred areas and for me hunters hits the button on this better than most. Stick it on a freshly tandoria oven baked nann and lash on a handfull of onions, letucce tomatoes and cucumber and your ready to roll.

Hunters also offer a good selection of sauces to add to your freshly cooked kebab. As well as the usual mayo and ketchup you find at most take aways they also have a garlic mayo, yoghurt sauce, mango chuckney and a chillie sauce that could wake the dead.....in fact its so hot that the first time you go in the old indian fella warns you and will only put a small squirt on till you know you can handle it.

I always leave hunters full and with a good chillie tingle in my lips.....but a word of warning if your gonna get stuck in with your finger make sure you wash your hands before picking your nose or going for a slash.....chillie doesn't mix well with your intimate parts!