yes the best way to decide if an ethnic restaurant in Britain is any good is to check how many of that same ethnic group go there who are not related to the owners or their family or simply to show off..
@Deezl 515588 wrote:
That doesn’t surprise me, i remember there being a massive market filled with all sorts of exotic plants/herbs etc. that i’d never even heard of lol. Although that is actually quite a distance to travel just for groceries.
Bear in mind this was a British Asian extended family so there were literally 3 cars and boxes full of stuff being purchased in bulk, shared across 3 main family groups. Petrol was far cheaper, and most British Asian families drove small family cars (often Japanese), so it worked out cheaper and less hassle than buying these things locally, as the stuff in the local shops came from TRS (T R Suterwalla and Sons) in Southall anyway.
Then Waitrose opened up in the 1980s and started selling “multicultural food” so our parents bought it all from there instead.
Coincidentally on my last few driving lessons I am always getting caught up in a big traffic queue in a double roundabout which was fine until they built a new Waitrose there (first one in Ipswich) and now it is solid with traffic (Waitrose are apparently funding a entire new road junction to deal with this)
