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Journeyman Pro
Totally the opposite for me! I chose a job on the basis that there was a Thai restaurant 100 yards from the office - rather than across the road from a Golf Simulator!
'Indian' (well, Anglo-Indian made by Bangladeshis) curries tend to be heavy in the stomach whereas Thai ones aren't. Did work very close to Brick Lane and Friday was generally Curry Lunch day - though the Bagel Shop further down was the real discovery!
I make my own Thai meals, really simple and quick - though with commercial paste - and grow my own Thai Basil, Coriander and Bird Eye Chillies Even used to have a couple of Lime Leaf trees!
Tasted a wonderful Malay sweet curry the other day - at Brocket Hall, while watching the Botham Day antics!
Thats interesting that you grow the veg , i import mind and they are gone in a few hours , sold out