The canteen was a dead...

...loss today, so "Torquay Slag" suggested a little walk up to Angel to find something wholesome and cheap to eat, we had a stroll round the market first, which was a *lot* more exciting than my last visit (midwinter)...pirate DVDs and fake jewellery/watches were evident in great abundance plus about 6 Thai food stalls, the ubiquitous fruit and veg men and various colourful knick-knack purveyors..."TS" was intending to get a BBQ going for his housemates tonight, so he took the opportunity to pick up some peppers and mushrooms, as well as a few nice looking chicken breasts and mangoes to facilitate kebab action in the garden...

The place we chose to munch was called "Indian Veg", funnily enough a vegan resturant, not really my normal kind of thing at all...but the price was right to risk the experiment (£2.95 for **ALL YOU CAN EAT**!!!) -

- and it was actually rather good, there were 3 kinds of rice (standard pilau, brown and some sort of pearl kind) and 5 curries on offer (including a really watery, yellow dhall, something really lime flavoured and most notably a fairly hot potato and pea one in a thick tomato gravy) next to the hot plates there were 4 salads, various fried goodies and mini chapaties. Take a selection of the above (for "selection" read "heap of everything on offer") topped off with a mint raitha and a nice firey mango sauce and you get this -

- which was, not *special* like a fine chicken Dhansak, but certainly very nice (I think I just can't get used to curry without chicken after all these years seeking perfection), and was equally certainly worth the money (I filled, and almost cleared 2 plates, so it must have been fairly good)...on the right day, I might even think about a return trip... ;)