GoldfishBrand Chinese Curry Sauce Concentrate, 405g

tastes just like the curry sauce you receive in takeaways and restaurants. very easy to use - just add hot water - you can make it as mild or as strong as you wish by adding less or more of the paste. very economical - goes a long way. very good value for money.

The best Chinese paste! Makes curry's exactly the same flavour as our favourite Chinese takeaway . Except now we are saving a fortune. The only prob was I didn't read it properly and ended up paying high postage. My fault. There was an offer if I bought two and there would have been no postage at all. The makers have changed the storage instructions. You used to be able to keep it in a cool place for 6 months, now it says - Once opened refrigerate and eat within a month. It's a fairly large pot so I will risk leaving it longer. Highly recommend product.

This is the exact paste the Chinese restaurants use! I saw it on the telly. I have made this curry with chicken thigh meat many times in the past five years. It says madras but tastes Chinese owing to the aniseed taste. Also five spice taste which Chinese curry is made of. The Japanese curry they do, same tub, is exactly like katsu curry. One complaint. There is no cooking guidance on the tub!! I dissolve the chopped up paste in two litres of water. Then add two kilos of chicken thigh meat (no bone). But two kilos of drumsticks will do instead. NB: important point. I add a rounded teaspoon of Rajah extra hot chilli powder. The paste along is definitely NOT hot enough! LO.

To us this is a little harsh and unrefined in flavour when it's made up straight. It possesses the flavours of uncooked spices. Anyone versed in spices knows that they need to be cooked out to develop a rounded flavour. There's definately a bitter tang from the cumin.So, for a straight up cook-and-serve proper Chinese curry sauce we don't really rate this as highly as we rate the Mayflower range.I've also razzed this up with just a little creamed coconut and stock then I let it simmer for about 20 minutes, and this improved the harshness drastically and made the whole flavour smoother. It tasted really good! I do this often anyway with the Mayflower brand for my five year old who loves very mild flavoured curry.As a sauce paste dissolved in stock, to add in to stir fried meat and vegetables it worked much better too. I particularly enjoyed it as part of a veggie mushroom curry.It also seems that a little less is required than when using the Mayflower powder blends although it takes a bit more welly with the whisk to dissolve it!The tub is very neat, compact and easy to store; for folk like me who like to reuse anything and everything packaging wise its a useful tub with a robust body and lid, if you don't mind that it advertises the contents. Being a black plastic body you couldn't recycle it though (boo).

I love this curry sauce. It is not too hot or strong tasting. It is so easy to use just mix some paste with cold water to give a lovely sauce to which anything can be added. It is best initially to go by measured amounts but with practice amounts do not need to be measured so accurately. This is the second time that I have bought this item. Probably will; not be the last.

This is what I’ve been looking for. Chip shop curry. You have to play with the instructions to get the consistency you want but it is sooo easy. I only wanted a me portion so I reduced the amounts but I had to increase the water as it was too thick, I had a lot of curry. I also had to make chips just to try it out such a sacrifice. I will definitely get this again.

I absolutely love this curry paste. Make it up as directed on the tub and it turns out perfect every time. It tastes exactly like the curry sauce you'd be paying £2 for at the local chippy for a small tub of, so this is extremely economical.My favourite way to use this (other than with a plate of chips) is to add some stewing beef and onion in the slow cooker along with the prepared sauce. Put it in before I leave for work in the morning and by the time I get home, I have a lovely slow cooked beef curry waiting for me.

Taste's great and easy to use but horribly expensive for the size of tub you get. I expect the company owners to be sunning themselves in the Maldives by now...I used to own a chippy and we bought this product wholesale. I know I can't get the same value again easily but this caught me by surprise. Must be the fresh saffron and ground up meteor dust in the mixture that didn't used to be there. Caveat Emptor