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Mangal Ockabasi in Stoke Newington. Chicken shish with yoghurt. Gorgeous.
Stoke Newington Road is the epicentre of the Ockabasi!
Pretty sure I've eat at the Mangal, it's in a little side street if my memory serves me right?
If you're gonna have a 'baby's head' - best it be Hollands....
Now we know why you go runningOur local kebab house does what they call a 'Share' kebab, which consists of:
- Naan bread
- Doner
- Chicken shish
- Steak shish
- Lamb shish
- Kofte
- Chips
- Salad
- Sauces
The whole thing can feed three people easily. It's insane.
As a lad from Accrington, Baxenden (home of Hollands) is in the Corporation so it was always homegrown stuff to me when I still lived there.That makes me hungry just looking at it! Hollands are the best, although there was a chippy in Rochdale that sold home-made puddings that were pretty damn good. The chippys up here get their pies from Hollands, but sadly no baby's heads. I've resorted to buying them from the supermarket, steaming them at home and just buying chips and curry.
You can get real Cumberland sausage though.
Nothing wrong with a sober kebab if you can find a good kebab place. Grilled meat, plenty of fresh raw veg piled on top and a nice kick of chilli - stuff so long as you can find a good place.
My "Get shitfaced and grab a greasy doner on the way home" days are behind me but there were quite a few times that Saturday night leftover kebab became Sunday morning breakfast. And it always hit the spot!
Cumbria? They talk funny there. I lived and worked in Workington for 4 months in the mid 80's for TSB. Actually, I quite liked it, people were friendly - plus 'Cockermouth' always makes my inner child snigger.
I seem to remember it as being a bit sing-song, soft Geordie, but as I said before, nice people I could live there.They do talk funny here, there's a whole dialect to get to grips with. I live in Silloth, just up from Workington, been here about 7 years now, it's a lovely place but there are things I miss, such as good takeaways, street lights and the metric system.
To be fair, Manchester is the only place that has heard of thoseIt's one thing I really miss about Manchester, there were several places I could get a good kebab. That and steak and kidney pudding at the chippy, another thing Cumbria seems not to have heard of.
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