The Yeo's
website can be quite confusing, as it has Lamb Curry' and 'Mutton Curry with Potatoes'.
The review I've done is on the Lamb Curry, which says on one side in malay print 'Kari Kambing', and 'Mutton Curry' on the other side. It contains potatoes too. The major ingredients are the same as the 'Mutton Curry With Potatoes'. I couldn't get my hands on the Mutton Curry With Potatoes to do a comparison analysis, so I had to compare it with other types of curry meat in the Yeo's stable, ie. the Chicken Curry and Beef Curry.
What can I say about the Lamb Curry? It's delicious! The Lamb Curry is an all rounder. The meat has been cooked to a tender, mouth-watering consistency, while still retaining it's flavour. As for the gravy, after finishing the meat and 'tatoes, I was yearning for bread and regretted not buying any to finish the gravy with.
In comparison to the Beef Curry, well the Beef Curry was a let down in more than 1 ways. The meat didn't retain much of its beefy taste, and as for its consistency... well it closely resembles tissue and rubber mixed together, and the gravy wasn't as full-bodied and tantalising to the mouth as compared to the Lamb Curry. I had one big ass potato in my can of Beef Curry, and was saving it for last. It was kinda pointless in the end. Quite a letdown actually, to taste a potato that didn't absorb much of the flavour of the beef stock gravy.
Let's move on to the Chicken Curry. Ah.... the YEo's Chicken Curry. The first in the canned curry line from Yeo's. Just holding it in my hands, and already I'm awash with childhood memories of being left at home alone for days on end, without food, without water, just a few candles and a piece of rock to bash open the supply of Yeo's Chicken Curry my parents left for me.
It is with great difficulty that I carry on with the review at this point. It took me some time alone with my can of Chicken Curry to reminisce about those good old days, sweet memories of sleeping near the hearth cos in those days, the blanket was yet to be invented.
After pulling myself together and regaining composure, I tried once again to open the Chicken Curry with my trusty can opener, 'Can Raper'. The can opens easily and I get my first view of the content inside the can. Sigh... after so many years!
Putting it into my mouth was easy. I was still hungry, having major munchies since morning and skipping lunch for this can food shootout. Ahhh... still as delectable to the palate as what it once was, if not more so, the taste of the Chicken Curry brought tears to my eyes. The chicken meat is so very tender, it melts in your mouth. Yet it retains flavour well enough that you can appreciate the chicken curry with or without rice/bread to go with it. The gravy too is like the Lamb Curry's. Distilled with the flavour of the chicken, and rich with the taste of its spices, neither one compromising the taste of the other, the Chicken Curry is obviously a crowd pleaser. After my second piece of chicken meat, I pop in 1 of my 2 potatoes (it is a smaller cut than the one in the Beef Curry can) into my mouth and squirmed with delight in my office chair. MMMmmmMmmmmm!!! Saying 'yummy' with a mouth full of potato and gravy was a bit difficult, so I resorted to making ecstatic noises. It held the flavour of the Chicken Curry, and was cooked till near the point of diffusing into the gravy, yet still firm enough you can tell the chicken meat and the potatoes apart.
Coming to a close, the Beef Curry would only warrant a 2 and a half stars, 3 at the most. The Chicken Curry would rate at 4 and a half. The Lamb Curry takes the prize with a solid 5 star performance.
Why the Lamb Curry, you may wonder. After all, the Chicken Curry does have a special place in my heart. My answer is thus; this is a review, and should be done fairly so that my fellow stoners will know whether they're getting their money's worth.
The Lamb Curry was equal to the Chicken Curry in most categories, and superior in some. The fact that it does not have any bones may have helped tip the scales to its advantage, but I'm too occupied to discuss all that now. This reviewer is happily opening his second can of Lamb Curry.
So till next time, have a good smoke and enjoy your grub/snack/munchies or whatever you kids call it nowadays.
ps. the prices of the 3 reviewed items are about the same, just +/- by a few cents.
