Three young Franco-Thais – Danai, Anusorn and Nisarat – have just opened Bangkok Bistronomie, where a bowl of pad thai noodles or green chicken curry costs €8.60, while at Délices d'Alissa, the classic Senegalese favourites of yassa, mafe and tiep (types of stew) are priced from €7-€9.
But the best meal we eat here is Malay nasi kandar, a self-service feast of at least 40 dishes, where a plate heaped with delicious okra and bitter gourd, spicy beef rendang, squid and fish curry costs less than two pounds.
Currys' installation cost is £90, AO does not offer an installation service for this machine.
A punnet of mushrooms or a bag of red peppers might seem like a bit of a waste of your money and time when you can choose from aisles of two-for-one ready meals, but if you make healthy ingredients go far – a bolognese becomes a chilli, a fajita filling tomorrow's curry – the cost levels out.
In December 2014, the parliamentary group, whose secretariat is provided by the debt charity StepChange, found that a Hotpoint tumble dryer on sale for £229 at Curry's would cost BrightHouse customers £780 once interest, compulsory insurance and service cover was taken into account.
A basic, tasty Indian cafe lunch of vegetable curry, naan and Coke cost about $9.
Best prices are at AO and Currys, where it costs £199.
Among the dozens of restaurants, some dives, others upscale, we chose the original, 32-year-old Curry in a Hurry, where rice, two decent curries, nan and unlimited salad cost about $10.
A Heineken and a goat curry at Soenda Kelapa restaurant cost less than $10 -- and the food was accompanied by dangdut, a sweet, sinuous Javanese dance music.
Kariya, a popular instant dinner of curry in a pouch that cost 120 yen in 2000, can now be found for 68 yen, according to the blog Yen for Living.
