Luke Mangan V Neil Perry OR Pie Wars

[mrs.dr.ron]

Yesterday I made the trip to see dr.ron in tassie. I left home at 11am and got to Devonport at 8.15pm - I should have gone to BKK in that time. (The shopping would have been better !!!) But I digress, flying Virgin MCY to MEL and then QF MEL To DPO I had the chance to try a Luke Mangan beef pie ( $8 ) on the virgin flight, and then a Neil Perry spiced duck pie in the J lounge in MEL. After all the hype I had read on here about the NPPP I was expecting great things - but what I discovered is that Luke Mangan can teach Neil Perry a thing or 3 about pies. LM wins hands down, no contest, it was delicious. ( He even has his own tomato relish !!)

I havent been in the MEL J lounge for a few months but I was hoping things had changed, but sadly NO - still the same bloody salads, cheese, chocolate brownie, fruit flan !!!!

I am certainly glad I am not a regular there - the food is BORING.

 

[simongr]

I will finally get to try a NPPP on Thursday in MEL J lounge. I didn't think the LM pie was that great. Also is it fair to compare an $8 meal pie with a PP?

 

[nlagalle]

Yesterday I made the trip to see dr.ron in tassie. I left home at 11am and got to Devonport at 8.15pm - I should have gone to BKK in that time. (The shopping would have been better !!!) But I digress, flying Virgin MCY to MEL and then QF MEL To DPO I had the chance to try a Luke Mangan beef pie ( $8 ) on the virgin flight, and then a Neil Perry spiced duck pie in the J lounge in MEL. After all the hype I had read on here about the NPPP I was expecting great things - but what I discovered is that Luke Mangan can teach Neil Perry a thing or 3 about pies. LM wins hands down, no contest, it was delicious. ( He even has his own tomato relish !!)

I havent been in the MEL J lounge for a few months but I was hoping things had changed, but sadly NO - still the same bloody salads, cheese, chocolate brownie, fruit flan !!!!

I am certainly glad I am not a regular there - the food is BORING.

I still think the NPPP are a whole lot better, have had 2 Luke Mangon ones and I didn't like the first at all and the second was slightly better.

All the NPPP's I've had tasted a lot better.

Personal tastes I guess

 

[markis10]

One could also argue the fairness of comparing a pie reheated at altitude versus one at ground level! I am firmly in the LM camp!

 

[docjames]

What time were you in the MEL J Lounge (I was there late yesterday) and agree - the LM Pie I had on DJ a week ago was better then the NPPP in the J Lounge. The top of the NPPP kept falling off and spilling gravy everywhere.

The 2 curries on offer were pretty terrible too.

 

[nlagalle]

One could also argue the fairness of comparing a pie reheated at altitude versus one at ground level! I am firmly in the LM camp!

True but the first one I had potatoes in it that felt like they weren't cooked properly.

 

[elbarto]

Spice duck pie? Neil Perry ought to be hung, drawn and quartered.

 

[dk4]

Here's some more from Virgin/Mangan -

Domestic Business Class on Virgin

Evenings on the ground at Virgin

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

What time were you in the MEL J Lounge (I was there late yesterday) and agree - the LM Pie I had on DJ a week ago was better then the NPPP in the J Lounge. The top of the NPPP kept falling off and spilling gravy everywhere.

The 2 curries on offer were pretty terrible too.

I was there from 3.30 to 6.30pm. Where were you sitting ?

I think with the NPPP the pastry is too thick and the filling too runny, I liked the thickness of the gravy in the LM pie and the pastry was thin, but held it together.

And every time I have been in that lounge there is a terrible curry !

 

[Mal]

And every time I have been in that lounge there is a terrible curry !

Yeah, the curries are terrible. What meat do they use in them I wonder? Even a slow cooker doesn't save it!

 

[docjames]

I was there from 3.30 to 6.30pm. Where were you sitting ?

I think with the NPPP the pastry is too thick and the filling too runny, I liked the thickness of the gravy in the LM pie and the pastry was thin, but held it together.

And every time I have been in that lounge there is a terrible curry !

I arrived right on 630 so we might have passed on the escalators. I plonked by the window in the "non-quiet zone".

 

[777]

Here's some more from Virgin/Mangan

Where are these pics from? Never seen a pie like that in the lounge!

 

[dk4]

Where are these pics from? Never seen a pie like that in the lounge!

I am surprised!!! Lounge pie was from SYD T2 Virgin Australia Lounge. I thought it had already been discussed on here , but at select times during certain evenings, isn't there a waiter table-service delivering these throughout the lounge? (IMO, a much better system than the Qantas' "you snooze, you lose" one - where anything hot ends up on the plates of the trough vultures or unsupervised children piling them high, for self-consumption.)

Domestic business class pie - surely the destination to which that was served is obvious (at least for the next few days)

 

[munitalP]

One could also argue the fairness of comparing a pie reheated at altitude versus one at ground level! I am firmly in the LM camp!

Who you cut the sponsorship deal with, my mate Luke or VA?

 

[simongr]

Finally a chance to taste a pie!!
Duck and Fragrant spices....

Ratings:

Crust - 3/10 - soggy to the point of being wet
Filling - 2/10 - ahh duck my one true love how I feel betrayed when I can taste you in the background teasing me with your delightful unique flavour only to be stomped on by overly spiced "background" flavours that were meant to complement you - too much chilli (don't think it is szechaun pepper as the residual heat it is too strong) - the pony tailed one strikes again!
Pieness (a measure of how much this is in essence a pie rather than a poncified overly thought gastro treat stuffed into a pastry filling) - 1/10

LM probably wont have to work hard to beat this score.

Not sure whether to gamble on the mussamun curry...

P.s. the pie was not finished and has been abandoned...

 

[medhead]

I like the Duck pie. There is a fundamental flaw with many of the pictures in this thread. It is a pie! It must be covered in dead horse, the more the better. This provides 2 immediate benefits.:firstly the pieness rating is improved considerably because dead horse makes it more pie-y. Secondly, the dead horse covers up any undesirable flavours in the pie.

At school, in Cairns, dead horse covered the (alleged) underlying rat flavour in Stig's pies. It should work just as well to cover up dodgy spice flavour as well. Even Balfours* pies require dead horse.


* BTW these beat both LM and NP, hands down.

 

[serfty]

If you see me putting dead horse on a pie/pastie/sausage roll then it means the said Pie/Pastie/Sausage Roll is really bad!:evil:

 

[Noob]

If you see me putting dead horse on a pie/pastie/sausage roll then it means the said Pie/Pastie/Sausage Roll is really bad!:evil:

What about Luke Mangan Tomato Relish?

 

[777]

I am surprised!!! Lounge pie was from SYD T2 Virgin Australia Lounge. I thought it had already been discussed on here , but at select times during certain evenings, isn't there a waiter table-service delivering these throughout the lounge?

Never seen it. And it isn't like i don't average about one evening a fortnight in the SYD lounge for much of the year.

Hmmm.

 

[medhead]

If you see me putting dead horse on a pie/pastie/sausage roll then it means the said Pie/Pastie/Sausage Roll is really bad!:evil:

Pas I said, dead horse covers a multitude of sins and it isn't a really pie without it. I'm all for a twist of lemon in my bouquet beer, but inner city pies without sauce are just not on.