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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 7, 2017 13:40:02 GMT
Even though the food is generally less good at buffets, I really appreciate the concept since you get to see what you are choosing and can also decide on the portion that you want. If only they could improve the quality. (Although I do recall time I spent with my parents in Phuket, Thailand, which had an absolutely phenomenal buffet both for breakfast and for dinner -- even grilled lobster was an option, along with sauerkraut and sausage because many of the customers were German.)
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 29, 2017 17:53:09 GMT
I had a very nice meal with Mossie today -- steak with roasted potatoes, followed by pear tart for him and crème brûlée for me.
It was at a Chez Papa location, with which some other members are also familiar.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 30, 2017 5:31:56 GMT
Glad you had a nice time. I was yesterday at a Chinese buffet. International food. I do better.
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Post by amboseli on Oct 2, 2017 8:31:43 GMT
Our yesterday's meal was at a tapas bar 'modern style' in Dénia at the Costa Blanca/Spain. We'll be in Dénia until the end of the month and this won't be our last meal at Tasta'm.
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Post by rikita on Oct 2, 2017 11:21:04 GMT
brunch with various relatives yesterday.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 4, 2017 16:32:04 GMT
Last night I was a guest at a very nice restaurant where I had a bean salad with smoked eel as a starter, steamed cod with more beans in cream as my main dish, and a rice pudding made with white chocolate served with passion fruit sorbet for dessert. What the other people ate didn't look shabby at all either.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 30, 2017 13:31:00 GMT
Once again as a guest, today's lunch was a thali in an Indian restaurant -- pappadoms, tandoori chicken, ground meat, raita, dal, rice and cheese nan, kulfi for dessert.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 14, 2017 23:21:55 GMT
I went ro a restaurant with some Anyport friends and had a delicious creamed parsnip soup, followed by beef jowls with mashed potatoes and finished off with a superb lemon cream with cake.
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Post by amboseli on Dec 15, 2017 11:11:33 GMT
My husband and I went Christmas shopping yesterday and I had picked a restaurant for lunch, on basis of the menu on their website.
After we were seaten and served our aperitifs, we were given the menu which was completely different than the one on their website. Aaaargh! I hate it when I go for turbot and can only choose between salmon and goldbream (which I like as well, but not yesterday!).
So, I had goldbream 'mediterranean style' with green curry. Never knew that curry is mediterranean ...
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Post by rikita on Jan 6, 2018 23:42:08 GMT
went to our "regular" indian restaurant on new year's day, agnes chose for us to go there ... this time i took the same thing as mr. r., which was a mixed grill platter. and of course we had bhatura, which was the main thing agnes ate (she had some rice, too), and mr. r. had garlic naan.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 20:16:52 GMT
Last evening we went to a local restaurant here in the neighborhood. One of their specials was blackened octopus.
It was amazing!!
Even better was I had a voucher from my bartering with them lemons so it absorbed the cost.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 22, 2018 5:57:15 GMT
Last night I had plans to go with friends to an Israeli restaurant, but we had not reserved so they were full. We ended up in an American style kosher diner instead. Two of us had absolutely gigantic pastrami sandwiches with cole slaw and fries. Had to ask for a doggy bag. It was really good, though, and a nice change from the usual fare. It wasn't strictly kosher, because I noticed that they are open on Saturdays.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 22, 2018 7:43:16 GMT
I had a hamburger with chavignol cheesecyesterday The whole cheese. Not exactly light.
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 24, 2018 13:16:44 GMT
My family took me to a surprise birthday meal at The Cinammon Club in London.
Tell you more later.
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Post by whatagain on Feb 24, 2018 19:34:19 GMT
yesterday at lunch a greek in louvain-la-neuve, then for dinner a greek at Genval... Bothe very good.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 25, 2018 22:19:57 GMT
K2, was that in le Marais, or the 19th? Schwartz, the most famous such place here, is also open on the Sabbath.
Casimira, lovely!
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 25, 2018 22:23:59 GMT
It was in the Marais. Actually that place has three locations in Paris now. I gave my doggy bag to French Mystique when we stopped by the bar where he works. www.schwartzsdeli.fr/ |
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Post by lagatta on Feb 26, 2018 2:00:25 GMT
Not only open on the Sabbath, but some burgers and other dishes combine red meat or poultry and cheese, which is a no no.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 26, 2018 5:47:16 GMT
Thank god for 'rule' breakers.
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Post by questa on Feb 26, 2018 13:02:32 GMT
Our Indonesian language class heard about a new "cool" restaurant "just like a real Indonesian one". As there were ten of us we phoned ahead and ordered the Banquet meal ie everyone gets a bit of everything.
We arrived to find it was like in Indonesia...an L shaped room with a sofa closing off one end where the family's kids were watching TV or doing homework, sitting on the carpeted floor. The remainder of the floor space had 6 tables which we set up as a long table for us.
Mum and Dad were cooking up a storm so the eldest kid grabbed an order book and did the drinks...he was about 11 years old. No alcohol as they were waiting for their licence.
Dad came out and covered the table with large banana leaves then 2 big bowls of steamed rice and chicken broth which you sip between other foods to freshen the palate.
The entrees were chicken grilled on a stick with peanut sauce, spring roll with chicken, and tofu filled with vegetables (crunchy) and beef pancake with egg.
Another round of banana leaves...they were our plates. All the meals were cooked with Indonesian spices and herbs, coconut milk, chili and served with sambal and pickles. We had a very spicy beef stew, fried chicken, prawns or squid, curry chicken and a dish made with boiled eggs, potatoes and tomatoes.
Vegetables were either quick steamed or stir fried with Asian veges being used. Dessert was black rice pudding with coconut cream.
We try to speak in Indonesian all the time when we go out. Words like "thank you", "delicious" and "excellent cooks" tripped off our tongues. We plan to "kembali lagi" (come back again) soon.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2018 15:19:34 GMT
Wowee, Questa! I imagine you must have been all geared up for disappointment in the food, but it sounds as though they really delivered on the authenticity.
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Post by questa on Feb 26, 2018 22:29:08 GMT
Actually, Bixa, as soon as we saw the set-up we knew that we would be in for a good genuine Indo meal. Too many restaurants have 'chefs' who claim to 'express their personality' by serving up some 'fusion' that is neither Indo or anything else. It is what I get when I clean out my fridge, chuck anything still edible into a pan and add chili. Serve with rice.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 26, 2018 22:38:31 GMT
So your fellow students are also "old Indonesia hands"?  |
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 27, 2018 6:04:37 GMT
About the only think I remember how to say in Indonesian is jalan jalan when the tuk-tuk or taxi drivers begin to swarm.
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Post by questa on Feb 27, 2018 8:16:23 GMT
Marvellous word jalan...means road, path, highway, route. Walk, travel, meander etc. Used for names...Jalan Fleet = Fleet Street. Jalan-jalan = just walking (don't need transport) jalan kaki = go by foot. berjalan = to travel. berjalanan = the journey. pejalanan = the person doing the journey... and that is just in common speech. There are pages in the dictionary of the variations and subtle nuances of it.
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Post by kerouac2 on Feb 27, 2018 11:28:07 GMT
My first encounter with the word jalan was back when I began writing to my friend in Singapore whose parents lived on Jalan Pari Dedap which apparently means Stingray Street.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 27, 2018 18:57:44 GMT
I've been to Indonesian restaurants only in Amsterdam. Not the fancy tourist ones in the historic centre. Have no idea how authentic they are, never having been to Indonesia or anywhere in Southeast Asia (very far from here!)but I suspect that many are Sino-Indonesian. Not that that isn't authentic, but the cooking of Indonesians of Chinese origin probably differs from that of other more longstanding Indonesians.
I really like tempeh; find it is a more interesting soya-based food than tofu. Was the tofu simply fried, or was something else done to crisp it?
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 5, 2018 20:27:32 GMT
Yesterday I invited a friend to lunch and had an excellent tartare de boeuf with fries. (He had a steak with fries and salad.) He chose a very good wine in a limited quantity (50cl) because he had to go back to work.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2018 15:46:46 GMT
We dined with some friends visiting from out of town.
I had a wonderful herb-crusted Black Drum (local and fresh), the herbs were chives, dill, oregano and parsley. It was pan fried and served atop a corn maque choux and had a buerre rouge poured onto the fish.
Very rich but satisfying. The fish was so fresh.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 25, 2018 19:41:52 GMT
Yesterday a great steak after a patatoes with curry soup.
Today an octopus in a Corsican restaurant in ...Krakow.
Tomorrow lunch in a restaurant close to home. I let my friend choose.
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