26 June 2014

Portia's Kingston 18 June




Duck pancakes

fish

eggplant
beef


chicken and beans

banana spring rolls













 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
black rice pudding
 
 
Jim, Karen, Ron, Megan, Kim

Andrew was still in LA and John in Germany, but Kim was back, with tales of what she had been doing in Malaya.

Wine: Kalimna Shiraz 2002 Bin 28

Lovely Portia's never disappoints, but no pollies this time, oh well.
We started with the duck pancakes, what else.  Portia's speciality, and brilliant as per usual.  We had double helpings.
I'm afraid we had some of the tried and true dishes which we know we like, but what the heck.  The stuffed eggplant was lovely. Sizzling fish with ginger and shallots, mmm, not so good, a bit bland, we'll have to give that one a miss next time. BUT, having said that, Ron liked it, said the plainness was a good combination with the other more spicy dishes. The beef (wasabi steak) was voted the winner for the night, tender melt in the mouth beef chunks in a rich, sweet sauce.  Not sure how they got it so tender whilst being a bit rare in the middle, but we lovely it especially with the plain broccoli. The minced chicken and beans in spicy sauce was, well spicy, really tasty.  The smokey flavour of the beans was delish.

 Desserts, brilliant, black rice pud and banana spring rolls. 

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