Megan, Ron, John, Jim.
Wine Tamburlaine 2005 Members Syrah
Baily Baily Folio King Vallet 2011 Pinot Gris
Only a few of us tonight, Karen's off tripping, as is Andrew
and Kim, not sure.
Talked mainly about travel, ice, John's trip etc etc
We started with a couple of unusual entrees, lotus root and pork parcels, and master cut baby eggplant. The parcels were quite different, minced pork in the lotus root pastry (I assume) deep fried. Quite nice, but a bit heavy. The eggplant was quite exotic, lovely and crisp. It seemed to have been deep fried in a tempura batter with a sweet chilli sauce (ketcup manis).
So without the selection expertise of Karen we all had a go and deciding what to eat. And of course the peking duck had to happen, didn't it. What can we say except it was extremely yummy. The accompanying duck dish was duck fried rice. And this was served with Mussaman beef cheek, yushiang pork and a fish dish.
The beef was not spectacular or spicy, but tender none the less. The pork really tasty, spicy with wood ear mushrooms. And desserts (only two) were a cheesecake thingey and profiteroles. We shared them (sort of).
A nice little restaurant, the wait staff were friendly and helpful, it was not too noisy, recommended
