Portia's Place 4th December

Wines:

Two Churches, Barossa Valley Riesling 2011

Penfolds Bin 2 Shiraz Mourvedre 2006

Kim, Jim, Andrew,  Ron and Megan.  John was in Sydney, and Karen was looking after Koki who was afraid of thunder.

We had San choi bow, roast duck Hong Kong styles, sizzling seafood and peach sauce, King prawns salt and pepper, pork spare ribs and sambal green veges.
The San Choi Bow was delicious, it had chinese sausage and water chestnut, how on earth do they get the lettuce so perfect.
The veges looked nice, but were otherwise a bit ordinary.  The stems were too hard for Andrew, others said it was a bit salty.  The pork was a bit sweet, fatty and tough, although Jim liked it (Jim likes everything).  The prawns were the favourite; the duck well some of us thought it was ordinary but Ron liked it best, it had a cinnamon 5 spice flavour to it.  The seafood with the peach sauce was a bit different, we weren't sure about the sauce though, probably not repeatable, not spectacular, but we wanted to try something different, experiment a little.
Some of us had dessert, which were the reliable favourites at Portia's.
 Everything came out quickly, the service is friendly and efficient, the noise level an acceptable low 70's decibels.

Overall, you can always depend on Portia's to serve up a good meal.