Kopi Tiam Manuka Wednesday15 July 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Present: John, Karen, Ron, Andrew, Megan

Talked about: retirement, travels, usual stuff

We had:

Zucchini flowers with prawn and crab and tomato sambal

Crispy prawn and pork wontons

Twice cooked crispy duck

Bali chicken

Chilli lemon Australian king prawns and baby squid

Teochau fragrant pork soy

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The wontons were beautiful, had a mayonaise sauce.  Zucchini flowers with the chilli sambal were yum, great flavour, nice and crisp

The pork was tender but boring and dull.

Prawns and baby squid were lovely, with a fresh chilli lemon flavour.

Duck, tender, beautiful, the chicken had a rich sauce and the roti fabulous.

Kopi Tiam is reliable, different, always with something a bit different.  The flavours are mainly Malaysian with that blend of Indian, chinese and thai.  Service is quick, noise level a bit ho-hum, decibels in the 70's.  Tables are close together and the restaurant was busy.  We always enjoy going there though.

 

Lantern Room, Campbell Shops 1 July 2015

In attendance was Andrew, Jim, John, Karen and Ron.  The occasion was John's birthday.
Wine: Penfolds Kalimna Shiraz Bin 28 2002

All the dishes were fabulous, with the first mushroom dish getting the greatest raves. The combination of flavours and textures, with the accompanying sauce was an amazing way to start the meal.

We have had the prawns with rockmelon before, but all the rest were new. Karen still said the wagu beef would have been better than the beef cheeks.

We got to choose our desserts from the normal menu. The kulfi, zabaglione and pineapple pillows were the choices.