Joe's Thai Wanniassa 12 December 2018

Jim, Karen and Ron attended.

The rice paper rolls were good as always.

Karen's favourite was the pork - beautifully crispy and lovely sauce. Ron's was the duck  - wonderfully tender, just fell off the bone, flavour right through the meat. The Penang curry was not a very inspiring flavour and the meat was tough. We had coconut rice, which unusually was coloured yellow. Fun for something different.

Jim and Karen shared a banana fritter. Ron had mango with sticky rice (and forgot to take a picture of it). Both desserts were a great finish to the meal.

Olive Restaurant Mawson - 28 November 2018

Jim, Karen and Ron attended.

Started with Turkish bread and dips.

The bread and dips was a very good selection.

Mains were steak, duck confit, slow cooked goat.

The steak was excellent. The duck confit and the goat were good.

Desserts were chocolate torte, almond torte, tarte tartin.

All the desserts were good.

Overall, the meal was very enjoyable, but nothing particularly special.

The noise level in the restaurant is very high, with no particularly obvious reason why.

Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant Pearce 14 November 2018

Jim, John and Ron attended. Another boys night.

Rice paper rolls, sizzling pork, caramelised lamb with black peppercorns, stir fried rice noodles with seafood, meat and vegetables. We enjoyed all the dishes. The lamb was the standout favourite. 

Desserts were caramel flan and banana cake. Also very nice.

Flavours of India at Woden - 31 October 2018

 

(Review by  Ron)

Andrew, Jim, John and I attended. An all guys evening. It took us forever to make up our minds what to order. We reckon we did a good job, in spite of having no female assistance.   We spent the entire evening talking about computers. Yes, we're a bunch of nerds.

The samosas were lovely and hot and crisp and the vegetable filling was really good. The accompanying sauce was a perfect compliment and added plenty of heat to the experience.

The goat, lamb and eggplant were all very good. Lovely flavours, quite distinct from each other. We felt it was a very carefully selected combination of dishes, that went together very well.

The dessert proved to be an interesting combination. It worked, but even I found the white chocolate mousse a bit too sweet on top of the already sweet gulab jamun.

China Plate at Kingston 22-8-18

Diners:

Megan, Jim, Ron, John and Kim

We sometimes go to China Plate when parliament is sitting to go pollie watching and this time we were not disappointed, one long table with at least 5 labour politicians plus hangers on.  Given the week we were having (or they were having) there were in fine spirits.

Entrée:

Beijing duck pancakes – delicious succulent duck. 

Mains:

Eggplant with spicy salt (eggplant chips (not crispy)) – delicious.

Fish fillet Vietnamese style – least favourite dish of some but still delicious.  The batter was not too thick, the fish was tender and it was piping hot!

AJ's Chicken, marinated deboned chicken with soya sauce, ginger, chilli and shallots – this dish was described in the menu as "deep fried" – while the chicken was not "deep fried" the dish was still very good.  The chicken was tender and there were some nice traditional flavours with the soya sauce, ginger and shallots.  The chillies added some extra punch!  It was a nice clean tasting dish, a lot like Hainanese chicken.

Honey Pepper Lamb hot pot – very tender and had a lovely sauce.

Steamed rice

Desserts: Fried ice-cream for 3, some topped with caramel sauce and others with chocolate sauce – lovely!

Green Bamboo Swinger Hill 3 October 2018

Diners

Karen, Jim, Ron, Andrew and Kim

Comment

The meal was good, reasonably priced and the restaurant was not noisy (so could catch up with Andrew).

Entrees

Rice paper rolls – OK but needed more Vietnamese mint

Spring rolls – we liked these!

Mains

Fish in tamarind sauce - delicious

Caramelised pork – delicious

Lemon grass lamb – delicious

Sizzling soy chicken – our favourite dish

Dessert

Crispy taro rolls (served with chocolate dipping sauce) – delicious, not oily.