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We are a group of Canberrans who have been eating out together for more than 20 years at mainly Asian restaurants, sometimes more upmarket places. The retirees amongst us also have a regular morning coffee group. This blog is primarily a record of where we went, what we ate and what we liked and didn't like. It's not intended to be an extensive and insightful review of each restaurant and each dish, hence comments are often limited to expressions such as "yum", which says it all for us.

22 March 2021

Portia's Place Kingston - 17 March 2021

Portia’s Place, Kennedy Street, Kingston

Date: 17 March 2021

Attendees:

Ron, Jim, Kim, John and Megan

Entrees:

Duck pancakes (2 serves) – delicious.

Spicy crispy skin quail – OK. Bit too spicy and the flavours did not seem to have penetrated into the quail.

Mains:All delicious

Rock salt soft shell crab

Stir fried chicken with dry long beans

Pork spare ribs in aromatic tangy dark sauce

Penang beef curry

Desserts:All delicious

Sorbet

Black sticky rice pudding

08 March 2021

Gary's Kitchen Erindale - 3 March 2021

Present: John, Jim, Megan and Ron

For entree we had crisp duck pancakes, a standard with us. It got the official thumbs up, the skin was nice and crispy.

Mains:

Sizzling pepper lamb with snow peas: (sorry the photo disappeared somehow). It was not sizzling but that didn't worry Jim. The lamb was nice and tender and the pepper gave it a nice kick. It got a bit congealed as the evening went on though.

Salt and pepper eggplant: Thumbs up again, really nice

Dry chilli beef. We keep warning Ron not to eat the chillis and he ignores us and goes ahead and regrets it. I really liked it, the others didn't so much.

Blachan boneless chicken, deep fried with a tender flavour, a lovely slightly salty surprise. We loved it.

No room for dessert.

The restaurant was nice and quiet no noise problems. Lots of takeaway seem to be happening, parking nearby was easy so this might become one of our standards.