Namaste India Restaurant Woden 7 April 2021

 

 

Diners: Ron, Jim, Kim, John, Karen, Megan

Entrees:

·         PaniPuri (small crispy puffed bread, served with potatoes with tamarind chutney and spicy mint water) – I wasn’t quite sure how to tackle this dish.  Jim showed me how to construct it.  You make a hole in the bread, stuff the potatoes into the hole, pour the sauce into the hole and eat it.   The dish wasan interesting eating experience but I’m not sure whether it was worth it. Is the puffed bread meant to be warm? Are the potatoes meant to be warm?

·         Vegetable Pakora – delicious

Mains: All delicious

·         Butter Chicken

·         Malai Kofta – this dish was our favourite

·         Dal Tadka

·         Lamb Madras

·         Fish Malabar

·         Beef Bhuna Marsala delicious

Accompaniments:

Rice and Naan

Desserts:

·         Pistachio Kulfi - good

·         Ras Malai  (cottage cheese dumplings soaked in thickened sweet milk garnished with dried fruit, served cold) – very very delicious and refreshing

 

 

 

Chez Ron - 31 March 2021

 

 

The pictures say it all, except for the suffering the next day....too much sticky date pudding? 

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

 

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.

Chinatown Restaurant Weston - 17-2-21

 

 

 

Diners: Megan, Jim, John, Ron and Kim

Linda chose the dishes for us. All of the dishes were tasty.

Entrees

Steamed pork dumplings

Mains

Black pepper beef with potatoes

Fried rice

Fried chicken with Peking sauce

Stir-fried prawns with ginger and broccoli – our favourite

Rock salt pork chops and plum sauce

Desserts

Banana split with caramel sauce

Deep-fried ice-cream chocolate

Banana fritter with caramel sauce

Accompaniments

Steamed rice