French Food!

(I accidently posted this message in the wrong blog! so i have put it back in here as well - sorry!)

You'll notice this isnt the usual creamy sauces and heavy foods associated with French cuisine, but this is the eclectic mix i had whilst in France...

First up some good old sushi - which actually wasn't great, but i was dying for sushi by this stage of the trip.

A delicious mango desert Christophes mum prepared.
I think this was chicken, beef and quail yakitori at the same japanese joint...
a salad with lettuce, fruit and fois gras.
(French) onion soup
Before and after frogs legs entre

I think this was a duck dish... it was a mish mash of meats and gelatine.

And this was something else i can't remember, think it was someone elses meal..

last from hong kong

Above is the lobster i was thinking of first... but decided he was just too small!I included this one, because as good as the food was, it was the company that made this special dinner so great - thanks again to Karina, Helen, Keiran and Keith (and Doug!) for their hospitality.
Above is a little chocolate cake the girls had at this swish bar we visited on like the 50th floor overlooking the harbour.
Enjoying my lobster, and below are 'Crystal Balls' we had earlier in the week. They are a desert, but not overly sweet. THe black ones had sesame inside, and the lighter ones was the seeds of lotus flowers!

So thats it! I ate lots of other fantastic foods where i couldn't take pictures (including jellyfish and the best sweet and sour fish i ever had!), but this give you an idea of the variety of things i was able to have whilst travelling, despite my limited diet! Now its back to the real world of noodles and sandwiches all the time! yay!

more to come!

First up this was a massive breakfast meant for 1! Lucky we shared it, it had a bowl of congee that was more than enough for 2 alone, plus rice rolls, tea, a pork bun, Har Gow and dim sim.. huge.

This is the lobster i picked out for dinner the night we ate with the O'Carrol family. They have a special style at that restaraunt, they made the tail into a noodle dish (below) and the head and legs into a congee (further below)

(My congee is looking at me!)

This was ginger, garlic, chilli and eschallot prawns, yum
The funny thing is that despite this being in a little fishing village, most of the seafood comes from Ausralia! There is some small local amounts (not much thanks to the pollution), some from nothern china (the lobster i had) and the rest is indonesia and australia. And whilst the Australian stuff is generally the most expensive, its still cheaper than buying it in Oz!

Yu Seafood restaraunt @ Intercontinental Hotel

Kate and i had a wonderful dinner at the Yu Seafood restaraunt @ Intercontinental Hotel. Below is the starter we shared, which is a sampler of the seafood delicacies of the house, including lobster salad, handrolls, tempura... fantastic.Here is a close up of the salmon, handroll and squid offerings.
This was my main meal, a big ol' prawn and fillet of Wagyu beef - both cooked perfectly and great pieces of meat.
This was Kates black bean lobster, they cooked the meat in the sauce, and present the shell with the noodles in place of the tail, i thought it looked pretty nifty.
Haha, i had to take a picture of this. When we were in France, an unnamed someone asked for ketchup in a restaraunt and was met with looks of shock and disgust from the other diners and the waiter... not the done thing in french restaraunts. So this one thoughtfully gave us a delicate cup of fancy ketchup so we didn't have to ask like peasants!

Hong Kong yumminess

Salty squid appetizer
Its no wonder so many people eat out... the supermarkets are a nightmare to shop in, its almost as busy as the streets - check out this isle!
This japanese lunch included a seafood soup in a teapot, sweet jumping prawn sushi, duck breast sushi, and abalone sushi, also had tuna maki and swordfish handroll.
2*1 litre cans of beer... fantastic.
This was a volcano cocktail... with bacardi 151 alight for effect.

last of france, and onto Hong Kong

Well, here is the Horse meat i had! (Cheval). It took a while to find, but eventually on the last evening we found some, and i cooked it myself at home..

And then ate it for supper, breakfast and lunch the next day!

On to Hong Kong! Whilst part of europe were cheap, and London and France were generally very nice, Hong Kong was definitely the highlight food wise on the trip. The prices were very fair, and the food was overall exceptionally good.

This first picture is from a very big Yum Cha palace in Shatin, the area Kate lives.. much bigger than anything in Sydney.

Above these are scallop rice rolls, delicious - and below is their remains, and two Har Gow (prawn dumplings). Har Gow is my favourite dish at yum cha, and this place was the best i have ever tasted.
This was just weird! It was in a 7/11 in Hong Kong - Diet Body Pleasure...?

and more french food!

above was at a crepe house, i didnt have this one, but i hear it was good.
This is Morrocan chicken Capel style.Oops, put this in already, oh well it was good!
This was the scallop salad with buckwhet pancakes i had at the crepe house.
The inimitable fois gras.
a bagguette that at the time i thought looked like a smilie face... it doesn't really tho.
Vietnamese, wasn't great, but the soup was really nice especially on the cold day!
Another scallop salad! This was the best one.

more french food

the infamous creme brulee
a tuna pate that cat made, yummo
a bargain seafood salad at an Italian restaraunt in Nice.
home made bagguete in Monaco
St Jacques scallops entre in the south of france... mmmm

Food Update.

Hi, finally getting around to posting some food news from my trip. SOrry it has taken so long - it means most of the detail is gone from my mind, but i will share whatever i can remember.

Above is the yummy nut bread with whipped cheese that i had accompanying my Wild Bear that i ate in Estonia, and below is the Wild Boar that i had at the same restaraunt a few nights earlier - it was juicy and delicious.
Below is the pottery beer mug that they served their homemade beers from - great.

The ammenities, the fake old fashion toilet and urinal... novel, but not overly practical.

These dishes were from a Thai/Vietnamese joint i visited in Berlin, i think it was a prawn soup and a lemongrass chicken main... can't remember much else but it was cheap!
More to come...