What's for supper - Second Course

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I thought the Germans would have learnt not to say **** like "Brewed according to the german purity law".

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Barbeque pork ribs (somewhat spicey) and garlic rice with some green stuff on the side.

What these people do with rice is amazing, it's often the most impressive part of some of the meals.
 
I don't get it.
You're in a foreign country and eat every meal at the same place? Are you getting free hotel meals or something? Unless I've missed some posts somewhere.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Barbeque pork ribs (somewhat spicey) and garlic rice with some green stuff on the side.
What these people do with rice is amazing, it's often the most impressive part of some of the meals.
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Looks nice and all but I'm struggling to make a connection between those three ingredients. It's like they all wandered in from different plates.

I'm being slack with pics these days, sorry y'all.
 
saor said:
I don't get it.
You're in a foreign country and eat every meal at the same place? Are you getting free hotel meals or something? Unless I've missed some posts somewhere.
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I have been terrible and outside of lunch haven't really ventured out too much.

I was horribly sick last weekend so didn't get around quite like I planned to.

It just so happens the hotel has one of the best restaurants around with a good variety in the menu so I hardly feel like I'm missing anything.

But I also haven't posted every night. Don't want to make it look like I'm talking to myself and it's been a bit quiet in here.

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There you go, something a bit different.

I've just has very long days so even just coming down to the restaurant has taken some motivation instead of getting room service.
 
cerebus said:
Looks nice and all but I'm struggling to make a connection between those three ingredients. It's like they all wandered in from different plates.
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Know exactly what you mean because I even do a double take on some of the menu items.

But they cook quite a bit differently here which alters the flavours.

Especially with things like garlic. If I didn't read that it was garlic rice I wouldn't have placed it as that at all.

The other night I specially asked for a garlic naan. It was nothing like what we get back home dripping in crushed garlic but much more subtle as if it was just steamed in it.

Broccoli which I'm not a fan of was only slightly blanched and worked incredibly well with the barbeque sauce.

I guess different cultures do things differently.

At breakfast they make these fried potato ball things, almost like mash inside but not quite puree'd as much with some cheese I'm guessing. Amazing stuff.

But don't make the mistake of approaching the unnamed simple "chicken curry" it will burn your face off.
 
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cerebus said:
Nah keep it up. I'll get my act together again... yep.
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It's more about guilt for not cooking myself. :)

But I'm definitely going to be experimenting with rice a lot more when I get home.

I always make it as a filler and not much more except maybe for egg friend rice.

Now I've learnt it can actually be a main event.
 
So tonight I ordered the crab curry, which I'm convinced wasn't on the menu before.

What I didn't realize was that it's actually more like crabs in curry.


So the food arrives and here are four pissed off crustaceans looking at me. Oh well, I was quite keen to try out the crab thing when I got here so why the hell not.

A meager attempt with a knife and fork and then I went all in.

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It was the messiest and downright unsafe meal I have ever had in my life. I was drenched up to my elbows in sauce.

To be honest I was quite underwhelmed, because much like eating chicken off the bone it was more work than it's worth. I think I sat there for an hour and although tasty it was frustrating for the wee bits of meat.

So a drab little crab, after all.

BUT I've not given up hope. I suspect without the sauce and with a much larger singular specimen it might be a better deal so I still plan to visit the Ministry of Crab around the corner when I get a chance.
 
Clients canteen is serving sushi today. They also do full breakfasts every morning. Wish I was here permanently
 
I had duck confit last week for the first time. Found it a little rich for my liking. Also had steak tartare which was amazeballs and definitely on my list of things to eat again. The duck... meh, I dunno.
 
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I had duck confit last week for the first time. Found it a little rich for my liking. Also had steak tartare which was amazeballs and definitely on my list of things to eat again. The duck... meh, I dunno.
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Duck confit is extremely rich, it needs to be barely cooked and given an acidic sauce to cut the richness.

Keeping on the duck theme I made a duck fat pastry for a biltong quiche. The biltong went well, I was pleasantly surprised; the cooking process seemed to soften it nicely.
 
Came to The Fat Crab for the obvious...and they don't have stock of reasonably sized after the public holiday frenzy.

Forgot to take pics of the scallops too.

Have a view.

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