What's for dinner? -- 2022 onwards
Mar 21, 2023 | 6:52 pm
#1621
Join Date: Aug 2012
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LOL...No soup, sides or anything that might even prove a distraction to my singular focus on enjoying my duck! I was by myself, no obligations, and completely free to be as uncivilized and unrestrained as I please. Oh, for tradition's sake, I did order a plate of Yeung Chau Chow Fan, and instructed my server to place a small portion in a bowl to end the feast.
Mar 21, 2023 | 6:59 pm
#1622
Join Date: Jan 2015
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LOL...No soup, sides or anything that might even prove a distraction to my singular focus on enjoying my duck! I was by myself, no obligations, and completely free to be as uncivilized and unrestrained as I please. Oh, for tradition's sake, I did order a plate of Yeung Chau Chow Fan, and instructed my server to place a small portion in a bowl to end the feast.
Mar 21, 2023 | 7:03 pm
#1623
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 7,359
Sorry. I should have clarified. First course of peking duck is the pancakes/skin/meat thing. Second course would have been a stir fry with the leftover meat and lettuce cups or a soup made from the bones or maybe a fried rice with the leftover meat (in some places that's second and third courses). Basically so as not to waste any of the duck (if only the first course is ordered, restaurants often toss the carcasses into a pot for their "daily" (read free) soup for someone else.
Mar 21, 2023 | 7:39 pm
#1624
Join Date: Jan 2015
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Ah. So Friday night carnivore dinner. Gotcha. Duck isn't cheap these days. Would love to do that sometime in the near future. (although I like the stir fry in the lettuce cup as well.... I just don't have the patience to ripping all that additional meat off the bird). Maybe I'll do it sometime in the near future. It's good stuff when I'm trying to game.
Mar 22, 2023 | 6:25 pm
#1628
Join Date: Aug 2012
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Last night in one of my favorite HK restaurants.
Traditional 3-course and 1 soup dinner, ordered a la carte, of course. Started with Shark's Fin soup, followed with braised fatty pork, sliced abalone, and a steamed fish as my 3 entrees. For dessert, very dark chocolates (80%), cigar and XO after dinner, then stroll to admire the HK Central skyline in all of it's evening glory.
After evenings like this, I always think this is the greatest city in the world.
Traditional 3-course and 1 soup dinner, ordered a la carte, of course. Started with Shark's Fin soup, followed with braised fatty pork, sliced abalone, and a steamed fish as my 3 entrees. For dessert, very dark chocolates (80%), cigar and XO after dinner, then stroll to admire the HK Central skyline in all of it's evening glory.
After evenings like this, I always think this is the greatest city in the world.
Mar 23, 2023 | 12:22 am
#1629
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Didn’t finish it all, but I stopped for a half slab of ribs and a side of fries this evening from one of our local BBQ joints. It was delicious!
