thank you!

saturdar supper:
caesar salad
panzanella salad
rotisserie chicken
bread plate with lentil hummus, pickled vegetables, butter
cheese slices on sourdough

I’m staying at a nice Hilton in Jakarta. So mostly eating their great breakfast, plus room service for afternoon tea and evening cocktails/snacks.

I was still a bit hungry tonight, so my wife ordered a special Yoshinoya independence day package (75th ID). Two beef bowls, 4 pieces of dim sum, 2 ocha teas, and a cute Sanrio boxed character. I got a Bad Batz-Maru. Less than $7.

While waiting downstairs for delivery, the staff offered my wife a free dessert, so I got a nice raspberry cheesecake, too.
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Tonight it will be grilled (on the barbecue if dry) butterflied leg of lamb with roasted peppers and aubergines.

is the breakfast a buffet or cooked-to-order style?
And which dim sum pieces? Beef Shu Mai style?

Hope it’s dry - what’s the cooking plan if not dry?

Turkey meatballs stuffed with cheddar cheese and green beans topped with bacon.

I'll come over and bring the beer.

You are always welcome here, especially if you bring the beer! :D

Gyros
Baklava

:)

It is buffet style, but the employees serve the food. I get some custom made stuff, but I’m special. :)

Dim sum is shumai, but not beef. Chicken, or perhaps chicken/shrimp mix. My kid stole my Sanrio toy. She had her own, but noooooooo.

In England you always need a Plan B, which in this case was the grill for the lamb and the top of a very hot oven for the veg. Having other friends around tonight, same menu and an even more marginal weather forecast.

Jealous!

First fine dining experience at a restaurant, as opposed to fine dining takeout, since the pandemic hit.

AOC Wine Bar and Restaurant. We sat at a table on a lovely patio, the former parking lot which now has terracotta flooring and plenty of greenery.

christiaan’s g & t - house-made gin with grapefruit, lemongrass & house-made tonic
man with no name - bourbon & watermelon with strawberry & amaro

the farmer’s plate - roasted vegetables, muhamarra & chickpea purée, burrata & grilled toast
spanish fried chicken, romesco aïoli & chili-cumin butter
potato gnocchi, maine lobster, roasted cherry tomatoes & toasted crumbs
farro & black rice, currants & pine nuts

ricotta fritters, santa rosa plum jam & sherry sabayon

Pulled pork burrito with guac from a street van. The van comes to our village 1 night a week and parked up a 3 min walk from my house.

Tonight's dinner is going to be cheese tortellini with a nice marinara sauce, served with a side of steak.

Steak as a side? Hmmmmm.