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Dinner with Friends!
Canberra has a wonderful Cantonese cuisine restaurant that is very popular with both locals and visitors. It’s located in the centre of the city and I arranged an evening with a group of friends there recently as I had not been there for about fifteen years.
There is an extensive menu with many vegetarian options. My friends ordered two duck pancakes for entree which they shared; and whilst I could have ordered the vegetarian pancakes I decided to wait for my main meal. The duck pancakes came served with hoisin sauce and I am told they were very good.
I ordered the stir fried pumpkin with cucumber and caramelised chilli onion and mentioned to the waitress that I didn’t want any fish sauce etc in my meal and luckily I did as the chef uses shrimp sauce so he kindly removed that from my meal. The dish was absolutely delicious!! My photo does not really do it justice as there was a wonderful chilli onion sauce which was delicious with a little bit of rice.
One of my friends ordered the vegetarian curry and the other two the shantung style spicy lamb. All said their dishes were just fabulous. We all had a great night; sharing a bottle of wonderful New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc between us and the two boys enjoying a beer as well. Not much wine this evening as we were rather tired and each of us was driving home. We finished around 8.15 pm, which was early as it was Friday but at the end of a busy week it was good to get home early. It’s always lovely to catch up with friends over a great meal and glass of wine and I know sometimes we just want to get home after a week of work but to make the effort is really important otherwise we never catch up.
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That sounds like a great place to take friends to! Now I’m curious to ask: did the duck pancakes come already rolled up so that the guests don’t have to struggle calculating the right amount of each ingredient to put inside? hehehe! If it is so then it’s interesting, first time I ever see that.
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I always like it there. It’s usually quiet and peaceful.
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Yes Sophie the duck pancakes came out already rolled up with the hoisin sauce on them and the waiter served my friends one each. I hadn’t seen it like this before but you are right there was no struggling to put ingredients into the pancake.
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Oh duck pancake, that sounds so good! I’m hungry again 🙂
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nicely done, I can never take good photos of food in restaurants!!
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Thank you for your comment. I know the duck pancakes are really enjoyed by most meat eating people.
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Thank you so much. It’s hard isn’t it as I have only been ‘blogging’ for seven months so I always forget to take photos before we tuck into the food. Ha ha.
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Hard…is right. And I never take photos of my food, but like you I’m new at blogging, so may have to find a way to do it well!
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