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nah,,,,, don't like when they advertise the food like that... looks like some of our Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Middle Eastern places that have photos of their plates and you very rarely get what is in the picture.

Clinic very pleased with his weight loss.. so he is allowed to have a few snacks cos he does get very hungry... because he could have a small apple or peach or 5 prunes or 5 strawberries a day, he started eating prunes as a snack all the time and we were zapping through the packets of them... but I pointed out that there is a large sugar content in them... so now he is into carrot crunching... and he dips the carrot in the vegemite... not a trick I have tried... I have eaten peanut butter on celery (USA thing)

:-) :-)

Yeah this is it

http://www.ming-court.com/


Dont go!

Pers

I dare not tread on those buddy scales, I’m waiting for the new ones to arrive any day now

I was in a posh foodie place in Florida (as posh as you can get in Florida!) I think it was called Ming Court, a Chinese place

Six of us, they all had meat and fish and other dead bits so I asked for noodles with fresh chillies..........

...............sorry mam, we don’t have any fresh chillies! No fresh chillies in a posh Chinese:-S

The only thing posh about it was the price, it was nearly $300 for the meal :-0

Gins....

How is your weight this morning.. :-S

They would eat out of their little bowls at the opium dens, Dea... so you would fit in well...

I ate jambalaya in New Orleans... also had some gumbo... but everyone has their own idea about what to put in it... never sure what I was going to end up with.

I dropped in on a friend who is into Cajun cooking here (even his number plate was zydeco) and he had made a Jambalaya and said come and have some... it was lovely but made my eyes water and my nose run.. the paper napkins were well used..

Good morning all!

Cheese and onion tarts for me please with loads of bacon and mushrooms!

I will have to take some Chicken Karage for later as those Caribbean Banana Fritters are back and I can't resist them with warm syrup poured over.......... Yuummmm <3

Thank you Sylvia.

Persie - I LOVE Chinese food (without the gravy, of course! :-S) BUT for some strange reason I can't enjoy it from a plate! Whenever I cook a Chinese, I like to have a variety of things but always eat them from a little bowl, one after the other, with chopsticks :-)

Dea Xxx

On the subject of steak I think that the most memorable (But not necessarily the best) steak meal that I have ever had was in Morton's Steakhouse in New Orleans.

Memorable because they did not have a conventional printed menu from which to make your choice. What they did instead was to bring a trolley to the side of your table which contained uncooked items from which your chosen meal could be cooked. Your waiter held up each item in turn and proceeded to describe them in rather flowery and obviously well rehearsed terms.

Holding up a piece of lean meat, "This sir is prime USDA beef which we can cook in a myriad of different ways to suit you ". Holding up a live lobster, " This is a New England lobster landed only this morning". Even going as far as to hold up a potato and describing it as, "Idaho's finest". No meal prices were mentioned so in some senses you hoped that you could afford to pay for whatever it was that you chose.

If I remember correctly I had a smoked salmon starter, Fillet steak and finished off with Bananas Foster which was flambéed at the side of the table. I decided to let the lobster live. The cost wasn't that excruciating but the experience was priceless.

Quite fancy Ginny's for some snap but is a bit of a treck!

Quite a lot of meat for a vegan gaff ;-)

So....you got me looking for any Cynthia's bars/restaurants/etc.


A lot of them it seems!


The first one I opened made me blink - it seems as though the food served there is of a ......er........um........sensuous nature :-S


Second one was a gay bar with a robot called Cynthia who serves the drinks :-S


I gave up after that! ;-)



I have a vague idea of what Jonesey is on about - simply because my daughter has gone on about weak signals etc.etc. Let's hope Gins doesn't miss the advice in her normal morning rush...........



Thank you for breakfast Sylvs..........I'll join Persie in trying the Morning Glory Muffins.

In one of our city streets the Chinese ran their opium dens in early Auckland.. There were also a lot of Chinese lived in Arrowtown etc for the gold mining and lived in some terrible shantys... and when the sun went down in the gully there it could even be buddy cold in the summer.

A friend of mine... her grandfather was one of the Chinese in Auckland's notorious past...she is the eldest of four girls and remembers going there as a child.

I will put a variety of Chinese foods on my plate but I don't pour gravy over them...

I will have a morning glory muffin... no idea what it is but sounds nice...

Persie

Good morning everyone


Breakfast is ready


Fresh fruit salad with vanilla yoghourt
broiled grapefruit with brown sugar

Porridge with chopped up dates, bananas, and maple syrup (other fruit selections over there >>>> )

Selection of cold cereals

French (eggy) toast, maple syrup, Golden syrup

Caribbean Banana Fritters


Toast (sourdough, rye, white, whole grain, 100% brown, Hovis, gluten free),
hot cinnamon rolls,
cheddar chive rolls,
brie, onion and red pepper focaccia
barm cakes

cheese and onion tarts,
Gruyere and bacon quiche


stirfry (chicken, beef, or vegetarian),
Chicken Karage (Japanese deep fried chicken pieces)
Jamaican beef patties
Veggie Wrap (Fresh Tomatoes, Basil, Roasted Peppers and Feta Cheese),

cranberry & orange muffins, morning glory muffins,


jams, jellies


Tea, coffee, juices


(some bacon, turkey sausage or sausage patties, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, olive oil, in the hidey place to cook up for the very hungry ones!)




enjoy



s
xx

Ham steak is like your gammon ........ but you never get pineapple with it.

the US has some weird and wonderful dishes ..... and HUGE meals.


Canada has many more British-style meals in their diners and drive-ins

Liver and onions is a very common meal to find up here .......... and it is usually surprisingly good!


One weird thing that you get in Canada is on the Prairies

Practically every Prairie town, not matter how small has a Chinese cafe ..... that dates back to when the railroads were being built across the country and Chinese labourers were brought in to do the dirty work. Some of them would set up a cafe and or a laundry ..... and then stay when the railroad crews move on

But the cafes then began to westernize their dishes, so that the local ranchers etc would come in


so the meals are served not in individual dishes in the middle of the table for you to help yourself, but each person will be served a plate containing everything they have ordered .... so you'll have chow mein, fried rice, prawns, sweet and sour pork, etc, all on the same plate



and then they pour GRAVY over it all :-S :-S :-S :-S

The Sylvia Hotel is a lovely old hotel

when we first came here, it was the place to go if you wanted a quiet drink in a comfy bar ............ most other bars were the "gunslinger" beer parlours that you see in old movies

............ the servers would dump the glasses of beer on the table and hope none of them spilled!

If one person at the table wanted another beer ......... everyone got one.

One night I ended up with 6 beers lined up in front of me!


I don't drink more than half a one ......even back then!


But the Sylvia was very civilized!

and saw the other one and thought I would do that tomorrow..

There was a Persphone;s and I believe it closed down LOL.. :-( :-D

Jax... to me Ham steak is like gammon... the one I had in Georgia was very thick and it had a T bone in it... I was impressed..

I use British Gammon recipes sometimes when I have cooked ham steaks.. there is one that has a pineapple and corn sauce which my father-in-law rather liked.

When I was a teenager here in NZ Chinese restaurants would just serve you one big plate of whatever you ordered.. you could not get little dishes of this and that. So while others ate a plate full of Nasi Goreng or whatever I would have a ham steak and salad. I prefer where you share and pass the plates around etc... we were so behind the times.

I had already had a look at your one Sylvs and she looked nothing like you...

I watch a load of rubbish late at night and have been watching this American program called Diners,Drive ins and Dives do you get that?

Some of the food looks ok but most look like everything they can think of thrown on, which would make a terrible mess trying to eat it. Gravy is a white sauce over there, where as ours is brown.

Having worked in a few restuarants I found it amusing when Americans came in and ordered a Prawn cocktail or prawn skewers between them as they thought they were going to get some huge plate of food. Having been to the states I had to tell them this was not the case :-D

Whats a Ham steak is it like Gammon or like the Ham you get on a breakfast dish?

ja...x

and I'll beat you to mine :-D


www.sylviasrestaurant.com/


the "Queen of Soulfood," is the founder and owner of the world famous Sylvia's Restaurant, located in the historical village of Harlem, since 1962.



OR

I even have a hotel ........................

http://www.sylviahotel.com/restaurant.htm

Dining at The Sylvia
Sylvia's Restaurant & Lounge
Come and experience beachside dining in the beautiful and historic Sylvia Hotel. Just steps from English bay, Sylvia's Restaurant, Bistro, Patio and Lounge are favourite spots for locals and visitors.

Enjoy a bottle of wine or a blueberry martini with friends while watching the seawall activities or a spectacular sunset from Sylvia's lounge. Our large picture windows and cozy fireplace create a warm and inviting atmosphere so you can sit back and sample our great new west coast appetizer menu or a light meal. Sylvia's Bar opens at 11:30 every day.




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s
xxx

I had an excellent ham steak in Savannah Georgia. I have also had a couple of decent steaks there. But some of their roadhouses would do a minced up chicken or veal concoction and shape them like chops... cover them in crumbs and cook them... then there was the instant potato... they would hollow it out with a soup ladle and pour gravy on it... these were at the bus stop cafes when I traveled by Greyhound bus.

And today we have
Ginny's.......... http://www.ginnys.ae/home.asp

To strict vegans, Ginny’s has a cornucopia of nutritious and delectable snacks, even without the meat! Served with the taste that is distinctively Ginny’s, our exclusively vegan menu features choices of low-fat, cholesterol-free snack items like pizzas, puffs and tarts.

It is okay Dea they have an extensive Chicken menu.. and snack boxes for LK...

I know what wifi is but mine is broke so I have wires until I get a new one.

I must say I liked Jaxs cafe persie and quite fancied the prime rib...why have I never seen it in England?

The best steaks I have ever had have been in Vegas and the prime rib at the Mirage was to die for yum yum

(((hugs))) to Fans too

ja...x

Fans

if you look in here ..............


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