Last week, we found a food court in one of the towers near our house. It's described on one website as having 'all the ambiance of eating in a carpark', but it consistently gets five-out-of-five-stars reviews for the quality of the food. It's a collection of twenty-plus Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Thai, Malaysian, Indonesian and other Asian stalls hawking steam buns, claypot cookery, any number of ugly-to-look-at, scrumptious-to-taste seafood, and everywhere you turn it's rendang this and goreng that. It's been named the Best Food Court in Auckland. Why oh why did it take us so long to find this place?
Anyway. Look at this insanity I picked up at the Sushi Buffet stall upstairs. $10 for 12 pieces, plus miso soup, condiments, and that crazy-good pink ginger. You'll see that I am a wimp about the raw fish, but look... they deep-fried a Philadelphia roll. Seriously, that's about as good as it gets in my book. And when I saw that they made a nigirisushi out of a prawn twister, well, that's what sold me.
And then later I made a lunch of tapas. Oh yeah. On the left we have albonaya beef (I'm sure I've spelled that wrong): it's a spicy stew of niblets of organic beef in a tomato-based sauce with cumin and saffron. I mixed the cilantro and lemon zest throughout for an even more complex treat. On the right are fresh local cockles, steamed open and dressed with a little garlic butter and herbs. They're chewy little briny bites of happiness.
3 comments:
What a feast for the eyes, mouth and nose. I can almost taste it myself if I close my eyes. Thanks for sharing, sweet daughter.
You've sent us photos of edible art...those are as beautiful to look at as to eat, I'll bet.
Maybe I have a touch of anosmia too, because try as I might, I can't smell them at all! Oh, how frustrating.
I am so glad that you are feeling better! A life without chocolate .... shudder.
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