It was Auckland Anniversary (of the establishment of the Colony in 1842) weekend, which means one thing: Seafood Festival! We brought our appetite and had big fun.
I started out with a paua fritter on sweet rawera bread. The black paua meat is chopped up fine, mixed with onions and other spices, and fried on a grill into a crispy gorgeous little mess. I know it looks a little like a cow patty. You get over that quick once you taste it.
It was so good, in fact, that I had to keep it going with some paua fritters.
The gentlemen shared a spicy salmon quesadilla.
We stood gaping for a while at the gruesome display at one of the stalls. Notice the shark's blood running down the cooler. Eeesh.
We enjoyed some calamari rings and shrimp kebabs (not pictured). Then we moved on to a booth that had grilled shrimp in a sweet chili chocolate sauce. That, my friends, is an unexpectedly GOOD idea.
With a little help from Daddy, Amiri even got to do some fishing in a kiddie pool. He hooked a big one in no time at all and won some great prizes!
The grownups finished out the day with a little tiramisu and the boys got to have TWO different kinds of ice cream!
Side note: we were doing that thing where the adults spell the word so that the kids won't know what they're talking about: 'Hey, do you think we should get them some I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M?'; and then Amiri pipes up, 'Oh, yes, I want some ice cream!' Busted.
And then we we binned our rubbish like tidy Kiwis and went home to relax.
I started out with a paua fritter on sweet rawera bread. The black paua meat is chopped up fine, mixed with onions and other spices, and fried on a grill into a crispy gorgeous little mess. I know it looks a little like a cow patty. You get over that quick once you taste it.
It was so good, in fact, that I had to keep it going with some paua fritters.
The gentlemen shared a spicy salmon quesadilla.
We stood gaping for a while at the gruesome display at one of the stalls. Notice the shark's blood running down the cooler. Eeesh.
My favorite part is the impaled lemons on the sword-tips. Safety first!
We enjoyed some calamari rings and shrimp kebabs (not pictured). Then we moved on to a booth that had grilled shrimp in a sweet chili chocolate sauce. That, my friends, is an unexpectedly GOOD idea.
With a little help from Daddy, Amiri even got to do some fishing in a kiddie pool. He hooked a big one in no time at all and won some great prizes!
The grownups finished out the day with a little tiramisu and the boys got to have TWO different kinds of ice cream!
Side note: we were doing that thing where the adults spell the word so that the kids won't know what they're talking about: 'Hey, do you think we should get them some I-C-E-C-R-E-A-M?'; and then Amiri pipes up, 'Oh, yes, I want some ice cream!' Busted.
And then we we binned our rubbish like tidy Kiwis and went home to relax.
1 comment:
Sounds WONDERFUL! I truly wish Dad and I could have been there!
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