Showing posts with label Black pudding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black pudding. Show all posts

Thursday, October 30, 2014

French black pudding - boudin noir

I have always wanted to try this place because of the boudin noir!!

Finally made it for lunch and ordered the boudin noir burger on top.
For lunch, the choice was pretty good with a choice of escargots as a starter.

The decor was lovely, it felt like being in a countryside barn.






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Tea:


There was tea included and it was IMPRESSIVE! They actually use tea leaves in a strainer and not teabags, hence the tea had a lovely leafy taste.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Quiche with broccoli, brie and walnuts:

I loved the quiche because there was a good generous balance of broccoli florets.

Snails bouchee:

These were a bit salty but the appearance reminded me of fried Haggis balls.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
boudin noir burger:



This was French black pudding which is meatier with some fat bits.
It was a bit like pulled meat in cooked blood sauce with a fragrant metallic taste.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
The bill:


★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
La Cabane Wine Bistro (Central)
62 Hollywood Road

Friday, August 29, 2014

English and Scottish culinary battle at Yorkshire pudding

On 18 Sept, the Scottish referendum will take place in which they will fight for independence away from United Kingdom.

In the run up to this, Yorkshire pudding will hold a culinary battle featuring the best of English and Scottish food from 1 - 30 Sept .

There are two menus to choose from:

English food menu:



Scottish food menu:


As a Brit, I am definitely tempted to choose the English menu, BUT you don't often see Scottish food being served at the Yorkshire pudding so I chose the Scottish food menu.

Some people chose the English food menu, hence the photos.

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English Menu:
Prawn cocktail

Oysters

Fish and chips

Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding

Eton mess

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Scottish menu:
smoked salmon carpaccio and scotch quail egg

Scallops and black pudding

Dundee fruit cake

Chocolate shortbread

Sheepshaggers gold!

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As a summary, the fish and chips were seriously good because the chips were crispy with a silky starchy middle drenched with lots of malt vinegar.
For the Scottish menu, I loved the salmon and the cute quail scotch eggs, followed by the always delicious black pudding.
I finished off with the Dundee fruit cake which tasted like a lighter version of Christmas pudding without the orange peel.
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Yorkshire pudding:
https://www.facebook.com/yorkshirepuddinghk

Saturday, November 02, 2013

Disappointing breakfast at The News Room

The News Room (Quarry Bay)

Before my visit to The News Room, I have always thought of it as a place for quality food.
Came here randomly for breakfast and regretted not taking photos of the menu.

The description for Newsroom breakfast was: tomato, egg, Toulouse sausage, Baguette, Bacon, Black pudding, potato rosti, mushroom and baked beans.

The baguette was the tiniest baguette I have seen in my life, it was merely bigger than the sausage!

The potato rosti was a stupid cold hash brown!
(potato rosti is basically grated potatoes fried into a round or irregular shape).

As for the black pudding, it was the thinnest sliced black pudding you could ever get.


The baked beans were not the Heinz brand and the Toulouse sausage was not my cup of tea.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Taiwanese black pudding

King's Dumpling (Wan Chai)

For some reason my earlier review was deleted so I will make this review as short as it can be.
It either offended the Brighton hotel management or it offended King's Dumplings as they went at great lengths to contact OR to get it deleted with a trivial reason.

Anyway, the tables here in the centre are about 2mm apart so you can listen in on other conversations.

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Taiwanese black pudding:

This was one of the side dishes at King's dumpling.
It is basically similar to black pudding made with blood but the taste of the Taiwanese version is not as good as the Scottish version because it was sweet and contains lots of glutinous rice so it was quite chewy and sticky.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Friday, April 19, 2013

New menu at Delaney's

Delaney's Wanchai (Wan Chai)

Have not been here for ages so went again for English and Irish fare.

The menu has finally changed and is slightly better but the prices have gone up.

There were three that caught my eye and not previously there:

WARM POTATO & BLACK PUDDING SALAD $98 (garden greens with warmed potatoes and fried black pudding)
PAN FRIED COD FILLET WITH POTATO & LEEK GRÂTIN $175 (cod fillet served with grâtin potato and daily vegetables)
ROASTED HALF CHICKEN $138 (chicken seasoned with fresh rosemary and garlic with seasonal vegetables and house fries)
In the end I had the black pudding salad because I had a tasting later that day.
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WARM POTATO & BLACK PUDDING SALAD:
When it came, it was exactly that, ie potato, salad and black pudding.
The potato was delicious because it was my favourite potato from the salad bar warmed up, and the mayonnaise was delicious.

The black pudding did not taste as nice as the ones at Queen Victoria.
I am not sure if the black pudding was a different brand or the oil was rancid because their fried stuff is not as good as their roast.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Je suis une vampire sanguinaire @ La Creperie

I havent been to La Creperie in ages so decided to give it a revisit because there were two new crepes on the menu, La boudinée and La Roquefort.

The lift that previously did not work was now working, and it was really nice with crushed sparkling glass pieces on the surface of the lift and fitted with mirrors.

It happened to be a thursday, the day they serve mussels and chips, it was tempting to get the mussels but I stuck to my original plan and ordered the crepes.

I chose to have La Roquefort served first because La boudinee was slighty sweet.

La boudinée: black pudding. stewed apple, salted caramel, sweet crepe
La Roquefort:minced beef, blue cheese sauce, tomato slices, salad
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La Roquefort:
On my previous visits, the crepes were much smaller and two were not quite enough for me, however they were much bigger this time.
The roquefort was filled with minced beef and cheese, the blue cheese sauce was very strong, it was slightly bitter.
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La boudinée:
This was made from black pudding, and I love black pudding.
In the crepe it was different to the british type where it contains bits of fat, barley. The black pudding here was more like a pate.
There were sweet stewed apples in it. Basically this crepe is the same as the La sextant but with black pudding!
Anyway my favourite crepe so far, because I am blood thirsty.
It is similar to the Flipino dish Pork Dinuguan with pork blood.
I think next time I will ask for the caramel to be put on the side, because the apples are already sweet.
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Nice cutlery with interesting signs
Maybe only vampire hunters can understand it?
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