A week of Excess…

Sweet happy excess.

As this is my blog, X is excess.

The last week, between Christmas and New Years, involved a lot of eating. From cheerios and chips to roast duck and bbq pork. Roast chicken, lamb and ham. Peking Duck crepes, fried chicken and ramen. Pork skewers, beef meatballs and thai sausages. Stuffing cupcakes, cheese tarts and chocolates.

It seems a lot more. I am pretty sure I am missing heaps of things.

Oh I almost forgot.

Welcome to 2018. I am looking forward to eating more, and sharing with you adventure after I hit z. Which may be a week later than expected, maybe 2 weeks later. There are a lot of places I need/want to try.

Let us begin the food part of the entry though with my Christmas day lunch.

I had the day to myself for this, so I sat down in front of youtube with a bowl of cheerios (sometimes referred to as party franks or cocktail franks), with melted cheese and siracha on top. Best crap lunch ever. For some bizarre reason, even after all the things I have eaten, from bees to sea urchins, cheerios are still awesome to me. To eat a whole five hundred grams of them, while exceptionally gluttonous, was delightful. Each cheesy, spicy mouthful was great.

Even with the ever present chorus of “this can’t be good for me” running through my head.

Boxing day brought a bounty of chicken, ham, lamb and salads. Christmas pudding and custard. Fruit, I had an apricot or two, and the best part of all, stuffing cupcakes.

Being that there was no turkey, but my brother in law really wanted stuffing, he made stuffing cupcakes. They were sweet potato and something else, I don’t recall. They were great. He said he wanted to chuck them on the bbq for a couple of seconds to crisp them up but ran out of time. I think everyone had a few anyway.

I also ate about a quarter of the christmas pudding, as it was going to be thrown out if I didn’t. Writing this makes me think I should call this last week The Gluttoning.

On Wednesday I had a Peking Duck beijing crepe. It was pretty good. Somewhere between a kebab and a crepe. It was huge. I spilt the first half a little but the second half vanished too quickly to hit the package. I am definitely getting more of those. The name of the place I got it from currently eludes me, I am pretty sure it was Jian Bing but I can’t find it to confirm. It was right next to the Hokkaido Baked Cheese Tart place.

Speaking of which, we went there Thursday and it was pretty good. The strawberry one was incredible. This was followed by Nene Chicken, one of my favourite fried chicken places, and then ramen.

I should have stuck to something smaller than a bowl of ramen, as  it kind of thwarted my initial plan of spending the day wandering around the city eating. That being said, ramen made on the spot is great and definitely something I want to have become a regular thing. I had the hot one, and while it wasn’t that spicy for me it was nice, and I definitely recommend it.

This was followed by a quick trip to a thai place, for pork skewers, beef meat balls and thai sausage.

The pork skewers were really good. The sauce they came with was great, and I wound up dipping the sausage in that one instead. The sausage was good on its own, though I have a preference for german sausages. The beef meatballs were nice tasting.

I have a problem with the texture though, and not in a ‘not eating that’ way, just in a ‘how did they do it’ way. They were the smoothest meatballs I have ever eaten. Almost like someone made a giant block of very finely minced beef, compressed it so it looked similar to a regular cube of meat and then took a melon baller to it. Even the swiss meatballs are not that finely minced. I was bewildered. I still ate them, they were pretty tasty.

The final thing I would like to mention, as I am in dire need of a shower, is Kings Food, or it may be Kingsfood. It was where we went to dinner Saturday night. I was excited to go because on the menu they a stewed meats plate as an entree and they had duck.

In the menu, the stewed meat plate says it has beef honeycomb, Dried tofu, dried seaweed and pigs ears. You could pick three. I picked the beef honeycomb (which is intestine I think), the pigs ear and the seaweed.

What the menu skipped was that it was cold stewed meat. I like colds pigs ears, don’t get me wrong, but I prefer them warm.

I followed this with roast duck and bbq pork. The duck was actually pretty nice, as was the pork. In a lot of asian places that have duck seem to have a minimum standard of nice. I don’t think I have had bad duck, I have had ok duck, but that was not from an asian restaurant. The best duck I have ever had is between Bamboo Basket and Detour. I am kind of bias towards Detour though.

They have bees on their panna cotta.

I really need to go back there soon.

Ok, once again Happy New Year and thank you for reading my ramblings. After I finish Z I am going to be comparing foods from different places. Such as cheese burgers from different burger places and curry chicken from different japanese places. Hope you enjoy it.