On Saturday I went for lunch in Fish Lane. From the museum end, we passed a few places, and decided not to go to them for various reasons, mostly I didn’t feel like burgers or pasta.
We passed the Fish lane entrance to Chu the Phat, and decided that if we couldn’t find anything else we liked the look of we would go there. We didn’t though.
We walked for a bit longer and found a place called Wandering Cooks.
I am pretty sure I have never been there before, but the place gives me a really strong sense of deja vu.
Anyway, the leafiness of the venue and the small amount of people is what drew us in. That and the menus. Cheeseburger pies, Afghani chicken dumplings, blood orange tonic with candied grapefruit, and more.
This place was perfect. Mainly because it looked like it was put together who wanted people to just eat, hang and have a good time.
We wanted to eat. We wanted to hang. We wanted to have a good time.
I ate. As should be no surprise by now, I ate so much that I needed a nap when I got home. Ah. I feel sated just thinking about it.
I have eaten more in the past, and felt the same, but I think the atmosphere contributed to the feeling. I don’t intend to test this, but I feel I could have napped there and they would have just left me, provided I wasn’t in the road.
We started with some samosa and some Afghani chicken dumplings. Both were equally good. The samosa had a really pleasant level of spice, not really that much but nice still. The chicken dumplings had a really nice tang to them. They were coated in an orange/red sauce and you poured a little of a green sauce over the top. Great.
As you can guess, no idea what any of the sauces were. They were delicious though.
I was washing this down with the blood orange tonic with the candied grapefruit. This was a pretty good drink, just the right level of tart.
Following this we had the butter chicken. It was good. I can’t tell you that it was different to most other butter chickens I have had, except maybe one or two that are very much the definition of you get what you pay for. The whole dish was nice though and meant I would like to try other things from this cook.
Then came the cheeseburger pie. It was a meat patty, pickles, cheese and tomato sauce in a pie crust. It was great. I was not sure what they were going to do, and I was not expecting that. The best bit, was that the patty tasted like something someone had made themselves, and if it was bought that way from a store, which one? I really liked it, and would like to have another one, with sriracha of course.
Finally came the strawberry and ice cream cheese cake. This was, as the name suggests, strawberries, ice cream, and cheese cake. It was st ill pretty good. I think because after they first tasted, they went “yep, that is it. Leave it”.
It was a really good way to end a wonderful meal, with wonderful company.
That and the doppio with ice. This is one of my favourite drinks to have when it is hot. Basically it is a double shot, short black, with a piece of ice in it. I love it, especially if the coffee is good. This coffee was.
Ok, I need to find a snack now. Eat well everyone.
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