Cantonese Kitchen, best Seafood

PPs mum as chef, Restaurant “East meets West”, traditional Cantonese breakfast/brunch, for dinner the most delicious seafood (and it was caught by ourselves)…

PPs mum is a great chef and served ALWAYS something delicious: starting with the meals, but also the small snacks in between. Starting every day with a big breakfast, sweet beanmilk and e.g. noodles with beef afterwards. Tasted very well, but at the beginning its strange to eat such an uncommon breakfast in our eyes… Then in between some Maize, Fruits or sweet potatoes. And for lunch and dinner at least 4 or 5 different delicious dishes…

We ate in a restaurant where “East meets West”: some kind of Meat-Vegetables-Pommes within a Chili-sauce, did not taste that well, pure Western and pure Chinese food taste better… 😉

On Sunday we went for a traditional Cantonese brunch into a local restaurant – I did not count how many different dishes they brought, but I think it was something about 15 to 20. And as a foreigner its a must to try everything, while local people know about and just skip some… Anyway, this Cantonese brunch was very delicious and I discovered lots of new meals: e.g. dough roles with sweet meat inside and honey outside or the very traditional fish balls. Chinese don’t differentiate between desert and main course – so it is common to eat e.g. a pudding between the main courses…

And the culinary highlight was the seafood dinner on Sunday evening: We went to a market hall where next to the hall some restaurants were located. We went into one of these restaurants, got a place (which was not self-evident) and together with a waitress went out to the hall again. Then we chose several marine food – fishes, mussels, scampi… But, you do not chose a kind of fish – you choose exactly this fish you want to eat, employees catch it, you can re-check or still chose another, fish gets weighted and transported to the kitchen while you choose the next one… When you’re back at your table the first dishes already got offered for eating, no time get lost for waiting. And to save more time, Chinese try to eat as much as possible within the shortest time – that was why they had to wait for me to finish my slow meal… 😉

PS: I am not sure with the names of all animals/sea food. Feel free to correct… 😉