It was Matt's birthday on Saturday. He realised that he wasn't turning 34 like he thought, but actually 33, and this pleased him immensely.
To celebrate, we stuffed ourselves with cake at our favourite 'chocolate bakery' Cherubim, and then stuffed ourselves again at a seafood restaurant.
Seafood Supermarket (motto 'If it swims, we have it') is a HUGE warehouse of a restaurant with neon lights, plastic sharks hanging from the ceiling, and a large array of fishes / crabs / lobsters / prawns etc. etc. for sale. You trolley up to the supermarket area, take your pick of the (sometimes live) seafood and then 'checkout'.
At your table, you tell the waiter how you want things cooked. Sneakily, you then have to pay a separate bill for this, but anyhow, it's all good fun. It's not the best seafood in town and it isn't even consistently good, but on this occasion, everything was delicious.
On our menu:
- A big fat juicy crab fried in yellow curry sauce.
- A chunky thick-lipped garoupa steamed with ginger and spring onion.
- Pea shoots (dou miao) in garlic.
- Leftover puree butternut squash, carrot and sweet potato with chopped up spaghetti (for Oscar).
What did Oscar make of it all? Well he liked all the friendly waiting stuff, but his favourite bit was trying to grab the greedy goldfish in the pond.
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