I left you wondering what was for dinner after I arrived to the hotel last Thursday. Well, I wanted to give you a bit more thorough report about the food served here – more than just one dinner!
Most important information first: food is very tasty and freshly made, various and plenty.
For sitting in a room – more than a grown person needs, I would say. I think I would gain weight if I would eat everything what is served. I typically leave out the rice – the whole portion!
Before I continue – I did not see the difference in what is served for dinner or for lunch, so here are the meals served on both times (remember? at 11-12 and at 17-18).
On the first night I WAS hungry and finished nearly everything (!) as my last meal was the breakfast on the plane (last champagne as well 😉 )
Typically a meal is having:
Main meat
The main dish (the biggest portion on the plate) is always meat or fish. It varies every meal what you will get:
- pork (most common)
- fish
- beef
- duck
- chicken
Sometimes the dish is a stir-fry and has some type of vegetable added, on other times it is panfried or oven backed and it is served alone.
The last picture above: the interesting part is the black looking meat with some black small balls. I did not know what that would be (a bit big for an olive, but who knows!). When I tried, it was clear, that those are hard boiled egg yolks – I am not sure if the outside is some special substance/ way of preparing the yolks or it just got like that while cooking with the meat… Anyone knows???
The egg frittata is done in a ravioli way – with the meat (I thing) filling.
I really enjoyed a sweet-sour fried chicken with pineapple as it tasted distinguishably different from the ‘normal’ serving.
The meats are typically a bit saltier, but as the vegetables are prepared in a very plane way, it is a good balance when you eat them combined.
Side meat
A smaller portion of the meat can be very various as well:
- chicken wings
- meat balls
- pork belly
- duck
- any other stir-fry that could be served as the main meat
SUPER SIZE shrimps 😉 – they were delicious!!!! and nearly all of them had also ‘caviar’.
p.s. shrimps are actually the 3rd side dish!
2 x side veggies
All veggies are are cooked in some way (no fresh vegetables are served). Leafy greens are so to say always present, the other one can very from green beans to soya beans, from some root vegetable to zucchini & cauliflower, various mushrooms…
3rd side dish
The 4th side dish is then something with scrambled egg, sometimes with veggies sometimes with schrimp tails or meat (3rd time!). But not always the egg is present (e.g. when whole shrimps are served).
What I did not like was, that sometimes 3 out of 4 sides were actually containing meat. My least favourite was the sausage or something that was most similar to “Fleischkäse”. Nothing against it, but if you have other types of more quality meat, I do not need another variant of it.
Remember the special treat we’ve got for the Dragon boat festival (last photo)? And if you think, you see the baked potato on the first photo, you are mistaken 🙂 – like I was. Surprised too, when I took a bite – those are some sort of vegetables… no idea which root it was, but definitely not any kind of potato.
Fruit & yogurt or juice
I like the yogurt. It is always flavoured with some fruit taste, very refreshing and the portion is not too big.
Fruit until now was banana, apple, peach and mango. Not sure, how you can eat mango, if you do not have a knife with you….
When Bobi was doing his quarantine time, he got only 1 fruit per day. I am happy with two and usually I have it later in the evening, as a “night snack” 🙂 or at breakfast. At dinner/lunch time, I only now and then have space for the fruit!
Vegetarians out there, I do not know, if they offer any variations. No-one asked me if I have any special diet, nor I was demanding it – I eat pretty much everything. And I am always curious, what is on the plate. Yes. I am always trying everything. Not everything is to my liking, but with the amount of food served, I am able to select what I liked and also getting full every meal!
I hope you found something you would enjoy as well!
Hey Doris,
Good to see you are doing well.
Really enjoying reading your stories. One more hidden talent from you☺️
Wow all the food looks amazing especially if you like it.
People like me wouldn’t have survived 🤣
To eat the mango you can try the Indian way of squeezing the mango and eating the juice out of it.
I found a video but it’s in Hindi.
Maybe you can just look and try the method if it works 😀 Maybe you get to eat the mango 😋
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0pjHP06s0Y0
Have fun !!
Regards
Priya