Food glorious Food

[John Arton]

The other day myself, her who must be obeyed, eldest daughter and boyfriend, were out Christmas shopping (ugh!) and afterwards went for a pub meal in one of the chains in the U.K. Smashing pub/hotel a few miles outside Gateshead and for £60 we all had 3 courses plus wine and beer. Really good grub and came away well stuffed.
Now the point of this thread is that such a good meal led me to thinking. Apart from bars and women next on most seafarers lists of to do, is food.
We have all reminisced about bars around the world but how about the restaurants and food we ate around the world.
Joe Beefs in Montreal serving great burgers
The Brown Derby? top end of Younge Street in Toronto, great steaks
Hawkers Market, Maxwell Street, Singapore, just great food
Richards Bay, name forgotten, great seafood, wine and meats
Rotterdam, Chinese/Indonesian restaurant, again name forgotten.
Blyth, best fish and chips ever
Jacksonville, biggest steak ever, if you could eat it all you got it free, Engineer cadet ate free 3 nights running before he got banned
The Bucket of Shrimps, Mazatlán, huge bucket of big shrimps and great beer.
Tofino Beach, Vancouver Island, Stone baked King Crabs in a shack run by two old English ladies
At a wedding ceremony in Taiwan held in a replica temple that I got dragged into after 48hrs on a Greek ship as Port Captain. Having hundreds of small dishes and having to pin an envelope full of dosh on the brides dress.
Again as when I was Port Captain, eating live monkeys brains in a North Kalimantan port with a bunch of Palm Oil shippers we were chasing a contract with.
Street Vendors in Unjung Padang, best satay ever
Blue Mountains, Australia, taken by friends we met in Wollongong for a BBQ, fantastic views and great steaks, sausages etc.
Singapore East Coast Park restaurant where you picked your own crab, prawns etc. from tanks, they were then taken away and cooked for you, chillie crabs great!
A restaurant in Inverness where me and wife to be had the best Aberdeen Angus steak ever
Most of the above meals cost next to nothing.
Anyone else recall great meals and restaurants around the world?
rgds
JA

[John Gill]

Not forgetting 10 Mark Alley in Hamburg. For that amount, bin lid size plate of bratwurst, bucket of Becks and a fraulien thrown in.

[Ivan Cloherty]

Best, largest, tastiest prawns ever at restaurant 'Captain Fremantle' in Fremantle. Worst, glazed Starlings still with their feathers on in Shekou, China, when I was chasing a contract. But spent a few years in Ethiopia so would have eaten anything!

[John Albert Evans]

The Copper Kettle in B.A. The steaks were great.

John

[cappy]

##downtown .....in the happy palace bar osaka.......yum yum lol cappy

[Captain Kong]

Some of the London Greek tramps I sailed on in the early 50s I would have eaten a scabby cat and enjoyed it as a gourmet dinner. The only fresh meat were cockroaches. until we loaded 12 goats on the hoof in Cochin, "This is very fresh meat Sahib"

The weirdest "dinner" I had was in Borneo with the Dyak tribe, two of us stayed a weekend with them in 1960.
We had chunks of meat what tasted like Pork, "Long Pig", a big feast, they were all made up in war paint and dancing round the fire in the Soah.
On reporting back to the British Consul he informed us that "Long Pig " was human meat, and they usually go to the next village and take someone for the feast.
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Had a real good one this year in San Diego, California, my son had paid for Anne and I to have a dinner at "Mr A" s on top of a very tall building, where the movie Stars eat out in. for my 80th Birthday. and airplanes flying into San Diego fly past below the restaurant window, fantastic views across the Harbour and island. The Service, Food and presentation was the Best ever.
"Mr A" s is in the Top Four Restaurants in the whole of the USA, and that is a lot of restaurants.
Cheers
Brian

[Dennis McGuckin]

Loved the Beefy's from street vendors in BA.
Some great curries in Bombay.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
Best Chinese food Singapore, best lamb roast Auckland. Not at sea but when in Broken Hill in NSW went into a club and ordered a steak, out it came on a huge plate, I thought it was the side of a steer, but what a steak, melted in the mouth, and in Foster up the coast of NSW Red Admiral prawns full plastic bag full for a few dollars, laying on the beach enjoying.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Tow come to mind for me. Curry eaten from a banana leaf in the Indian market in Durban. Steaks in the Ranch House just outside Sea Point in Cape Town. Steaks looking like a side of beef served up on wooden plates. Great feed until one day the place burned down.

[John Pruden]

fish head curry Singapore{or was I that pi..ed} and hungry funny I have not had a curry for over 40 years or a chine's not the same from a take away and now that I have packed in the fags I cant stand the smell of the stuff meat spuds and veg me? jp