We’d spent the day snorkeling and sun bathing on Phi Phi and a couple of other beaches and were pretty knackered by the time we got back to the hotel. Kabuki was just downstairs so it was an easy decision for dinner. Plus we were celebrating Anjali and Vipuls’ 20th anniversary. It’d been a while since I’d had teppanyaki and it was Pooja’s first time. We were really looking forward to it. Anaya, our niece, was not a happy camper as she had had it up to her gills with…
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Seafood in the rain in Phuket
Pooja and I finally managed to take a short break and spent a week celebrating her cousin Anjali and Vipul’s 20th wedding anniversary in Phuket end of May. On their previous trip Vipul had unearthed this smallish eatery, located just off Sarasin Bridge. Very understated place but boy is it a great place to spend a lazy afternoon! Given that we had gone at the start of the monsoon, their outside tables were put away so we settled on a table with the best view of the sea inside one…
Read MoreMy Favourite Seafood Dishes – Part 2
And I’m back to complete this little series of my fav seafood dishes. Fish & Chips This one ranks high for many reasons – there is of course the whole childhood / mom / granddad connection to it but also it was the most often ordered thing at CCI after a swim during vacations. Fried Pomfret, club fries and tartar sauce or Dipys tomato ketchup… how wrong can it get right? I still, more often than not, use White or Silver Pomfret fillets for this dish. Yes people are using…
Read MoreChicken Stuffed Squid with Garlic, Red Pepper and Onion
Last weeks post got a friend all fired up and he just “had” to have stuffed squid. He’d never had it before and wanted to see how it was made, so we got together Saturday evening last to whip it up. Ideally I’d use a spicy Italian sausage or a chorizo or even a Goan sausage for the stuffing but my wife doesn’t eat red meat so we got some chicken sausage and had to up the flavour quotient of the stuffing. Since it was planned, I had carried the frozen…
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Top four seafood myths and their offshoots. In this blog post, we’ll take a close look at some of the false concepts floating around (pun intended) about seafood. We’ll see whether these notions are purely fictitious or if they have an element of truth in them. Myth 1 – DAIRY Much A Moo About Nothing In our culture, the most common myth that’s persisted for far too long is that seafood and dairy can’t be consumed together. There has been no scientific evidence or study that proves this theory…
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