Favorite Chinese

Saturday, December 19, 2009

This was our last dinner at Doung Son for the year 2009 and we decided to bring better wines to celebrate the upcoming holidays. Everyone pulled out the " good stuff". As usual there were 8 of us dining tonight. Makes for better conversation and portions the food out well. The size of the dish at Doung Son is the same if you are 2 people or 10 people.

We started off with a seafood lettuce wrap. This is a takeoff of the "chicken" but much better.

Fried oysters tonight were large and plump and extremely fresh.

Next up was garlic prawns. The prawns were very large but this time they served them with the shell on and skewered. I felt the prawns were overcooked and dry. I prefer them split with the sauce poured over.

One of our favorite dishes is beef tendon and tonight it seemed extra tasty. Maybe we were just hungry with anticipation.

Chinese broccoli with seabass was brought to the table. Everything about this dish was excellent.

Scallops with mushrooms and green peppers was brought in. A little bit of bit to the sauce. The scallops were very good and I did avoid the peppers.

Oliver requested something with noodles so Henry ordered the same dish we had a few months back. Crisp noddles with a sauce. I just do not care for this dish at all. The sauce is really good but the noodles get gummy. I much prefer the soft noddles.

Last dish was lamb simmered in a gravy. This was the first time we had this dish. Apparently it is a "winter" dish. Very tasty.

Dessert was fresh melon and a warm tapioca pudding.

Al the wines that were brought were very good.

2005 Roar Rosella's Pinot Noir
2005 Krupp. Stagecoach, Cabernet Sauvignon (2 bottles)
2008 P/R Reisling
2005 Stolpmans Estate Syrah
2006 Domaine Jean Defaix Chablis
2006 Rusak Grenache
2004 Verison, Napa, Synchrony,
2005 Paloma, Napa, Merlot
2003 L'Aventure Optimus
1997 Cossart Gordon, Colheita, Baul Madeira