Seafood Palace

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Six of us gathered tonight for a midweek dinner at the Seafood Palace in Garden Grove. We have decided to do 6 people dinners midweek at this restaurant because weekends are too crowded and noisy.

As usual we let Henry do all the ordering. Tonight's bill of fare was a lot of our normal dishes Nothing to new. All were good as usual.

Sweet Sour Soup
Salt & Pepper Calamari
Shrimp with Chinese Broccoli
Kung Pao Ckicken
Spicy Shredded Pork
Beef with Spinach
Cooked Oysters with Chives
Baked Tofu

Dessert was a green melon hollowed out with melon balls in a liquid. There were bits of ice floating in the it. How they make it and what the liquid was I do not know. But it was tasty. It may have been a Vietnamese dish as in this area of town the restaurants have a tendancy to combine both cultures. They also served fresh sliced oranges and fortune cookies.

I brought a bottle of 2006 AP Vin Kanzler Pinot Noir and CJ brought a 2007 Testarossa Rosella's Pinot Noir. I thought the 2 best wines on the table.They also were the first to be emptied.  Other wines were a Proseco that was flat so we did not drink it. These things happen sometimes. 2005 Stolpman Estate Syrah, 1998 Saxum Brown Willamette Pinot Noir, 2008 McKeon Phillips BVP, 2006 McKeon Phillips Cabernet Franc.

Hope to get another dinner in before Henry leaves on vacation in June. Word is Doung Son will reopen in July. We shall see as they are 18 months behind schedule now. Right now we are looking for a Dim Sum restaurant that is close. Driving to downtown LA or Monterey Park is an effort.