Seafood Palace - Maybe The Last Dinner Here

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Doung Son still has not reopened so eight of us made a spur of the moment last minute decision to have dinner at the Seafood Palace again.

Cora is starting chemo again so this would be her last wine dinner for several months. In fact she had a treatment Tuesday  but it does take a while for the chemicals to build up in your body so she still was feeling decent and had not lost her taste buds yet.

We started out with 4 seafood dishes all served at the same time. Salt & Pepper Calamari with jalapenos, Fried Oysters with ginger and scallions , shrimp with Chinese broccoli and Lobster with noodles. I was in seventh heaven. I could have had seafood for the entire meal. These dishes paired exceptionally well with a Chablis that T & C brought. There was a Sauvignon Blanc on the table but I am finding that I have to stay away from these wines. The acidity is starting to really bother me,

Next up was a dish, "choice beef" with spinach. I took one piece of beef and by time the dish made its way back to me all the meat was gone. What I did have was very good. It was cubed instead of sliced like we normally get.

Shredded spicy pork with noddles,  Tofu with spinach and chicken with soft fat noddles (great sauce) rounded out the meal.

Dessert was Flan with a coffee sauce. This was a new one.

The table next to us was celebrating a special occasion. They had a whole sucking pig brought to the table. It was on a silver tray surrounded by flowers. It even had a bid red flower on its head. Now I am talking "whole" pig.  Reminded me of a movie years ago. Can't remember the title right now or the name of the young model/actress that was brought out on a large tray and showed off to the potential clients. The highest bidder would be the first to get her virginity. It was a bordello and her mother worked there. So the pig looked innocent also.  What I found fascinating was they cut the skin from the top of the backbone and made like it was Peking Duck.. Put the skin inside these dough "pillows" and added shredded scallions and added a sauce.  All this table did was eat the skin. All the meat was taken off the bones and packed for them to take home.

The wines that were brought tonight are as follows:

2005 Loring, Russell Vineyard, Pinot Noir
2007 Williams Selyem, Sonoma County, Pinot Noir
2008 Justin, Paso Robles,  Sauvignon Blanc
2006 Talley, Arroyo Grande, Pinot Noir
1997 Kalin Cellars , Livermore, Semillion
2001 Rosenthal, Malibu Newton Canyon Meritage
2007 McKeon-Phillips, BPR, Caberenet Sauvignon
2008 McKeon-Phillips, BPR, Cabernet Sauvignon
2009 Domaine Clos De L'eglise, Macon, Albert Bicholt, Chablis