A gull and a winter sea
He Sheng restaurant on Sea Point Main Road near Pick n Pay has been sold since we last visited and has new owners, It has also moved across the road. We haven't been for years because the last time we went the previous owners put so much MSG in the food that we had bad reactions. We read some good reviews on a Facebook page we follow: Restaurants the Good, the Bad and the Nasty and as we love Dim Sum decided to venture forth with a couple of like minded friends, for lunch last Friday…
We
were invited to the first of Delheim’s popular Jazz & Fondue events held
every Sunday until 25 August and headed off, on one of our rare but lovely
sunny winter days, to this farm high in the Stellenbosch foothills. This week,
the band was a group who came together while at the South African College of
Music at UCT. Held in the cellar tasting room, we were shown to a table in the back corner…
We know that we don’t eat enough fish. We love it but, where we live, our only local source is supermarkets, where the fresh fish looks days old and is very unappealing. Ridiculous, one thinks, in a city by the sea. Or from frozen food cabinets and we do tend to pass them by, except for frozen vegetables like peas. The ‘haddock’ (actually smoked hake in South Africa) came from one of those…
We tasted this at the Old Mutual Trophy Wine Show Public Tasting in Cape Town this week and were so impressed. Leopards Leap won the most fragile trophy, the Riedel Trophy for Best Bordeaux-Style Red Blend for this wine. The trophy is a large Riedel wine glass that has the capacity for a whole bottle of wine...
Anyone who pooh-poohs the concept of Global warming needs to take another look at this lovely planet. Europe is experiencing its hottest weather in recorded history, while still only in June, and we are in a cold winter which should give us copious amounts of rain but, apart from a few sporadic wet days, we – here in Sea Point – have had only 60% of the rain we’d had at the same time last year, and that was also a dry year. It is frustrating, we see the dark clouds on the horizon and rain falling on the sea, but nothing reaches land. We are encouraged by the many people we meet who take our water situation seriously, but we should all continue to beat this drum until everyone follows suit
Every year, after the Old Mutual Trophy Wine Competition, comes the Trophy Wine Show, which is held in Cape Town and Johannesburg and, at last, we had a chance to taste the Silver, Gold and Trophy winners, and see why the Trophy wines won their class. If you want to see this year’s results: Click on this link : https://www.trophywineshow.co.za/2019-results/. Of course it is not possible to taste all of the wines. We do try to get around to taste the Trophy wines and there were some really outstanding wines this year, as expected as the bar has been pushed high…
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