Tasty

So first off, sorry for the delay in blog posts. I was busy with mundane day to day life including studying and honestly nothing special had happened. That is, until yesterday. Yesterday was a tasting at work. Most of the menu was cooked up for the newer staff and shared so that we learned what they tasted like. They started with the entrees. The Peri Peri Prawns were really good but very spicy. The bbq wings where 3x cooked with steaming, frying, then grilling and the blue cheese sauce they were served with was amazing. There were some other ones I didn't like as much liike the boerewores which is a tradition african sausage. It tasted pretty tough and dry from what I''m used to.

Afterwards the salads came out. The only thing worth noting is the biltong which came on the house specialty salad. It is akin to beef jerky except not dried as heavily. It is extremely good. Its like the potato chips of the meat world.

The entrees came out. They didn't cook all the different steaks because that would be silly but they did cook a steak to share, beef ribs, lamb ribs, pork ribs, chicken breast, portuguese chicken, beef skewer, salmon skewer, giant prawns, lamb shanks, and maybe a few other things I might've missed. The portuguese chicken was delicious the marinade made it very rich flavor. The lamb ribs were probably the best tasting ribs as well as the most tender. The beef ribs were a bit tough and the lamb shanks were really underwhelming.

Then dessert rolled out. They was apple rubarb crumble, chocolate fondant, chocolate platter, pecan pie, and maybe another one. The crumble was so delicious but I guess I'm partial to appley stuff having been raised on apple pie.

At the end were were quizzed on our food knowledge.. It was pathetic. The manager got really pissed off how little information we retained. So now the next few weeks we are being heavily quizzed in briefings before our shift.

After tasting I went around sydney for a little bit. I went back to work at 5. It was along day. A very loooooong day. We probably had the largest shift we've ever had on. Close to 25 people on the floor. The restaurant also observed earth hour and dimmed the lights at 8:30 pm. At the end of the day, this one asian girl with slightly poor english was telling me as we were polishing silverware that she is a bit suprised to see how I work harder and harder when we get bust but still keep smiling and keep positive. She said it put her in a good mood too. I really took that compliment to heart. I always think that positive moods are infective and its good to see I can infect people.