Stylish Chinese Cuisine

Advantages: Good food, service and surroundings
Disadvantages: Not disabled friendly; minimum charge

...? apple was £1.20 and pineapple £1.50. As a starter we confined ourselves to a basket of prawn crackers (£1.50) with sweet and sour sauce. While we were waiting, one of the waitresses came and unfolded the napkins, put them on our laps for us and then removed the wine glasses. The other waitress asked if we were happy using chop sticks and took them out of their paper bags when we said yes. For the main course we agreed that if we each ordered something different we could have a taste of each other's dishes. Tang's offers Cantonese, Peking and Szechuan cuisine. I was eyeing up the duck mains when my son's partner announced he fancied the crispy roast duck with pineapple (£8.50). I then turned my attentions to chicken with cashew nuts (£6), but of course my son said he had decided on that. Having been twice thwarted, I thought I'd have a look...

denella 24.09.2009 (26.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Tang's Chinese Cuisine, Southsea

I LOVE my Lean Cuisines

Advantages: Tasty, convenient, nutrition information is printed on the box
Disadvantages: could be expensive for some people; sodium content is quite high

...Lean Cuisine is a range of pre-packaged frozen meals for those people who want to eat a lower calorie intake and lose weight, and are great for people to take as lunches to work as they cook in minutes in a microwave. The range is very complete, and they cater to all tastes. There are Asian style dishes for those who like me love Chinese food - teriyaki beef, oriental beef, chicken fried rice for instance. For those whose passion is Italian, they do spaghetti, lasagne, and some other pasta selections, and they do a range of everyday type meals with vegetables. Most of the selections are between 250-320 calories and they have a nutrition guideline on the package so you can check fat gms, sodium and cholesterol content, ideal for those who have other dietary problems and need to keep track of their intake of those items. I...

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Tefal Steam Cuisine Steamer

Advantages: Great idea saves time
Disadvantages: None

...Well, it had to happen, I suppose. All good things must come to a end, as they say. Our faithful steamer gave up the ghost after nearly eight years of Stirling steaming service. Time, we realised, to buy a new one. We decided to make our purchase of a new steamer at the BBC Good Food Show. After circling round and round the stands and displays several times ("too small, too big, doesn't look quite good enough, no WAY" are we paying that much!") we discovered the Tefal stand. We both fell in love with the Tefal Steam Cuisine Steamer. My comment was: "My god, it looks like something out of Star Trek voyager!" For yes, indeed, the Tefal Steam Cuisine steam cooker does look incredibly funky and very, very modern. It also has, for the amount of food that it can cook, a relatively small footprint. And this is, in the tiny and pokey...

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Gourmet food for Dogs

Advantages: Nice treat for dogs
Disadvantages: Expensive for everyday feeding

...My daughter has a lovely Staffordshire Bull Terrier and his name is Mampi Swift, he sometimes comes to visit us and stay for the n night, if she and her boyfriend are going out so that he?s not alone all night and at times like these he like to get a little treat. His favourite is Cesar Canine Cuisine. Cesar comes in a little tin which is 150g per tray and there are quite a few different flavours to choose from. Mampi loves the T-bone Steak flavour and will sit patiently until you have opened the tray and put it in his dog dish then he waits until you say he can have it before devouring the lot in about five seconds flat. The other flavours are Porthouse Steak, Beef, Braised Beef and Vegetables, Lamb, Top Sirloin, Pork Tenderloin and the new breakfast flavours of Smoked Bacon and Eggs. There?s also a Chicken, Chicken...

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Monty's - the Python of Restaurants

Advantages: Good atmosphere, excellent service, reasonable prices
Disadvantages: Inconvenient waiting area for queuing diners

...till 5.00 p.m. and 6.00 - 11.00 p.m. on Sundays. They do a nice buffet lunch on Sundays for £8.50 from 12.00 - 5.00 p.m. I'd also point out that Monty's is wheelchair friendly and family friendly too, although I've not noticed a baby changing room anywhere. Contact details: Montys Tandoori Restaurant Nepalese Cuisine Friendship House 1 The Mall Ealing Broadway London W5 2PJ Tel: 020 8567 8122 UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2006 Dined at Monty's again last night with some ex colleagues who are now my friends! We were having a reunion as several of us have moved onto new challenges in recent months and we quite missed working with each other. We had decided to meet for a few drinks in Ealing before going to eat and my pals insisted that I choose the venue. Well, of course, I chose Monty's and just had to update this review to...

anonymili 04.04.2006 (09.09.2006) · Read review
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A taste of the Orient in deepest, darkest Surrey

Advantages: Nice food, excellent service
Disadvantages: A bit quiet so a tad lacking in atmosphere

...and dining in the corner himself, which was rather pleasant. I wouldn't say that the cuisine is spectacular but definitely steady and consistent, with some real potential hidden gems on the menu. Definitely recommended. CONTACT DETAILS The Colony, 3 Balfour Road Weybridge, Surrey. KT13 8HE. Tel: 01932-842766 Website: http://www.thecolonyrestaurant.co.uk/...

larsbaby 22.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Colony Peking Cuisine Restaurant, Weybridge

Brilliant British!

Advantages: Large quantity, taste etc
Disadvantages: vomit smell, expensive

...Last week me and my mum were going out to see a show, which was an hour away in the car. This meant I had to have an early tea, and on discovering we had nothing quick in our fridge or freezer we nipped off to Tesco in order to purchase a pizza! On arriving at the frozen aisle I was distracted by an array of frozen meals in the freezer next to the pizza's. I knew on first glance I fancied a ready meal rather than a pizza and so I began to search for something suitable! Among the tesco value, tesco finest, weight watchers meals and healthy living meals, I discovered a product I hadn't seen before! The particular product was Tesco; British Cuisine, Roast Beef Dinner. The frozen meal was held in a plastic tray, and a carboard sleeve was slid over! The carboard sleeve contained a scrumptious looking picture of what the meal looks like...

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Review of Tesco British Cuisine Beef Dinner

Helpful guide to low calorie cuisine

Advantages: Great recipes, photos and inspiration
Disadvantages: Some culinary expertise required. Not for beginners

...obvious but the truth is that many people these days just don't know how to cook healthily and here's where the book scores. Ignore the "food personality" quiz at the start , it's just a bit of girlie nonsense to pad things out but these four clearly care about what they eat and , as a cookery book, it works. Delicious low-calorie versions of fish pie ( celeriac instead of potato) , roast dinners amd even chocolate fudge cake are passed on with some aplomb plus a raft of lovely soups (tomato, chil and basil and mushroom and chestnut) , unusual vegetable dishes and desserts which won't destroy the waistline such as chocolate and orange tiramisu. . The problem is of course that anyone prepared to take the time and effort to ditch the takeaways in favour of home cuisine probably won't have...

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Review of Cook Yourself Thin: The Delicious Way to Drop a Dress Size - Harry Eastwood

Fine seafood cuisine in prime Istanbul tourist territory

Advantages: Excellent seafood, good value for money, good tourist location
Disadvantages: I'm about 20km away from it

..., calamari, and Imam Bayildi, a particularly noteworthy aubergine dish, not least for it?s translation ?The Imam Fainted?. Turkish cuisine includes chicken topkaki (chicken with mushroom, cheese and vegetables Sultan?s lamb (spicy lamb with celery and carrots), chicken with artichoke, grilled meatballs and shish kebab. International cuisine includes filet Mignon, beef stogonoff, chicken crurry (sic), Chinese style chicken, mushroom casserole and grilled vegetables. Seafood specialities include seabass in garlic and wine, seafood casserole, swordfish, salmon, grilled bream and grilled seabass. Pastas include spaghetti bolognaise, vegetable tptellini (sic ? really, their website needs checking) and ravioli. Salads include tuna salad, vegetarian salad, Mediterranean salad and caesar salad. You can also choose omelettes from cheese, egg (which...

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Review of Pasha, Istanbul

Vegetarian Cuisine Gets A Dose Of Glamour

Advantages: Elegant layout, creative recipes for the confident cook
Disadvantages: Not enough photographs

...dinner parties - and there's not a mushroom stroganoff or omelette in sight! Veggie Chic is certainly not for those who want a basic introduction to vegetarian cuisine, but it would make a useful and stylish addition to anybody's cookbook collection - vegetarian or not. Veggie Chic is Vegetarian Society Approved and has an RRP of £16.99, though Amazon has it for £10.18, which is a bargain. If you're a vegetarian and/or enjoy entertaining or just cooking glamorous meals then it's worth its weight in gold. The ISBN is 0-600-61399-2 and it's published by Hamlyn....

DoubleFantasy11 16.01.2007 · Read review
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