TGIF. It’s been a good week. Today I woke up feeling quite tired even though I’d had a reasonable sleep.
For breakfast I enjoyed some tinned spaghetti with Worcestershire sauce on an English muffin. On the other half of the muffin I put some Buderim Ginger Factory ginger marmalade. When I got to the hospital I went to the Zouki cafe and there were all these doughnuts on a table. I wanted all of them. I settled for a mocha. For lunch I had a couple of salmon sushi rolls. For dinner I enjoyed a chicken, lettuce and tomato sandwich using rye bread.
Yesterday I started with avocado on rye bread. I then had some lollies for morning tea. For lunch I had some leftover organic red rice chicken congee. For dinner I went out to Maestral Restaurant in Weston and enjoyed soft shell crab, haloumi and a fried seafood platter. It was awesome.
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Restaurant Thr3e is the new restaurant at the Kedron-Wavell Services Club. It replaces the Kokoda Restaurant.
On Friday night Dad wanted me to take him out. I’m in Brisbane at the moment because Mum recently had spinal surgery and she’s doing rehabilitation. I’m here for a few days to help them out and get some things done for them.
Restaurant Thr3e offers a buffet meal with extras. The extras are things like a small seafood platter, or fillet steak or a bucket of prawns plus others. It’s sort of like a fancy Sizzlers with some options.
It wasn’t too bad and the value was pretty good. I had the buffet with a small seafood platter.
If you’re a member of the Kedron-Wavell Services Club it’s worth doing. You get a discount on the meal and the atmosphere on a Friday evening at 5.30 pm is pretty good. There are lots of older people taking advantage of an earlier dinner.
The fresh prawns, mussels and oysters were pretty good.
A couple of weeks ago Mum and Dad celebrated 50 years of marriage. Mum wanted a family celebration with her children and grandchildren. There’s 15 of us including Mum and Dad.
A favourite restaurant for my parents is Morgans Seafood at Scarborough.
We had a booking for noon because basically the Lums don’t like to wait too long to eat. On the drive (we had a convoy of three cars), I had a niece with me and she said she was a real Lum because she preferred meat and fish and dessert over vegetables.
We get to the restaurant and Dr47 tells me I’ve been here before but I can’t remember. Not long after, Mr42 arrives with his kids and we’re all seated at a long table with a water view. I find myself at the end with all the kids which isn’t a bad thing since I’m a big kid 🙂
Because we had decided we were also going to go out for dinner we all elected to enjoy a main course. The menu doesn’t have a huge selection but every item looks like a winner to me.
It’s been nearly a decade since I enjoyed a seafood platter (my favourites being at Crustaceans and Christos in Darwin). I was so excited when Miss17 said she’d like to try a platter with me. It was the second most beautiful thing I’d heard all weekend. The most beautiful was when Miss19 told me that when I visit in October she wants me to cook for her a meal like I used to when we lived in Darwin. I nearly cried.
Even though I had a camera with me I didn’t want to annoy everyone by capturing images of their food so I took a couple of ninja snaps.
Miss17 and I chose the Moreton Bay platter because it was a combination hot and cold creation and focussed on the local crustacean, Thenus orientalis, which is a slipper lobster and known locally as the Moreton Bay bug. In Cockroach territory (aka New South Wales) it’s known as a Balmain bug. Fittingly Dr47 described it to his Miss8 as the cockroach of the sea (not that that description would put her off eating it). I loved her description of calamari. She calls them Japanese chips (fries for my North American friends).
The Moreton Bay platter consists of Chilled Moreton Bay bugs, Florida lobster, Pacific oysters, and ocean prawns, with Grilled Coconut crumbed prawns, Moreton Bay bugs, half shell Queensland scallops with macadamia nut and lime butter, salt and pepper calamari (aka Japanese chips), and crumbed fish fillets.
It’s meant to be a platter for two but the quantities are not served evenly, so there is an odd number of oysters, bug tails and only one lobster tail. This could create a little tension, fortunately, I’ve learnt to be less macrophagic in my eating habits and so Miss17 and I made very equitable decisions on the division of the spoils.
After the mains were devoured a spectacular cake was produced. A white chocolate mud cake for Mum and Dad.
We all had a great time at lunch. The kids loved their meals and the setting was perfect. Brisbane turned on a beautiful day for Mum and Dad. They shared that on their wedding day it was brighter and more blue but a little colder in Brisbane. On that day the Beatles were playing in Brisbane and the Wallabies were playing the All Blacks. An uncle from New Zealand asked if he could skip the wedding party and attend the test match. So fifty years on and my parents have a family they love and in Mum’s words they’ll just take each year as it comes now.
I give it 4 colonies out of 5. Really good. I will aim to return. As a bonus they use cloth napkins and the mens’ room had good hand basins and soap to wash off all the seafood odours.
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