In the still of the night…

It was pretty late already that night…

…after the lavish dinner in the house but my friend insisted that what we had would be hardly enough for us to last the whole night through and dragged us to this place…

If I’m not mistaken, this was their outlet somewhere in Howick and this was their logo prominently displayed on the ceiling…

…and I was told that it would stay open till late – maybe 2 or 3.00 a.m. The patronage was largely Asian…

…and business was obviously very good…

Even at that late hour, we had to wait a bit before we were able to get a table.

My friend said that the wanton hor was very nice but we ended up ordering the fried rice instead…

…and as you can see from the menu…

…it certainly did not come cheap. Unlike when I was in Auckland in 2005, things varied around NZ$8.00 then but the servings were so huge – enough for at least 2-3 persons but it did not seem to be the case anymore. Thankfully, the fried rice was very nice and I enjoyed it very much – which is something that I usually would not say about the fried rice that I have had around here.

Other than that, we had these very nice chicken wings…

…and what they called the prawn twister…

…and these fritters as well – tempara, I think they were called…

Everybody had their bubble teas and what not but I was never interested in those things. Instead, this item on the menu caught my eye…

…and I could not resist ordering that to give it a try…

Hmmm…I would say it was disappointing, nowhere near what we have here – at RM2.20 a bowl some more…but to be fair, I thought it was a whole lot nicer than what I had here…and it was not cheap there either even though it was right here in our own country! Tsk! Tsk!

After having had our fill, we headed back to the house for a good night’s sleep…or was it morning already by then? LOL!!!

Staying home…

We stayed in and had dinner in the house that 4th day (or 4½, to be exact) in Auckland, New Zealand…and if you think, it would be something simple, nothing to shout about, think again!

We had these so very beautiful blinis…

…topped with sour cream and dill and smoked salmon plus lumpfish roe and we had these as well…

I did not like that preserved vegetable thingy on the left, same as how I am not crazy about preserved olives or how I would take out those gherkins in my burger before eating…but I loved the liver pâté – it tasted absolutely great with the crackers!

Needless to say, I enjoyed the smoked salmon and the salami…

…very much and the superlicious blue cheese that my friend’s hubby bought in Puhoi…

I did not really fancy this one though…

– some kind of creamy cheese, I can’t remember exactly what it was now.

The lobsters were great…

– topped with cheese and garlic and baked to perfection.

My friend’s son was so sweet as to go through the trouble of walking all the way to some place in the neighbourhood to buy these for me to try…

You’d never guess what they were – they were fried Mars bars…

…and I enjoyed that a lot!

We also had the award-winning Kapiti ice cream, a New Zealand original, for dessert…

– creamy ice cream with Nelson boysenberries…

…and it was simply out of this world!

That certainly was a delightful dinner…and if you think that was it for the day, think again! Come back and see in my next blogpost what we had in store next! LOL!!!