Comments on: South Africa 5 — A Light Lunch…

By: joey @ 80 breakfasts

joey @ 80 breakfasts — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:35:11 +0000

Looks delicious! But I am sure the view took the cake (pardon the bad food pun) :)

I also had motion sickness when I was younger…and still have it to a certain extent now. I can sympathize!

By: al

al — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 23:28:38 +0000

yummy, nice photos, i can taste the food from your writing

By: netoy

netoy — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:43:03 +0000

@Footloose – (^_^)

MM – the quality of your photos definitely took a wonderful evolution as compared to the earlier ones you’ve taken. Kudos!!! As is with the rest of your readers, we are travelling with you on this journey. I also checked the company’s website and WOW!!! ultra-expensive ha. But I agree with you – it is a trip of a lifetime and one that could be checked off your bucket list.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:56:01 +0000

Ah the Chakalaka was to die for. I hope you were able to sample Bobootie which was in the menu. The staff were very gracious to make for our family liver and giblets in peri peri sauce. Looking forward to seeing more of your posts. I miss Ebony.

By: Thel from Florida

Thel from Florida — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:09:45 +0000

WOW, sarap! great photos too :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:07:27 +0000

Zerho, actually, Vivian took care of our food and drink only. I was actually concerned about a valet clearing our luggage and handling our clothes. :)

Betchay, similar looking wood ebony to kamagong, both really hard, both expensive, and both now quite rare. There were several large ebony trees on the reserve, but when I tried to buy ebony wood in handicraft places in Cape Town, there was none to be had.

Khew, I know what you mean.

AlexME, the trip was so inspiring that writing the posts is so effortless (except I have to wade through thousands of photos and choose just a few of the best)…

By: Footloose

Footloose — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 09:04:32 +0000

May I suggest calling a female butler a buttress and I guess, a head stewardess a flying buttress.

The simplest recipes, you know, the one’s with the fewest ingredients, are invariably the most difficult to pull off perfectly.

@Khew, It might be simply a function of what your now diminished digestive capacity can break down; the bane of that far section of our age continuum when hollandaise sauce becomes one’s sleeper enemy.

By: Zerho

Zerho — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:43:01 +0000

Always had the impression that butlers were supposed to be male. Africa may be more forward thinking that I thought if they have female butlers. And good thing you packed your good underwear Marketman, woman can be way more “himantayon” when it comes to underthings.

By: Betchay

Betchay — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 05:42:13 +0000

Is Ebony tree the equivalent of our own Kamagong tree?

By: Khew

Khew — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 05:41:17 +0000

As I grow older, I somehow begin to find sauces and dressings abhorrent. I never understood why many of the socioeconomically higher end ‘older’ folks didn’t appreciate sauces until I entered their biological phase. This is the kind of food which now appeals to me – dryish, fresh and full flavoured. The taste and clarity of the ingredients complemented rather than masked. Even with curries, I want them made with freshly ground spices so you only need half their amounts to pack in the same punch and thereby also end up with a product minus all that debris/’mud’.