18 Dec

We reached Christchurch close to 7pm and before checking in to the YMCA we picked up dinner from Pedro’s House of Lamb. Dad said they had famous lamb shoulder. They used to have a proper restaurant, but after the Christchurch earthquake they relocated to a small stall next to a bottle shop and do takeaway only (maybe with plans to reopen in a more permanent location soon). The whole baby lamb shoulder was $35 and had been baked in a rosemary and garlic sauce and also came with scalloped...

20:49 / Christchurch / New Zealand / Pedro's House of Lamb / Travel
18 Dec

More Korean! I was originally going to get dolsot bibimbap, but went with kimchi dolsot bibimbap instead (both $16). I know it exists but I haven’t seen it on a menu yet so I thought I may as well try. The three portions of kimchi replaced a few of the other veggies they normally serve in their bibimbap and the gochujang represented one of the sections, rather than being free to add by customers. I chose beef, though pork, tuna and tofu were also options. It was nice, though...

14:17 / Dunedin / Korea House / Korean / New Zealand / Travel
17 Dec

Since it was 7:30pm and on the way to the hotel, we visited Miga Korean BBQ and Japanese for dinner. I ordered gamjatang, which was spicy pork bone and potato stew with vegetables. Dad wanted either the bulgogi or the o-sam/o-jingoh/buldak/buldaejie (pork+squid, squid, chicken, pork: they were all stir-fried with a gochujang-based sauce, so basically the same but slightly different because of flavours imparted by the different meats used). I suggested the pork and squid because I thought they’d add nice flavours to the sauce. I also didn’t...

12:38 / Dunedin / Korean / Miga Korean BBQ and Japanese / New Zealand / Travel
16 Dec

Because we didn’t have breakfast I was rather hungry when we got back from our Tasman Glacier kayaking trip at 2pm, so we just got lunch at the Old Mountaineers Café and Bar. I had the Local-Farmed Aoraki Smoked Salmon Bagel With Aioli, Cream Cheese, Lettuce, Red Onion And A Wedge Of Lemon ($15) and dad had the soup of the day, which was Pumpkin And Ginger Soup ($13.50). Kind of expensive, but I just wanted to eat something. My bagel wasn’t bad, although the bagel wasn’t very dense....

14:18 / Mount Cook Village / New Zealand / Old Mountaineers Café and Bar / Seafood / Travel
16 Dec

We'd bought an accommodation package that included a meal voucher together with the room. The voucher for the Chamois Bar and Grill entitled us to any main meal and a drink each. I had boysenberry cider with Mackenzie rib eye, potato mash, pureed pumpkin, green beans and roasted tomato with red wine jus ($27). The other options for steak sauces were garlic butter and mushroom. The rib eye was more medium than medium rare, but it was still tender and tasty. I quite liked the red wine jus which...

12:30 / Chamois Bar and Grill / Mount Cook Village / New Zealand / Travel
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