Naga, authentic Thai restaurant in Puerto Banus.

After not been to Spain for nearly 2 months, I finally went back to Banus to Naga, a Thai restaurant which is very popular among my friends.

I have been to Naga for many occasions and all of us always enjoyed it.  Although this time there was some problem with the beef green curry which they did not charge us in the end, overall it was still good experience.

Miss Guan was in charged of ordering food, as usual she ordered plenty of food since we all enjoy food so much and eat like pig!

Four of us spent 240 Euros in total, the price is above average but considering the location and the quality of the food, it is definitely worth going.

My meal started with delicious tropical fruit cocktail drink.

 

Prawn and chicken spring rolls.

 

 

 

Tom Yam soup.

 

 

 

Won Ton soup, just noticed on their online menu that this is a special Thai soup, since when did Won Ton become Thai?

 

 

 

Prawn spring rolls.

 

 

Minced chicken salad, my favourite starter was this dish and the Tom Yam soup.

 

 

 

I like how they present the rice, can't do without rice when eating curry.

 

 

Expensive and the best Phad Thai.

 

 

 

Duck red curry, the sauce was so good.

 

 

 

Fried dorada with Thai herbs, not bad, but I still prefer the fish curry from La Finca.

 

 

Fried banana with honey and ice cream.

 

 

My favourite sticky rice with mango.

 

Naga Thai Restaurant

Cristamar Commercial Centre 18-21
Opposite El Corte Inglés
PUERTO BANUS

 

KonFusion, new fusion restaurant on the seafront at Sabinillas.

Yesterday 4 of us went to KonFusion restaurant at Sabinillas for Jolanta's birthday.  The restaurant is on the seafront, having lots of competitions from many other restaurants.  While most of the restaurants had many customers on this Friday night, the newly opened KonFusion only had two tables of customers. 

Other than using Asian ingredients in the cooking, the owner also made effort to decorate the place with pictures of people and scenes in Asia.  They also used some Chinese ceramics and banana leaves for food presentation.

4 of us ordered almost the same food, for starter we ordered 2 dumpling soups and 2 prawn with avocado and tortilla chips, for main course we ordered 3 grilled salmon with pak choi and a sirloin steak with teriyaki sauce.

The conclusion was the food was not bad, but not special, they need to come up with more creative dishes with good combination of west and east taste.

The pictures add some Asian feel to the restaurant.

 

 

 

There are about 4 tables insides the restaurant, there are also seating outside of the restaurant facing the sea.

 

 

 

 

Complementary starter, tempura prawn with teriyaki sauce.

 

 

 

 

 

Avocado mixed with tomatoes, coriander and parsley, served with pan fried prawn and tortilla chips.  I quite liked this dish.

 

 

 

 

Dumpling (Wanton) soup.  The dumplings were good, it would be even better if they used less pepper in the soup.

 

 

Grilled salmon with pak choi, not bad but Jian said she can cook even better than this.

 

 

 

 

My sirloin steak with teriyaki sauce.  Good quality of meat but it was too salty, I do eat quite salty, but it was way too salty for me to finish it. 

 

 

 

 

 We ordered one apple pie to share, surprisingly it was the best dish of the day.

 

La Serrana for Sam's leaving do.

Sam has been with our department for nearly a year, he is leaving us to go back to UK.  We are so happy that he is leaving and celebrated it with good food and drink!  I AM ONLY JOKING!   Sam is fun and friendly, everyone likes him, most of us turned up at his leaving do.

 

Sam wanted to go to La Chimenea but the place is too small for all of us, in the end we decided La Serrana in La Linea where there are plenty of space and with large selection of tapas.

 

Service was quick and food arrived soon as it was just about 9pm and too early for the local to eat.

 

We had plenty of food, beers and soft drinks, everyone had a good time.









The restaurant is behind the church square.

 

 

 

Spanish style furniture and decoration.

 

 

 

Various type of montaditos. Not sure which one I had, the meat was a bit dry, still prefer serranito.

 

Salmon canapes for Tzhalla and Venus who do not eat pork. 

 

 

Anchovies canapes, it was ok, nothing special.

 

 

Russian salad, it was ok, nothing to complain.

 

 

Heuvos rotos con jaman iberico.  (Spanish ham with fried eggs and chips)

I always like this dish, I can probably have the whole plate by myself.

 

Jamon, we all love jamon! (except Tzhalla and Venus)

 

My favourite dish, fried aubergine with sugar cane syrup.

 

 

Fried squid ring, I think I forgot to eat this!

 

 

Yummy grill meat!

 

 

 

 

We ordered 3 types of desserts, not great but at least it was homemade. 

 

Not sure what was the name of this dessert, it was similar to flan.

 

Brownie.

 

Banoffee pie.

 

 

 

 

Meson La Serrana

Calle Padre Junco 16, La Linea,

 Cádiz, Spain

Patagonica Tapas for Bun Ee's birthday.

On Monday a group of us went to Patagonica Tapas in La Linea to celebrate Bun Ee's birthday.  It was my first time there, I enjoyed the meat but definitely not the starter and side dishes.  But still it was a good night out, we all had a great time!  Since it is a tapas place the price was a lot cheaper than Patagonia restaurant, 7 of us spent just under 100 Euros.

 

 

 

 

Centrally located in a square.

 

 

 

 Cutlery are on the tables for self service.

Spicy meat pasties, my favourite side dish.

 

 

 

Tuna salad, nothing special.

 

 

Roast peppers, prefer the whole peppers with lots of salt.

 

 

Spicy aubergine, all I can taste was vinegar!

 

 

Entrecote steak, I liked the meat and the potato.

 

Mixed grill - chorizo, black pudding, ribs and steaks, good value.

 

 

 

 

HACIENDA PATAGONICA

Pl. Cruz Herrera, 15

11300 , LA LINEA DE LA CONCEPCION , CADIZ

Tengoku, Japanese food in Southern Spain.

Japanese food has always been one of my favourite cuisines. In Malaysia Japanese restaurants are everywhere, they usually have great selections of sushi, rolls, bento set etc.  There is a lot of competition and with 10 pounds you will get to eat a good bento set. 

Whereas in Gibraltar and the nearby places in Andalusia, there aren't many good Japanese restaurant. Tengoku in Sotogrande is the only one that my Asian friends and I go most frequently. I believe the restaurant is run by Filipino, you will not see any Japanese in the restaurant, there used to be a Chinese chef who worked there and he enjoyed chatting with us in Mandarin.

Since we are not in Asia, we can't really complain much about the menu selections and price,  we are just happy to be able to get some Japanese food!  We usually spend 35 to 50 Euros per person depending on the quantity of food that we order.

Last Friday my friend and I were back to Tengoku, we ordered the usual stuff and spent just under 70 Euros.  The only complaint to the food this time was the salmon skin was not crispy as usual.

At the entrance there is a small working area for the chef.

 

Seating for teppanyaki.

 

Table setting.

 

Tofu.

 

Seaweed and sesame with mirin and vinegar dressing.

 

Selections of sushi and roll of tamago, unagi, sweet potato and avocado, unagi and prawn, crispy salmon skin.

 

 

 

 

Tengoku

Av del Conchudo SN | Pueblo Nuevo de Guadiaro, San Roque, Spain

 

 

La Chimenea, my favourite tapas in La Linea.

Last week I was back to La Chimenea with 6 friends.  We arrived at 8.30pm and managed to grab a big table, guess it was still a bit early for the Spanish to eat.  We ordered the usual stuff and the food was as good as always.  Everybody enjoyed it and we spent about 130 Euros.

Painted in bright colour so that you won't miss it!



The bar and food preparation area.

 

The standing eating area.

 

 

 

Jamon, jamon and jamon!

 

 

Salmorejo and jamon, one of my favourite.

 

 

Foie with apple sauce, goat cheese with caramelized onion,

salmorejo with salmon, mascarpone with fig.

 

 

Buey, my another favourite.



Tomatoes with lots of herb and salt.

 





Canepe de cangrejo (crab).

 

 

 

Canape de bacalao con salmorejo

 

 

Pata

 

 

 

Rosca with lomo, jamon and panceta.

 

 

 

La Chimenea

Juan Carlos Sanchez Garcia,

C/Moreno de Mora, 21,

11300 La Linea

Cadiz