Bridget McNulty

Care for a taste?

// April 3rd, 2009 // Cape Town, Life (and the living of it)

I went to the most delicious (literally, the most delicious) festival last night – the Taste of Cape Town festival. What a fab idea! They get 18 of the city’s best chefs and set them up in a long line of fancy tents, and then each chef chooses three items to feature on their menu – only each item is just a ‘taste’, a mini portion. You buy crowns, which are the currency of this lovely kingdom, and then you can stroll around and choose which delectable dishes you want to taste… Yummy!

It was such a stunning evening last night – balmy air, a light breeze, one of those sublime summer evenings (possibly one of the last sublime summer evenings!) and my man and I were like kids in a candy store deciding what to eat… We settled on a delicious sweet and sour prawn cake on potato curry, fried duck in spicy rice, dark chocolate balls in white chocolate soup (unbelievable) and a flourless chocolate torte (divine!) Can you tell where my weakness lies? Not with the savoury but with the sweet? Pretty handy, too, that everything was in such small portions, so I didn’t feel diabetically guilty!

It’s such a treat to step out of the ordinary and do something completely different, especially on a week night, and we’re trying to train our tastebuds to be just a little more adventurous for our round-the-world trip…

(not the one I had last night, but I wouldn’t mind tucking into a bite of this!)