Rick Steins St. Petroc's Bistro

Another one of Rick Steins Restaurants. Our second day in Padstow and lunch was a 3 course meal at St. Petroc's Bistro. Calamari, Mushroom risotto, and Sticky Toffee Pudding with Clotted Cream.  

Cornish Cream Tea

When in Rome, well Cornwall, eat cream teas. 

The scenery was a bit of a contrast from Cambodia the week before.

Rick Steins Seafood Restaurant

On the evening of the London leg of my Design Bridge Food and Wine trail we visited Rick Steins Seafood Restaurant. We had the sample menu and it was fantastic. Fish overload, but what do you expect. My favorite was the Fillet of Sea Bass ‘A La Plancha’. With roasted fennel seeds and sauce vierge. The best fish course I have ever tasted.

Padstow and Rick Stein's Seafood School

With reference from an earlier post:

http://singforyadinner.blogspot.com/2011/06/watch-this-space.html

I was one of 2 lucky winners to fly to the UK and join our London office on their part of Design Bridge's 25th Anniversary. The UK leg of the celebration was in Padstow, Cornwall. 

Part of the 2 day event was a half-day class at Rick Steins Seafood School.

4 dishes were demonstrated by one of his top Chefs. We then had the option to cook one of them. I chose, 'Salt and Pepper Squid'.

Hot Shell Fish Demo

After we polished off all the dishes we had cooked and a few glasses of white wine, the Head Chef demonstrated how to cook several types of shell fish. 1 live Crab, 1 live Lobster, Scallops, Clams, Razor Clams, Muscles and Oysters. All doused in a sauce made from all the shell fish juices and a generous helping of white wine.

Cambodia Pot Throwing

I made an attempt of making my own plates = unsuccessful.

As you can see you can't eat much off that plate.

Khmer cooking course, Part 1

Part of Design Bridge's Food and Drink Trail of Cambodia, was a Khmer (Cambodian) cooking course.

The first part of the day was gathering our ingredients from the local wet market.

Nest, Cambodia

With reference to a previous post:

http://singforyadinner.blogspot.com/2011/06/watch-this-space.html

As a designer at Design Bridge Asia, I was invited on their 25th Anniversary Holiday to Cambodia to take part in a Food Trail. Perfect blog material. 

Nest, was our first destination. A 3 course lunch, with a few accompanying local beverages, Angkor Beer.