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FIRST WE EAT WITH OUR EYES
A selection of dishes from
River View Chinese Restaurant
Wah Li, head chef at River View Restaurant in Cowbridge, is a creative culinary genius in our eyes. Under the direction of owners Wing Chan and Neng Chan, Wah creates dishes that not only look stunning but are fresh, light and full of subtle flavours. Vale Life features just a few of the dishes on offer at this popular restaurant for the forthcoming season.
MEAT BALLS
The meatballs with crispy skin are called Chinese dragon pearl. Mash the chicken and prawns together, add some coriander, roll the meat into little balls, and roll the meatball with some flour. Then put the balls in the vegetable oil and fry for a few minutes. Chinese dragon pearls are available on the Christmas menu.
ROAST DUCK
Flavour and roast the duck, hang the roasted duck up for an hour to drain off the fat. Fry in vegetable oil to crispup the skin. It can be served with either orange sauce, plum sauce, or fruity Cantonese sauce. Roast duck is available on the normal à la carte menu.
CUTTLEFISH
The cuttlefish is stir-fried with homemade ‘Jeen Fone’ sauce. This sauce is authentically Cantonese and made up of soy sauce, sugar, lemon, chilli, and Gib Jap sauce (similar to Worcester sauce). It is available on the Christmas pick and mix menu.
STEAMED CHINESE LEAF WRAP
The steamed Chinese leaf wrap, pork, chicken and duck wrap in Chinese leaves served with Szechwan sauce. This dish will be available on the Chinese New Year celebration menu on the 15th and 16th February, 2010 and will include lobster, bass and live Lion Dancing by a Kung Fu specialist. For the Chinese New Year, the dishes are special and they are different every year. The majority of dishes are not available on our à la carte menu. The price will be £39 per person. All sauces are freshly home made.
CHRISTMAS MENU
River View will be offering a Christmas Special Pick-and-Mix menu for £15.50 per person where you can choose a maximum of three starters and three main courses between two people or a maximum of four starters and four main courses for three people.
You can also choose from the Christmas Special Party Menu for £23.50 per person. For parties of five or more, one person eats for free!
River View’s Christmas Menu is available from 23rd November 2009 to 2nd January 2010. Normal à la carte menu is also available during Christmas and the New Year period.
CHINESE NEW YEAR
Chinese New Year is the most important of the Chinese holidays, and is a time of feasting with the family, celebration, fireworks, and gift-giving. It is a fifteen day holiday, beginning on the first day of a new moon and ending with the full moon on the day of the Lantern Festival.
The Chinese calendar is based on the lunar year, so the date of Chinese New Year changes every year. The Chinese calendar follows a twelve year pattern with each year named after an animal. There are various stories which explain this. The simplest is that Buddha (or the Jade Emperor) invited all of the animals to join him for a New Year celebration, but only 12 animals turned up. To reward the animals that did come, Buddha named a year after each of them in the order that they arrived, starting with the Rat, followed by the Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat (or Sheep), Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig.
Depending on the year you are born, you are believed to have the various character traits of that year’s animal. 2010 will bring in the year of the Tiger.
River View Chinese Restaurant
Unit 1, Britannia House Penny Lane, Cowbridge CF71 7AD
01446 771668
www.riverview668.co.uk
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