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Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Friday Dinner Date Night #3

The first 2 restaurants we tried were rated #2 and #3 in Aberdeen per Trip Advisor (our source for all things travel). This week, we opted to try a restaurant recommended by Gerald's coworkers, Bistro Verde, #20 on Trip Advisor's list....

They're known for their seafood dishes so of course we had to give it a try. Because we're in the UK, and everyone here loves curry, we started off with Curry Fried King Prawns. Who would have thunk to put curry in your batter =) They came out excellent. Gerald has a thing for eating whole fish, eyes and all, thanks to our dear friend Rob, so he got the lemon butter whole sole and since I was craving crabmeat, I chose the Halibut with crab and cream sauce. Delicious!



Did I mention that Gerald liked his fish a lot...haha.
No meal is ever complete without dessert so we had to try their molten chocolate cake with local vanilla ice cream. Something that took 15 minutes to make, Gerald and I devoured in 1....Our Polish waitress didn't want Gerald to eat more of the cake than me, so she gave me the bigger spoon. I felt loved.
We ended the night at Soul Bar and Casino. The building was once a Church of Scotland that was converted into a bar and casino. If you want to find the Asians, just visit one of the casinos. Here we met a Filipina and a Thai women. Both married to Scottish men and brought here to Aberdeen. Funny, the Filipina didn't like it much but the Thai women did. Guess it makes sense that the Filipina was working and the Thai women wasn't. Makes a big difference I suppose.