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St Godders of Windsor said:
I am embarrassed to admit that this is my eldest grandaughter's favourite place to eat. I find it noisy and a bit like a works canteen but the food is great. Personally I like their sweet and sour Hong Kong style.

Please don't tell anyone I go to Portsmouth occasionally even if it is at my grandaughter's insistance.
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That's my favourite too! I keep meaning to try the noodle bar, where you have to wait while they cook for you, but I'm just too greedy and load up on that and the chicken satay.

You are right too it is like a canteen, but I think it offers something different. Another good place just around the corner on the lower level is Zizzi which does great Calzone pocket pizzas.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
Form of crumbly beef fat used to make rich heavy puddings on which the British Empire was founded. It is not a coinicidence that we lost our influence in the world when people started eating yogurt.
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Spot on Fran. I used to love watching those "Two Fat Ladies on a Motorcycle" cooking. They used to remind me of my mother - red nail varnish, fingers full of rings, smoking a *** and drinking a glass of scotch while preparing food for her hungry hoard of children.
 
I'm a bit worried Godders though, as you implied it may not be true that you can't eat and then swim. Its well known that a full stomach carries you directly to the bottom of the pool. Don't tell me that we were misled.:smile:
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
I'm a bit worried Godders though, as you implied it may not be true that you can't eat and then swim. Its well known that a full stomach carries you directly to the bottom of the pool. Don't tell me that we were misled.:smile:
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It always puzzled me that everytime we got up from the table my mother used to say "Now children remember you must not go swimming for at least an hour."

The only place we could have gone swimming was in the Thames and I could never fathom out why she should think we would want go swimming in it in the middle of bloody winter!
 
I can remember sitting by The Lido in Portsmouth arguing with my mother that a paste sandwich and an icecream wasn't a heavy meal and I didn't have to wait an hour. After listening to my whining she would reduce it to 30 min..probably didn't care if I drowned by then:smile:
 
St Godders of Windsor said:
I could tell you but hell your generation was brought up with Google to find all of the answers to your questions whereas I had to spend hour upon hour in the local library.

We needed suet puddings to sustain us in the late forties and early fifties. With many mouths to feed and very little money you ate offal based meat dishes (heart, liver, etc) followed by milk based puddings. We weren't allowed to swim for an hour after we were fed as mother said we would drown.

The very lovely Mrs Godders :emoticon-0115-inlov still makes suet dumplings to go in our stew on Mondays.

You needed the energy when we were young as we used to PLAY football with a real ball for hours and hours in our local rec. We didn't sit all day at a computer playing FIFA manager 2219 or whatever it is called slowly getting fatter and fatter.
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Oh Godders <laugh> I can confirm that I did Google suet, right after I miraculously found the answers to the coursework that I hadn't done yet on Wikipedia (and therefore certainly correct), such are the wonders of the internet. As for suet, I suppose you'll be telling me it tastes better than it sounds.
 
Qwerty said:
Oh Godders I can confirm that I did Google suet, right after I miraculously found the answers to the coursework that I hadn't done yet on Wikipedia (and therefore certainly correct), such are the wonders of the internet. As for suet, I suppose you'll be telling me it tastes better than it sounds.
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Not to budge in on StG's ground here, but you can get vegetable suet too and it amounts to the same thing. It does the same job anyway, though I'm sure the purist would tsk tsk.
 
Warm choc fudge cake with ice cream for me. Although it was all about the artic roll when I was a nipper. Washed down with um-bongo if it was Mum's pay day!
 
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