Lisbon – Oriente – great lunch @Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant

 

Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant

Today we enjoyed a very good post-Adegga wine market lunch at the recently opened Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant at Oriente. The main players from Adegga were there – the two Andrés and Daniel, who looks after the logistics etc in the backroom. Apparently Oriente has become a popular place for Chinese to buy property. Hence the demand for a really good Chinese restaurant. 

As the name suggests the restaurant's speciality is Pekin Duck – available as 

whole duck or a half. They serve the breast first with the traditional accompaniments, then the legs etc. sliced with a sweet and sour sauce. Then finally the various fragments fried until they are crisp. All three ways are delicious.    

Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant 

Classic Chinese landscape

 2015 Alvarinho Reserva Deu-la-Deu

This popular Vinho Verde brand is looking to introduce some more 

prestige cuvées like this reserva – drinking well

but may also improve with age

 

Slicing the duck

First course for the duck with its own special duck head dish

 Duck soup

Spicy and delicious sea bass soup –

heat provided by Sichuan pepper and chillies  

 

Sizzling prawns with chillies

 Sparkling Alvarinho Reguengo de Melgaço 

Oriente (Lisbon) – down by the Tejo

 Looking northwards towards the Vasco da Gama Bridge

Cold windy day beside the Tejo at Oriente, especially when out of the sun but brilliantly clear light and blue skies. 

 The Haunting Ballad of the Lonesome Gull...

(above and below)

 Strollers with Vasco da Gama Bridge in background 

The Marina

 Empty spaces from the 1998  Expo site @Oriente

 Reflections

Representing fish scales on the Oriente Oceanário extension

 Magnus meets a friend 

 The balloon man

 Reflections

Photos @ Oriente, Lisbon today with launch of #fishlovers group

The Music Burguer  

Sadly the tempting Music Burguer stall was closed, so we – Magnus Reuterdahl, Anne Naumanen, André Ribeirinho, Beatriz Silva, Carole Macintyre and myself – had a very good lunch at Restaurant D'Bacalhau in Oriente. As the name implies this restaurant specialises in Bacalhau (salt cod) – the great Portuguese speciality. 

We started with four different Bacalhau dishes before a main course of dorade (sea bream) cooked in a salt crust, which seals the fish and keeps it wonderfully moist. André and Beatriz kindly brought along a couple of whites: the 2013 Alvarinho from the Vinho Verde region made by João Portugal Ramos and the 2013 Ribeiro Santo Branco Encruzado 2013 DOC Dão.

With first unofficial celebrations of the the third anniversary of the #winelover group now underway it seemed an opportune moment to create a #fishlovers group as a sub-species of #winelover, so the Restaurant D'Bacalhau became our first 'hook-up'. Tempting though it might be to call members of #fishlovers 'hookers', I can't think that it would be appropriate!!       

Fine 2013 Alvarinho from João Portugal Ramos

     

Launch of the #fishlovers group: Magnus Reuterdahl, Anne Naumanen, 

André Ribeirinho, Beatriz Silva, Carole Macintyre and Jim Budd 

Magnus capturing the dorade cooked in salt

photo by Magnus

#fishlovers net-work king André concentrating

(above and below)

 Beatriz

 André and Beatriz

 Anne 

 (above and below)

Magnus  

(above and below)

 Carole

Golden coloured and complex 2009 Reserva do Comendador

Adega Mayor 

a very good match with our dorade

Blend of Antão Vaz, Roupeiro, Arinto