Golden Dish

My friends Natalie and Eric took me on an adventure to one of the top off-the-tourist-path places: Golden Dish. One of the most traditional 'Coloured foods' is Curry... this is normally in the form of a meat dish (in a spicy curry sauce) and rice, but I was privileged to try a new Coloured dish: the Salome! It's a wrap (sort of like a mix between a tortilla and a pita) filled with all sorts of curry or steak, hot chips (fries), salad (lettuce) and a sauce. And let me set the stage with what this 'restaurant' looks like. It's like a scene from Seinfeld and the Soup Nazi. There's a line of people out the door, you walk up to the counter in a tight line, give your order, shuffle to the side, pay and then wait outside until your number is called. Swarms of people (of all kinds- all ethnicities) are waiting outside for their beautiful meals that come wrapped in butcher paper. Then, Eric told me it wouldn't be a complete Golden-Dish-Coloured-experience without a Cabana (a milk-based drink, flavored with artificial pineapple juice) drunk only out of a straw. We took our meals to the car, because like the Soup Nazi's place, there's no place to sit down. This is like the drive-in of restaurants; everyone sits in the parking-lot with their friends and enjoys good food and good company.
Then, after our outing, we went to Eric's mom's house where she fed us Chocolate Mouse Cake. My stomach couldn't take much more, but Natalie told me I must at least taste the cake and experience the joy of family wanting to continually feed guests here. So, I took a tiny piece and forced a bite or three down. It was a lovely cake, but after my Salome experience, I thought I was going to pop.

Here are some photos from my very-Coloured night:





Still loving Cape Town... especially the 'insider' tours that my friends take me on! This is stuff NOT on a tourist map.