Snake and Burgundy Dinner ( 2005 Faiveley Echezeaux)

The cold Hong Kong winter nights are perfect for a traditional snake banquet. What better match than Burgundy? Actually, riesling seems to pair best, and the sweeter styles settles the stomach for the first timers!

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MENU
· Thick Soup of Five Different Snakes (Sorry we could only source 5!)
· Stir Fried Snake With Chicken
· Stir Fried Snake, Or Salt & Pepper Trunk Snake
· Seasonal Vegetables With Snake Sauce (Of Course!!)
· Stewed Berry Snake
· Stewed Tortoise
· Special Chopped Chicken
· Slow Stewed Thick Soup With “8 Pairs of Lizards” With Chinese Herbs (Well, we made up for the 5 snakes with 8 lizards!!).
· Sticky Rice

Five Snakes Soup

As well as an 2010 Frankland Estate Isolation Ridge riesling, which was quite opulent and Alsatian like in its early days, the A Christmann Riesling from Pfalz was dry with rich and exotic fragrances, and a perfect foil for the snake and ostrich stir fry.

Snake Balls- delicious! Better than McNuggets!

I tasted at cellar door a few years back at Dom Dublere in Beaune. This wine is drinking beautifully now, its pretty and expressive, with modest complexity and will probably get a little better.

Excuse my snake bones, the Faiveley is a 30 year wine and offers some interest only at the moment.

Couple of modest efforts- the Volnay was forward and quite good. The 04 Dujac, well, it is 04.

Slow Stewed Thick Soup With “8 Pairs of Lizards” With Chinese Herbs. The Tondonia was just OK- either there’s been a shipping problem to Hong Kong or I only enjoy the Gran Reservas.

Brothel a few feet away from the restaurant toilet. No wrong turns and gentleman were timed how long they took to go to the loo.

Python

The Famous Snake Queen! For safety purposes due the copious amounts of wine consumed, Snake Queen denied our requests to see the King Cobra. Instead, we settled for the Chinese Cobra, an old friend I often note on my summer walks around Hong Kong.

Interesting dinner. That first snake is a Ball Python. They only grow to about 6 or 7 feet.

Thanks Tyler, I’ll correct that.

Lol,

Nice one Jamie, an interesting and fun dinner…

Stay away from that pink door though…

There’d be a line about that pink door and a trouser snake but I’m staying away from it!

The women, out of curiosity, were more interested in the pink doors than the men. Until they were chased away by a battle hardened Triad madame.

Great fun, the night before I was in luxurious 2 starred Ming Court drinking great CNP from La Barroche, and the following night it was quite the contrast with the snake dinner and guttural Asian surrounds!