The Skyline restaurant in Pontefract. OMG. That font!!
Back in the UK, the wife soon tires of bread and potatoes and craves a taste of home. Soon as in after a couple of meals!
The go to place in Pontefract for a taste of Thai, admittedly cooked for a more Yorkshire palate has been the Skyline restaurant where bags of Tom Yam Kung get dispatched to my mums with almost daily regularity.
But all that has ended with the closing of the restaurant for three months as it gets refurbished and turned into a 'fusion-Asian' restaurant, whatever that means exactly.
Not exactly the most convincing Thai decor but at least the owners, and most importantly, the chef, were genuine Thai.
Generally speaking, the wife's thoughts on most UK, Thai restaurants isn't exactly glowing but is still happy to order dishes just to get that Thai taste to break up her perceived monotony of standard English fayre. She may have a point.
This all means that it's more cooking for me. The rice is the easy part. After trying every brand of microwavable rice known to man, she settled on Veet, (not sure why, but I always thought that Veet was a brand of hair removal cream) jasmine rice and for protein, any pork mince or chicken, fried with any one of a number of stir in spice packets of sauce mixes will have to suffice.
Tom Yam Kung. It's just bloody soup. I need to email Campbells. I'm sure they could knock this out in a can.
After writing this, I just googled Tesco to find it's called Veetee, not Veet...
Either way, goodbye Skyline, goodbye Tom Yam Kung and hello frying pans, washing up and the end of being sat on my arse watching 'The Chase' while my old mam knocks me up a bit of tea.
Happy holidays, it's great to be home...
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Alright, so, there's this British guy, right, stop me if you've heard this one, who transplants to Thailand and doesn't know what Asian fusion is...
I would never stop you in full flow my friend! I'm actually hoping for a giant Yorkshire pudding, full to the brim with spicy fried chicken, bean shoots, noodles and gravy laced with chillis but as is usual, I may be setting my sights a little too high!
Have a wonderful weekend Sir :-)
A mate of mine who grew up around Pontefract and nearby Castleford, refers to those Yorkshire towns as Ponte Carlo and Cas Vegas.
Hi Keith, you're absolutely correct. Expecially in Pontefract, the names seem to have stuck as most of the banks and post office have closed down and become bars and entertainment venues!
Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend :-)
Great to hear from you again 😊
I understand craving certain dishes…
Have a good trip my friend 👋🏻
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Thank you, its nice to be back now I have a little more free time. Time to catch up!
Lovely to see you and I hope you're well and finally settled. Will be trying to get caught up shortly :-)
You are welcome 👋🏻😊
Not sure if I ever will settle… we got new plans 😇 end of next month I know more 😂
Have a great week.
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Look on the bright side, if you were stuck on a little island like me for 95% of the year, you'd quickly run out of things to post about. There's only so many times I can get away with posting a picture of a bloody coconut. You have an endlessly changing palette of scenery to keep you going. ALl that packing and unpacking's a bit rough though!
You take care and best wishes :-)
Oh I know island living hahaha I so get what you say.
I have luckily so much to share about with all my moves and travels. Just shared part 8 of our move to here.
Can’t even start to think about packing up again… it is exhausting.
Will do, thanks!
Have a wonderful day 👋🏻😊
Take care!
Welcome home my friend, sounds like you enjoy cooking, I'm sure your dishes would be delicious!!😄
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Thank you so much, I hope you and Mrs Top are well and enjoying that beautiful part of the world you live in. Take care my friend :-)
Thank you so very much, my friend!😊 I hope you have a wonderful weekend enjoy!!🤗
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