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The sandwich. Check out this little beauty…..mmmmmm. A combination of my wife’s home-baked walnut and sultana bread rolls, toasted, with melted cheese, grilled red peppers, houmus, cucumber and black pepper…banging.
The Train Station Noodle Bar, Bournemouth.
Every time we go, I always leave feeling happy about what I’ve eaten. And we’ve eaten there a lot - must be at least once a week over the last few years. The noodles and rice there are superb and each dish I’ve tried has been magic. The noodles are home made in house….mmmmm.
I love to try new stuff there but we generally have a few favourites, usually something like -
Starter
Fried Prawn Maki and Plum Sauce, (California Maki are good with lots of Wasabi), maybe some Spicy Cold Beef with Cucumber, maybe some Spicy Cold Duck with Cucumber.
Main
Then moving on to Taiwanese Spicy Beef Noodle, or Korean Kimchi (with rice or noodles). One of my all-time favourites at The Noodle Bar is ‘Ba Bao Lia Jian Fan’ (think that’s about the right Pinyin spelling) - which means ‘Eight Treasures With Rice’ I think. Man, that stuff has got me hooked I swear. There is a constant internal battle being waged within, with one part of me longing to try new stuff at the Noodle Bar, with the other part desperate for another bowl of Ba Bao! It’s really good stuff.
All types of dishes are served here - Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean, Malaysian, basically most types of Asian food that I can think of, and all done to a very, very good standard. I haven’t found a better Asian food restaurant in Bournemouth or Poole yet!
If you are looking to eat out, and would rather eat really good food than pay for an expensive refurb job (I’m personally talking about Wagamama in Bournemouth here - disappointing food when compared to the Noodle Bar) then this could be for you. It’s a little gem for food, I give it 10 out of 10, and that’s about the only place in Bournemouth that gets a 10 for food off me!
Oh - I forgot about the dumplings - not sure what they are called yet, but they’re little semi-circular parcels with beef/pork in them I think, and ask for the spicy sauce to go with them…..my mouth is watering. I’ll ask the owner what they’re called next time and write back if I can.
Train Station Noodle Bar / Bournemouth Noodle Bar
148 Holdenhurst Road
Bournemouth
BH8 8AS
01202 29 77 22
Click this link to find the Noodle Bar on Google Maps
Great little menu, gorgeous Granola, local produce, helpful staff and an individual style to the decor makes this a great little cafe for a bit of brekky, spot of lunch, or just meeting up with good friends to catch up over a coffee. Interesting choice of tunes playing in the background too - well recommended!
We just completed work for a House of Multiple occupancy, carrying out an installation for 7 basins and one electric water heater, with new end feed copper and solder joint pipework for hot and cold feeds, and 32mm / 40mm polypipe for the wastes. Local firm Plumb Centre in Christchurch was used for most materials sourcing. Our client was very happy indeed, providing us with a plumber reference to add to our other recommendations and testimonials on our site.
Okay, I’ve done as much as I’ll do for a bit on the snowboarding trip to Schladming now, maybe I’ll add a few more pics, or the vids when I can get them to either work or upload to You Tube…
After a little bit of to-ing and fro-ing on the design front, and some tweaking with the CSS file, we now have Shawn Randall’s website up online, featuring information relating to his Fine Art degree at Bournemouth Arts Institute, his work on Installations in the UK and abroad and general information such as his CV, portfolio and contact information. We’re reasonably happy with the look at the moment, and will be building on the content in the coming months as and when we can, expanding on information relating to all aspects of his work, modern art, contemporary art and artists who have influenced his practice.
I’ve compiled a list of other websites designed by Darren Roberts, or contributed to by me here.
Dinner - We popped in to Lyn and Geoff’s tonight on the way home from dinner with my Mandarin class - nice pancakes and a couple of glasses of vino with the family there, always good to see them.
Apparently I inadvertently stole a pancake that wasn’t mine…..oops….bit of a faux pas there….
Our Mandarin class met today for lunch…..mmm…..we ate Dim Sum at Will’s mum’s place in the triangle, Bournemouth. Magic. Loads of different dishes, was good fun. Myself and Pei went to meet everyone for about 1pm, Will and his other half Pan, John came along, and Nick, and our tutor Ruiyan with her husband Mark.
Good chance to practice our Mandarin, although I definitely felt a bit self-concious doing it in the ‘real world’ as opposed to talking at home with Pei. Had some really good tucker, all from the Dim Sum menu (lit ‘touch the heart’, or ‘order to your hearts content’) - tried chickens feet again, and I’m still not convinced! Duck’s tongue was okay - gotta get the video footage of Nick trying to eat it and heaving - 10 out of 10 for effort on his part though! I really liked the squid in ginger & chilli, and the steamed dumplings. The savoury steamed buns were bloody lovely. Custard tarts, a coconut jelly type thing, and mango pudding for dessert rounded it off nicely. All washed down with lots of jasmine tea (hua cha).
We did a bit on Chinese New Year for our Mandarin lesson last week, this year being the year of the Rat if I remember rightly. Loads of info on Chinese New Year on wikipedia. I arranged a bit of a Chinese New Year surprise for Pei when she got home from work! I thought she could use something to remind her of home - the way I think of it, is that it must be like being away from my family at Christmas. Not easy. I got some sense of the importance of going home for New Year in Chinese culture by the fact that 200 million were on the move recently in really bad weather. It seems like it’s the most important thing to them. Maybe next year we’ll get to go again, we’ll see.