March OK so this was going to be a strange
one! A visit to a factory that roasts and sells
coffee followed by a trip to a Mongolian bar-b-que!
First the coffee, yours truly had always thought
that coffee came in glass jars, was made in an instant
and the greatest pleasure was to be had by plunging
a teaspoon through the paper seal thingy for the
first time. Wrong. Andy buys his coffee on the open
market (Apparently coffee is only next to oil in
value traded) and then roasts it, blends it and
packs it for his own shops and caterers and competitors
alike. Coffee from all over the world including
China which does not grow coffee! But that's another
story! He roasted coffee for us and enplaned a huge
amount about his very interesting business. Then
the food, down to Shrewsbury to a Mongolian Bar-b-que,
why Mongolian I have no idea! but great fun, choose
your ingredients hand them to the chef and wait
as he cooks it moving it around the huge grill plate
until it is about to fall off, at which point he
scrapes it off the grill onto your plate, add your
own selection of carbohydrate i.e. rice, noodles
or pasta and eat! then go back as often as you like,
this is the sort of eating that sorts the men from
the Tablers! A fun evening all round. Pictures
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