A Special Meal

Hi Blog Heads:

Today I'd like you to write about a special meal you remember. As I'm almost 100 years old, I've got lots of memorable meals to recall. A family food fight in Scotland, fish & chips on a bench by the sea in New Zealand with my wife and my brother surrounded by sea gulls, sitting on a mountain peak in the Pyrenees,  conveyer-belt sushi in Tokyo, or romantic meals with my wife. Anyway, I've decided to write about a childhood memory of going to an Indian restaurant in Chester on Christmas day when I was a child. All the family went, that's me my mum and dad and my 8 brothers and sisters. To tell the truth, I think Ged, my youngest brother hadn't been born so it would only have been 7 brothers (2) and sisters (5).

It's actually the first time I remember eating out with the whole family. I didn't know at the time, but I think my dad planed the meal so that my mum could enjoy Christmas day without having to spend the day in the kitchen cooking and washing dishes.

The restaurant was called the Bombay and it was about 3 blocks from our house. It's unusual for people to eat out on Christmas day, and more so when I was a child, The restaurant was virtually empty and the waiters made a big fuss of us. I think I'd only ever eaten take-away Indian food before and I'm sure my dad ordered something mild like chicken Korma (a mild coconut curry) for us all to share. I remember we had samosas (a type of Indian empanada) and poppadoms (a sort of crispy fried batter) as a starter. I'm pretty sure we had ice-cream for dessert. We took traditional Christmas crackers (a package shaped like a big, twisted, sweet wrapper that makes a loud bang when opened, and contains a little toy, a fortune message or joke and a paper crown) that you pull between 2 people until they burst open to reveal the contents and so the meal still had some traditional elements.

The main thing I remember about this occasion is that it was a really happy day.

Write about a special meal you remember.

Say:

Where and when it was,

What the meal was for,

Who you ate with,

What you ate,

Why you remember this meal.

                                         Internet picture of Christmas crackers

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