Birthday + dinner at Han Ting

Yep, I celebrated my birthday last Thursday and Friday. Both were good days of fun with family and friends.

I feel completely spoilt and the living room looks lovely with so many bouquets of flowers, dotted around the place.

I started writing down all the names and presents of family and friends, but have changed my mind.

Thank you all (you know who you are) for the amazing presents. Also for cards, messages, texts, etc.

Friday evening, Dick treated us to a very special dinner at the Han Ting restaurant, The Hague. As this is also a blog about food/restaurants, here's a little write-up.
The interior is very Chinese, but the 'cuisine' is a mixture of mostly French and Chinese ingredients. The restaurant is known as one of the best of its genre in Europe and I have to say that the food and service were very good and pleasant.

We were given chopsticks and cutlery and although all of us are quite 'handy' with chopsticks, we felt that the dishes we had needed the cutlery.

There were were some new and 'creative' dishes which still tasted fantastic. 

Good choice of wines too (also per glass).
For more information (English translation, italic), click here 

Nibbles and drinks on the balcony, before we went to Han Ting.

I can't 'talk' about a restaurant and not show you pictures of some of the dishes, so here goes (taken with new birthday-camera).

An amuse of spicy tomato soup and a 'torentje' of crab with a slice of jelly made from chinese vegetables and soy sauce (above).
Exquisite!

Two very differently prepared pieces of filet of Sole. One spicy and the other creamy. Accompanied with beautifully crafted 'leaf-bowls' filled with sticky rice and herbs (top, right corner of picture above).

My generous family