Getting Fat in London
One of my favorite things about traveling is eating. I just love sampling different kinds of food. Whenever you speak to someone about fine cuisines of the world, the UK is typically NOT mentioned. However, every time I’ve visited London I’ve never had a bad meal. Granted, most of the UK restaurants I’ve eaten in have been non-British cuisines, but even the local places where I’ve had “fish and chips” or “bangors and mash” have been great.
My short trip to the UK this week is definitely continuing this trend. Starting with the many meals on my American Airlines flight (in Business Class), it’s been nothing but good eatin’. I don’t care what they say about airline food — the meals in First/Business class are awesome (and it better be for the prices they’re charging for tickets these days). One thing you don’t do in First Class is go hungry. 
During my first full day in London this week I ate lunch at a nice Italian restaurant called Hamilton’s (seafood & pasta), a second smaller lunch at The Gaucho Grill (Argentinian empanadas), and dinner at Shanghai Blues (Chinese). Besides the food, there was some good wine sampling going on too.
Shanghai Blues was incredible… the decor, service, and food was simply top notch. We ate family style and I was able to sample some of the best dim sum, chicken, scallops, prawns, beef, and desserts I’ve ever eaten. One of the wildest things I’ve ever seen was the way they served the fried rice — the entire order was enclosed in a paper thin wrapping of fried eggs (like a giant but thin omelet)… very original (and delicious). Check out Shanghai Blues at their website (even that is very well done).
Good thing I’m on my exercise kick. 
