In the covered markets around the city's churches and mosques, shopkeepers spoke a dozen languages and sold things like an exquisite diptych of the virgin and child, or a copper platter featuring an Orthodox warrior ringed by Arabic inscriptions.
There is also a grilled seafood platter featuring two giant scallops wrapped in bacon, three shrimp napped with a basil-lemon pesto and slices of creamy white monkfish with grilled baby peppers over wilted arugula on the plate.
While perusing the incredible meat selection at Strip House Midtown, a great New York steakhouse, don't forget to nosh on the seafood platter featuring buttery oysters from both coasts, lobster and shrimp cocktails, littleneck clams and lump crab.
The overflowing platter featured succulent on-the-bone meat, hunks of sausage, peppers, onions, potatoes and whole cloves of garlic.
Here, depending on the current menu, you can dig into kangaroo fillet with local chili glazes and tasting platters featuring a sweet 'n' sour range of scallops, beet root confit, and dumplings with seasoning from the Outback.
At the center of the table in a modest, high-rise apartment in the teeming city of Shenzhen, China, a simmering pot of soup stock was surrounded by large platters featuring mushrooms, different kinds of thinly shaved meat, lettuce, potato, cauliflower, eggs, and shrimp.
We ordered a sampling of dishes for dinner: braised tofu topped with a scrumptious mound of minced pork sautéed with salty pickled radishes; claypot-cooked chicken coated in a gingery garlicky glaze; a large omelet packed with juicy oysters; and a platter of noodles featuring tender beef.
The Spinpoint M7 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive with 250GB per platter features a rugged base and cover design, offering better data protection for road warriors and other mobile laptop users.
The Barracuda XT product, a four-platter drive featuring an areal density of 368 Gigabits per square inch, delivers the highest performance – burst speeds of up to 6 Gigabits per second – for all PC applications, maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration.
Delicious sampler platter features tomato croquettes, pureed fava beans, meatballs and stuffed grape leaves.
Surrounded by tree-topped hills, it's blessed with a mesoclimate ideal for producing its award-winning wines, an ideal accompaniment for vineyard's cheese platter lunch featuring only Welsh cheeses.
