At the carnival, you won't be far away from the tantalizing aroma of a smoking barbecue, rice and jerk chicken.
Of the rice noodle dishes and rice plates ($6.50 to $7.50), "barbecued" pork is often a common denominator.
A plate of barbecue with rice and salad costs around 25 local dollars.
For $15, diners can choose three meats (from a list of six), which are barbecued in the kitchen, then wrapped in rice paper with greens (plus rice for ssambaps), cut in half and served with a bowl of miso soup.
WHAT WE LIKE Broccoli with hollandaise, Caesar salad, Nola barbecued shrimp, "scampied" artichoke, red beans and rice, shrimp jambalaya, chicken and shrimp étoufée, baked and Creole red snapper.
They maintained an active social life, organized feasts where they ate and drank very well, cooked gumbo filé and rice, roasted turkeys and chickens, barbecued pigs and fish, smoked tobacco and drank rum".
BEST DISHES: Asparagus and wild rice pancakes, crab cakes, spinach salad, Caesar salad, watercress and endive salad, barbecued short rib, sautéed veal medallions, ravioli with shiitake mushrooms, lamb chops.
It's lavishly produced, rigorously researched, and almost confrontationally weird, each episode (built around a single topic — pizza, fried rice, barbecue, home cooking, etc).
Amid this, Mr. Kunene serves classics — California rolls, sashimi, nigiri — with a few surprises tossed in for homegrown palates: biltong (jerky, a local staple) sushi; prawn braai (barbecue) with Thai rice; vegetarian rolls featuring cucumber, avocado and strawberries.
Larry Grauman, 65, rolls his eyes and places an order for chasu barbecue pork with rice and gravy on the side.
A variety of regional dishes, such as dim sum, Fokkien fried rice, barbecue pork with fried rice and chicken with Thai sweet chilli, is served on flights into mainland China.
