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2010 Year in Review
2010 came and went in a flash. We can’t believe it’s already 2011 next week. Looking back, so many exciting things happened in just the past 12 months. For starters, we had that amazing horizontal tasting of the 1996 DRC where we got the bottles to add to our collection. Then R went to St Andrews for the Referees School and we got our fix on the Old Course. C joined us afterwards and we had the best scones at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in Oxford.
Earlier in the year also saw the comeback of Umberto Bombana with Otto e Mezzo in Alexandra House in Hong Kong. We also found a great place to buy steak in Hong Kong with The Porterhouse – thanks James. Another rediscovered gem was one-thirtyone in Sai Kung, Hong Kong – an amazing place.
Birdiegolfblog gained some exposure too and we were fortunate to be invited to the Club des Chefs des Chefs Gala Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental, a very prestigious event. On the golf side, we were invited to the WGC HSBC Champions in Shanghai with a photographer’s pass and we took lots of pictures.
For the first time, we were also helping out at the UBS Hong Kong Open as a Rules Observer, hopefully we can be a Rules Official very soon.
We saved the best for last as we shot an incredible 74 at Discovery Bay Golf Club on November 28th and were lucky to experience Thomas Keller at the Mandarin Oriental on December 1st.
At last count, we had 37 Birdies and one “Eagle” in 2010. We still have two more rounds to go, so this may change 
It was a fun and exciting year for us and we hope that you liked it as much as we did. We look forward to many more adventures in 2011 and hope that you would continue to join us. We wish everyone good health and prosperity in 2011.
To close, we would like to share some of our favorite photos from 2010…enjoy.
100209 The Old Course at St Andrews
100214 Freshly baked scones at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons
100306 The Red Ribbon assurance of quality at Porterhouse
100321 Rediscovered gem at one-thirtyone
101105 Tiger carrying his own bag at the WGC HSBC Champions
101128 Jade 3, Discovery Bay - 2nd Birdie on to a 74
101201 Signed clothes peg by Thomas Keller
Finally a place to buy great steak in Hong Kong
Ever since our favorite butcher, Fentons Gourmet in Happy Valley closed its doors we lost a great place to get high quality beef for our barbecue nights. Even the high end supermarkets (Great, Oliver’s, City Super) couldn’t satisfy us. Then our friend at Geoff’s Twitchen posted a writeup of his winter barbecue and mentioned an online place for steaks called The Porterhouse. From his pictures, it looked like it was worth trying.
A search on their website www.porterhouse.com.hk mentions that the operations is headed by James Fortier, who previously was the General Manager of Morton’s The Steakhouse in Hong Kong.
Calling itself The Porterhouse, naturally we ordered a 35oz Australian Angus Beef Porterhouse steak (HK$370/US$47). We also tried their New England Jumbo Sea Scallops (HK$212/US$27 per pack of 10). Ordering online was simple and promptly delivered the next day, right on time for our weekend barbecue.
The package arrived in a nice cooler bag and the steak was individually wrapped and tied with their signature Red Ribbon, which signifies their slogan “Our Red Ribbon Is Your Assurance of Quality”. There was also a handwritten note from James, a nice personal touch. Our Porterhouse was from Australia, but they also have USDA steaks as well as seafood and other meats.
The steak was very juicy and tender. Compliments to the chef (C). The scallops were a good size and matched the steak very well for a nice surf and turf.
We will be sure to bookmark The Porterhouse and visit whenever we have a crave for great steak…which is quite often.
– 18/20
The Porterhouse
T: +852 2553-3765
E: info@porterhouse.com.hk
W: www.porterhouse.com.hk
100306 Porterhouse - Their signature Red Ribbon
100306 Porterhouse - Nice handwritten note from James
100306 Porterhouse - 35oz Australian Porterhouse
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