Poh's on the road thanks to an invitation from one-time TV Chef and long-time good food lover, Ian Parmenter. These days' Ian's backyard is WA's wonderful food Mecca, Margaret River, and he delights in showing Poh the region. The paella they cook together in the town's farmer's market shows off the local produce and is a visual and taste sensation that's simple to recreate and guaranteed to please a crowd.
While the crowd feast on Paella, Poh and Ian head south to the famous annual Leeuwin concert where fifteen hundred black tie diners are catered for. Both Poh and Ian have an appreciation of the demands of catering for a crowd and back in Poh's kitchen they give us a couple of great recipes that are guaranteed crowd pleasers. Ian makes a prawn noodle salad with a tangy Thai dressing. The prawns are flambéed in brandy and tossed with a fresh salad of cucumber and tomato and rice noodles. The Thai dressing is a zingy, citrusy blend that just sings with the prawns. Poh makes a simple, tasty Nonya fried rice. The flavour is robust, and aromatic and Poh tops the dish with crunchy cucumber which, for Poh, really makes the dish. Her tip for good fried rice is to refrigerate the rice before cooking.
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