Zuiderpark
Last Saturday, we went to Zuiderpark for dinner and bowling with some friends from church. Zuiderpark is around 8km away from my house and has a stadium which is home to the football club ADO Den Haag, in addition to a recreation centre with bowling alley and restaurant. Around 20 people turned up for the event.
Dinner was buffet style at the chinese restaurant Gouden Wok located on the ground floor of the bowling center. It is the biggest restaurant i've seen in the Hague so far - around 200 tables i think, with a live band. Basically you choose your food, bring it to the chefs and select the sauce to go with the cooking.
There was a good variety of meat, seafood, vegetables and dessert arranged in several counters/ bars. It was quite crowded that evening, and there were some long queques e.g. at the grill section waiting for the food to be cooked.
****view of the restaurant - the bright yellow signages are the food counters
****chefs hard at work...
****the Wok buffet counter
****raw materials..
****Japanese buffet selection
****mixed Grill buffet
****some assorted seafood and meats
There was also a selection of ready-cooked food with lemon chicken, barbeque pork, satay, vegetable samosas, prawns and grilled cuttlefish. I had some of them for my first dish to avoid the long cooking queques. The lemon chicken was a bit dry but the sauce was nice. The samosas were quite good as well with light, crispy skin and were not too oily.
****My neighbour's seafood platter with black pepper sauce. Tasted better than it looked.
****Japanese grill
****voila....my japanese tepanyaki dish
The japanese dish was good - the salmon, sushi and cuttlefish were very fresh and the sweet soy sauce went well with the tepanyaki grill.
There was also a selection of dessert comprising mainly canned fruits e.g. peaches, oranges, lychees, pineapples, coconut pudding and mixed fruit custard. My favourite was the coconut pudding which was creamy and not too sweet.
If one has time for a 2-3 hour meal, enjoy quantities of chinese food and don't mind the rather raucous atmosphere, this is probably a good place for dinner. It's quite good value for money at Euro 19 per head excluding drinks.
As i arrived late for dinner, i only had an hour to eat before the bowling game started at 8pm. The bowling center was just upstairs - there were 2 sections with 16 lanes each partitioned by a restaurant cum bar in the middle.
It was disco style bowling with loud pulsating music and dim lights so if you wear dark clothes, you would not be easily visible.
****one of the 3 lanes booked for our game
****the DJ spinning away
****restaurant and bar in the bowling center
****get set, ready...
The bowling lanes were rather tricky as the balls keep swerving to the left and right most unexpectedly. Or maybe my game was just very rusty since the last time i bowled was probably about 6 years ago. Anyway, after one too many rolls into the gutter, i decided to watch instead of play. It was still a fun evening anyway..
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