Dead Skippy

I had my first kangaroo the other day. I'm not quite old enough to have watched Skippy, so absolutely no guilt on my part!

I did eat it in the most unlikely of places, the Belgian Beer Cafe in the Rocks. As predicted, they specialise in good European beer, and cooking almost anything in beer, and the beer was very good. I have a weakness for girly fruit beers, and I really liked their framboise raspberry.

The cooking, however, was less successful. They cook mussels in all sorts of weird and wonderful combinations, from the traditional marinere to the slightly questionable "Tintin au Congo" (coconut milk, lemongrass and chilli). However, chargilled kangaroo cooked in Gulden Draak & juniper berry sauce caught my eye:

To be honest, that sauce pretty much ruined what otherwise would've been a good dish. The kangaroo itself was very good - cooked pretty rare, it reminded me of venison, very lean but pretty tender. The sauce, however, clashed rather than complemented the meat - very overpowering, very peppery. Maybe I just don't like juniper much, I can't recall a dish where I've actually thought it tasted nice. Looking around, most people also struggled to finish their giant buckets of mussels.

All in all, a place to hang out and drink good beer rather than actually eat food. Drew actually sent back his lamb shanks (and told the waitress in no uncertain terms that "it is just gross, take it away"), even though he was the one who chose the restaurant in the first place! Ah well, it's not like moules marinere is hard to make at home...