Sharing is caring?

Had a great dinner with The Fam tonight. After several days of debating the pros and cons of each option, we decided on Sharing Planet. It was a pretty rainy evening, which made for a very pleasant al fresco dining experience (read: no air-con).

It was supposed to be individual platters, but when the food arrived we decided to share it around. The portions are huge, and really, it would be a bad move if you decide to be selfish and hog your plate all to yourself. You'd be quite grossed out by the end, especially with eating so much of the same thing, and you'd be reduced to telling yourself to eat up or see all that food go to waste. Trust me, speaking from experience here. The best strategy (uh-huh, eating involves plenty of brain work) would be to order a few plates and share around. That way you get to taste a little bit (or in the case of Sharing Planet, still a generous amount) of everything, and you won't be bloated or bored to the point of nausea by the end of the night. Win win.

We had the mixed grill, and this consisted of a sausage that seemed to be speckled with oozy bits of cheese, lamb chop, battered fish, chicken chop, mashed potato, and some blanched veg. This picture shows a portion of the mixed grill (specifically, the lamb chop and bits of the chicken chop and sausage), with a different chicken dish in the background:

I'm not a fan of potato, but The Fam said it was good, especially with the black pepper gravy. The sausage was good (prolly chicken, prolly easily available from a supermarket or cold storage), lamb and chicken chops were juicy. I really liked the battered fish; it was prolly dory, and yum, the contrast of crunchy deep-fried batter and crumbly tender fish was really addictive! Want moaaaar! The chicken dish (the one that looks like lasagne in the background with coleslaw on the side) tasted like grilled chicken chop with cheese on top, and came with coleslaw and french fries.

We also had the seafood arrabbiata (which means angry in Italian, according to Wikipedia), but this was more sweet than spicy. What they lacked in spicy hot fiery chilliness they made up for with superb seafood. The fried fish (dory?) was amazing, and the prawns were big and juicy. They did a great job with the calamari, which was sweet and tender, and they were generous with the mussels. The only problem with this dish was the sweetness; it was sweeter than I like my pasta to be, but it's a tomato puree-ish kind of sweetness rather than the sugary kind. Which is good if you like tomatoes. And they have chunks and chunks of tomatoes (and onions) in this.

On the whole, we were very satisfied with dinner tonight. Hours later I was still thinking happy thoughts about dinner, and that's always a good thing. Good night out, looking forward to returning and trying out the rest of the menu.