In September we will be entertaining four Japanese business men,

[merciasounds]

who are eager to try home cooked western cuisine, I thought I would do them the traditional English breakfast, they don't need lunch, but I will do 'a High Tea' with finger sandwiches, Victoria sponge cake, little iced fancies and scones, What should I do for the evening? Steak and chips? Roast beef and Yorkshire pud? Roast leg of pork, crispy crackling and apple sauce?

[craft1948]

lol I remember arranging catering for some international business journalists............the Japanese cautiously tackled Yorkshire Puddings.........the Romanians lifted them off their plates and left them on the table................

[mccfluff]

i want crap tea now, but i've made meatballs and was going to make sauce and 'ghetti to go with when i got home, hmmmmm perhaps i could get away with chips instead

[merciasounds]

So milly/trig, you reckon a couple of pints of Carling, a few Bacardi Breezers, a packet of salt and vinegar crisps and a bag of pork scratchings, and a couple of rousing choruses of 'show me the way to go home' will do?

[carolegif]

Don't serve cheese! I used to teach Japanese students and they don't like it at all. It is something to do with it being full of bacteria and it is milk gone off!

[milly143]

Nooooo. Course not! You got to stop at a dodgy kebab van and buy something that resembles meat but that you wouldn't eat during day light hours otherwise it's not a proper night out. That seems to work round here anyway.

[Bbbananas]

lol trigg.
You are such a class act ;-)

[redman41]

Most of their Wine seems to be Medium bodied around 12% or less, still nice though I'm sure.
I like the Beefy Reds at around 14% but they are New World wines.

[merciasounds]

heavy reds full of tanin give me a headache (whilst I'm drinking it, not a hangover, i never drink enough to have one!) The chalk hill Rosé is very very nice, exspecially with BBQ lamb

[craft1948]

We hired the National Railway Museum for the evening, and the Japanese got really excited when being shown Queen Victoria's railway carriage. It was only later we discovered that they'd thought the dummy figure in the carriage was actually Queen Victoria..............

[redman41]

lol craft ! Queen Vic lives on !!!!

[wolf63]

I'm not English so really don't have a great knowledge of your cuisine.

What about steak pie and chips ? I love steak pie with a shortcrust pastry. Scottish beef - Aberdeen Angus - would be best.

[wolf63]

craft - bet Queen V would not be amused at that.

[Bbbananas]

I wouldn't entertain them, I'd poison them. I've never forgotten The War.

[merciasounds]

Go for it Trig

[anneasquith]

id go for the roast beef , mercia, any pudding ?

[jack daniels]

all of the suggestions sound good to me - I also thought hotpot? casserole? roast chicken with the trimmings?

just let me know when they arrive - I'll be there! yum yum

Anna x

[GillyGee]

how about a venison stew with dumplings?

[merciasounds]

got to think about puddings a lot of Japanese are lactose intollerant, so I've got to think away from cream/yoghurt/custard - won't be easy. Venison, hmm.....I thought about it, it would be very early in the season for venison, but they asked for a 'typical' English meal - how many families eat venison - I know it's getting more and more popular but....I still think a lovely rib-roast or leg of pork would be more fitting....or a leg of lamb....