Winging it

By Paul Fulford on Mar 19, 09 10:53 AM

Anyone for sea snail?

I popped to Wing Wah in Nechells for a family meal last night and we ordered the usual suspects - duck in pancakes, crisp belly pork, chilli beef, prawns with garlic and ginger.

The restaurant's new manager Andy Liu, who's worked at some top places in London, spotted our conservative choices and got talking about new dishes he's planning to introduce.

He was keen for us to sample at least one and got the chef to prepare it.

Layers of squidgy, tasty aubergine sandwiched dice of various sea food such as scallops and prawns.

On top was sprinkled dried scallop and around lay a pool of abalone sauce - thus the sea snail reference for that's what abalone are.

It was a fabulous combination of textures and flavours and I wish Alan and the team every success with the new dishes.

I, for one, will be returning.

The place was packed, by the way. So book.