I was horrified to read of the outrageous criticism levelled at pre-eminent Tasmanian restaurants, Prossers on the Beach and Francisco’s by internet bloggers (Mercury, March 14th).
I immediately booked a flight to Hobart and logged on to Prossers’ website to book a table in order to satisfy myself that Mr Prosser’s “signature” lobster salad was not “bland and boring”, as alleged by the spiteful blogger. After all, what might be bland to a Madras slum dweller, raised on a diet of red-hot curries, would confront an African villager raised on sweet potatoes and maize as perfectly piquant.
Alas, the signature lobster salad was nowhere to be found on Mr Prosser’s online menu. However, I immediately saw a very innovative dish on Prossers’ 7 course degustation menu: king prawn “Sung choi Boa”. This exciting dish is presumably a serpentine variation on the Cantonese classic, san choi bao. Mr Prosser should be credited for bringing the boa constrictor, native to parts of central and South America, to Tasmanian tables.
As a result of the bloggers’ appalling criticism of this Tasmanian restaurant icon, I plan to establish a fighting fund to assist Mr Prosser to pursue these dastardly purveyors of online opinion. I will be collecting at nursing homes, war veterans’ homes and orphanages around the state, where I am sure that people will be happy to give in order to support such a good cause.
