Episode 158 - BBQ at the Pinewood Battery

This photo was taken at the BBQ site at the Pinewood Battery.

The facilities at the BBQ site are clean and tidy, with a number of stoves and sufficient seats and tables. Water is available nearby. There is no need to make booking - first come first served.

To have BBQ at the Pinewood Battery is a real challenge. As the site is near the top of the hill, it is not easy to carry the food, drinks, BBQ forks and the charcoal up there. My family was in fact the only party that used the site on that day.

The cold weather on that day was perhaps the other factor that deterred people from having BBQ here.

We barbecued our food by charcoal. It is not easy to ignite the traditional charcoal (the big black objects in the photo). We started the fire by using some easy-to-burn environmental friendly charcoal (the round objects in the photo). We then added traditional charcoal to the burning stove. The traditional charcoal is cheaper in price and appears to have a longer burning life than the environmental friendly charcoal.

Compare with the gas stove in the modernized BBQ corner of the estate we live, the traditional charcoal stove brought back beautiful memories and good taste - the chicken wings cooked by charcoal fire were extremely delicious!