Asti with local bistro type fare

We took along a chilled bottle of Asti together with a bottle of Cru Beaujolais to dinner at a local bistro-type restaurant. It is famous for roast goose (though this is not one of those famous roast goose vendors) and some of its speciality dishes are also well regarded.One of this is their trademark stir-fry, which consists of flowering chives, pickled turnip, dried prawns and dried whitebait, the last of which had been fried to a crisp before joining in the final melange. The Asti was surprising in that it brought out the flavours of the fried dried seafood as well as enhancing the enjoyment of the dish as a whole. The second dish was some pork patties in which was mixed some flaked salted fish (the local Chinese type). Again it brought out and enhanced the flavour of the salted fish, making it more fragrant and aromatic. One would have thought that a sweet grapey fruity fizzy wine of low alcohol would be like drinking an alcoholic version of Coke, but yet these two dishes illustrate once again the fun that could be had with a little sense of adventure.