Saturday, October 06, 2012

Happy Children's Day!

Awesome relaxed past two days... so blessed!

Thurs:
half day in school helping to facilitate the ACES day programme and just hanging with the kids. granted the night before was a mad rush to prepare their gifts. but twas fun going around being a blessing =). Then got to spend unplanned time with the bf due to a series of unfortunate events happening and all our other plans being cancelled.

in the midst of cutting cards and sticking chocolate



Fri:
Went for a swim with the boy... then had my first EXCELLENT lunch in Singapore. So far all the good food has been just -good- and not comparable to the things i've had a chance to try in London. Well this lunch was comparable in price too ($60++) but food and service was top notch. Where? Les Amis @ Shaw Centre.

So in commemoration of lunch... photos!

First there was bread... white, walnut, and sea salt, of which i have no picture. the sea salt bread was something of a cross between a croissant and a brioche and marvelously fluffy
fresh butter, tomato butter and crushed sea salt
Then the amuse-bouche...
Salmon canapé 
ZQ's appetizer, the eel had just the right amount of seasoning while maintaining its original flavour - and not fishy at all
Lightly smoked eel "tiède", garlic croûton, ratte potato salade
my disassembled appetizer - every bite had a different and distinct flavour, and every bite was perfectly balanced with each other
Confit "Bengal Bay" prawn, marinated red beets, celeriac, horseradish cream
ZQ's main course - which he liked but i thought wasn't very exciting. i must say the dish really brought out the flavour of each individual ingredient in a ... for lack of a better description... natural way
Crispy skin guinea fowl, savoy cabbage, coco bean, smoked onion ragout
from the dish above - this was the cabbage, bean and what we think is mashed potato
my main course, again looking disassembled - what i thought was mashed potato was actually cauliflower lol!
Pan roasted Challans duck breast, brussels sprouts, cauliflower purée, speck-onion glaze
And then there was dessert:
coffee that we asked to be served with dessert

didn't think ZQ's dessert was very special, but it was very well done
Tarte tatin, hazelnut and aged sherry liqueur
and mine... effectively a disassembled lemon meringue with ice cream. with awesome rich individual flavour
'A fancy lemon tart', thyme ice cream