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.
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| 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
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| fresh butter, tomato butter and crushed sea salt |
Then the amuse-bouche...
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| Salmon canapé |
ZQ's appetizer, the eel had just the right amount of seasoning while maintaining its original flavour - and not fishy at all
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| 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
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| 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
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| Crispy skin guinea fowl, savoy cabbage, coco bean, smoked onion ragout |
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| 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!
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| Pan roasted Challans duck breast, brussels sprouts, cauliflower purée, speck-onion glaze |
And then there was dessert:
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| coffee that we asked to be served with dessert |
didn't think ZQ's dessert was very special, but it was very well done
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| Tarte tatin, hazelnut and aged sherry liqueur |
and mine... effectively a disassembled lemon meringue with ice cream. with awesome rich individual flavour
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| 'A fancy lemon tart', thyme ice cream |
