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