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2010-08-29
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~ Had dinner with S, T and D. (HAHA). S, T and I had been friends since kindergarten. We'd all known D since primary school. In other words I'd known STD for a loonng time. But S was abroad; seldom met up; had to do so this year because...I rather missed S. Make reservations! Full house for dinner. You can ask for a table overlooking Hollywood road. I think the view is better on that side. Also, W52 has a couple of storeys. Ground floor is the snack+bar area, whereas levels 2-3 are the dining ro
Make reservations! Full house for dinner. You can ask for a table overlooking Hollywood road. I think the view is better on that side. Also, W52 has a couple of storeys. Ground floor is the snack+bar area, whereas levels 2-3 are the dining rooms. You will be shown to a lift upon arrival. The lift is rickety. And is quite slow. But the ride is quite interesting.
Food:
None of us were particularly hungry, S and D having just finished tea at Antique. So S suggested we do it 'family style': another way of telling the waiter 'we're going to order a few dishes and share it. so yea we won't be paying much'. Nice and subtle.
Bread basket:
There were bread sticks (crusted with cheese and onion), focaccia and squid ink rolls (with cooked onion inside, i think). Came with something LIKE hummus, but less thick in terms of consistency, and probably had less garlic. Tastes alright with the bread. Would've preferred having everything a bit warmer.
1. Mesclun salad with poached egg, pancetta and cherry tomatoes
Define 'mesclun': a salad mix of assorted small, young salad leaves which originated in Provence, France. The traditional mix includes chervil, arugula, leafy lettuces and endive in equal proportions. The name comes from Provençal (Southern France)—mescla, "to mix"—and literally means "mixture". [thanks, Wiki!]
2. tortelli with eggplant and mushroom
D claimed to be almost allergic to eggplant. But I told D that mushed-up eggplant is very different from eating it cooked whole. The mushy part isn't too bad when it's been stuffed into a pasta shell. This one was quite delicious. The green skin was exciting to eat. you don't get to eat green pasta every day! I'm not sure exactly what's in the tortelli - i think they put in some kind of herb with the eggplant...in any case, they were really good - therefore I had a second helping. T, who initially exclaimed that the bite-sized pasta tasted like shampoo (@@), succumbed in the end. And helped herself to another tortelli.
3. Scallop spaghetti in pesto truffle sauce
Can i enlarge the font here..? Because this dish is excellent. If i were to go back and repeat orders, this would be on the top of my list. Pasta was al dente, the dish wasn't too oily, truffle shavings were very generous (and fragrant too. you know how sometimes you feel cheated by aroma-less truffle shavings?). I don't recall tasting a lot of pesto, but who cares when its' so good? I remember thinking to myself 'mm, this pasta is quite moist'. Yeah it's not too oily but it's not dry either. I think you save some of the hot cooking water you've used for cooking spaghetti to mix in with the pesto, so that the pesto sauce gets thinned out a bit. Mmmmm. But the truffle-pasta champion still goes to Cine Citta. No doubt.
4. fish.
I forgot what it's called. But it's not very good. I don't recommend it. The fish.....was quite bland, and the skin wasn't crisp. The zucchini was slightly bitter...and i don't like mussels. Beware.
5. millefoglie al Marsala ed Amaretti
Another yumyum. This is not the conventional Millefeuille you expect. Quite different, this - even the basic structure was different! But the twist did not stop it from being delish. There was a rish mousse/cream which tasted faintly of marsala, which the four of us fought over savagely....hahaa no. We divided it in four and T and I scraped up the remaining bits. it was accompanied by a small spoon of coffee ice-cream, which complemented the amaretti biscuits well. Bite into crust. chomp chomp. a spoon of ice cream, slurp. Delish.
Conclusion:
I will be back.
Perhaps for drinks as well.
Rather nice bar area. Next to dragon-i.
One more thing. Just take a look at the toothpicks. We only needed four toothpicks. We stole 4 packets, one each. They are innovative and sophisticated little things.
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