Well first let me introduce you to the venue... It's at esplanade, called my humble house. Hee. Well actually if i were a traditional superstitious asian, i would have refused to sit at the table i was. Well besides seeing my mummy, do you see the extra high chair back? It was artistic and cool, but it also reminded me of the jiang shi... cant remember what you call it in english. And the thingie supporting the table was a mini rectangular pond, and obviously, if i were a superstitious asian, that might seem like a coffin. Haha. Well the lighting was red and the furnishing was largely black. Hee. But well, me being a happy person, saw that as artistic in the most simplest of senses. Hee. =)
It was a 8-course dinner... Don't have the full menu here but here it goes:
One of the dishes was obviously , shark's fin!!! It was crazily nice (haha, pardon the limited vocabulary... you don't have much of a gourmet here.). The broth was really rich and even the aftertaste was rich.
Another dish was ginseng chicken (picture on left). Now where's the ginseng? Hmmm... figured out when i ate it that the ginseng was really IN the chicken... cool huh. The chicken meat was really tender... like, it really just melts in your mouth. It wasn't the overcooked kind until it hardens nor the undercooked kind that you need tremendous skill to tear the meat apart. The meat just comes apart at a slight pull. Really cool.
Ah hah... there was vegetables too... picture is really blur so i guess no use putting it up.Wheee oh ya next notable dish: DA LOBSTER. =) Took me quite a while to savour this dish because i had to struggle to get the meat out of it's shell. Haha. But the meat was worth the fight. It'll be an insult to say that it tasted like a huge prawn but nicer than prawn. Haha. But... er i really don't know how to describe it.
Ah hah... the picture here makes my sorbet look big. But it's really quite a small portion. But it's sooooo different from your usual crushed ice lychee... the ice was like, fine... and it really melts in your mouth instantly. It wasn't too sweet as if you poured a whole lot of syrup into it... actually, it didn't even feel like syrup-ed. And well i liked the nuts that accompanied it. =)
Uh huh! You might not be able to see it clearly, but this is oxtail meat plus some kind of noodle (and a stalk of vege at the side). =) The noodles was tremendously soft, any melt-in-your-mouth thing... doesn't taste at all flour-ly. The meat stew smelt good, although the taste if you ate it by itself was a little overwhelming, with the noodles it tasted really good. =) Don't know how they actually made the broth, but the little bit of the broth felt like rich chicken essence.... really nice! Think all that juice from 10 xiao long baos combined fitted into a bowl. Yummmy!
Now for my favourite dish of the day: the desert!!! Haha. It was one that excited my senses the most (the only picture i took with flash, too). It came with dry ice... and my whole family went nuttish together upon seeing it. It was pretty with the rose petals and all! Okie main point was... it was latte ice cream with avagardo cream-ish melted ice cream in a coconut. Cooling, and interestingly i wasn't put off by the avagardo cos it didn't feel greasy at all.
Well besides the food, my family indulged in some kind of weird scientific enquiry...: what is colour? Hee, cos colour is a matter of perception, so we were really wondering, what is colour? But to this mind here, scientific inquiries do not interest my mind as much... i'd probably be more interested in talking about human behavior than wavelengths and infrared and x-rays. You might call this brainlessness, but i've made a conscious effort not to complicate my thought process too much because i believe in simple things called intuition and common sense. Or rather, i have had probably too little time to delve into subjects of interest; school life is far too hectic... and most of the time, i can get by academically without thinking at all.
Well which made me think of my two smart sisters. My elder sister got 3As for A levels... when she did so badly for prelims my parents were requested to see the teachers. Crazy huh. She was playing her whole time in JC but still managed good results (the only reason why she didnt get 4As is because she immediately dropped 1 subject when she figured she could do with 3 in JC). My younger sis is a potential medical school student, with really good portfolios. But what about me? Haha... but i figured, it wasn't about me. It's not about the talents i had; cos what matters is the talents that i put to use for God's kingdom. It's never about me as per me anyway, it's always about God. And whatmore, no matter how much people say "life is unfair", i think God has been always very fair in terms of distributing the gifts and the talents. =) He created some as hands, some as eyes, some as the brain cells... and it would be impossible for the hand to function as the center of the brain, eyes as the foot.... ok i actually dunno if such cell implantations would be possible but well. Haha.
On a side note, the brain and the mind is a different thing. Interesting thought. I shall look deeper into that soon. =)
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