Well, it WAS a special occasion (alert: pure food porn follows):
Location: Angus House, where the service dresses in French maid costume and the chefs cook in full view of the dining patronage
Ordered the rib eye steak set comprising...
a prawn roll, which is roughly equivalent to a popiah but with Thai/Vietnamese skin that has the more glutinous texture, upended so it looks like a kueh pie tee set. A nice, fresh starter that only whets the appetite for more.
Soup. This one is the cream of corn. Very smooth... maybe too smooth. I like my corn soup with some kernels to chew on, but otherwise a good soup.
Salad served with an Oriental dressing, mostly soy sauce based. The combination is light and tangy while the salt of the soy sauce works to heighten the appetite for the main course to come. As far as possible, the dishes here reflect a European-Japanese fusion philosophy without going overboard with creativity.
At last, the tender, juicy rib eye arrives on a sizzling hot plate. The texture and consistency make it one of the best steaks I've ever had. On top is a pat of butter on a slice of lime -- a very simple but effective enhancement to the oddly dry-ish, yet fruity gravy you can see at the bottom of the pix.
Dessert is a mango pudding topped with vanilla ice-cream, another fusion idea that works so very well. Sweet, smooth and cold, it rounds out the meal satisfyingly.
That was dinner. Breakfast took us back to PARK @ Holland Village:
In the foreground is the main breakfast set, background is the smoked salmon crepe.
In detail. The Parma ham (between the sunny sides) is an optional extra. The pancake would have been served with syrup, but I'm on a diet. Yup.
The latte bears a portrait of Tasha, probably inspired by the fact that she's under the table -- so cute!
Ok, enough with the food. Back to losing weight in the morning.
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