Tuesday, 16th May 2006

The food & company were great last night. As usual HL was in top form - we could tell she was gagging for a good laugh last night, H was very excited about her new job in China & J was sleepy as the restaurant became quite stuffy later in the evening. Me, I had a good time snapping food shots, eating and jointly entertaining HL with J.

J perked up later and we both got into our usual antics and made HL laugh with risque, bawdy jokes and imaginary scenarios involving her and other innocent diners last night.

Here are some snaps of our food.

We ordered 2 bluecheese seafood claypots - it was sinfully rich, creamy and tasty. We were so hungry and excited that I only remembered about taking pics halfway into the food. Please bear in mind that the girls had already demolished 2 enormous baskets of bread smothered with garlic butter before we sank into the starters.















This is a portion of baked mushrooms with mozarella. It was so-so after the richness of the cheese claypots. It is served with beef bacon on top but we asked for it to be served on the side as HL does not eat beef.
















This is J's main course. She ordered 2 fillet mignons with jacket potato & veg. Everything was later doused with blackpepper sauce and creamy mushroom sauce.



This is my main course. I had a blackpepper steak, jacket pot & veg. I had to send the first steak back as it was more well done than medium but the replacement meal came out 10 minutes later and this time it was perfect.



H had poached salmon with creamy spinach sauce, jacket pot & salad. The salmon was really tasty and I liked the spinach sauce.



HL had a chicken dish drenched with creamy mushroom sauce, sauteed potatoes & vegs.



For desserts we ordered 2 chocolate souffles, one with whipped cream and the other with vanilla ice-cream. The choc souffles were chocolatey enough but a bit too hard around the edges for my liking but we ate them all anyway.



Overall a great meal for B$34 each. The service was superb too. Our waiter looked after our table very well and of course, the girls had to tease him - when he came to collect our totally EMPTY plates, we told him that the food 'really wasn't very good tonight' and 'we didn't like the food'. He was quite taken aback till he realised we were just having him on! hehe

Looking back at this post, I think the pics need to be a bit more 'personalised', so for future food postings, I will try to include pictures of hands handling eating utensils, cutting food, empty plates and perhaps an overall table picture. Problem is, people are getting a bit impatient with me for whipping out my camera before they are allowed to even smell the food and snapping away... at each and every outing.. sorry, folks, bear with me... :P