Yesterday I had lunch with my friend Mandy at the Goodwood Park Hotel in Singapore – the Taiwan porridge ‘a la carte buffet’ (you choose from a special menu featuring 31 items, your dishes are cooked to order and then delivered to your table) plus dessert buffet with durian desserts – a double buffet lunch […]
Named after founder and chef proprietor Nobuyuki Matsuhisa, Nobu is world-famous, with 27 restaurants across 21 different cities spanning five continents. It’s also famous for its esteemed co-founder, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro. We’ve been meaning to dine at Nobu Perth since it opened at the Crown Perth (then still known as Burs…
The baguette is slightly warm, with a craggy, crackly crust. I butter it with a carefree abandon that I’m certain the restaurant’s namesake chef would approve of. A sprinkle of salt, then a greedy bite into the bread and butter. Oh yes. I’ve been secretly studying the menu all week but am still deliciously bamboozled. […]
This was a very quick and simple weeknight dinner, prepared by Jac: fish fillets, covered with seasoned flour (plain flour mixed with salt and pepper) then panfried until they were just crispy on the outside potatoes thickly sliced with their skins still on, steamed so they were cooked in the middle but still firm and […]
Jac seasoned fish fillets with barbecue seasoning and panfried them for dinner. She served them with two salads – a garden salad and a curried potato salad. I wasn’t expecting curried potato salad – it was a delicious surprise! The garden salad was very simple – spinach, grape tomatoes and sliced hard-boiled eggs. As soon [&…
Grilled snapper fillets, microwaved-steamed potatoes and salad (lettuce, cucumber, grape tomatoes, corn). The parsley garnish was immediately removed and placed on Jac’s plate after I photographed my dinner. :-P Jac seasoned the fish with salt and pepper, topped each piece with a little butter and placed them under the grill. She’s stil…
More herring fillets! This time, Jac coated them with seasoned flour again, but not seasoned with just salt and pepper – this time she used curry powder too! She served the fish with oven-fried chips, blanched broccoli, fresh grape tomatoes and cucumber on a bed of cos lettuce. I had tomato sauce to go with […]