made jumbo prawns alio olio this evening on 27.2.2021.^^
bought some jumbo prawns from Chinatown Wet Market several weeks before CNY. these were huge prawns about 8 prawns to a kg about 130g each. it was just S$20/kg so I bought 2kg.
alio olio is straight forward.
just brown garlic cloves in olive oil, added 1/2 a chilli padi. then add white wine and chicken stock & reduce. can also add prawn stock but I didn’t prepare this evening. 🙂
I made about 100g spaghetti just 1min before al dente…agaklogy lol!
add pasta to sauce, add butter, off fire and toss.
for jumbo prawns, I cut away the legs and sharp spear on the head, cleaned, cut shell & devein and cut the head shell in the middle…seasoned with sea salt, butter, black pepper in the devein flesh..then cook in open pan high then medium fire in a little olive oil in open pan maybe 4-5mins…make sure prawn is cooked..
泡饭with crispy rice tasty soup no ingredients…a ok complementary dish to other dishes not really my favourite..
港蒸笋壳soon hock fish head was very good..very fresh, fish very fine 幼& sweet with tasty sauce..the best dish..
but very ex though at $88 for 1/2 fish head…this price doesn’t make sense to me…can get whole 800g soon hock equally fine 幼at ah eat grandstand at 1/2 the price…
coconut 炖蛋dessert quite nice worth trying $10 each we shared by 2..not quite my favourite dessert..
WM got indisputable reason to buy lunch so cannot fight with him lol!
trio of appetizer-wasabi mayo prawn, soft-shell crab, tomatoes infused with jam plum sauce
menu
wasabi mayo prawn
mayo prawn, soft-shell crab, tomatoes infused with jam plum sauce
softshell crab
double boiled sea cucumber soup
steamed halibut HK style
braised 8-head abalone
braised 8-head abalone
roast chicken
roast chicken
pasionfruit pudding
pasionfruit pudding
son had a 8pax food tasting at south beach marriott for the family on 23.2.2021.^^
food was fine and delicious! 🙂
must say it was well above expectation for hotel banquet food. very good standard indeed.
appetiser trio was good. wasabi mayo was light 7 the nicely glazed prawn looked and tasted great, not likely the 粗dishes in places like peach garden and ban heng…
deep-fried softshell crab a bit heavily fried, nice flavours also with thai basil.
tomato infused with Japanese plum sauce was delightful…
sea cucumber soup was a nice consommé lightly sweet清…
steamed halibut was fine dish, tender, sweet & great soya sauce 港蒸flavours…
the braised 8-head abalone not the best, I had much better abalone texture and also the brown sauce in other places.
roast chicken was a pleasant surprise..tender chicken with a nice sambal-dish sauce, very good and fine dish for a roast chicken, which often mediocre dish at many places …
the passionfruit pudding was like a nice panna cotta and quite refreshing…many thought it was too milky so son decided this an dish he will replace…
overall quite excellent fine dining dishes, better than expected from a hotel banquet…
made modern western 11-course all vegetarian dinner for my sis bil, niece 6pax family this evening CNY day 1 on 12.2.2021.
I vegetarian on 初一十五.
11-course Modern Western Vegetarian Menu
best beautiful delicious salad (by lisa)
tortilla aka spanish omelette
japanese miso glazed eggplant
sautéed mushrooms
pangrilled tofu on cauliflower puree
potato cake on chilli crabless auce
cream of cauliflower soup
funghi linguine
spaghetti alla nerano (zucchini pasta)
bbq king oyster mushroom on potato mash
tofu cheesecak
everyone loved the food..
qh commented few times he never tried so many different tasty vegetraian dishes..the 2 boys had several helpings…
sl specially liked potato cake (& wen commented the chilli was nice), eggplant & funghi linguine.
had a great time with family…with covid restrictions of 8 visitors a day we arranged to have relatives visit in separate groups over the CNY period. so today for sis, bil plus niece 4pax family who are all vegetarian. 🙂
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