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Excellent Modern Vegetarian for 13pax RI G20 Dinner @ Sufood on 30Mar2015
sufood mosiac
we had an interesting italian-inspired modern vegetarian dinner for 13pax RI G20 get-together at Sufood on 30.3.2015. a very good choice by the organiser. ^^
one of the friends used the phone apps to make a mosaic food picture (top photo). very nice!
bread with a mustard dip & berries dip
we had the italian bread sticks with mustard & berries dip. both were ok. i liked the mustard better. 🙂
our usual wine supplier brought nice wines
japanese yam with berry sauce, cucumber & cherry tomato plum jelly
we kicked off with the chef’s sufood starter – a quite wonderful trio japanese yam with berry sauce, cucumber & cherry tomato plum jelly.
cucumber & cherry tomato plum jelly
japanese yam with berry sauce, cucumber
a refreshing start.^^
fruit salad
the healthy ones went for the fruit salad.
mushroom salad
mushroom salad
a few of us, myself included, took the mushroom salad, a popular dish. it was good. 🙂
summer salad
another took the summer salad.
classic garden salad
& the classic garden salad with a choice of sesame sauce or caesar dressing.
pumpkin soup
for the soup, cream of pumpkin was a popular choice.
pea soup with mushrooms
i had the pea soup with oyster mushroom cubes at the bottom. maybe this was the healthy version so it was not an intense cream of pea soup, texture combination was great, with the crunchy mushrooms. it was the same also with the pumpkin soup, not intense & flavourful.
a friend & i both thought we could do a better tasting soup than these 2. 🙂
cabbage & sweet potato stew
some had the root soup, and the most healthy among us went for the cabbage & sweet potato stew. 🙂
calzone
the calzone came highly recommended. calzone looked like a huge curry puff. the dough was more akin to pizza dough.
i must say after trying a few, i was in total agreement that calzone was the best dish/main course.
pita pockets
i picked the pita pocket though. many of the main courses came with plastic gloves, if you wanted to share your food.^^
pita pockets
the mock meatballs were pretty ok but it was not as tasty & satisfying as the calzone.
porcini pasta
don’t really know how the porcini pasta tasted like, but generally the food quality was competent, pretty ok for vegetarian dishes though not spectacular.
squidink pasta
i would rate the squid ink as the second best after the calzone. the mushrooms were shaped to look like squid rings.
squidink pasta
certainly my own squid ink dish is much more intense & flavourful. 🙂
star pizza
star pizza
i tried the star pizza. didn’t think much of it.
banana cheesecake with yuzu camomile
did not try the banana cheesecake. guess it should be quite ok.
banana cheesecake with yuzu camomile
black sesame penna cotta
i had the black sesame penn a cotta. smooth, quite good.
black sesame penna cotta with drink
i had the penn a cotta with a healthy ashitaba drink. not sure what to make of it. at least it not bitter like wheatgrass. it wasn’t too sweet so it was ok.
black sesame penna cotta with yuzu camomile
osmanthus jelly with drink
osmanthus jelly with yuzu camomile
some friends had osmanthus jelly. didn’t try it but that should be very safe, couldn’t go wrong.^^
the company & dinner were very enjoyable. these gatherings came about quite naturally, a desire to spend time with friends & share views & experiences.^^
& wine was marvellous of course. 🙂
doesn’t blow me away for sure, but equally it is a place i am happy to come back a few times.^^
c.h.e.f andy
Fun Relaxed Dinner @ Bistroquet Pizza & Grill on 25Apr2013
caprese (mozzarella with rockets & tomatoes) – S$12
today our monthly dining quartet discovery took us to bistroquet pizza & grill at ARC (Alexandra Retail Centre) @ PSA Building. the host for the evening bought 9 voucherlicious vouchers of S$270 worth for S$135 & we were especially keen to try out the 400g porterhouse steak (which looked very alluring on bistroquet’s Facebook photo). 🙂
the place had the relaxed rustic ambience for a great chillax & drinking joint (though it was not drawing the crowd even with voucher promotion as we stayed till 9pm closing time and traffic was quite light). we were liking it already, though still suspect about the standard of food. 1 of our dear friend had kind of “forgotten” (we guessed correctly huh 🙂 ) & was about settling down to watch TV serial with his mum while our other quartet member was frantically SMS-ing, whatsapp-ing & calling him. 🙂 anyway we ordered a caprese (read ca-pri-seh) salad & a funghi pizza to start. the caprese was the usual mozzarella with rockets & tomatoes, light, good actually, and enjoyable.
12″ thin crust funghi pizza – S$18
the large (12″) thin crust funghi pizza was good too (they served a white pizza here but we were the old-fashioned lot who loved tomato sauces on our pizza). our friend was not much into cheese but ok with light mozzarella & the young chef (looked like no more than 28) was most obliging to our request to warm up the quarter pizza we kept for the friend. 🙂
baby back ribs – full rack S$28
we ordered a full rack S$28 baby back ribs (1/2 rack S$18) to share, and it was good! fork tender and tasty, well marinated, though some of us would have preferred to have the sauce served separate. and 1 friend liked the purple cabbage with mayo which was too sweet for me
400g porterhouse steak – S$36
next was the 400g porterhouse – the reason we came for specifically and got 1 of us into the highs. 🙂 however it seemed that the office lunch crowd had taken off most of the porterhouse steaks & we were left with 3 porterhouse to share. we had 2 medium rare and 1 medium, served with beef sauce and the chef brought us some chimichurri sauce (taste like pesto sauce) which went well with the steak. 🙂 it turned out that while the taste was ok the meat was a bit tough on the sirloin side to be considered a good steak. The small tenderloin cut in the photo (what I usually thought of as a tender & tasteless cut) turned out to be quite a world of difference – tender & nice. also of the 3 only 1 had the T so we were guessing the other 2 pieces were all sirloin or new york strip & no tenderloin..haha. 🙂
we asked the chef later & he admitted that the ribeye would have been more tender. well we would have to do that another time. I wouldn’t mind coming back.. in fact I bought another 5 vouchers (S$150 worth) for S$75 afterwards. 🙂
chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream – S$8
I am not much of a dessert person and we did not expect much really but since we had the coupon, we ordered a chocolate lava cake and a calzone (a turnover which can be sweet or savoury..in fact they serve a foie gras calzone here as a main course item). As it turned out the lava cake was quite outstanding, and the hardened crust containing the chocolate lava was very good in texture & taste & different from lava cakes in other places. the caramelized walnut with ice cream was a good pairing too.
calzone – S$8
& the calzone was so pretty. the dough texture was really good too, crispy on the outside not fluffy but a bit like a pizza dough. 🙂 according to the expert among us, since no one else was in a position to dispute with her “calzone made of the same pizza dough, filled with choc, hazel nuts, pistachio, etc”.
somehow the young chef took a liking for us, and he showered us with 2 more desserts FREE – a panna cotta which was forgettable and a tiramisu, which was again quite pretty in presentation & tasted quite good albeit not enough liquor for some of us. very good indeed & far above our expectations for dessert in a drinking joint kind of place. 🙂
we paid in total S$124 (7 vouchers=S$105 +S$19cash), and that included 2 cappuccinos + 4 beers on 1 for 1 happy hour promotion. 🙂
c.h.e.f andy
c.h.e.f 