Thursday, July 19, 2012

Delicious SOUS-VIDE beef with egg and truffle

I am not a regular Fairwood customer but went especially for the Slow-cooked beef with egg and truffle. The Slow-cooked beef with egg and truffle is only available for lunch, which is annoying.
In the evening they have slow-cooked steak which is not appealing to me as you have to cut the steak.

Slow-cooked is the Layman’s term for SOUS-VIDE a method used in many top-notch places.
The word SOUS-VIDE seems too hard to comprehend for Fairwood’s target market because they usually are students, housewives and office workers.

But anyway, the slow cooked beef was really good and they should have an upper end of Fairwood like how there is an upper end of Arome bakery called Arome bakery room, which sells cakes at a higher price.
The dish was priced at $40 and does not include a drink so I had to add $9 for the pineapple punch with nata de coco.
I just think it sucks because Fairwood is self-service where you pay, collect the food and find a seat especially when you come in for their deluxe selection which cost more.
With fine foods like that I wish they had an upper scale restaurant for it.
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Slow-cooked beef with egg and truffle
As expected the beef was lovely and soft and extremely juicy, however it lacked the taste of beef if you are a beef lover.
The pasta was slightly too salty and oily with tonnes of garlic, but despite that, the pasta was really nice. It was nice that it came with broccoli.
The egg seemed to have some egg white missing, the portion of truffle was reasonably generous. Overall I liked everything and ate it all!
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Pineapple punch with nata de coco I was really surprised it was a nice drink, it was not syrupy or too sweet.
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Apart from the food, the air con was so strong that it blew the tissues from the table to the floor!!
So you can imagine how cold it was! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
題外話/補充資料:
Sous-vide is a method of cooking food sealed in airtight plastic bags in a water bath for a long time - 72 hours in some cases—at an accurately determined temperature much lower than normally used for cooking, typically around 60 °C (140 °F). The intention is to cook the item evenly, and to not overcook the outside while still keeping the inside at the same 'doneness', keeping the food juicier.

Menu: Mazter breakfast

Philippino chicken empanada

Saw this pie at a Philipino convenient store and the size was smaller than the usual pies so thats why I got it.
It was nicely wrapped in paper, after reheating it I tried it and it turned out to be chicken pie.

The filling could have been better mixed because it was saltier in some bites.
Inside the pie there was chicken, peas and surprisingly some raisins!



Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Cheese salad sandwich with almonds! @ Grove

I dislike the Wan Chai branch so went to this branch.

Here I bought the cheese salad sandwich because the cheese looked interesting, it was more orange in colour than the usual cheese. I wanted to get the prawn and peaches sandwich but the peach is probably canned ones so the salad one seemed more healthier.

Anyway, the cheese and salad sandwich tasted ok.
The cheese was processed cheese so it wasnt cheesy but it had an extremely creamy buttery taste, intially I thought they did not butter it evenly but it turned out to be the cheese.
As well as cheese, cucumbers and tomatoes I found SLIVERED ALMONDS!!!!!!!
Thats weird!
Overall the sandwiches here are quite westernised, but it still doesnt feel as authentic as Pret A Manger or La Rose bakery.
Some of the ingredients they use are so Chinesey and there are not many expats getting their sandwiches here which explains it!!
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