Sunday, March 22, 2009
Spent the good part of Saturday morning doing up fried Hokkien prawn mee, which was really quite decent for a first attempt, if I may say so myself! Recipe for this, and for our Valentine's Day dinner degustation menu to be up on the food blog soon. (Before I forget how to make them...)
We had an extremely enjoyable weekend at the Amara Sanctuary. It was a getaway of sorts, and really quite worth the money. The only downside however, was the major (to me) glitch during check-in, when they couldn't retrieve any records of us having booked the rooms, when I in fact just handed them a printout. It took them a whole 30 minutes before they could check us in. The room was good for its price. It was on the topmost floor, had a sea view, a couch and a nice bath. The shower consisted of an overhead rain-bar sort of shower, which was deeply inspirational! Anyway, I had a suspicion that they got us a more-decent-than-usual room after I kicked up a tiny fuss about the check-in glitch.
The first part of the day was spent enjoying the sun in the infinity pool right on our floor. There were these 2 very well-tanned women who were already using the pool, and I thought they weren't much of a looker - you know how overly-tanned girls are like, with dry and taut skin and bad hair. It wasn't until a whole 30 mins later when they emerged from the pool, did I realise that one of them wasn't wearing any top at all. It is, after all, very alarming to have topless women, so I took a second look to see if mine eyes were deceiving me. It turned out a lot worse than having topless women in the pool - the "topless woman" was in fact a
man. With long hair and a slender frame.
We also prepared ourselves for an impromtou pre-wedding photo shoot (amateur shoots, mind) and Yx did a remarkble job of getting herself all spruced up in less than an hour. I think I shall release the photos on our wedding blog instead of here.
We were at a slight loss regarding dinner. We brought a bag of nachos, and that was about it. And the nachos were eaten up long before dinner. The hotel's restaurants were as usual extremely expensive, so we were left with 2 choices - the regular bars/grills at Siloso Beach, or this place called Suburbia, just near Ficus Station. We settled for the latter, and I'm glad we did. Apart from good service attitudes, the chef also knows his stuff. Bouillabaisse that was served with real rouille (I was already impressed. Most places try to pass off a mere fish-and-tomato broth as bouillabaisse) and I had duck gizzard confit salad. Prices were good for the quality we got - $15 or so for starters, $28-36 for mains, and they do give very decent servings. I had a very nice rib-eye with foie gras and risotto, which was very pleasant. The steak, I figured, was not one of their fortes, but good enough to be more than just average. It's a great place to be for the ambience, and if you are stuck on Sentosa and are torn between a lavish meal and a mediocre one at the bar which will probably also cost you $15-20 for mains anyway. Will most certainly be there again for casual dining.
The following morning's breakfast at Shutters was pure bliss. Shutters is Amara's western restaurant, and Yx and I had the pleasure of attending their 2 chefs' debut dinner some months ago, and I was particularly awed by their herb-and-truffle butter. The breakfast spread today was spectacular, and was fit enough to work as brunch/lunch. My only grouse? No oats porridge. I would have loved porridge with brown sugar and mandarins.
Wenky
7:06 PM
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