Aerin's

We had dinner at Aerin's coz Meixin chose Cityhall and asked me to think of a place. I recalled that Lionel recommended Aerin's before. So we went to try out Aerin's at the basement of Raffles City...



the place was rather packed and we were informed we had to wait awhile to get seats.

The large menu displayed on a stand by the entrance....



the interior of Aerin's by the water fountain area... pretty nice ambience i'd say..



their menu...



i tried to recall what lionel recommended of this place but i can only recall him talking about the pumpkin soup. Tried to call him but he didnt pick up and i realied i forgot to save Kelvin's fone no. into my new fone (argh!).. so in the end we ordered w/o recommendations.

we had the beef goulash ($7)....



its a tomato based soup with some vege, some cubes of beef (which were not tender) and traces of sour cream. Overall, the soup was not bad. But i thot $7 was a bit too expensive.

We also shared a pumpkin soup ($6.50)..



its freshly pureed butternut pumpkin with freshly grated nutmeg. This soup is pretty good... i can understand why Lionel recommended it and Meixin liked it. It has a bit of a sweet taste as well.

For mains, we shared a Risotto Gamberetti ($18)...



Meixin likes risotto and i recommended her the risotto Miss Clarity Cafe. this risotto is classic braised italian arborio rice served with prawns, asparagus and pecorino cheese. I think this risotto is quite nice.. the prawns were fresh and crunchy.. there was also asparagus (i like).. and that green leafy thingy on top? i duno what it is but its got some kinda taste.. somewhat like lemongrass but not lemongrass (i like). goes pretty well with the rice i'd say.

And we also shared a Yakiniku cod ($22)...



a closer up view of the cod....



the cod fillet is baked and marinated with yakiniku sauce and there was baby spinach on top of the pasta. Not saying that this spinach is not good but i cant help but compare it wif the baby spinach i had at Broth. I much prefer Broth's although its not a fair comparison coz its served in different style. But the cod fish was nice (erm... but its very hard to go wrong with cod fish right?).

Desserts wise, we shared a vanilla parfait ($7)...



its frozen vanilla bean parfait served with crunchy pinenuts and mixed berry compote. Well, its ultimately a rich vanilla ice cream with mixed fruits. haha..

warm chocolate pudding ($8)...



the menu wrote.. " oven baked valrhona manjari (64% cacao) chocolate pudding topped with raspberry swirl ice cream ". So .. the 'warm chocolate' has automatically induced our mind to think that its those warm chocolate cake (those dat is available at bakerzinn, mortons and delifrance with chocolate oozing out of a cake) but the word pudding confused me. Pudding is a custard. So we ordered it and it came looking like the typical warm chocolate cake.

Meixin was somewhat enthu looking at me take pictures of the food. She was so funny. She told me that she told her colleagues that tonight her dinner will appear in my food blog tml! hahaha...

So after i took pic of an overall view of this item, i told her to do the honour of opening up the cake so i can take a pic of the chocolate oozing out (we both assumed there would be chocolate oozing out) but we digged and digged......



we realised nothing oozed out. A bit disappointed. Overall it tasted alright but if nothing oozes out, $8 is a bit steep.

Meixin treated for dinner. Thank cute my dear.