Sunday, March 04, 2007

Helio Cafe

The table was set for 7 of us. Aunty lu made the bookings. apparently there was some issues during the reservations.

The table....



The reservation was made for 7 person, $35 per person.

First up was soup and salad. It was the creamless mushroom soup with salad. The salad included some ginger lily (or was it called wild ginger? can't remember), orchids and some expensive cheese as wat Clement explained.



a close up of the salad...



the white white thingy is the cheese. its w/o the strong cheesy taste and its rather chewy in a way.

for main course, Clement prepared about 6 main course and told us that one pastry chicken covers 2 mains.

The pastry chicken (garlic tarragon chicken) ...



Clement cutting it open....



the chicken revealed...



the chicken today was much bigger. Fragrance was still there but i recall the one from my previous visit was nicer in the sense that the fragrance was stronger and the meat was more tender and bouncier.

Next was the red wine chicken.....



many of the ladies liked this chicken better among the rest of the chicken. I personally prefer the garlic tarragon chicken.

another chicken dish (yes, we were stuffed with chicken for the night) was the honey mustard chicken....



it was pretty alright but not popular wif everyone. I think it may be a case of too much chicken. haha.. and likewise, somehow the chicken today isnt as bouncy as my previous visits.

den was the salmon in cream sauce and the cream sauce was osmanthus (hope im spelling it correctly)....



the salmon is super good! The cream sauce received a lot of thumbs up and the salmon was cooked just nice, not overcooked resulting in it being too dry or hard. Aunt nana commented saying usually she cannot take too many mouths of salmon but not for this.

the last mains that Clement prepared was the pork wraps.....



most of the ladies didnt fancy this but we agreed its fun and something different. It went well for aunt nana though so she ended up finishing this for us.

Dessert wise, Clement prepared the chocolate erika for us...



its chocolate mousse inside. According to Clement, its sugar free. Pretty smooth texture.

Den the baked cheese cake....



a closer up view...



this cheese cake was really good. went really well on me. Mmmmm~

the brownie wif ice cream....



didnt quite like the brownie. Not my kind of brownie.

Overall, dinner went fine but generally, most felt that pricing was a bit steep and would haf wanted more variety aside from chicken.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

4 chicken as main seem to be abit too much