Friday, June 23, 2006

Chinese - Pine Court

We went to Pine Court at Mandarin Hotel.



The interior of the restaurant....



The ceiling...



and the plant on the table...



And the sauces.....



their menu....



The first to come was the combination platter....



Its got roast pork, roast duck, some ham and a chicken wif a chinese red herb which i duno wat its called.

A closer view....



It was not bad.

and we also had foie gras...



It was good!

The server lady recommended us to try this particular zizimo (duno if i spelt it correctly) dish.. they later called it zhen zhu hua (pearl flower).....



On top of the item is crab meat and prawn mousse is stuffed inside the 'flower'....



It tastes DARN GOOD!!! the lady guo ran mei you jie shao cuo!

and for our soup, dar ordered a sharkfins soup.....



recommended by her colleague Yvonne. I felt it was just ok and its actually quite expensive. $48 if i recall correctly.

i changed my soup to a seafood fushion in foie gras broth....



The name of the soup sounded special. Foie gras broth.. the soup was really yummy! Very nice. The foie gras tasted abit different from the normal way we have it though but it really did make the soup really tasty. There's also prawns and scallops in the soup. Thinking about it makes me drool! lol

We also ordered a black pepper beef cube dish...



its really good as well. Tenderloin beef cubes wif very crispy you char kway, onion, red pepper and garlic.. yum!

When we were about done, the friendly lady servers came over to check if we wanted dessert and offered recommendations. The first item they recommended was some almond wif taro served in a coconut shell dish.. we din take dat because i dun like almond taste.

In the end, we chose a chilled aloe vera and lemon grass topped with calamansi sherbet and a chilled avocado cream and sea coconut topped with walnut ice cream.

While waiting for our dessert, we saw the servers serving this dish wif smoke coming out from it. So we checked with the friendly lady servers who were chatting up wif us. She told us dats the coconut dessert dat we din order and so we just happened to ask if our dessert came wif dat smoke as well and guess what? She made a special request with the kitchen for our dessert to be presented wif dry ice as well!



Now this is what we call great service! Woo!

A close up of the items....



Both were really good. My avocado cream was really unique. Dar's aloe vera was really refreshing.

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