French food at Saveur

5 Purvis street

somewhere on the small streets near Cityhall/Bugis.

no reservations

Went to Saveur for dinner with a couple of friends the other day and were told to wait half an hour. i'm quite sure we waited for more than an hour! but we were busy chatting so waiting was alright. but yes, be prepared to wait! 

Saveur serves cheap french food! pretty good for it's price and very yummy. 

from a small hawker stall, it's now a really big restaurant!

checkout the menu below!

So I had the angel hair pasta, which was very tightly wound in a round, with tiger prawns and lumpfish caviar. Very tastey, the caviar flavoured the tiger prawns well, while the pasta wasen't too oily, and very savoury and flavourful. salty! which hit the spot just right because i was hungry =) the portion isin't too big, but i guess for the price of $6.90 I could've ordered two servings! haha! 

Then my friend had the Mesclun salad with lemon vinaigratte and crispy duck, which smelled really nice! but looked palatte cleansing!

Beef bourguignon with root vegetables and mixed greens and potato gratin, and my friend had an extra side of basmati rice.

confit of duck with orange segments and saute shittake

pan fried monk fish with bacon bits and leek fondue

Chicken roulade stuffed with foie gras, and basmati rice

DESSERTS!

the portions were kinda small (whatya expect, it's french!) but really pretty, really colorful and kind of interesting!

Textures of citrus

the odd name suggests you're supposed to feel it? but yes, it was a blood orange jelly with oranges and grapefruit and syrups. soury. tangy.

Next was Chocolate and Hazelnuts, a chocolate mousse decorated with dried berries and some nuts. The thick, sweet, chocolatey mousse is thick, yet fluffy, and the berries are crunchy and soft, the sourness complementing the heavyness of the chocolate.

Then was one of the specials for the night, 

Apple pie. 

which was some chopped up bits of apple that tasted like caramel, decorated with apple bits and pie crust crumbs, with tea jellies, rounds of  apple sorbet, and a fluffy-poof of yoghurt that was salty, but very fluffy, like salty air! definitely a peculiar mix =)

Another special, was an assortment of tarts with rasberry sorbet icecream sitting on chocolate cookie crumbs. you were supposed to eat towar the sorbet, starting with the lemon custard tart, then the coconut tart with gula melaka oozing out (this was my favourite) and lastly, a dark chocolate tart, with white meringue drops to 'cleanse' your palatte in between, and ending of with the sour sorbet. very yummy. but very tiny! "-_- *greedy

So yeah, the bill came out to about 25 per pax, after sharing a bajillion desserts. there were two servings of tarts. The ambience isin't somewhere for a hot date, and it's kind of cramped, and gets abit claustrophobic. the waiters take awhile, but the wait for the food isin't too bad, and the noisy ambience means you can chat comfortably with your friends, and not worry about breaking the silence! =D

California. aeroplane food

Hello everyone! i haven't figured out what my blog's going to be about, nor what I'll be writing about, so I thought I'd stop thinking so much (irony) and just write about what I did today. Basically, I'm jet lagged, a lil' bored, and itching for some typing so here goes my first post! 

I'm in California for the next three weeks visiting my parents, so here's all about my travelling.

The flight.the farewells and the claustrophobic cabin freedom.

So, as a bubble tea fan, a BIG bubble tea fan. I had to drink my last cup of bubble tea from Each a Cup.  Milk tea with Ai-yu jelly. not bad! but i was feeling kind of sad to leave home. and sit through a 17 hr flight. drank my sorrows away and off i went!

 

Dinner from Singapore to Los Angeles was really nice, which took my mind off the turbulent weather ( I get motion sick when there's too much shaking involved) oh and alot of the pictures are a little blur because the plane got really shaky!

Dinner began with Chicken and Lamb Satay, with a spicy peanut sauce and onion and cucumber. The meat was chunky, tender, and juicy, so it was a good starter with the fragrant peanut sauce wafting through the cabin.

Next was a salad of steamed Prawn with rocket ash goat cheese, walnuts and fresh strawberries, drizzled with a deep-pinkish strawberry sauce. The strawberries were soft, ripe and sweet, moistening the dryness of the crumbly textured cheese that was smooth, and very pungent, whilst the more subtle flavour of the prawn and the slightly bitter salad leaves had a lighter, more clean and refreshing taste.

The main course was Tori Miso Yaki, Japanese style free-range chicken with miso paste, swet potato and pumpkin, and flavoured steam rice that was slightly sticky. The dotted ball at the bottom was a konjac jelly ball, that was like konnyaku jelly that was salty, and was very bouncy. The mushroom gushed with soup when chewed and was sweet, with a tinge of herbs.

Lastly, dessert consisted of a cold mango sorbet covered in a mixed berry compote that was thick and sweet, accompanied by a caramel web coated with black and white sesame seeds. It was so yummy i had to take another photo of it.

For nibbles while i continued watching my movies, was a variety of Payson breton brie (bottom), delice des bois ( the one with two purple layers that tasted like grape/berry), and stokes point smoked cheddar (top right), served with fig paste (the purple jelly), grapes, walnuts and crackers. The cheeses were really tasty and I love brie and smoked cheddar. Brie for its softness, sweetness and smoothness, and brie for its dry and salty hardness. The creamy cheese was stronger but fluffy, and the sour berry flavour contrasted the thickness it had.

Thus concludes a really nice meal, with really pampering service. and OH really nice tea. TWG paris singapore tea. tastes like green asian tea with a floral accent of blossoms and petals and lychee. 

okok, lousy description, so this...

basically tasted like this...and this...

which i drank at least 10 cups of cus it was sooooo delighting..

the end!

gonna take her for a ride on a big jet plane

-angus & julia stone