Saturday, February 23, 2008

Dining At Swiss Culture (With HuiYee)

Grill Combo: cheese sausage with wedges on side, rack of lamb, chicken thigh and beef steak served with red wine sauce and mushroom sauce(not seen in photo).

Swiss Culture Specialty: chocolate fondue served with strawberries, bananas and marshmallows (compliments from Desmond Png)

The potato wedges were crisp as well as delicious. The portion for the Grill Combo(meant for 2 persons) were more than generous, so if you've got a small appetite you might prefer something else. To start off, the rack of lamb were seared to the right degree, giving it the right texture, color and a good overall flavour, especially due to the fact that it cooked bone on. I ordered my beef steak medium rare(to which I found wasn't HuiYee's preference), and despite the tenderness and flavour of the meat, it lacked moisture, could've been done better. The sausage? Well, no comments. Not the best I've tasted but it was good. The best thing I like about the whole Grill Combo, is the red wine sauce. Not too heavy on the flavour of wine, has a fairly good body and the right consistency. It matches with the beef, so thumbs up for the sauce.

Moving on to dessert, the Chocolate fondue with compliments from Desmond(my thanks for the evening). HuiYee went straight for the marshmallows the moment she sat down. Firstly, if you like pure chocolate you might not wanna go for this because it half sweeten chocolate, which is probably 50 or 60 percent chocolate. The strawberries and apples were sweet, but apples and chocolate did not go down for me the right way. Bananas and chocolate are an excellent match, same goes for the marshmallows which HuiYee gleefully gobbled down. Unfortunately, both of us couldn't finish everything in one sitting and I got home later with a full stomach.

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