Wawa's Ramblings

A day of feasting

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Had lunch again at Rakuzen, now firmly established as one of our favourite Jap restaurants. I ordered the Sakura Chirashidon zen ($20) while Co had the Tempura zen ($18). The Chirashidon was prettily presented with slices of sashimi and pickles.

It was so delicious that I cleaned off the whole bowl of rice!

We also ordered the yakitori ($6) and this was one of the better yakitori we had so far.

We stopped by at Something to Go for coffee later in the afternoon and could not resist having some dessert, the praline feuilette and mango cheesecake ($6 each). The praline is one of Regent's best sellers and is a rich dark chocolate cake comprising of chocolate mousse and a base of crunchy biscuit and sponge cake. Very rich and sinful but utterly delicious.

We also bought the cranberry raisin bread ($6) and a hazelnut chocolate donut ($2.20). The donut was very nice with a thick layer of hazelnut icing and generous sprinkles of crushed hazelnuts. There is a 20% discount for UOB cardholders for purchases above $15, so it was a pretty good deal.

Ended the day of feasting with home cooked pad thai and tom yam goong. The pad thai turned out almost perfect this time round and the tom yam goong was very flavourful (forgot the snapshot).

I also tried making the sticky rice again, this time in a steamer and finally got the consistency of the rice right. It went very well with the coconut cream topped with slices of mango.