Yesterday, I went to Paramount Hotel to learn about social and dining etiquette. We were first given a talk about social etiquette then dining etiquette. After all that, we were given our food to practise on our dining etiquette.
First came the bread with some unsalted butter, we learnt that we should pluck some bite-sized bits of the bread and put it with butter.
Then came the soup. We learnt that the spoon should sink in like a dolphin diving in water (withOUT the splash!). After waiting for a while, the main course came.
It was chicken breast with mushroom sauce, broccoli, cauliflower and raw carrots. Then came dessert. It was "chocolate cake", but there were bits of plums inside so I preffered to call it a better "blackforest cake".
Then came orange juice. By then I was so full that I could hardly drink it! I learnt a lot about eating at formal places. The money for this workshop was indeed well-spent.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Tim's Restaurant and Cafe
Today, my family and I went to Tim's Restaurant and Cafe. There were a lot to choose at the menu, e.g.: Fish and Chips ($6.00), Grilled Fish ($6.00) and Grilled Chicken ($5.50). There was also steak and lobster with fish or chicken or beef (around $16.00 each). We each added $2.80 to make our main course a set meal, which includes soup of the day at first with crispy garlic bread.
The soup was chicken noodle soup and it was thick. A while later, water was served. The water had a lemony taste but I found out that there was a slice of lemon in a jug holding water when the waitress attended to us for the refilling of water.
We waited a reasonably long amount of time for the main course. Mine was Grilled Fish with Mango Salsa. The Mango Salsa sauce was a little spicy with a dash of sweetness, a little like sweet and sour sauce but with a little chilli. It went well with the two pieces of fish that were below it. The fish was a little salty, but it went well with the bland potatoes, carrots, long beans and some kind of gourd that tasted like winter gourd.
The next two dishes that came up was tea and cake. The cake was quite hard to cut with a fork, but when you put it in your mouths, you will feel that the cake is not that hard. There were strawberry sauce, what seemed like custard and something I presumed to be cocoa (the bitter ones as I thought that the strawberry sauce and the custard were aldready sweet).
The teh tarik*, as they call it, was frothy, light and sweet (I think it's a little too sweet!). It looked like Milo but had the hint of the aroma of tea and bubbles on the surface of it. The teh-tarik was machine made.
The soup was chicken noodle soup and it was thick. A while later, water was served. The water had a lemony taste but I found out that there was a slice of lemon in a jug holding water when the waitress attended to us for the refilling of water.
We waited a reasonably long amount of time for the main course. Mine was Grilled Fish with Mango Salsa. The Mango Salsa sauce was a little spicy with a dash of sweetness, a little like sweet and sour sauce but with a little chilli. It went well with the two pieces of fish that were below it. The fish was a little salty, but it went well with the bland potatoes, carrots, long beans and some kind of gourd that tasted like winter gourd.
The next two dishes that came up was tea and cake. The cake was quite hard to cut with a fork, but when you put it in your mouths, you will feel that the cake is not that hard. There were strawberry sauce, what seemed like custard and something I presumed to be cocoa (the bitter ones as I thought that the strawberry sauce and the custard were aldready sweet).
The teh tarik*, as they call it, was frothy, light and sweet (I think it's a little too sweet!). It looked like Milo but had the hint of the aroma of tea and bubbles on the surface of it. The teh-tarik was machine made.
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