Short Attention Span

It felt like I've been watching Ryouma Den for a long long time, but I'm only on Episode 2... and not even finished it yet. Must have paused at least 5 times within that 1-hour episode, to go (cold) brew tea, drink tea, shower, search for stuff to buy online (note to self: stop doing that...) or to type a blog entry =D

So today's Australia Day. Just another reason for them bludging Australians to take a day off work and drink Coke while chewing on red meat that's been on the barbecue for less than a minute in this scorching heat. Which was fine by me, because despite having to work, it was a very peaceful day of packing while chatting with my friends and co-worker, JT and CH. Those two girls are seriously the best people to work with~ we made everything look perfect! After work, dad told me there's a blackout at home, so we headed to Maccas for dinner T T note to self: no more junk food...

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Should be having healthy food like this!

This was at Miso, a popular Japanese restaurant on the ground level of World Square. tt and I went there before, and it was also there that I spilled my miso soup, bringing a flurry of waitresses to come mop me up and even refilling my empty miso bowl. That's what I call 'good service'!

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Not to mention their food actually looks really good and has a huge variety. While miso soup and salad are pretty standard sides for a Japanese set meal, this one had potato salad, stewed stuff, fried stuff including soft shell crab!!!, sashimi, and fruits. I wouldn't usually go for chicken and rice, but it was their special set that day.

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I know I was whinging about high-end restaurants and how I cannot afford it. I succumbed to the Gold Entertainment Card. It's expiring in June/July, and I haven't used it to its worth yet. Actually, now I have =D My parents found my book today and was flicking through it. They decided to help me use it...

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So FL, SM, TT and I went to BlancHaru for their degustation course. We were one of the first ones there, but overtime, the restaurant filled up pretty well for a Wednesday night. We were offered french onion bread and sourdough.

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For photo's sake, someone had to take a sourdough... but the french onion bread was really nice and special.

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First up! Aburi ocean trout with beetroot, 'egg yolk zuke', garlic foam. It all went wrong from the very first course! Look at that deceptive red blob. It's a cherry tomato, right? 3 out of 4 people poked that red blob first thing and ate it in one go... and got a surprise. That's the egg yolk zuke... ... it was meant to be cut open so the yolk oozes out over the ocean trout and then eaten together. Why didn't it come with instructions?? Nonetheless, it was really really good.

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Next: King crab and eggplant caviar tower, tomato vinaigrette. This was SO good, arguably the best. Hey, no one can go wrong with king crab. Well... no skilled chef at least. The meat of the king crab was just sublime~ the tuile, which we uncultured beings called the nacho, was obviously handmade right there, adding a pleasing final touch (enter Fuku-san from Iron chef).

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By course 3, FL and I were already feeling kinda full. Actually, THIS dish was filling. Organic soba, cream sauce with truffle aroma foam... noodles were made to fill us up I think, and with a cream sauce.... it was almost K.O., but no fear, we finished everything.

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Then we went on to the mains (FL: we're not even half way there yet!)... doesn't this look absolutely cute? It's like a little tree planted on a globe of soil in the form of pork belly galette, black beans, sweet potato puree and mustard sauce.

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Here's a tree I wouldn't mind hugging every night! The pork belly's crackle remained crispy and hot underneath the black beans, which were so sweet and nice, I never thought black beans could taste so nice. My favourite dish out of them all that night~

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Poisson Du Jour (fish of the day). Rosemary, olive oil, crunchy noodles and... I forgot what the waiter said. Really good, but it felt oily for some reason.

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Another main! Persillade lamb rack, cous cous, smoked tomato salsa. I'm not too fond of cous cous, but the lamb was really really good and the vegetables on the side was fried tempura-style.

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Dessert Du Jour~

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I forgot what this one was too, so I'll make it up. Panna cotta at the bottom, poached peaches, vanilla ice cream that tasted more than just vanilla, topped with an amazing crumble.

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Here's how to get there. Closeby is also "Rise", which I thought was probably better value, but BlancHaru was really good too! The pork belly tree was a winner dish for me...

Now I'm poor again and need to save up... lots to do, with my sister's wedding coming up and having to pack to go overseas. First time I travel overseas all by myself, let's not get kidnapped or thrown into jail =)