Thursday, December 08, 2005
date night
this post is quite belated and frankly, i wasn't intending to blog about it, but boredom does wonders.
dinner
dinner was at original sin, where the ambience was cozy and food was fab. we
kicked off the evening with a couple of cosmopolitans. our cocktails were accompanied with bruschetta pommodoro . the picture here doesn't really do it justice, for i must say, it was very nicely presented. the tomato pieces were nice and juicy and the olives were fresh. not the highly preserved type you usually get.
with our appetites whetted, we proceeded onto the mains. anuja had the 
moussaka (left). the bechamel sauce on the moussaka was just right. neither too rich nor too thin. and with just the slightest hint of nutmeg to add that little sweet touch. the hint of fennel seeds lent a mediterranean taste. i had the ricotta cake (right). the size of a large muffin, it was basically a rather exotic kinda quiche. topped with caramelised onions, and drizzled with plum sauce, the taste was divine. and to appeal to my rabbit side there was a lovely mesclun dressed with balsamic vinegar.
to round off dinner, we had chocolate mudcake. EXTREMELY chocolatey. thankfully not too sweet. nice garnish of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. the fruitie in me was satisfied =) and lovely vanilla gelato to temper the slight bitterness of the chocolate and the tartness of the berries. all in all, i'd say it was a lovely dinner.
after dinner and the company
as mentioned before (briefly), my date for dinner was the lovely anuja. a wonderful dinner companion and all-round conversationalist. she had me enchanted through out the evening. dinner ended with the both of us feeling fat, and also because it was kinda early, we decided to go for a walk. kent ridge park is a wonderful place for a walk. only problem is getting there. there's a lovely canopy walk, which ic basically a wooden path suspended over the foliage. too bad it was dark. would have been a lovely sight to behold in the light of dusk. walked all the way to bukit chandu and then back to the car, and we still weren't satisfied, so off we went to west coast park.
west coast park has changed sooo much since the time i last went there, which was more than 10 years ago. with all the work going on there now, couldn't even get a glimpse of the sea. after making our way around west coast park, we realised that we still had time to burn, and i'm not sure who thought about it, but we decided to go to sentosa.
a nice place to drive around, especially late at night when there aren't pesky tourists popping up like obstacles. we parked at tanjong beach and walked along it. and we saw this wooden bridge which led to this mini island on which a 3 or 4 storey wooden structure had been constructed. so we crossed the bridge and there we stood at what was labelled "the southern most point of the asian continent" or something as lame as that. before we could get around to climbing the structure, anuja noted the presence of rats, which had her in a state of mortification, and so we quickly ran back across the bridge to tanjong beach proper.
back i drove to drop anuja at her hostel to the sounds of secret by maroon 5 booming away.
anuja and i both came to the conclusion that the places we went to were helluva romantic spots. the only thing wrong with the picture was the company. it wasn't bad, just that neither of us would be the other's ideal partner to utilise the full potential of such romantic locations =) she referred to it as the perfect date. i more or less do agree..
dinner
dinner was at original sin, where the ambience was cozy and food was fab. we
kicked off the evening with a couple of cosmopolitans. our cocktails were accompanied with bruschetta pommodoro . the picture here doesn't really do it justice, for i must say, it was very nicely presented. the tomato pieces were nice and juicy and the olives were fresh. not the highly preserved type you usually get.
with our appetites whetted, we proceeded onto the mains. anuja had the 
moussaka (left). the bechamel sauce on the moussaka was just right. neither too rich nor too thin. and with just the slightest hint of nutmeg to add that little sweet touch. the hint of fennel seeds lent a mediterranean taste. i had the ricotta cake (right). the size of a large muffin, it was basically a rather exotic kinda quiche. topped with caramelised onions, and drizzled with plum sauce, the taste was divine. and to appeal to my rabbit side there was a lovely mesclun dressed with balsamic vinegar.to round off dinner, we had chocolate mudcake. EXTREMELY chocolatey. thankfully not too sweet. nice garnish of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries. the fruitie in me was satisfied =) and lovely vanilla gelato to temper the slight bitterness of the chocolate and the tartness of the berries. all in all, i'd say it was a lovely dinner.
after dinner and the company
as mentioned before (briefly), my date for dinner was the lovely anuja. a wonderful dinner companion and all-round conversationalist. she had me enchanted through out the evening. dinner ended with the both of us feeling fat, and also because it was kinda early, we decided to go for a walk. kent ridge park is a wonderful place for a walk. only problem is getting there. there's a lovely canopy walk, which ic basically a wooden path suspended over the foliage. too bad it was dark. would have been a lovely sight to behold in the light of dusk. walked all the way to bukit chandu and then back to the car, and we still weren't satisfied, so off we went to west coast park.
west coast park has changed sooo much since the time i last went there, which was more than 10 years ago. with all the work going on there now, couldn't even get a glimpse of the sea. after making our way around west coast park, we realised that we still had time to burn, and i'm not sure who thought about it, but we decided to go to sentosa.
a nice place to drive around, especially late at night when there aren't pesky tourists popping up like obstacles. we parked at tanjong beach and walked along it. and we saw this wooden bridge which led to this mini island on which a 3 or 4 storey wooden structure had been constructed. so we crossed the bridge and there we stood at what was labelled "the southern most point of the asian continent" or something as lame as that. before we could get around to climbing the structure, anuja noted the presence of rats, which had her in a state of mortification, and so we quickly ran back across the bridge to tanjong beach proper.
back i drove to drop anuja at her hostel to the sounds of secret by maroon 5 booming away.
anuja and i both came to the conclusion that the places we went to were helluva romantic spots. the only thing wrong with the picture was the company. it wasn't bad, just that neither of us would be the other's ideal partner to utilise the full potential of such romantic locations =) she referred to it as the perfect date. i more or less do agree..
thus spake satchithananda at 4:30 pm
