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Vanilla bean pods (one can never have enough) Valrhona Cocoa powder Valrhona chocolate Macarons from Laduree and Pierre Herme Madelines mold Pretty cake stands (I only have one and only one) YUZU from Japan! (They taste great in almost anything) A food tour to Italy and France Opportunity to study at Le Cordon Bleu |
Thursday, January 10, 2008 Eating in Shanghai: Club Shanghai  Club Shanghai, located at Shanghai Concert Hall *** Next on our list was to head to Club Shanghai, a restaurant opened by He Lili (this famous Hong Kong actress). Club Shanghai was situated at the relatively new Shanghai Concert Hall. Pretty cool place to have a restaurant I must say. And I find that the Shanghainese really have the space to build lovely and huge restaurants. They are really lavishly decorated plus they are really huge. Anyway, we were like the only one of the few people in the restaurant. I suppose the Chinese still much prefer their chinese food to French, European cuisine.  The lavish interiors of Club Shanghai We started off by having a pretty standard, however delightful amuse bouche- Smoked salmon with a douse of mayo, salmon roll with deep fried wanton skin. Then we were served a basket of breads. The basket full of bread was warm and it smelled so good. Having a variety of sweet breads, sun-dried tomatoes and olives bread stick, baguette, savory olive rolls were not too good for me because I could not decide which one to eat. I ordered the Tuna carpaccio for my starters as I didn't want to overeat. This one was as great as its presentation. Light, refreshing flavours of olives and lemon with fresh cherry tomatoes contrasting with the tangy and bitter rocket leaves and raw onions. Lovely starter. J and my parents opted for asparagus soup to warm themselves up on a cold afternoon. The soup was really lovely too. One thing I noticed about the way Shanghainese present their soup is to bring it out in a little metal bowl and serving individual portions right before your eyes.  Typical amuse bouche  A wide selection of breads. Really nice!  Starter of Tuna Carparccio  Cream of Asparagus For the mains, I was being the typical me once again. I ordered the beef tenderloin with oxtail stew with spinach and mushrooms. This one was good. Love its brown sauce. But as I was suffering from an overdose of bread, I was struggling to finish my beef tenderloin. This almost never happens, I can assure you. One thing I love about Club Shanghai is in its thoughtfulness in its presentation of food. The desserts are decorated painstakingly and they are really too beautiful a masterpiece to be eaten. Seriously. I thought that J had the best dessert. It was a deconstructed tiramisu. Lovely stuff there. Strong taste of expresso and coffee liquer. Good pairing of a chocolate sorbet with 2 bite-sized meringues with drips of pistachio and chocolate sauce. Thumbs up for this one and this tiramisu is one of the m ost interesting one I have seen to date.  Tiramisu deconstructed My sister and dad predictably ordered the dark chocolate mousse with passionfruit ice-cream and poached pears in spices decorated with a white chocolate and dark chocolate piece. So pretty huh. And I particularly like the poached pears though my sis begs to differ.  Dark Chocolate mousse with passion fruit ice-cream Another thing about Club Shanghai aside from the food is that it has one of the most lavish toilets for a restaurant. The toilets(they should really be called rest rooms) are enormous with a make up area with heavy drapes separating the rest rooms and make up area. The rest rooms are decorated in Victorian-style. My sis declares that she will have her toilets in Victoria-style when she has the money. Overall, it was a pleasant dinning experience with left me overwhelming full and satistfied. The service was personable yet not overly intrusive. Also I love to have the privacy and comfort it offered us. Only thing was the service staff, though helpful, are not great at English. Next entry will be dedicated to solely Shanghainese Chinese food. It will be awfully strange if there is not a slightest mention of them. ***
Club Shanghai 4/F Shanghai Concert Hall 523 Yan An Road East Shanghai 200021 Tel: 021 538 39989
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