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Sunday, January 06, 2008

Eating in Shanghai

Jean Georges, Shanghai

I've spent 5 days in Shanghai after Christmas with my family and J.
Though it's my second time there but I was looking forward to this trip mainly to relax, enjoy the cold weather and to experience the food in one of the fastest-paced city in China.

The place that I was dying to go to was Jean Georges, a French restaurant on the Bund. Jean Georges is a three-star Michelin trained chef who started his invariably accoladed resaturant in New York. He focuses heavily on using vegetable juices and fruit essences, broths and vinaigrettes instead of the use of traditional meat stocks. He then expanded his restaurants to Shanghai, UK, and the Bahamas.

Jean Georges is also the chef who was celebrated for creating the Molten Chocolate Lava Cake. Yes! He created this dessert by accident while cooking in a restaurant in New York and has since popularised this dessert in the States and many other cities including our city, Singapore.

When we found the restaurant at Three on the Bund, I was really ecstatic. The restaurant was on the 4th floor of a old colonial styled building along the bund. We were ushered to a table by the window which gave us a perfect view of the bund. The restaurant was big and its decor was modernistic. We ordered the 3 course set lunch (which adds up to about S$60 per person) because it was frankly the more affordable option.

View from the restaurant

My sis had the best appetiser- the foie gras brule with dried sour cherries and candied pistachios on a bed of citrus gelatin. This was really lovely and the pairing of the ingredients just worked so magically like they were so rightfully meant for each other. Both my dad and I regretted not ordering this dish.

The best dish- Foie Gras Brule

I ordered the warm mushroom ravioli which was alright but quite disappointing as the first dish to start. My parents and J ordered the wild mushroom soup which surprisingly came out as clear soup!

For the mains, I couldn't resist any beef tenderloin so I had the caramelized beef tenderloin with savory onion jam, and sour cherry mustard. The presentation of the dish was really lovely. The beef tenderloin was done right; the sour cherry mustard was quite a surprising concoction but it's definitely not the best beef tenderloin that I've eaten.

Caramelized beef tenderloin with savory onion jam, and sour cherry mustard

Beautifully presented dessert

For desserts, I ordered the tropical fruit, peppered-yoghurt sorbet, hibiscous. This one was really lovely. The blend of the sharp tangy and citrusy fruit with a lightly flowery taste of hibiscous for the sorbet really made my day. The rest of them ordered the espresso creme brulee with passion fruit sorbet which looked good too but I don't like creme brulee in general.

After our set meal, we HAD to order the famed molten chocolate lava cake with vanilla bean ice cream. It was good but somehow I was still disappointed for I expected more from Jean Georges restaurant.

The famed Jean Georges Molten Chocolate Lava Cake

Service was really good. Ambience-wise- you can't really ask for more with the perfect view of the Bund and Pearl Tower. The food was good but not great. And for what you're paying, I believe that I can eat better in Singapore. Nonetheless, it satisfied by curiosity and made me determined to polish up my molten chocolate cake.

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Jean Georges
Three on the Bund
No. 3 The Bund 4th Floor
3 ZhongShan Dong Yi Rd
Shanghai
Tel: 8621 6321 7733
www.threeonthebund.com

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