X'mas Gathering 5

Finally met up with Saresha and JA for our super belated Xmas meal. We went to Shimbashi Soba at Paragon. The restaurant is part of Kuriya and specialises in soba. This is part of what Saresha ordered:

Quail egg with sashimi: Quite delicious and sinful. :p

I ordered one of the set meals (forgot the proper Japanese name for it). But it had fried chicken, salmon and swordfish sashimi & tempura. I ordered the set only for the swordfish sashimi, which I recently have been very much in love with. :p:p

The fried chicken was very delicious! Some of the fried chicken I'd eaten in Japanese restaurants tend to be too dry and over-fried. But this was just nice. I love love love the mushroom tempura too. Heh! The mushroom was light, soft and yet had a full cotton-y 口感 to it. Yums! The highlight was of course the chilled soba. It was very good too - when I bit into the strands, the "springy-ness" was just nice. *Slurp*

JA loves Japanese desserts so after dinner, she ordered this to share:

There were fruits, soba balls (very nice to bite into!), and ice-cream. All in all, a very lovely meal.

We proceeded to Canele for tea and desserts after dinner. I had been craving macaroons for the past week and NOTHING was going to stop me from having them. Haha!!! So we ordered 1 violet (Saresha), 1 Chocolate (JA) and 1 hazelnut (me) for ourselves, with a pot of tea (different flavours, of course). Oh and on top of that, we ordered a slice of Caraibe to share. Super sinful right? But who cares? Hahaha!!! It was so empty (huge surprise!) when we reached there, so we almost had personalised service. And we sat there for nearly 2 hours, and the crowd was very small too. Perhaps people really started cutting back on such indulgences the moment the bell tolled on 1 Jan 09?

The macaroons were super delicious, as usual - thanks to Saresha for her rec! I love it when the cream inside have tiny little specks of chopped nuts. The caraibe was simply amazing!!! The amount of chocolate and nuts - awwww... I went into ecstasy after my 1st mouthful. Haha!! All in all, a simply amazing and delicious dinner. That diet and cutting back of financials and calories? That can wait till Monday. Hiak Hiak!!!