St Pierre

A fortiori, the dining experience was a gazillion times better than Pied de Santa (french for foot of santa?? given the name, we should have known better than to have gone there. and how urban could possibly give the place a good rating i totally fail to comprehend. ) or whatever the place was called.

There were 8 of us present at dinner, a nice prosperous number for a nice prosperous birthday falling on the 8 of May. The food was fantastic and there were these waiters dressed in black who looked really posh and cool. I cannot remember half the names of the dishes we ordered. But we had 4 starters - angelhair pasta with lobster, asparagus with green chawan mushi and foam (cos it's a molecular gastronomy place- basically there was alot of foam in alot of our food), wagyu beef carpascio and foie gras with strawberry sauce. Of cos I may have gotten half the names wrong or at least the spelling wrong. Bet I got u fooled by the first 2 words of this post. My english is good but definitely not consistently good. The steak was amazingly good. The fish (which 3 of us ordered, namely ML, M and JL) was really really bad. The rest of u please make a mental note to NEVER order the same dish as M or JL. And going forward M will try to pull a stunt on the menu meaning this: M will think of what to order and wish with all heart and soul to eat that dish and then order something else! We will try this trick next time and will update accordingly if it works.

Ok basically I wanna explain why the dining experience this time was heavenly compared to the previous place and here goes:

1) We couldn't even tell there was air-con in this place. As in we didn't see the machine and we didn't hear the machine. And most importantly we didn't feel the machine unlike Pied where there was a leak. The air was just cool and fresh (save for the occasional whiff of really smelly cheese).

2) There was no olive oil to spill on XL. This was because their breads were so good that there was no need to have it with any thing else. But actually also, they didn't offer us olive oil.

3) Wine. Oh yeah I neglected to mention above that we had a bottle of red wine to celebrate the occasion. Unlike Pied, there was a moving cart - much like those dim sum carts we see at Red House. This waiter even came by to recommend which wine would go with which food unlike the previous place, which all they did was use a thumb and point a the stationary display on the wall.

4) The food was actually tasty save for the fish we ML M and JL had. M was most most most displeased especially since it costs $70.

All in all, it was a very pleasant evening. Because of the conversation which today has sparked off a whole string of emails about our Chinese names. To me, as long as the food and the service is reasonably acceptable, the company is really all that matters. :)

(Oh yeah but it would be good if the company didn't roll eyes at almost every thing that JL says or say she is retarded.)