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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Foods.. Again

My company hosted this fancy lunch for some media people a couple of days back in Au Jardin at the Botanical Gardens.

Before the lunch i was emailed the menu.

Canapés At The Balcony

Papillote of prawn with basil
Cornett of smoked salmon

Set Lunch Menu

Carpaccio of fruits de mer, caviar d’Aquitaine, Granny Smith apple

Roasted Maine lobster, Girolle mushrooms, truffle sauce

Pan fried hallibut in carrot jus with Pommery mustard, salad of baby
spinach

OR

Smoked & roasted pigeon breast, leg confit, sauce Anjou

Black Mission figs, glazed with vanilla-balsamic, coconut ice cream

Coffee or tea
Les mignardaise

i really love to eat but i really hate to see a menu when half the ingredients are in a foreign language and the rest of the words are words i dont understand. Hate it. PLUS, the main course was fish or pigeon. That's no real meat. Give me some satay and ketuput man.

The food and service was pretty good but 1 hour after i got back to the office i was hungry again.. so i had to eat my own snacks.

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In the entire end of the spectrum, and as a realisation of my previous desire to do something for the community, my company was doing a mass lunch for our PRC and Bangladeshi construction workers and i volunteered to be part of the management team to serve them their food. And for some reason, I had to mention that i speak mandarin, so im also the emcee for the mandarin section of the programme.

But i'm glad im doing this really. The only downer is that i have to wear my safety boots and helmet on the site. My colleague tells me i should put the helmet at the backeat area of my car where the tissue box usually is. Looks cool, she said. I actually feel like decorating my helmet like how officers in the army do it by sticking one or two or three bars on their caps to indicate their rank.

I'd probably put a big round and red circle to indicate my size.

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