Monday, January 25, 2010

Dinner

Napa Wine Bar & Restaurant (next to the hostel)

Amuse bouche: Salmon with greens (and lemon rind?)
Broccoli soup with bacon and herb crouton (flavorful, but would have
liked more broccoli flavor)
Intermezzo: watermelon-lemon-olive oil ice topped with shredded basil
Cod with roasted garlic, baby carrots, and grape tomatoes
Chocolate lava cake with vanilla ice cream, cappucino cookie?, and
morello cherries stewed in mulled wine
Wines: Italian Alois L__? Pinot Grigio, Ruby Port

Lauren: Caesar salad, gnocchi with pesto and grape tomatoes


Very expensive, but it was fun to try all the foods and it was pretty
good - the tomatoes they used were really great.

Dessert

Paul (French Patisserie)

Chocolate Tartlet and Raspberry Tartlet

Lunch

Grape Restaurant

Xiao Long Bao, scallion pancakes, spring rolls, hot and sour soup

All good but nothing special


Also, for a snack, we got something like pan-fried bao, which was
delicious!

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Dinner & Dessert

Dinner: Lou Wai Lou 楼外楼

Cold Dishes: thick, short noodles in meat sauce, dried bamboo in
sesame oil

Hot Dishes: Deep fried tofu skin rolls with sweet sauce, soup noodles
with pork, bamboo, and vegetables

Tea: West Lake Dragon Well (Longjing龙井)


Dessert: Häagen-Dazs
Triple layer strawberry, mascarpone-passionfruit-(chocolate) truffle,
and chocolate-orange separated by "puff pastry" cookies and surrounded
with orange segments and strawberries. Lauren had a similar
production with cookies and cream and coffee ice cream.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Dinner

Crystal Jade Restaurant (Xihu Tiandi)

Spicy Pork Dumplings
Singapore Fried Noodles 星洲炒贵刁

Monday, January 11, 2010

Breakfast

Parmesan Olive Oil Bread Toast
Honey-Citron (Pomelo) tea - jam-like stuff from a jar that you add to
hot water