Nobu - London Musing 3

The final post in my London trip brings us to another Michelin star restaurant in the very posh area of Park Lane. For those monopoly geeks, Park lane is the blue purple slot worth 350 pounds with hotels charging you up to 1750 pounds.

WY & I went for the Chef's tasting menu. 7 courses over 2 hours





First up was salmon tartare with cavier accompanied by a soy based sauce. Very palatable. Didn't expect the pairing of these 2 items to go so well.
However, the sauce proved to be abit too salty after a few mouth fulls.

This dish reminded me of a salad with a shallot soy dressing. Ok... nothing very wow.

I was extremely eager about the hot main dishes and when this miso cod came totally didnt disappoint.

Hot plate beef with very very salty sukiyaki. At least the flavours of the beef was good

To finish off, a plate of nigri and some rows.

Dessert was a tiramisu ice cream type dessert. Very very nice but when u serve it in a macchiato cup, its never going to be enough.

The 7th dish was a pathetic miso soup.


I am abit lost for words after sampling 2 Michelin star restaurants.
They were both good but neither blew me away.


p.s quick post. been extremely busyy .. EXTREMELY...

Hummingbird - London Musings Part 2

Just not too far from where Yauwatcha was, we found the legendary Hummingbird Bakery.
I wasn't too excited about them after overloading myself with Dim sum but my dear friend tells me I have to buy some for my flatmates.

I got myself 2 for breakfast the next day and another 6 for my flatmates. At almost 2 pounds per muffin, these were by no means cheap. Somehow the bill came up to 24 pounds -__-......

10/10 for packaging but I just wasn't overwhelmed by the whole luxury muffin concept.
I m probably being biased here so please try it for yourself .


I 'll take a krispy kreme anyday.

Yauatcha - London Musings Part 1

Mum says there's always a first time for everything. When it comes to food she will say "try if don like don eat." Haha, the rebellious little me at that time obviously turned a deaf ear. Nowadays, I realised that she dosen't walk the talk herself when I ask her to try some food. haha

So...... My First Michelin Star. (I checked the dictionary to make sure I got it rite). My first ONE star restaurant dining experience. Guess what at a DIM SUM RESTAURANT !!!! -__-" Seriously?
I totally didn't expect it but WY insisted that we check it out. Can't be help, I was too hungry to convince him to head to a cheaper china town alternative where I could probably eat twice as much for half the price.
Then again.... a michelin star restaurant.... A Michelin star DIM summm Restaurant.. hmmm... I wonder ... I wonder

I couldnt figure out what to order . Siu Mai Har gao? my mind just couldnt come to terms with ordering something so casual. i wanted to be blown away by some creative dim sum. It was a Michelin star restaurant afterall.

Let's just say we started with the congee. Quite arty fartsy eh? Simple pork congee but met all expectations.





I just had to satisfy my curiosity of a michelin star siu mai. Can you see the scallop? and instead of crab roe they have used Tobiko
Nice ! and just enough for me to be impressed.
What was more impressive was how the European waiter was able to repeat all our orders in almost perfect cantonese





Again to satisfy my curiosity. This was somewhat underwhelming. It was nothing out of the ordinary. Ok... I have to give them credit for using a piece of banana leaf instead of cheapo wax paper for plating.

Wy highly recommended the venison char siew su. Ah ha . A touch of "atahness" using venison instead of charsiew. The verdict: tasted almost like a charsiew su with the marinate dominating most of the flavours. The gaminess of the venison was just enough to permeate through the sweet flavours. Maybe thats the whole idea.

I can't remember what these were called but its char siew on the inside wrapped around by a crust that tasted like the top crust of bo lo bao. It was super yummy. The crust might even contain some baby powder. Very clever dish and one of my favourites that afternoon.

Jasmine Smoked ribs. Ok only..... better off drinking jasmine tea and eating charsiew pork ribs.

Roasted duck Pumpkin puff. This for me represents what Michelin dim sum is about. Creative use of ingredients you least expect in the creation of a delectable dim sum that is pleasant to the eye and on the palate. *


I may go back again but with so many other Michelin star restaurants and better cheaper chinese restaurants, this restaurant wont be on my return list anytime soon
Nevertheless, a "palette" opener that one needs to TRY at least once hahah

Yauatcha
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Soho
15 Broadwick St Map
Soho, UK W1F 0DL
Tel: 020 7494 8888

C & R, London

London Aye......... LOL

Fish Ball kway teow soup.... Not very nice....

Hokiien Mee. Good wok hei flavour but lacks the prawny ommph

My favourite Chicken Rice... Chicken was good. Rice nope..

Prawn Noodle Soup.... Pretty standard.....


NOt sure if i ll be back again for more food. I just learnt that there are other places to try out Malaysian food in London.

C & R Restaurant
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3-4 Rupert Court
London W1D 6DY

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Cafe Tarte

We spent some time in London on route to Glasgow. Stopped by this wee cafe in the kensington area for some good old hearty breakfast and coffee

A huge serving of eggs, beans, toast, sausages and tomato. PLus!! a nice cup of hot chocolate to drown everything down. Must say I enjoyed this meal.

Cafe Tarte
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270 Kensington
High Street Kensington
London, W8 6ND