Waqu

13 December 2006, 18:17

me and noods didnt know what to get our parents for xmas so we decided to take them out to dinner but we had to time it becos of noods’ mum and her chemo becos it kills all her tastebuds in the first couple weeks after treatments. Waqu (32 Falcon Street, Crows Nest) where the food is all about ‘the harmonising of opposites, east meets west’ is offering a tasting menu for $39

shiny


looks normal on the outside huh

Cold Soup

Broccoli Cream Soup. it was actually quite cold that day and i was hoping for hot soup… but no matter it was tasty and even tho it was creamy it was quite refreshing. and i liked the pretty drizzle pattern so much that i forgot to stir and found the broccoli bits drowning on the bottom

Assorted Small Eats

Deep fried soft shell crab taco; Beef tataki, ponzu jelly and flying fish roe dressing; Chargrilled eel fillet and eggplant, yuzu pepper, roasted garlic aioli tartar. i loooved the beef tataki it was so soft and my tongue just wanted to squish it and suck out all the life out of it…the eel was also very tasty and i guess had i eaten the whole tower all at once i wouldve liked the eggplant combo but as it was i tend to eat layers one at a time and wished i had more eel and less eggplant… the taco bit of the soft shell crab was a tad oily but deliciously crunchy and salty and meant a good contrast with the creamy innards of crab fleshhh

Sashimi plate

Chef’s selection of salmon, kingfish and whiting. the salmon and kingfish was of fantastic quality as i expected- smooth and buttery soft, but the whiting made me have to chew and chewing requires effort

Entree. we had a choice of 3 entrees

Crispy fried paradise prawn with basil tartar sauce. mmm crispy prawn goodness


Salt grilled barramundi fillet with pink salt, green tea salt and curry salt. i thought the different clusters of salt was a great idea, if you didnt like one flavour you can try the others or you could combine the salts. my favourite salt was the curry salt but i liked the idea of green tea salt. the fish and salt was a bit plain and couldvd used with some sauce but i guess that wouldve taken away the novelty of flavoured salts


Pan fried salmon fillet with creamy terriyaki sauce. my entree. not sure if i liked this. the salmon was a perfectly soft piece of fish however i wasnt a fan of the sauce because terriyaki and cream does not mix

Mains

Salt black pepper angus beef steak with creamy mashed potato. the steak mightve looked small but it was a very tasty and juicy bovine slab of meatyness. and you see those small whiteish chip things on the bottom of my plate? i thought they were mini biscuits or almond flakes but nooo they were fried garlic slivers!


Roasted whole quail with tamaril ginger sauce. my dad loved this and kept raving about it all night even though i think he was still hungry lol the quail was very tasty and yes tasted like chicken


Crumbed deep fried bangalow pork with miso sauce. my mums. this kinda tasted like pork katsu… or pork schnitzel… but it was crunchy and my dad ate half if it

Dessert

White sesame creme brulee. since i love black sesame i got this but i was pretty upset that creme brulee was cold since i like them either warm from oven or room temp but it was still good and had a decent amount of blowtorch crunchy carbon bits


Green tea mousse with green tea icecream. out of the whole table my dad was the onli one to order this and the green tea icecream was sooo nice no powedery bits just smooooth creamy icecream and the mousse was interesting it was more like malaysia kuehs mmm tasty

1. ok! i wanna go here :) looks great!

   — trish    Dec 15, 12:10 AM    #