Remember those days when it was my Diploma practical classes, we have to stayed back until late in the night just to practice our carving...whether it is chicken carving or duck carving...the never ending Grape fruit carving and orange carving..flambe flambe and flambe.. practicing our up selling skills...arrrr..those were the dayss..
Now after graduating from diploma for more than one year, i got the chance to dine in as a guest for my junior's finals..hmmm...
Went over to Pyramid to kill some time...even met Rosalyn while walking...haha..what a coincidence..=)
How could you resist huge mirror? :p
Anyway, our diploma finals work like this...you are suppose to find four guests to dine in on your exam day..each guest have to pay RM25 for a three course meal including wine...menu of the day will not be revealed until that day itself..yeap..sounds easy...but...why don't you try and see..haha..
Like any fine dining restaurant, we started off with some bread...to our surprise, we have potato bread instead of normal mini buns...
Potato bread with butter
Our table number...17
Menu of the Day
French Onion Soup
This may be the easiest starter with..but the trick is..you need to perform gueridon service...Gueridon service means French service..basically the soup was brought out in a soup tureen and being served on the trolley in front of the guest..
Taste of the French Onion Soup? hmmmmmm...beef stock powder...beef stock powder..oh well..what do you aspect from the kitchen?
Before the main course is served, the server will have to open a bottle of white wine in front of the guest...The wine? I am sorry to say..it is not to my liking..save cost mer...
Pan fry fish with sauté vegetables and turned potato
This..is okay...the fish is not as fishy as the ones I had encounter in college before..the sauce is acceptable..but the sauté vegetable is really horrible..how can you overcook the vegetables until it is so soggy and off colored? If my memory serves me right.. sauté potato should not taste like this either...it should be boil.. sauté in butter and put in the oven until the food is ready to be served..oh well...what to do...
Finalement...we have our crepe dessert..This one, it is also gueridon service as usual...you have to flambe it..( flame it with alcohol in short..) well..first you heat the pan hot and add some sugar until it covers the whole pan..( yes I know..it is freaking sweet ) then once it is melted..add some orange juice..make a nice caramel cause...When the caramel sauce is ready..it is time to coated the crepe with the sauce...when all four pieces are well coated..it is time to flame it!!
I only manage to capture a bit of flame...:p
In the end..it should look like this...
It would look better if another piece stay in place!!! haha
Once it is plated..it is like this...
Flambe crepe..
looks very nice right? taste? sweet but not too sweet because we did asked her to put less sugar...The crepe has a very neutral taste so it balance off the sweetness of the caramel sauce...
Our meals ended with coffee or tea...a very typical normal dinner service actually...did not aspect something extravaganza though..we knew Taylors well enough..haha..was it a great meal? oh well..its so so..probably because my expectation was higher.. :p but I must say..my junior did a great job...
I will end my post with a very happy picture of B and Mr Randall...
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