Sunday, April 18, 2010



being early for the dinner with kitmeng, alvin and kenneth today gave me (more than) ample time to wander the meandering roads of Serangoon Garden. Saw a lot of interesting houses and the lack of a camera was sorely felt. And because I wanna blog but have absolutely nothing noteworthy of blogging, i shall go into great detail about dinnner.

Borhsch Steakhouse for dinner wasn't too bad. at $13.80++ for an appetizer, soup, main course, dessert and drinks, it does sound too good to be true. in truth, you do get all these but with the necessarily small portions to match that low-low price tag.

Given the choice of Cavier with Egg or Shrimp Cocktail, I elected to start off dinner with the caviar appetizer. I wasn't expecting a huge lump of caviar which is good because I didn't get one. It was a simple hard-boiled egg topped with the barest pinch of caviar sitting atop base of shredded lettuce and a tomato wedge. Needless to say, whatever taste caviar may have was quite undetectable in such miniscule amounts.

The Mushroom Soup wasn't too bad, thick and creamy with a substantial amount of mushroom slices to keep a mushroom-lover like me happy. of course, the amount of mushroom might not be normally distributed since i couldn't double-check with any of my companions who ordered the Borhsch Soup, the namesake and presumably signature dish of the restaurant tasting remarkably like minestrone. Having to choose which of the two tastes nicer would be quite difficult but I'd really go with the Borhsch Soup when all's said and done, mushroom soup is easily found but the German dish isn't quite so readily available.

My Sirloin Steak arrived with a dollop of butter (startlingly similar to the one for McDonalds' HotCakes), some french fries (about 7 to 8 sticks), fried onions and long beans. Everything tasted decent, the steak was both well-portioned and nicely cooked (I ordered medium-rare) with the butter adding a matching and subtle sweetness. Only Kenneth ordered something deviant from ours, a Pepper Steak that was just not as good as the Sirloin for some reason.

Dessert was a Peach Melba, a small scoop of vanilla ice-cream topped with 3-4 peach wedges. Nothing bad nor remarkable about it, it tasted exactly as one would think it does - vanilla-and-peach'ly.

Had real ice-cream at the nearby McDonalds where I indulged in a Hot Fudge Sundaes, one of the many criminals that will be responsible for my ever-rising weight and downwards spiral into obesity.

All in all, it was a pleasant night. Great company, decent food. And I'm really really tired so Imma stop here and go to bed.

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and yes, i can't believe it's just 3 days away.