Sunday, August 3
I was quite disappointed when I saw it, it was expensive. I ordered what I saw on the menu, tiger prawns with balsamic vinegar and French fries. What I didn’t expect was, it really came out like that...
*pink = prawn
*green=onion
*yellow=fries
No dripping appetizing looking sauce. It looked dry, full of fries. Three tiger prawns shrunk from the cooking and three balsamic onions and yes the fries. It was a 33 dollar main course, expensive I thought, really expensive. The fries, maybe three dollars, The balsamic onions, maybe another three dollars, so that makes the prawns to be nine dollars each.
My heart bled as I look at the dish feeling pathetic. I thought it will end up being one of the worst expensive meals ever.
I was taken in by surprise.
The prawns, they really look pathetic, no doubt. They taste very different from what one would expect from its look. Everyone was teasing me asking how does my ten dollar prawn taste like and I couldn’t answer at first, still trying to figure out what is this thing, so I said “it doesn’t taste like any other prawns I’ve ever eaten.”
Whatever I said wasn’t convincing because of the look I had before I put one of those things in my mouth. So I offered a piece for them to try. They did, each person who tried raise their eyebrow with a surprise look on their face, wondering. “mmmmm, it IS truly different”
The pathetic looking prawn, when shelled and eaten, had juices coming out from within. Although of coz, as it was already dry looking, you can’t expect it to be all that juicy. But whatever juice it had left, was really like the essence of the dish. They did a pretty damn good job marinating it although it doesn’t look marinated. The taste of different spices was right inside the typical looking prawn although it wasn’t visibly there. Unlike those casually marinated prawns where the flavor can only be tasted from the outer layer, and the inside just taste like… prawn. This one had its flavor burst from the inside. I am not very good with names of spices but I am sure, if someone who is familiar with those names had a taste of that mysterious prawn, he can name the spices out one by one, the different types used to marinate the prawn.
Those who tried it agreed, the prawn was definitely well made. For me though, 33 dollars for 3 prawns was kind of too expensive. It does make me want to go back for more, but I think I will find it harder to part with my dollars than to tolerate my cravings for it.
It was at via Veneto, Clarke Quay Block E.
If you have some extra cash to spare, you might want to drop by and try.
