I love to cook and I love to eat! This is a photo blog of things I have eaten out or cooked myself ^^

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Mon Cher Ton Ton <3

After leaving Disney I headed into Tokyo centre and grabbed a hamburger from a random burger joint in a department store. There was a little too much sauce as it went every where but the mustard used was good as it had just a bit of a kick ^^



But the main event was Mon Cher Ton Ton Roppongi! I have been to the Shinjuku branch before and could not resist going back this trip. However I was feeling more confident and took my camera this time! Also as we had a bigger group we were given a private room ^^ A quick FYI this meal is cooked infront of you by a chef assigned to you for the meal.

The Mon Cher Ton Ton set menu was selected for all parties ^^ I had a hot lemon drink to start as it was very cold when we came in, and the chef started cooking the garlic on the hot plate.



A selection of chilled vegetables were served, all perfect in ripeness and colour.



Next dish was the beef sashimi with a sweet onion on top, the beef was excellent and the onion complimented the flavor! The girls in the group where given a sweet pumpkin cold soup to go with the dish that was extremely yummy!



The next dish was Foie gras, not something I would normally choose to eat but as it was part of the set menu I decided to enjoy it. This reminded me of an extremely fatty chicken liver but again was very tasty! I am not sure what the sauce was but it suited the foie gras excellently.



The next dish was abalone, to which everyone had one to themselves! It's hard to explain the taste but with the anchovy butter melted on top the abalone melted in my mouth!



The salad was excellent and the dressing particularly good, as I make Japanese style dressing at home I paid close attention and found that it far out paced my attempts :P The flavors were much more subtle ...



I forgot to take a photo of the main until I had taken a few bites, but I think that just tells you how good it was! The steak had three different choices of sauce, onion, salt and I forgot, I enjoyed the salt the most, the onion the next and the other one the least :P But the steak was perfect by itself!



Served at the same time as the steak was spring cabbage that was some of the best cabbage I have had in my life! It was juicy and tender and all thins I never knew cabbage to be!



To follow was miso soup, rice and pickles. A perfect ending to the meal ^^



However there was still more to come! A Crème brûlée served with tea in the lounge.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Eating well at Disney Tokyo!

As I ate my way around Disney I did try to partake in the special menus as much as possible.

Dinner was Magellan's, which I have eaten at before and I had high expectations. As I had hoped they did meet that expectation! I did not get the special menu as it did not appeal to me to, but the normal set menu had heaps of great choices.

Starter was escargot, which was the first time I had tried this and I enjoyed it very much!



Followed by mushroom soup, which was very creamy!



My main was a steak (medium rare) in port sauce, each bite melted in my mouth ^^



Finally the meal finished with cake of the day, which was a New York cheesecake, that was light fluffy and prefect!



Additional photos : other choices were the lamb and the Crème brûlée:




The next day started with room service for breakfast.

I was a bit disappointed with the scrambled eggs and bacon... The bacon was not even a little crisp and the eggs seemed to be kinda flat instead of my preferred light and fluffy.



But the fruit, juice, tea and pastries made up for it!



I promise I did not have a second breakfast, but this was too cute not to take a photo of; Mickey Mouse waffles! Also very tasty I am told ^^



Since we were in Japan I could not resist trying out Restaurant Hokusai, and they had a very nice looking special lunch! Also there was a special dessert on the menu and since someone else was feeling hungry they order it for themselves. I figured I would just steal a bite so I could make comment on it ^^

The bento special lunch was great! There were lots of great items included though out of all the items I did not finish the savory custard ... But I gave it a go! The included dessert was red bean paste was very tasty.



With everyone feeling very full the special dessert arrived! And it was bigger then we expected! I would give four large slices and six small slices... However as it was a sponge cake we managed to make a decent go of it. The cake was very good though by the end of my slice I was a bit creamed out...



Dinner was at the Blue Bayou Restaurant, once again we got the special menu. The starter was prawns wrapped in a light coating. This did not leave much of an impression on me. I have a feeling that this dinner suffered coming after the excellent dinner the night before. It was not comparable :P



Steak for the main, again could not compare to the steak I had had the night before.



The dessert was prob the highlight of the meal, as it was a cute mousse made into the shape of a treasure box.



The lighting did make taking photos hard ...

The following room service breakfast was omelet and sausages, once again the eggs and meat did not really taste great but the other parts of breakfast made up for it.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Welcome to the first post!

I am currently in Tokyo and have been eating a lot!

On the flight over from Singapore I enjoyed a breakfast of poached eggs and bacon, and I have to say that the eggs were very good for a inflight ^^ The bacon did leave a lot to be desired :(



Fist up in DisneySea I ate at Zambini Brothers' Ristorante I got the pasta set menu: pasta with a white crab sauce, garden salad and chocolate cake. The pasta was very tasty and not too filling, with the salad crisp, however the chocolate cake was too rich for my taste.



More to catch up on soon.