7.56am - bread w/ hazelnut-chocolate-coconut spread, fresh raspberries, fresh squeezed grapefruit juice, at home
8.01am - bread w/ Nadi's mom's home made jam, plus walnuts, at home
8.01am - bread w/ Nadi's mom's home made jam, plus walnuts, at home
And this is the place of a totally out of the ordinary, extravagant team lunch - officially a welcome lunch for Beatrice, Cecy and Ernesto, but also, as we were to find out, a farewell lunch for Scott and Louis. Other team members in attendance were Amanda, Ryan, Kimberly, Frank and yours truly. 
just a tad bit on the Vegas side of Asia
but the food wasn't bad at all - on the contrary...12.27pm - black sesame rice crackers w/a tomato chutney style dip
12.35pm - passion fruit lassi w/ kaffir lime, lemongrass and ginger
12.36pm - Crispy Imperial rolls w/ chicken, Louis's first Thai iced tea ever, and Frank's lime-mint squash
12.38pm - Thai coconut chicken dip with more black sesame rice crackers.
12.44pm Thai chicken satay w/ peanut sauce
12.47pm - Hanoi spiced Chilean sea bass - Frank really wanted this one
12.51pm - festive saffron cashew rice - Kimberly lobbied for this one
12.53pm - Princess chicken (tempura w/ a palm sugar glaze), Beatrice's choice
12.56pm - caramel shrimp w/ lots of red onion - Cecy and I had our eyes on this one
12.57pm - wok-fried bok choy - Ernesto's choice
12.58pm - sambal eggplant - I think Ryan suggested this?
12.59pm - my plate w/ some of everything. Note the cool fork.
12.59pm - Cecy insisted I take a picture of her plate, too - much more organized than mine...
1.12pm - still eating! some pad thai showed up towards the end
the dizzyingly high ceiling above us, while waiting for dessert
1.35pm - white tea w/goji berries and marigold, shared w/ Ryan
1.37pm - Viennese chocolate cake (seriously molten on the inside), w/ coffee ice cream - Scott's pick
1.37pm - a trio of cremes brulees: mango, spiced chocolate and sweet corn. Guess who wanted these?
1.37pm - Cecy's favorite, which she really, really, REALLY didn't want to share with anyone, but then did anyway: Caramelized banana custard cake, with malted creme anglaise. I was surprised how good this was - the lightest, fluffiest banana cake ever!
incense on the way out
paper lanterns, on the way out
And this, my friends, was it for the rest of the day. Seriously.
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