Went out for a long-course dinner to celebrate Dad's birthday today, and this marks my latest foray into chinese cuisine, from Yunnam. Not exactly a joyful experience because the Yunnamese (are they called that?) apparently take a liking to adding wasabi and spicy sauces to the dish and successfully robbing it of the original flavouring -.-




I was really pleased by the individual servings and the chic way that the sauces are arranged on the plate although I didn't touch them:

Genuine shark's fin soup with dollops of the fin
Oh, the controversies; high mercury levels, endangered sharks..

In actual fact the fin is no specialty, I like the soup base a lot more. Too bad their prices are the other way round ):

Tiger prawns in some soy + ketchup concoction

Cod, of which only makes up less than half of that miserable piece on the plate
But look at the sauce decor, so pretty!

Yam paste pudding which I dug into already

And a few more normal looking normal tasting commonly seen ones.

Isn't this supposed to be the time of high stress levels, tightening social outings and boosting the brain? I guess whatever stays in your brain stays and whatever doesn't will be really hard to force in so dumdums really wish I had stayed awake last year when they were teaching coordinate geometry because those lines just dont get together in my brain!

TEN MORE PAPERS! then indulgence (:

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