I'll update this section over the weekend to give some more context to the pictures here. Amazingly, I proceeded to eat at twelve cafes, bistrots, salon de the's, and restaurants in the almost exactly 72 hrs I spent in Paris. Ah, how I long for those hours of dining with reckless abandon...
My 'kick-off' meal and the out of the world, milky wonder that is cafe creme...
The menu from the afternoon snack/dessert extravagance...
My first French creme brulee which mysteriously reminded me of the high quality silken tofu from the Motherland...
My very first exposure to croustillant, which was everything I love rolled into one tasty dish. If only the banana inside was just a tad bit more ripe, this dish would have been my definition of the perfect dessert.
It was the smack middle of oyster season and I've got to say - these speciales we had were better than the best oysters I've had in Japan. I liked the fact that we could choose the size of the oyster, since I get over-oystered by the humongo-variety in Japan. These were just the right size to blend perfect texture to the sweet taste of minerals that define oysters for me with none of the 'fishy-ness' - and I mean NONE of the fishy-ness. These were consumed with such gusto I failed to snap shots before the feast began.
And we finished off here again with the second creme brulee of the day...
More to come, more to come...
1 comment:
I got hungry reading this post and I WAS there when you took those pictures. :^)
I didn't think of it at the time, but one of the pictures reminded me that the croustillant dessert (the wrapped banana part) IS a Vietnamese dessert (sans the icecream). No wonder it tasted so familiar.
Allright, it's time for me to rummage in the lunch room for some food.
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