We were luckily able to get great tickets for the show and hotel rooms at the L'Arc, last-minute by pulling some strings since every other respectable hotel had been fully booked since last year....
So on the first day, without reservations, we had no idea where to go... we ended up at Rossio, the buffet restaurant at MGM. Nothing was spectacular and no photos were taken... serves us right for not planning ahead!!
After lunch, we walked past the MGM Patisserie....which had a fantastic array of pastries and was filled with people having afternoon tea. We decided to take away since we had a show to catch [House of Dancing Water - must-watch!], and ordered two to be boxed up and dropped off at our hotel room before going to the other side of Macau....
"Palet D'or" and "Strawberry & Vanilla Chiffon Cake"
The Palet D'or was definitely very good and I have yet to find something similar in HK.... There were layers of very thin dark chocolate sheets, dark chocolate mousse, milk chocolate mousse and a crispy feullentine base.... Nothing was too sweet and it was truly fantastic.
The Strawberry and vanilla chiffon cake is a lot like the 'strawberry shortcake' I found all around Singapore... Here there was two layers of chiffon sandwiching a mousse and fresh strawberries, but what disappointed was the lack of vanilla in the mousse filling and the chiffon whilst not dry wasn't light and airy enough... the strawberries were fresh, but that was it.
huge array of cakes available....
After the House of Dancing Water, we were off to Restaurante Asian where a menu for tonight's dinner had been written by a friend of ma's. So, with the choice taken away from us, we were curious as to what was to follow...
our menu
deep-fried taro balls (round) and in the middle, there are deep-fried caul-fat-wrapped pork and mushroom mixture.
this was the taro one, which had a spring onion and gravy like center...super-yum.
the soup ingredients....(not particularly appetizing in appearance, I know)
but the soup was incredibly flavourful - sweet from the sugar cane, carrots and corn, savoury from the black chicken and gizards.
steamed fish
slightly overcooked around the back but that was forgivable because the fish itself was very fresh-tasting
fried king prawns
had good flavour but sadly way over-cooked, did not have a good texture.
to this day we have no idea what fish this is... especially in English...
anyway it was deep-fried, sort of like fresh water eel but not really because there was lack of those tiny bones.... the meat stood up to the vinegary-sweet sauce very well.
lamb brisket stew
with water-chesnuts, beancurd sheet and lettuce in the end.
the lamb could've been more tender, and the beancurd sheets were inedible because they were way to chewy/hard. the stew itself was good - not too strong and good with plain rice I would imagine....since we didn't get any!
vegetables (Spinach) in fish soup
the fish which the spinach was swimming in was very very very good, and a plus was the spinach - a vegetable i love.
pork sausage, pork liver sausage and preserved duck that was cooked on top of the rice (below)
dessert -pear, osmanthus, snow fungus and bitter almonds in sweet soup
'ham sui gok' which was oddly salty... it had diced pork inside a very well-fried glutinous ball speckled with sesame seeds. most of the people with us liked it, but I did not - I was hoping for something sweet!
fruits
suffice to say we were incredibly full after this huge dinner.... to the point where I could hardly walk...luckily we had a chauffeur right downstairs to pick us (read: gluttons) up....
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