清甜养颜汤：黄豆芽清汤

材料：豆腐1块
            干贝2颗
           干蚝5 只
             红萝卜1根
            江鱼仔2汤匙
            新鲜白菇1束
            大黄豆芽 20条

做法：煮2公升水至滚，放入干蚝，干贝，江鱼仔和红萝卜， 煮20分钟。加入豆腐，新鲜白菇，大黄豆芽，再煮15分钟。加入适量盐和酱油调味。

豆腐：含贴，镁，对骨骼和牙齿生长有帮助， 镁可保护心肌适合冠心病患者使用。

干贝：具滋阴；补肾功能；常吃可降血压，降胆固醇，补益健身。

干蚝；可补阳，若和生蚝一起煮则可达到滋阴补阴的效果。

江鱼仔：含丰富钙，铁，磷，可增强骨骼，牙齿和增强心肌。

白菇：含丰富的蛋白质和氨基酸，可增强人体免疫力。

1st Mass dinner - may 2010

The layout and the fruit platter

The western food

Grilled Chicken Chop with Baked Potato - Aston - AMK Centre

I like the presentation of this western grill especially the burnt mark on the meat. Nice too:) but abit expensive....

The centre piece for VIP lunch 2

This is one of my "last minute" fruit decoration for the VIP lunch.

Centre Piece for my VIP lunch today

Well, I just tried my luck today and it turns out well. And it was welcome and impressed the guests today. Instead of the regular flower piece that my staffs displayed, i changed it to a basket of fresh fruit surrounded by Cinnamon and star anise. Of cos, it was a last minute change so it wasnt prepare in advance. This include tomato(red), oranage( of cos, orange color!) , apple( pale red), and black grapes and green grapes( eaten by my guests) ..LOL.. It was a pretty centre piece and was after lunch dessert!!

I will check on more on other type of centre piece instead of regular flowers.. kinda boring....

About Fine Dining...:(

I have clueless about fine dining as I have only one experience dining in a French resturant. It was almost 10 years ago. That time i was working for a boutique and my boss was a spainish.That was my first encounter with fine cuisine and fine dining. I remembered there was so much silverware and GosH! it was rather complicated. Currently, i was post to another outlet, and this outlet require me to working on fine dining. Haiz... I have been searching online for more information, like how to serve fine dining- right to left, left to right or criss-cross.. Serve the hoster or the guests?... serving food on the right or left? collect soiled plates on right or left? What about the menu? Tons of questions yet to resolve... and i have to led my team for this. It is gonna a "big" project especially when my company is "stingy" to send us for training. :(

My dear friends/reader, please advise if you have any encounter with fine dining. Or perhaps drop me me questions so I can work on it.

Thanks & Love,
Ginger