France is the place full of food and the strong culinary
background. As a culinary student, is a must to go to France and explore the
culinary background in order to learn something new or explore things that we
couldn’t see in Malaysia. On the last day in Toulouse, my friend brought me to a restaurant nearby my hotel. I
found this restaurant is unique because there was 2 man run the whole
restaurant. They were the waiter, bartender, chef and steward. The restaurant
could fit for maximum 30 person but it was a bit pack. On the night there were
30 guest, which was 15 person from Bachelor In Culinary Arts and 15 person from
Bachelor In Event Management. 15 of us cramp into 1 table. The chef had prepare
3 course meal for us, consist of appetizer, main course and dessert.
The chef prepared the salad in a big mixing bowl. The salad
toss with vinaigrette and serve with huge fois gras. While we were eating the
foie gas, the chef opened a bottle of white wine. The wine taste was sweeter
than the usual white wine. The chef said the foie gras was the duck butter, so I
decided to eat the foie gras goes with the butter because as a typical Malaysian,
we prefer to eat break with butter. It was so addicting but it is very bad for
the health because it contain too much fat. We couldn’t finish the foie gras
and left it at the table around 20 minutes, I saw the foie gras started to melt
like butter. After the appetizer, we had the best oyster in the world. Why I describe
it the best oyster in the world because the oyster was so huge and it taste
salty because of the sea water and it was super fresh. The Best Oyster In My
Life! Love it so much!
The Huge Foie Gras a.k.a. Duck BUTTER!
Huge & Salty Oyster! YUMMY!
For main course, we had chicken seafood paella. Paella is a
Spanish rice fish that includes different combinations of vegetables and meats
characteristically seasoned with saffron
but also has other spices depending on the recipe and area in Spain it
come from. Paella is both a Valencian and a Catalan word which derives from the
old French word paella for pan, which in turn come from the latin word patella
for pan as well. The traditional paella is usually cook with saffron flower. As the paella taste so good, I ate 2 plate.
Why is the paella taste good because it cook with a lot of seafood and capsicum
also known as bell pepper. For the dessert, the chef serve us apple tart. The
tart look simple and doesn’t taste good. So I decided to take a small slice,
the first bite I had, the tart taste so good and the short crust pastry was
like sandy crumble. It is very hard to get the same texture as I ate.
The chef decided to
charge us 20euro per person, I was shock why was it so cheap. Where can you get
20euro for such nice dish. It was a good experience and the chef were friendly
to the customer.
Chicken Seafood Paella
Apple Tart
