Food Review

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