Le Petit Souffle is our first stop for this trip. It's been a while that I've been hearing good reviews from this restaurant. It intrigues me how Chef Mikko whips up a French-Japanese bistro that leads to east-meets-west kind of cuisine. (Reminscing the show of Chef Ming Tsai, East Meets West from Lifestyle Network (2001))
Upon entering the establishment, it feels like a different world and you're not situated in a mall. With faux flower pots and grasses all over combined with white wooden fences, it feels like spring in the area. Fresh, vibrant, and clean.
Classic French Onion Soup. It a 'classic' French soup that is so simple to make yet bursts out with complex flavors. The secret is in the stock. It has the rich, beefy, umami taste that is balanced by the sweetness of the caramelized onions finished with the aged, sharp taste of gruyere. It is the best French onion soup i've ever had.
Squid Ink Rice. It's like their version of paella negra, but Japanese rice was uses. The rice is cooked like a pilaf, fluffy and moist. It was generously topped with different flavors of the sea from fish, octopus, squid, a mussel and a prawn. It was fancily decorated with shimeji mushroom and some caviar. It looked like a scene from Finding Nemo, where you have colorful corals all around. It was just great! The taste and play of textures were there, the squid was just abit overcooked that it was chewy to bite that I just swallowed the whole thing. The scrambled egg was so fluffy and light that it feels like it was topped with unsweetended cotton candy.
Japanese Beef Curry souffle is another dish that is unforgettable. Beef curry was topped over the rice then was covered with whipped egg before cooking it in the oven. The egg was light and airy that paired well with the curry. It just lacks some curry, I prefer it stronger and served with the salted pickles on the side to enrich the umami flavor.
Dining here was very exciting. With different desserts and entrees, one wants to try every photo in the menu. Every dish has their own character to show off. The creativity at work here just let its customers feel like they're in a circus, where everything would just fall into place and leaves you with a whole new experience through food.
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