Celebrating Dear's Birthday
We celebrated Dear's birthday recently this week by taking time off from work to chill out and do some stuff together. In the morning, we bathed Kendrick and played with him for a short while before dropping him off at my in-laws place. After that, Dear and I headed to sing Karaoke at KBox's Lunch special. We have not gone Karaoke for a really long time so it was quite fun after all. When we were done, we also took the opportunity to settle some insurance matters for Kendrick. Dinner was meant to be a surprise location for Dear Dear. I found this place by chance and read some reviews of it online, so decided to try it out. It's probably not a place we will go back often, but more for special occasion celebrations.
Anyway, that place is Tao's Restaurant located at POMO Centre (formerly known as Paradiz Centre) at Selegie Rd. Quite a nice restaurant tucked in a place where we would hardly go! Anyway, Tao's serves modern pacific cuisine and the unique thing about this place is its set menu concept of "One Price, One Menu, Many Selections". Their creative cuisine are all served on 'Tao Ci' (pottery plates).
I must say the service is really good. They really take care of your comfort, fill up your drinks and clear your plates very on time! Haha...a little bit over-zealous I felt. They really could give us a bit more space you know... But the food itself was pretty good too. I loved the Ice Rose Apple Tea....so tasty to drink!! We really enjoyed our hearty meal and time spent together...but by the end of dinner, we both missed Kendrick, so off we went to bring him home :) Anyway, Happy Birthday to my Dear hubby...hope he enjoyed the day and my present for him :)
They started off by giving us this ice cold strawberry blended drink to whet up our appetite
This was followed by the fixed starter - Bacon and Mushroom gratin. It goes with lightly toasted bread and this cheesy starter is really yummy!
Salad comes next and we ordered prawn roll with pork floss and farm boy splendour. The Grilled mushroom shown below was part of the fixed selection
Then we had our soups - Cream of Mushroom soup for Dear and Cream of Pumpkin soup for me. Both tasted great!
This is the beverage I was talking about. Ice Rose Apple Tea...it's a really refreshing drink!
Here comes our Main Entrees - I ordered Tao's oven roasted steak while Dear had the Marinated lamb cutlet. Both are highly recommended. I loved the steak as it was really done medium and mouth-watering. I guess I'm a steak person so I truly enjoyed this entree. The lamb surprisingly tasted good too. Not as 'sao' as most times lamb meat is...
A shot together before we start eating :)
Finally, we end with dessert - green tea cheese cake for the man and creme brulee for the woman
