The Harvest @ Dr Cipto Medan

I finally went to the Harvest in Medan. I was impressed with the interior, the ambience and the professionalism they can provide in Medan. It made me feel like I was in Jakarta or some other big cities.

We went in greeted friendly by the staff. The Harvest adapted classic interior with unique ornaments on the corners of the room and a high ceiling with huge artistic lamps hang. They offer cakes, ice creams, pralines, chocolates, cookies, hampers and main menu. It is almost like Harold's in London in my opinion, especially the way the cookies are being packaged.

 

We were only there for the desserts and coffee. We ordered Potato Skin, Red Velvet and the famous Chocolate Cheese cake.

The potato skins are good, but this wasn't a challenging food and there is very little room to go wrong unless you are unlucky and you are an amateur cook.

The red velvet cake is delicious and unique but it was a little too creamy for me. There are creams in every layer of cake crumbs. Normal red velvet cake will have thicker cake and thus the cream will not over dominate the cake.

The chocolate cheese cake is unique. You can taste both the opposite favors but it was not too sweet and it has a very smooth texture.

Of course with slurps of Cappucino. What's tea time without caffeine ?

Overall, 7.5/10 for me for desserts category.

Hashida @ Mandarin Gallery

As I finally agree to follow my husband to move to his hometown and become a stay home mum, my husband has been giving me special treatment nowadays. He brought me to a romantic omakase dinner at Hashida Singapore for our Valentine celebration.

It was such a delightful experience that we have promised to ourselves that we will definitely come back again for our next special occasion. We were lucky to have Chef Hatch served us personally and seated beside 3 serious eaters whom one of them is the restaurant investor and the other one of them is a food critic.

Straight to the food reviews, dinner price is 300-500 SGD (before tax and service charge). We chose SGD 400 for our first experience there and we were very satisfied with the quantity and the quality of food served. I am not going to give a very detailed description as it is for you to find out and experience. The dining experience will be like a story telling where your taste buds should be surprised and dared.

Here is the picture of the tuna sashimi that sent me to heaven for few seconds:

Chef Hatch combined the different parts of the tuna, Maguro, Otoro and Chutoro into one serving of sashimi below. Wow the taste of the freshness, raw flavor and fatty belly burst in my mouth. He gave me one more bonus serving for this sashimi, perhaps he saw the fireworks in my eyes.

Mixture of raw eggs, caviar, uni, tuna belly and fish cakes. The dish is inspired by Singapore dry noodles which have to be mixed together before eating.

Amazingly Unagi. Tasty sweet sauce and smooth texture

Healthy fish soup:

And the high quality seasonal aburi:

And more and more sashimi: 

Fat juicy grilled lobster meat:

Otoro:

Artistic prawn dish:

Beautiful combo of seasonal sashimi, with quote a generous serving of uni:

A uniquely tasty scallop with seaweed

Yummy tuna sashimi with fresh wasabi:

Overall 9/10 for me! Perfect place for serious Jap Food eaters!