My Indulgence Experience

if it's not told by mum, i would not have know that the little white bungalow located next to Ipoh Specialist Hospital is actually a restaurant. i've passed by that place countless time, i saw the house but incredibly, never the name of the place...until we went there last night, only then i realised the name at the entrance: Indulgence, with a small caption beneath: restaurant & living.

i was like, ooooooo...so "this" is the place!!! very very excited because when mum mentioned this place few days ago, i went to google for this indulgence and turn out, it's a fine dining restaurant and boutique hotel. my typical perception on fine dining then were :

exquisite, luxurious, soft music, cosy seats, bottles of wine, small food portion served on larggggeee plate, raw fresh oysters, lobsters, foie gras, truffles and...$$$ ! true or not?

anyway, this restaurant really befits the name. nice ambience, be it for families or couples, accompanied by lounge music and nicely decorated. yes, to me and sis but no for mum, dad, and uncle. they were saying that the soft yellow light makes it hard for them to read the menu. lol!

actually, we didn't know what we should order. maybe fine dining's menus are always full of text and pictureless. i dunno. so, some terms are unfamiliar and we have no idea what's the signature cuisine in the house. what we should taste..than, the waitress came and she gave us a few suggestions. (phew! or we would be sitting there, still unable to decide while other customers coming in later than us begin cutting and sipping..haha..utter nonsense) so, mom ordered pasta and lemon freeze, dad's taking rib eye beef and magnolia ugly, uncle's having lamb rib and pineapple mint, sis's puffed chook(i think it's smoked pumpkin-stuffed-chicken) and ice honey lemon and i ordered salmon trout and passion mango. nobody order wine though.

the dishes arrived, yes, as expected, the plates are big but surprisingly, the portion served is quite large. but dad and uncle are big eaters so, it's not enough for them. (later of the day, both gulped down a bowl of curry mee, dry curry mee and satay...)

although what we ordered yesterday can be found in any western food restaurant[at cheaper price too!] but there's a big difference on how the beef, the salmon and the accompaniments are laid on the plates.

in "normal" eateries:
accompaniments/side dishes=slices of tomatoes, mashed potatoes, french fries, 1 or 2 pieces of lettuce, coselaw(neh, the type i always eat in kfc wan), jacket potatoes
main actor(s): overcooked(sometimes) lamb, beef, chicken, overfried(sometimes) fillet
gravy: mushroom, black pepper, mint, barbeque?
lay out: main actor in the middle, accompaniments beside. artistic arrangement :3/8

in "fine" places:
side=purple lettuce, small sized potatoes(dunno it's baby potatoes, ruby red, gourmet potatoes or what but it's the sized of cherry tomatoes), capsicums(i think might be one of the species), avocado balls, carrots strips, brocolli, corn, jacket potatoes..etc
main actor(s)=nicely cooked and grilled. i mean it's more standard and qc-ed and consistent...
gravy: avocado gravy, those cremes and english sauce...olive oil with herbs...etc..etc..
layout=nicely decorated, nice colours, beautiful and artistically arranged...

too bad i didn't bring along the camera to snap pictures. my cellphone's camera is not good enough to take pictures in dimly lit environment even though i've switch to night mode and turn on the flash light. the output is either to bright or to dark. sad...sad...

5 of us ate rm334.40 including service charge and tax. once back in the car, sis read out the bill. mom was saying the other day that i always order the most expensive food. yeah...it's true. my salmon trout is rm62.00. mom was laughing, "see, i am correct leh?! haha". then, sis announced the most expensive drink's rm18...passion manggoooo...*claps* i won again! haha.

so, my "new" perception of fine dining? pretty much the same although we didn't order the oysters, the lobsters, the chardonnay, the foie gras, and the truffles...

well, some said that this indulgence has been over-rated, but some said it's great. hm..i think it's ok lar...it satisfies my taste buds. dad, who hates western food and sushi, is not a fan. mum doesn't really like outside food but she wanna try. i, on the other hand, enjoy the experience.

this dinner really spark my interest to go savouring other luxury food. i think i am growing to like expensive food. geezzzz...too bad, my economy is limiting me, my budget is constraint because i want so many stuff-books, camera, shoes and watch. that makes me *the poor girl who likes expensive food*

sighhhhhing off~