Birthday and Anniversary Eats
Monday 14 July 2008 by Dr Maytel
Well seems as its all about weddings and celebrations this week, I thought I'd post our celebratory food
Me and Hock's birthdays, and wedding anniversary all fall with a two week radius of each other
So we celebrate by eating yummy things
Wedding/ Birthday dinner at AOI in Bangkok...for the Kaiseki meal (2000 bht per person, or around $60 USD)
in a private tatami room with views of the queen sirikit park...replete with cool horse bell
And the meal began with a lovely place setting a cute grape/ sake pink iced drink
Cream cheese tofu, chilled grated sticky potato??? and grilled fish salad
masterfully cut sashimi course
wagyu beef
sushi course
grilled fish and daikon
home made udon nabe
The evening before my birthday Hock also surprised me with a box of Hokkaido uni and Hokkaido scallops
The uni I had last year for my birthday, but the scallops were a new addition this year. They were beautiful dense large scallops that were a bit like juicy seafood steaks
unlike other scallops that are often pumped full of water to look plump, hokkaido scallops and just all fleshy sweetness and they crisp up in the pan...a trick not likely with ordinary scallops
i put the uni on top of the scallops, drizzled it with really good quality olive oil, a little lemon and pepper and then nearly died and went to heaven
the following morning I was greeted with baked eggs in two different styles, one with chorizo and the other with zucchini and marscapone
Yesterday I spent two hours at the gym, 70 minutes of cardio and 50 mins weights, stretches and sit ups
Me and Hock's birthdays, and wedding anniversary all fall with a two week radius of each other
So we celebrate by eating yummy things
Wedding/ Birthday dinner at AOI in Bangkok...for the Kaiseki meal (2000 bht per person, or around $60 USD)
in a private tatami room with views of the queen sirikit park...replete with cool horse bell
And the meal began with a lovely place setting a cute grape/ sake pink iced drink
Cream cheese tofu, chilled grated sticky potato??? and grilled fish salad
masterfully cut sashimi course
wagyu beef
sushi course
grilled fish and daikon
home made udon nabe
The evening before my birthday Hock also surprised me with a box of Hokkaido uni and Hokkaido scallops
The uni I had last year for my birthday, but the scallops were a new addition this year. They were beautiful dense large scallops that were a bit like juicy seafood steaks
unlike other scallops that are often pumped full of water to look plump, hokkaido scallops and just all fleshy sweetness and they crisp up in the pan...a trick not likely with ordinary scallops
i put the uni on top of the scallops, drizzled it with really good quality olive oil, a little lemon and pepper and then nearly died and went to heaven
the following morning I was greeted with baked eggs in two different styles, one with chorizo and the other with zucchini and marscapone
Yesterday I spent two hours at the gym, 70 minutes of cardio and 50 mins weights, stretches and sit ups
Happy birthdaze!!! scallops & uni look divine.
Here's to true love & seafood heart attacks.
happy birthdays!
I so much want to have udon-suki at Aoi, that's something I wanted to have with you the last time I was in BKK but you know was too sick...
If we go out to eat sushi, uni will be all yours. I have never managed to like it...
the udon was good. you should definitely go next time you are in BKK. There is an AOI in Paragon and one at Emporium. They close quite early though, 10 pm. So we would probably not have made it that time