蒜蓉粉丝扇贝 (Scallops With Minced Garlic and Mung Bean Noodles)
Dinner @ "谷朴东北菜".
I am quite sure this is not a Northeastern dish but the restaurant was having a special promotion for scallops and I couldn't resist.
As pretty and supple as they looked, the scallops however, were really bland and tasteless, despite the use of sauteed fried garlic to boost up the flavour. The scallops were just missing that bit of "seafoody je ne sais quoi"; they tasted as if someone had taken a needle and extracted all the seafoody sweetness out of them and replaced it with water. It was as if the soul had been hollowed out and unfortunately, without the soul, no amount of external cosmetics can salvage the situation.
Alas!
蒜蓉粉丝扇贝 (Scallops With Minced Garlic and Mung Bean Noodles)
Dinner @ "谷朴东北菜".
I am quite sure this is not a Northeastern dish but the restaurant was having a special promotion for scallops and I couldn't resist.
As pretty and supple as they looked, the scallops however, were really bland and tasteless, despite the use of sauteed fried garlic to boost up the flavour. The scallops were just missing that bit of "seafoody je ne sais quoi"; they tasted as if someone had taken a needle and extracted all the seafoody sweetness out of them and replaced it with water. It was as if the soul had been hollowed out and unfortunately, without the soul, no amount of external cosmetics can salvage the situation.
Alas!