I wasn’t well this weekend, and am still feeling a bit under the weather, so this is about the place I went to before Christmas.
‘Twas the Saturday before Christmas and I wanted to go somewhere I had never been.
I googled the Goma Restaurant and found out it opened at 12pm.
I went and looked around the APT9, which I recommend by the way, and kept an eye on the time. At 11:59 I thought about heading to the restaurant. Nah, I’ll wait until 12:01pm.
I had never been here before, and wasn’t 100% certain where the entrance was. It didn’t take long to find, on the ground floor at the back of Goma. Also, as a heads up, it is a bit on the expensive side but well worth it.
I had already looked at the menu online previously so I knew what I wanted, but also knew that sometimes white I wanted was for two or more people.
You see, I wanted a tasting menu( If there is a difference between this and a degustation I don’t know what it is). There is a thing I have learnt, and people will tell you all the time, it never hurts to ask.
So I asked.
“Do you have to book for a tasting menu?” “No”
“What is the minimum amount of people required?” “One”
I had the seven dish tasting menu.
I’m going to be honest, I don’t remember everything I had to eat. It was all pretty good, some of it flat out amazing. I also lost track of how much I was eating, which is fantastic. I love that kind of surprise.
There was a starting dish. I’m buggered if I remember what it was, but I remember thinking it was pretty good. Whatever it was, it was the taste equivalent of a walk to a great park. The part of the walk where you know the park is around the corner, but you haven’t quite seen it. You can anticipate what is coming though. This path is actually a lot more exciting than it is tasty, as you know it is just going to lead to something great.
I also have forgotten dish two, and three, and the accompanying snack. I was fully in the park by this stage. The flavours made my mouth want more, until I had finished what was on the plate, and then I wanted to sit on the bench and just absorb the ambience of the park itself. The bursts of colour. The beautiful extras that make the dish more appealing. Just the right amount of flavours to make you lean back in your seat and wonder how intense eating a full sized dish of these creations would be.
This brings me to the title piece. This may have been third, but I think it was fourth, I had already started losing count. This was flame grilled scallops, with thinly sliced fried scallop crumbs and a Japanese inspired sauce/broth. I almost cried with how delicious this was. If you plan on going there and trying this imagine I said it was ok, so that you can experience it the way I did and aren’t prepared. The manager asked what I thought about it. “No words,” I cried” I have no words”. “I know,” she said.
It was a little dip after this, the next dish was a welcome lull. By no means any less than great, but not as tear inducing as the scallops. Did I mention I wanted to cry, they were so good, I may be bias.
Somewhere during this were more snacks and meals. So much so that by the time it got to the first of the two dessert dishes, I was surprised. I was trying to keep count, so much good food. Watching other people getting regular sized dishes made me want to come back and do that next time. Didn’t help with my count.
There were two desserts and a snack.
The snack consisted of a slice of mango covered in fried shredded coconut. It was actually really good. There were two other desserts, that were also great but again no idea the moment what they were.
Just when I though that was it, they brought out some longan berries, one that was injected with Lychee jelly.
I think I now have two favourite restaurants.
Night all. Eat well.
Did I mention how much I loved the scallops.
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