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Trying out new dishes at… Dish! Posted: 07 Oct 2011 07:12 PM PDT The delectable Foie Gras with Chocolate Ice-Cream and Dried Fruit Sauce. KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 — The Foie Gras with Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Ice-cream and Dried Fruit Sauce combined both  hot and cold, sweet and savoury.  Would it work? It did, delightfully. We were at Dish, Dua Annexe in Kuala Lumpur, and trying out some dishes from its new menu. Grilled Scampi with Lemon Butter Sauce was luscious. I was a little sceptical at first looking at this first course – but the foie gras appeared luscious, and with a little crust from the searing, and encircled by the dark cherry sauce. It was almost a dessert, but not quite. You get a light saltiness and crispness at the bite, into the rich bursts of foie gras, which you would touch with the sauce of the cherries that had been soaked in brandy. Then you taste the ice-cream and go hmmm. Executive chef Ibrahim Zakir's new menu is a must-try. Executive chef Ibrahim Zakir heads the kitchen at Dish and has tinkered with the menu to include some of his definitive dishes. He comes with solid credentials, from a five-star hotel, and was one of the few Asian chefs to have been invited to be guest chef in 2004 at the James Beard Foundation in New York, at a by invitation dinner for the city's who's who. The foundation recognizes young talented chefs from all over the world (Frankie Woo, chef/owner of Gu Yue Tien was one of them). Grilled Scampi with Lemon Butter Sauce was generously sprinkled with chopped garlic, fresh herbs and a little chopped chilli. The scampi is from New Zealand, and is like a miniature lobster, with sweet, firm flesh that is perfectly complemented with a buttery sauce balanced with lemon juice. The chef's version of Baccala Mantecato in Red Pepper Reduction has a fillet of cod panfried and presented on potato mash sitting on a red pepper reduction and with an onion relish on top.  Creamy cod, touched with a smoky red pepper sauce that has a tinge of heat, tastes good, and I especially liked the sweet onion relish on top of it. Dish as we know, is about steaks  — from the US Kobe Short Loin Marble 7 to Australian Grain-fed Prime Rib to Australian Black Angus Grass-fed and Australian Ribeye Marble 8, among others. Medium rare would be the way to have such a good side of beef. And savouring the meat as it is, medium rare, with perhaps some Cajun roasted baby potatoes or even truffle mashed potato and charred brussel sprouts with chilli and anchovies to go with it. Dish at Dua Annexe also has a champagne brunch on Sundays. Ours was a striploin, of Australian Wagyu Marble 8, served with a beef jus reduction and béarnaise sauce. It was meat with enough marbling to render it juicy, and just lovely. The steaks are cut to a thickness of 1.5 to 2 inches for maximum enjoyment of the beef. Of course there is also lamb and veal, including the Australian veal rack, milk-fed. Dessert was a Molten Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice-cream whose centre was sufficiently runny to get our seal of approval. I always look for a special dessert to wrap up a meal, and other choices could include a Sticky Toffee Pudding drenched in butterscotch, a deconstructed Banana Split, or even an old-fashioned  Bombe Alaska  with homemade pistachio icecream on a bed of caramelized almonds doused in cognac. What Dish is all about... steaks! The Champagne Brunch on Sunday is really worth your while if you love champagne – it's free flow Verve Cliquot with lobster, oysters, salad and imported Grade A beef, and chocolate fondant, all for RM288++. Without champagne, it's RM168++ and RM49++ for children. It's from 11am to 3pm. Other mains on the a la carte daily menu include Braised Lamb Shank w Barley Veggie Cous2 Accompanied by Gremolata (RM69), Oven Baked Crusted Barramundi and Ratatouille with Orange Balsamic (RM58), Roasted ½ Spring Chicken w Grilled Prawn, Sautee Potato, Fine Beans & Garlic Thyme Sauce (RM68). The Foie Gras is RM56, cod is RM69. I'm happy to see two appetizers I like still on the menu -- Lobster Omelets' served with Lobster Bisque infused by Cognac (RM48), Roasted Juicy Bone Marrow w Pearl Onion Salsa & Toasted Baguette (RM52). The steaks range from RM23 to RM133 per 100g, depending on what you choose. Dish is located at Dua Annexe in Jalan Tun Razak, Tel: 03-2166 2066.

Michelin awards two stars to British pub Posted: 07 Oct 2011 08:44 AM PDT "Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2012" gave a British pub an unprecedented two stars this year. — AFP/Relaxnews pic LONDON, Oct 7 — Michelin has awarded two stars to a British pub, the first in its history. In the "Michelin Great Britain & Ireland 2012" edition, on shelves October 7, inspectors bumped up the star power of The Hand and Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, putting the gastropub on the same plane as The Ledbury, Hibiscus and Le Gavroche. It's been a quick climb to the top for Tom and Beth Kerridge who earned their first Michelin star a year after opening their doors in 2005. Diners convene around an open brick fireplace and farmhouse-style, rustic wood tables set under low-beamed ceilings and tuck into pub fare that's 'sophisticated yet familiar' — modernised British classics and rustic French dishes. Added bonus: nary a gastronomic dictionary required. Main courses, for example, include slow-cooked duck breast with peas, duck fat chips and gravy or roast hog with salt baked potatoes with apple sauce, and for dessert, Glazed Cox's apple tart with rose water ice cream. Diners looking for a Michelin-worthy meal on the cheap can also get a two-course lunch for £12.50 (RM61.65). The other big winner in this year's Michelin guide is Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham where diners are taken on an epicurean journey that focuses on taste, texture and differing temperatures. The restaurant was also given its second star. Menus are scarce on details, offering up main ingredients but little else. A seven-course tasting menu, for instance, starts with pig's head, smoked eel and horseradish, segues into a series of foods like oxtail, pear barley and onions, and ends with chocolate yogurt and cumin caramel. The tasting menu costs £75. In total, the Michelin guides added three new stars in Scotland, one in Wales, and four in London, and three new one-star pubs. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park was also given its first star within less than a year of opening. Meanwhile, London restaurant Pied à Terre was demoted from two to one star. Last month, Zagat readers crowned The Ledbury their favourite restaurant. The "London Restaurants & Hotels 2012" guide retails for £10.99 and "Great Britain & Ireland 2012" guide retails £15.99. Both are on shelves now. — AFP/Relaxnews

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