The Tavern Restaurant in the Tanglin Club, Singapore

 

Espresso coffee in Nespresso cup.

Edging to the bar so you can rest your elbow or forearms. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Fish and chips. in the Tavern, restaurant, Tanglin Club, Singapore.  Photo by Angela Lansbury.

See previous posts about Tanglin club restaurants.

I entertained my good friend, 'Swan' for short.  She told me her views on the health benefits and disadvantages of various types of fish. Farmed fish which were at first being promoted as healthy filtered water. She believed that they were sometimes kept crowded in dirty water, so that nowadays wild salmon would be safer, and be better.

What was the fish in fish and chips. We checked. It passed her scrutiny. I was pleasantly surprised.

The buffet bar at the Tanglin seemed to have a smaller choice than in the old days, and no smoked salmon or any tempting surprises. So I opted for the main menu. 

Meat Pie

My choice was a pie. The pie crust was on the top only, not down the sides and underneath like a bought pie. It was okay. Not a thrill. 

Dessert

I was now looking forward to dessert. We had two desserts which we shared. 

Chocolate Dessert

At her prompting, my order was the chocolate pudding with the oozing hot centre. Yes, good.

Bread Pudding

Her order was bread pudding. Solid all the way through. Not as good as the old ones which had distinctive layers and a crispy topping.

It came with vanilla ice cream. We weren't offered custard. Bread pudding goes with custard.

Next time I must remember to pass on the bread pudding, and stick to the chocolate dessert.

The Tavern is not the delight which it used to be.

Coffee and Cookie

However, the coffee with the tiny chocolate biscuit was a good finish. 

A For Atmosphere

And the atmosphere can't be beaten. Just right for a friendly tete a tete.

Useful Websites

https://www.tanglinclub.org.sg/

https://www.tanglinclub.org.sg/dining.html

A Happy Time at the Harrow Restaurant, Little Bedwyn

The main dishes I enjoyed at the Harrow restaurant are shown in photos in the previous blog. Here are the mint tea, coffee and chocolates.

The mint tea is served in a tea pot which separates the mint from the water. the flavour is very subtle. Not as strong as mint chocolates. We debated whether different kinds of mint are suitable for tea. I'll have to come back to this in a later post. Meanwhile I'm always impressed by tea made with real mint, which I first had in Morocco on honeymoon. When I make mint tea using mint from my garden,    I get very little flavour and lots of insects swimming around trying to escape, disappearing, then floating up like something from a horror movie. Somebody at the table with me remarked that everything from our garden seems to be eaten by insect before we can get to it. The wooden platter underneath appears to be purely decorative but, we did think it was very decorative.

A chocolate for each person - just right, not too much, not too few. On sticks for those who don't want to get their fingertips chocolately.

We next inspected the cups. Two households both using Nespresso machines - one person remembered the Nespresso cups from the catalogue. We had one vote for these cups and one against. The against was a preference for white cups, not glass cups. The vote for praised the dinky notch in the saucer which secures the cup in place. It can't spill. Nor be turned and presented to you with the handle pointing away. (Well it could, with a singularly inept person serving.) I decided the cups were a novelty and fun to try. Saved those who didn't like them from wasting money.

In the corridor a map of the local area tells us that the waterway is a canal, not a river, which we had been debating as we drove there. On the drive home we could see on the other side of the road the towpath regionally used by horses towing barges.

www.theharrowatlittlebedwyn.com