East meets west in the Trump and Kim Jong-Un Lunch Menu

Problem
What could I learn, or try, from the menu enjoyed by Trump, and Kim Jong-Un, two top world leaders in the news? I'll give you my Western and British view of this meal choice. Although I have lived in the USA, and Singapore, and been to south Korea and Korean restaurants in London, England and Korea, I have my own biased viewpoint.

Answers
Starters
Prawn cocktail is an old favourite in the UK from the 1960s. Good.  Avocado salad is a modern salad, with tasty and filling avocado supposedly having health benefits as well as tasting subtly good. Yes, that's ok by me.

I must pass on the octopus as I'm allergic to shellfish.  Although I used to eat prawn cocktail, I got caught out by Pacific Prawns and crab.

Main Courses
Beef rib was served with Red wine sauce on the side because Trump doesn't drink. That suits me, too. I am not keen on alcohol in food. A waste of good alcohol. Masks the true flavour of good meat.

Desserts
Chocolate tart.
Ice cream. Vanilla - sounds a bit dull, but I bet it really tasted of vanilla. Cherry coulis. That means cherry sauce. Bright colour to contrast with white ice cream and sharp flavour.
Can't go wrong with chocolate and ice cream. (Any refreshing fruit - well, they did have the cherry sauce?)

Kim Jong-un is keen on Western alcohol.
For me, no wines.  If I were him, I think I'd rather have a take home gift of alchol. When you are meeting a world leader on camera, discussing nuclear weapons which could blow up the world. getting drink, drunk, tipsy, is not a good idea.

It sounds like a good meal, with enough mixture of the familiar and the special and surprising.

Website
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44447714 - the menu from the BBC

Author

Delicious Desserts in Singapore: Passion Fruit Flavour Macaroons

If you have a dinner party or buffet and don't want a hot dessert but something cold you can serve to match with wine, here are some suggestions for macaroons:

Macaroons

Vanilla
White. Good enough.

Rose
Pink. Flavour? Even better than vanilla.

Passion Fruit
Multi-coloured, pink one side and yellow the other, with a knockout fruit taste
Looks like jam (what the Americans call jelly - what the British call jelly the Americans know by the brand name Jello).

In London at the BBC Good Food fair in London, I went to a cookery class where we learned how to make macaroons. If I remember rightly, they suggested every variety you might fancy, from coconut to blueberry to fresh fruit such as raspberries to tinned fruit such as plums or prunes to chocolate.

Waitrose supermarket in London has Waitrose Weekend magazine which published a recipe for pistachio and lemon macaroons. (See waitress.com 25 Feb 2016).

Where can you buy them in Singapore?

Bonheur Patisserie, Grandstand, Bukit Timah Road, Singapore. (The old race course before they built the new one at Woodlands.)

bonheurpatisserie.com.sg
You could serve your macaroons with a very sweet dessert wine such as a Beerenauslese, meaning very late picked berries. For another delicious cold dessert, see next post.

ANGELA LANSBURY, travel writer and photographer, specialising in food and wine, museums and culture and hotels, everything you need dawn to dusk on your holiday or business trip or expat stay.