Azure
Menu
An
Asian-European Experience
First
Course
Tuna Tartare
On a bed of cucumber seaweed with ginger soy sauce
Green Papaya Salad
With grilled longoustines
Barbecued Shrimp
On sugar cane, served with acahra
(acahra is Filipino sweet pickled vegetables)
Grilled Sea Scallop Vermicelli Salad
Soup
Asparagus and Crabmeat Soup
Creamed Chicken and Corn Soup
(An interpretation of the Vietnamese version)
Main
Course
Chicken Adobo
With coriander pommes puree
(A generic Filipino term for any food cooked in
vinegar, soy sauce, and garlic)
Lacquered Duck
With a red cabbage sauerkraut, sherry vinegar sauce
Steamed Sea Bass Filet
Wrapped in banana leaf, served with crispy lotus chips
Beef Carrot Stew
Cooked with Ginger and lemongrass
Crispy Skin Salmon
With baby vegetables in a tamarind carrot jus
Desserts
Coconut Crême Brulée
(The technique is distinctively French but the
flavors are all Southeast Asian)
Exotic Fruit Tart
With a papaya berry coulis
Calamansi Sorbet
Served with crisp caramelized bananas
(Calamansi - a cross between a mandarin orange and a lime)
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Yakitori
Grilled terriyaki glazed chicken with scallion on skewers
Goi Cuon
Fresh vegetarian spring rolls with a plum dipping sauce
Lumpiang Shanghai
Filipino style beef spring rolls filled with crisp bits of cucumber
and water chestnuts
Kani Kyuri Ikomi
Cucumber stuffed with crabmeat pickled ginger
flavored with rice wine vinegar
Bol Go Gi Beef
Asian pear marinated beef set on sake flavored rice
flecked with seaweed and toasted sesame tuile
Crisp Orange Ginger Butternut Squash Wontons
With a soy lemongrass dipping sauce
Mandarin Peel Ceviche of Bay Scallop
Placed on paper thin lotus chips
Chicken Wings
In a star anise caramel sauce