I’m so excited to show you the food on this last day on the cruise ship! Definitely scroll down to see our first experience when gastronomy meets food!
Started the day off at windjammer again! This time they had some employees playing music using kitchen appliances! And singing too!
The Grease musical hands down was amazing! The singing, the acting, the liveliness. The blend of jokes that are relevant today and back then… oh it’s beautiful.
This time we had an earlier dinner. We wanted to be there in time to see the sun setting (we sat right at the big window looking out to the back of the ship). Wala, I present to you Wonderland~
The Friendship Turtle crew. It was an amazing trip with you guys.
We were the first ones there and we didn’t leave till… very late haha.
The video of this is on my instagram! But basically you use water to paint over this blank canvas and the menu shows up! How this works is that our server will choose some dishes he thinks we would like best and serve it to us in a random order. The element of surprise!
First up, shrimp kataifi. I don’t really know what to say, the shrimp was nicely fried, and the liquid scotch bonnet foam had a hint of spice that just made this dish perfect. So light :3.
We ordered more of this too ahaha.
Okay, the photos don’t do this justice at all. The buffalo cheese eggs. Strangely we don’t taste too much of the blue cheese. The videos on Brenton’s instagram was just beautiful. This would come trapped under a dome of smoke that they would lift up and wave around over the eggs. This had an amazing smokey flavour that made us get seconds of this!
The crispy crab cones with a nice avocado mousse. I’m a crazy person on texture and this satisfied the hard and softness that I wanted.
This was also another favourite of ours. The Oceanic Citrus. A burst of flavours from this dish! The yuzu is contained in the shaved ice which complemented the tuna so well! The tobiko added some fun texture too! SO yummy. You would scoop out the contents and eat it with the rice cracker. We also got seconds of this haha.
Baby vegetables in the Garden. Yup, that’s its name! I don’t even know where to begin on this. Basically the tomato on the top left is not an actual tomato. They extracted the flavours of the tomato and mashed it up and added some other things in it and reconstructed it to look like a tomato again. (sorry, I can’t find the video where they explained it in full detail T^T). The gelatin olive was smooth and not overpowering at all! To the bottom left was what I think is like freeze dried cheese? (I’m not sure if you tried those freeze dried cheese ball snacks before). The top black powder on the top right tasted like huamei (salty dried plum). Okay… I tried to describe it, it was not very elegant at all sorry.
Liquid lobster. This one bite was a punch of lobster flavour… we just wish there was more of it! And wished it was hotter. It contained some bone marrow and black caviar to finish the top.
By now the room was getting filled up, it was getting darker and they turned on the lights!
The Slow Roasted chicken. We must say we were not as impressed with the main dishes as we were with the appetizers. The chicken was bit dry and not very flavourful.
The presentation is beautiful, that colour! The Terrior Beef. As you’re all probably wondering, the black thing on the bottom is a fingerling potato dipped in squid ink! The sauce tastes like a demi-glace sauce but with more stuff added to it. Bordelaise sauce usually has a dry red wine, bone marrow and more added to it along with demi-glace. The beef didn’t taste like anything special, just like the Chinese beef brisket dishes（牛腩）. mom makes Mmmm.
Bershire Pork Belly. To be honest, this just tastes like Chinese pork belly dishes we make at home. The top is supposed to be an apple foam, but I felt there was so little of it that you wouldn’t even taste it among with all the other flavours going on in the dish. In the coleslaw at the bottom, they used celery instead of cabbage. I believe they added some mustard seeds in there as well. Not bad.
This is the Branzino in Crispy Bread. The rice had coconut milk mixed with it. and the tamarind emulsion sauce worked well with the coconut flavour. The breading was ver even and it just sliced down very nicely when you cut into it.
Nearing the end of our main courses, our wonderful server asked if there was anything he missed on the menu that we would’ve liked to try. We decided to do a Sashimi of Red and White Tuna. The outer part was charred scallion to add more depth with the flavour. There were mustard seeds, Mashi tuna and yellowfin tuna at the bottom. This is probably the most disappointing dish we had.
Can you believe it?! We finally made it onto our dessert courses. AND looking at the quality of the photos, you can probably guess we stayed long enough where the sun was setting already.
This is… I do not have a name for this, because there was no dessert menu… surprise! We wish the chocolate was bit more hotter. This dessert was SO rich, we really wouldn’t finish this. It was way too sweet for us. It had dark chocolate, peanut butter with salted caramel, dulce ice cream, rice krispie cereal at the bottom, some raspberries on the side. And right in the centre was a chocolate cake.
This was some kind of raspberry dessert with a coconut bottom (when you split it open it’s like layers of pink and yellow).
To finish it off we had a meringue dessert. the red candy tasted like that filling from that peek freans cookie.
I think we got really tired and full in the end for me to write anymore notes haha.
We ended the night off with game of charades and masks and listening to some guy play the guitar outside the guys’ balcony.
This cruise was honestly just perfect. Not a single rude person, the service was impeccable. Things were fast and efficient and so well thought out in detail. Later on we discovered that they chose only the best of all employees from their other lines to work on the Harmony of the Seas ship. Which made us worry, because if we already experienced the best of the best first… will we be disappointed in the other cruises we go on in the future?
Overall, we feel that cruises aren’t quite our cup of tea when it comes to traveling. We’re used to a go-go-go! pace. So maybe in the far future we’ll try out cruises again :).
Let me know if you have questions about this cruise! There’s just so many details that I left out hehe.
YAYYYYYYY cruise trip posts done! Back to working on the restaurants ;P.
Love,
Mish
The tuna salad was okay~
mishinnoms 