tabou

this has got to be my favourite french bistro.
Sometimes you have the nouvelle cuisine fancy stuff but sometimes you just want comfort food that's simple and well made.

for starters, it's a dish with humble beginnings - tripes lyonnaise (cow stomach)
when a culture had a very long history and some of their food is born out of hardship, these bits of offcuts could have meant survival, people think of inventive and creative way of making the worst into the best, it's truly admirable. this dish have quite a sour taste and it reminded me of how chinese handle tripes. I suppose the sourness is used to mask the flavour of the tripe. It was delicious to soak up the sauce with baguette!

for main, I had the very simple but very delicious steak frites, you can choose a range of sauces like bernaise, cafe de paris (which I had, think it's made of anchovies, butter and parsley, it's so nice with chips), truffle and a few other sauces. I am not a fan of shoestring chips (cos it reminds me of mickey Ds) but the chips here were not oily and very crisp, don't even need ketchup, only had sea salt and black pepper with it.

wine list was very good, too, we had a french rose, half a bottle for $23, quite reasonable.

to end, it has to be a creme brulee and a strong coffee
(which explains why I cannot sleep last night)

it's the simple pleasures that makes me so happy!

D.

ps. sorry abt a long blog with crappy images, damn why do all restaurants have such dim lighting these days?