Nine slices of heaven

LEADING SHOPPING mall Siam Paragon turned nine this year and in celebration of this momentous occasion, the mall has pulled out all the stops to ensure that everyone from tiny tots and teens to grown-ups and the elderly can have fun with shopping, entertainment and, of course, food.

To that end, it’s invited nine of the most popular restaurants in the mall to create special dishes to mark the occasions with a “Magical Menu” special promotion that runs through the end of this month.

The chefs have obliged with stylish twists, one of which is the Crispy Chicken with Goose Liver and Mango (Bt450) from Crystal Jade Chinese restaurant. This is a perfect combination of Chinese and French cuisine with the imported foie gras topped with crispy chicken cooked Peking Duck-style and served with mashed peas and traditional sweet-and-spicy hoisin (Chinese plum) sauce.

Italian restaurant Amici proudly presents its Yellowtail Kingfish Canape (Bt1,190), pan-frying the Australian yellowtail kingfish fillet and serving it with a white wine cream sauce, grilled asparagus, mushrooms lightly fried with butter and garlic and topped with Iberico ham. 

Honmono Sushi’s Paradise of Glitter (Bt250 apiece) is melt-in-the-mouth fresh Atlantic Bluefin tuna sushi marinated with a special sake and mirin sauce and topped with caviar, uni from Hokkaido and salted-and-spicy pickled wasabi. 

Harrods tearoom from the UK offers Roasted Wagyu Beef (Bt1,990 for 250 grams) wrapped in a traditional Yorkshire pudding and served with bearnaise sauce and onion gravy. 

Signor Sassi, the popular Italian restaurant chain from the UK, adds the Rhapsody of Foie Gras as a starter on its Christmas set menu. Priced at Bt1,950 and Bt2,950 with wine, the set meal features a squid ink macaroon filled with goose liver terrine, quince jelly and gold leaves in the shape of a lollipop and follows with baby spinach & ricotta tortelloni with black mussel, girolle mushroom and winter truffle. For the main course, diners can choose between braised wagyu beef cheeks with white asparagus and morel sauce, baby chicken confit with green and white asparagus, edamame beans and truffle jus and roasted John Dory with Jerusalem artichoke puree, crispy pancetta and salmon roe red wine fish cream. The dessert is raspberry mousse dome with warm Vaholrna chocolate & Illy coffee soup.

The Mandarin Oriental Shop is also celebrating the auspicious anniversary with Luxury Fashion-Inspired Cakes (Bt135) designed to look like trendy handbags. They come in three flavours and colours. The layered yellow cake is made of passion fruit, mango and praline crunch, the white from coconut yuzu and raspberry feuille, and the purple one a blend of cassis raspberry vanilla pave and cream cheese.

Another Hound offers Thai Black Coffee Affogato (Bt120) with shortbread coated in white chocolate while Coffee Beans by Dao delights with an organic Strawberry Pop Tart (Bt120).

TWG Tea has an afternoon tea set called the Magic of the Ninth (Bt999) that includes sweets and snacks blended with black Magic Moment tea and Anniversary tea. It includes mango panna cotta infused with coconut and citrus, chocolate praline infused with Anniversary tea that is a mix of Tahiti vanilla, black tea and red berry, Moroccan and Sahara mint macaroons, chocolate dome, brandy rose cake made from Darjeeling tea and rose tea from Provence.