La Petite Cuisine: Unpretentious French fare

August 22, 2009 | 16 Comments

I’m a simple person, with a simple taste bud, however nobody ever believe me. Even though the food at fine dining restaurant is good, but it’s not me, I prefer going to small, unpretentious, and cozy places instead.

Escargot, escargot, you really need to hand it to the French. They cook anything that can crawl, and make everything taste so good! The escargot that I’ve tried before, have a very strong garlic and buttery smell from afar, but La Petite’s rendition did not involve the use of these, instead the sweetness of the snail was deeply captivated within the croissant. The bread was so good; it absorbed the essence of the juice from the escargot (6 pieces for $12) – it was heavenly!

Foie gras, has long been one of the sacred food that I promise myself I’ll try in this life. Up till now, I’ve not exactly eaten it before, not unless you count the one which hardly had any foie gras. Let me describe more about the encounter: she tasted familiar, hold on, it seems to be like pig liver. Oh no, it’s even better than that! With the gamy taste, it’s bound to be an acquired taste, but to everyone out there, go on, try it! And you can proudly declared: I’ve sample foie gras before!

We were contemplating between the foie gras pan fried w/orange confit ($17), or the ravioli of prawns and foie gras in light lemon creme ($14.5). And we went for the latter. The uncanny similarity with the Chinese dumplings, but this one had foie gras and a big prawn instead. Initially, we thought that there would be hardly any foie gras inside, but we were wrong. The foie gras fillings were substantial, enough to experience the goose liver taste!

In my eyes mouth, duck will always be better than chicken. But most places doesn’t serve duck, and even if they do, its usually duck confit or pan seared duck breast. There’s nothing better for a duck drumstick than a duck confit! I enjoyed slowly peeling off her clothes, admiring everything there’s for us to see, before bringing my nose to smell her fragrance. Oh my, she smells so good! I closed my eyes for a second, and imagine the unimaginable. In my excitement, I brought up the fork again, and poke it into her. Slowly, we teased each other playfully, until to the point where we couldn’t take it no longer. Then, I tucked in. It’s good! Confit de canard w/gratin ($15)

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La Petite Cusine
10 Jalan Serene
#01-05 Serene centre
Tel: 6314 3173

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16 Responses to “La Petite Cuisine: Unpretentious French fare”

  1. diva
    August 22nd, 2009 @ 6:25 pm

    duck is the more gorgeous bird in my opinion. chicken’s just a little boring underneath all that now isn’t it? :) although poussin is lurrrrvely and so is pheasant.

    alrite. lovely photos brad!
    making me miss dining in Paris now. xx

  2. adel
    August 22nd, 2009 @ 6:42 pm

    unpretentious french food with attractive price tags, sounds good to me :)

  3. ai wei
    August 22nd, 2009 @ 7:40 pm

    yeeeeeeeer…

    nice one u had!

  4. FFichiban
    August 23rd, 2009 @ 10:59 am

    Hee hee this place looks quite fancy as well and ooh never tried escargot without it drowning in a pool of butter and garlic.

  5. Life for Beginners
    August 23rd, 2009 @ 9:29 pm

    What a coincidence! I spent almost the entire weekend (now practically spent) discussing (arguing, rather, haha) the merits of foie gras. Now, it comes to mind that we were also “discussing” truffles. Any chance of you reviewing/tasting that before the month is up, my friend?

    (Plus, it’s French too, no? :) )

  6. ladyironchef
    August 23rd, 2009 @ 9:43 pm

    diva: EXACTLY! I love duck. hee okay I’m boring, never try the other “birds” before. AHH! i want to go Paris too! how many times u’ve been there?

    adel: yep, portions a bit small, but then again, since when do the French eat in big portions? lol!

    aiwei: hahahahahahaha are you feeling hungry? :D

    Ffichiban: I didn’t take any photos of the interior (forgot to), but nothing fanciful, no-frills smallish cafe. Yeah i love the escargot smell of butter and garlic!

    LFB: who were you “debating” with? No leh, i have yet to try truffles, why have to be before this month? Don’t think so, not with my shallow pockets! :)

  7. yyn
    August 23rd, 2009 @ 10:32 pm

    yeah~ i was wondering how tis place wld be, i took a sneak curious peek at La Petite on my way over to Island Creamery. Thks for shining light on my curiousity! price seems really reasonable =]

  8. emily
    August 24th, 2009 @ 1:28 am

    it’s amazing how after eating a full dinner+desserts+extras, one look at your entry can make me so gian for random things like foie gras at 2am la.

  9. amy
    August 24th, 2009 @ 9:43 pm

    yays! i have never tried escargots before and i definitely wanna try some now. btw, is there really such a thing as pretentious french fare? lol.

  10. His Food Blog
    August 25th, 2009 @ 2:24 am

    Oh… You shouldn’t have really given the pan fried foie gras a miss…. it’s probably one of the most value for money in terms of the serving portion and the taste!

    Nicely pan fried and quiver in the interior. I reckon you would love it.

    And stick to the French dishes at this place and you will never go wrong, by that I mean the duck confit is a must try and the pasta a nono! ;)

  11. ladyironchef
    August 25th, 2009 @ 10:24 am

    yyn: haha thats why u read ladyironchef! LOL just kidding, but yeah I was curious about their pricing before i went too, very reasonable indeed! try them out and let me know yeah

    emily: hahahaa because we are always hungry :)

    amy: really? go try! it’s so near our home can! there is, those fine dining lor. shh.. don’t say i say one *wink*

    HFB: there’s always next time! haha

  12. thenomadGourmand
    August 25th, 2009 @ 5:25 pm

    aiyo…why nvr let me knw of such places when i was in Sg??? ;p

  13. ladyironchef
    August 25th, 2009 @ 10:42 pm

    thenomadgourmand: I went here after yr visit to Singapore. HAHA

  14. Shayna
    August 27th, 2009 @ 3:35 am

    a whole new dimension of food. looks really interesting and tastyyy ( : i wanna try french food too! ( :

  15. pammiez
    August 27th, 2009 @ 9:37 pm

    YUMMY! You make me crave for french food!

  16. ladyironchef
    August 28th, 2009 @ 12:05 am

    shayna: haha sounds so exaggerating, simple unpretentious French food :)

    pammiez: GO AND EAT! haha so did u have the burger jus now?

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