For white puree, I had so many choices, once again cali, white potato, sunchoke, salsify, parsnip... But again sunchoke was used for crab dish and salsify was used for veal, so I decided to go with Parsnip puree. Parsnip was one of my favorite roots vegetable, so I was happy with my decision.
For noodle bird nest, I tried 4 different noodles. Tried rice noodle, green pea starch noodle(harusame), vermicelli noodle and somen noodle(wheat). And I decided to use somen noodle because it comes out less grease after frying, also have finest line.
Bacon chips is made in dehydrator, believe that's best method to make bacon chips, less grease, not too hard crunch and still crispy, be able to make super thin and visually much more refined and elegant than chips from the oven.
Potatao chips are fried at 310, then bring temperature down to 270. Purple, yellow and red potatos.
For green, decided to use micro celery
After tasting, final adjustment was adding 50% weight of orange jus to carrot puree. That gives lightness against savory parsnip puree & smoky bacon , sweetness and sourness of orange jus make perfect flavor balance. sweet, sour, savory, poached egg texture, smokiness of bacon, people's favorite perfect petite postato chips, crunchy noodle, micro celery for color & refreshness.... DONE!
This dish is presented in the bowl with lids on. On the menus this dish is called "bacon and egg". Like I said previous post, what people imagine with the dish name "bacon and egg"? I beleive this dish wow people when server take off the lids on the table cause it's such a elegant look for name like "bacon & egg"!! After take off lids, server drop perfect poached egg from egg shell and it stay on the bird nest.
I like kind of interactive dining experience like whatever, you go korean BBQ, cook on grill by yourself. Something not just eating food on the dish, alinea's hot potato, cold potato is perfect example!! So... for this dish I want guest to have little more interactive, kind of. After poached egg is dropped, I want guest to break the noodle bird nest by spoon and dig into carrot orange puree and parsnip puree.
I want this dish playful and also really fun to eat. And what I like of this dish is every single bites, you taste little different. First you just taste poached egg and noodle nest, then you taste smoky bacon, crunch from potato chips, next parsnip puree, carrot.... layer of flavors and all diffent textures. I heard guest feedback on this dishes are great, so happy to hear that....
It is not 100% confirmed, but I gotta change this dish into spring version and put on new spring RM upstairs menu, probably. I update on this blog later if I get new version.
bacon, egg & potato 's story is over, My next dish.... BLACK & WHITE!!!! black & white? what the hell is it???
