Cheese and WIne Fair, Le Renaissance

Cheese and Wine Fair on a Sunday Morning.

Stella, Ja and I stood outside the big doors of the function room, peering in with apprehensive eyes. Why apprehensive? Well, the smells (I can't bear to use the word aroma) permeating through the doors were not exactly pleasant. Hmmm, the word should be pungent. Yes, the cheese room was pungent. We paid the $40 entrance fee, and in we went to the smelly cheese room.

We started in a clockwise direction. First was the brie, then cheddar, goat cheese, blue cheese. To make our money worth, we were bent on bloating ourselves with cheese and lavosh, plus the five complimentary drinks to choose from. Stella and I were killed midway by the red leister cheese by Maffra. The cheese that looked like a pumpkin, smelled like a cheese and tasted like durian. It was by sheer determination and out of politeness that we swallowed that thing. After that durian cheese incident, Stella and I swore off cheese and started on our drinking binge.

So we got coffee, beer and dessert wine in the order. Ja, amazingly and single-handedly, tried all the cheeses and finished off her drinks coupon.

An hour later.

With the empty glass, that concludes our cheese eating (and wine, beer, coffee drinking) stint.

And you thought we will be damn full after that... No way. We are proud pastry chefs in the making and our never-dying love for all things sweet proves that we still have the stomach for desserts even though secretly, we all feel like puking. La Renaissance at The Rocks. Creme brulee, Aroma (which is a coffee mousse) and Raspberry mousse.

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