Food again? Well, this evening we went to the Esplanade for a concert by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra entitled 'In The Shadow of Beethoven'. Three pieces by Wagner, Bruch and Brahms. The Bruch piece was particularly enchanting and the 45 minutes long Brahms work was simply divine. As usual, there is no way to take pictures in this kind of venue (and I do not feel like it anyway), this is the reason why the only event worth mentioning is the dinner at this No Signboard Seafood restaurant. Back in the 70s the restaurant started to operate in a hawker center without a name and it quickly became famous with the customers as the 'no name' or 'no signboard' restaurant. The original specialty was crabs and they started selling around 3 crabs a day. It has now evolved into a chain with different styles according to the location. The one in Geylang is pretty much an outdoor hawker-ish affair while the one we went to at Esplanade is much more grand and expensive. There are also lots of local and strange specialties like bird nests or shark fins soup, bullfrogs and seacucumber. My mum got a beautiful wok fried with garlic and butter crab while we settled on succulent Saute Scallop with Peppered Black Bean Sauce and Saute Scallop with Superior XO Sauce.
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