Today is a Saturday. And I went to work. As in went to office, turned on the computer, looked at emails, reports, actually used the brain. Why you ask? Because China has a strange policy of making us work for longer consecutive days of public holidays. So I will be working on Sunday again but Monday to Wednesday will be public holidays to celebrate the Duanwu Festival.
Working on weekends is a tragedy in itself, so many of us find ways of escaping this tragedy. Some take leave, so go away to outside of China, some others (the smart ones like us) come to work, take some time to clear work (in case some important people read my blog, they now know that I am super hardworking can), then we go out and have a fabulous lunch. Which, by the way, is what this post is about.
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| That's me , Grace & Heather. Chilling while waiting for our atas tapas. |
We went to The Commune Social, another outpost of Jason Atherton. It is an atas tapas and dessert bar. The place is instagram-heaven. If you had problems understanding this short paragraph, you need to get with, stat! (ok, that wasn't helpful either...)
I am not great at describing food so am gonna let my (bad) pictures speak instead. So here, this is how you make fun out of dreary.
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| The red-brick building is a former police station. |
The mains.
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| My 2 out of 3 course meal - potato puree with fried chicken skin, tuna and hamachi salad. And of course, sangria. The flowers are inedible hor. |
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| Glazed pork |
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| Grilled lamb on potatoes |
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| Complimentary popcorn with white chocolate. Oh so yummy. |
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| Lemon meringue |
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| Salted chocolate mousse |
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| Fried peanut butter crisps |
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| Nectarine with vanilla cream and oatmeal crumbs. A bit awkward eating with those people looking on.  |
Oh I read that the restie is actually designed by Neri & Hu. No wonder I like the design of the place. Because I happen to love the other resties that they also designed - Mercato, New Heights and Table No. 1. Very New York-ish. Casual-chic, wood, tiles & steel, clean with white-washed walls. In essence: very now.
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| This is imprinted on the ceiling. There are quotations scattered around the restie. Slightly pretentious and these are over-worn quotes, but still interesting to stumble on them when least expected. |
The Commune Social is in the same building as Neri & Hu's Design Republic showroom. We took a pre-lunch visit and it was fun to explore the open, modern space. My descriptive vocabulary for these things is very limited, so again, just look at the photos.
With that, I returned to office happier and in a slight food coma - emails always look friendlier through fuzzy eyes.
Wonder where we should go tomorrow? Hmmm....
Xoxo,
Tracy
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