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Saturday, 2 June 2012
Big Portion and Big Taste – Anton’s Pasta Bar
 | It was a beautiful night and we were looking for something dumb to do. So we went to Anton’s Pasta to stuff our face. It was quite the drive along E. Hasting as the traffic was so busy. Parking on the street was really easy to find. However, getting into the restaurant was no easy task as there was a half an hour line up. I was glad that summer is kicking in and we didn’t have to stand in the blazing cold because unlike Stepho’s, there was no heat outside. On this warm summer night, Ying and I cheerfully waited and carried out our conversation regarding how we can help Nabeel get an Asian girlfriend. |
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| The first to arrive were two huge pieces of bread and a lot of butter. The bread itself was nothing special. It wasn’t moist and warm. It wasn’t hard and crusty. Each piece was half the size of Ying’s face… My first thought when this arrived was, how the heck am I supposed to finish. Somehow, we did thanks to the next dish. |
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 Our appetizer finally arrived. We got the calamari alla marinara, which is essentially fresh squid in a tangy tomato sauce. When we ordered it, the waitress reminded us that their calamari isn’t the usual deep fried appetizer found at most restaurants, but rather fresh squid. We were totally fine with that… in fact Ying isn’t a big fan of deep-fried foods anyhow. It was a full heaping plate of large, fresh squid bathed in a yummy tomato sauce with fresh cherry tomatoes and a slightly spicy kick! The sauce was so good that we started soaking the bread in it, which made the bread taste a million times better. |
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 | For our main, Ying and I elected to share a plate of Conchiglie Frutti di Mare or mixed seafood & mushrooms in a cream sauce. Well, more like I wanted a cream sauce pasta and told Ying to pick one to her liking. :P I love cream sauce pastas, but Ying is more of a tomato sauce girl. Oh well, I got to have my favourite tonight. Yum! It arrived on a heaping plate, though it was mostly conch shell-shaped pasta swimming in cream sauce, interspersed with some shrimp, scallop and mushroom. Ying thought that the pasta was a little bit undercooked, even though it took forever to get to us… She thinks that they forgot our order and rushed it. |
| Sure enough, after we were done eating, we still had enough food to pack two big boxes home. In fact, Ying packed these for our lunches for the next day and we STILL had some left over pasta. Ying noted that the pasta tasted much better after it was microwaved – i.e. it became softer and more of the right consistency. She also appreciated the mixture of the marinara sauce of the calamari with the creamy pasta. The Yummies:
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