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Seriously, I wouldn't want to eat that. It looks like someone puked on my plate. Sorry if it's too offensive~

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very bad appearance.

Not interesting. Bad color used, too chaotic.

ya lo,, the presentation was not nice,,

not nice at all.

the piece of meat should be place at middle and appealing.

lack of garnishing.

Messy

I believe Gordon Ramsay would say "Looks like a dogs dinner"

Yup, like what others have said it's way too messy. In fact, if looks even worse than how my mom decorates the food she serves during normal dinners at home (read: she doesn't do any decorating).

I agree with all of your saying. Thats what i said initially. I dont understand what is this chef doing either. Or is it other poeple who messed it up only this picture taken.

I'll ask and be back.

If he's tasting the food

he would do facepalm and said 'f*** me'

Hahah thats his favourite quote. The F word XD Food or F*** ? Both.

This is bad. The sauce dont have the thciknes.
All i can on that dish is the sauce.

Make sure ur dish have a focusing point
The mushroom don't seem to well cook.

Vegetable Too plain, its just dont have cooking method. just blanch and thats all? at least sauce or stir fry it.

Its really messy, the tomatoes at least Q them up together make them nicely presentation.

The starch its really... no cutting method at all. It looks like soaking up the sauce together.



Check this out the sauce the consistency.





see this potato cooking method? Potato au gratin a french bake potato, slice it thinly with cream layered sauce.

and finally a great simple vegetable dish




Spinach with garlic

This post has been edited by munak991: Jun 30 2010, 10:29 PM

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yarks

it's messy.

the biggest problem is the choice of plate. many people don't realize how important this is for presentation. look at that Spinach with garlic posted by munak - i donno why he posted that but it's bad as well, the choice of plate with marking there was terrible to begin with.

after that, look at the choice of vegetables. the sliced mushrooms were horribly placed.

you need to identify which is the SUBJECT and what are the decorations.

from what i gathered, the SUBJECT has to be that fish......... dory? looks grilled, or if not, steamed. I don't know what you guys did but being fish, there's the skin on it and the skin when moist, looks like your own skin on your fingers after dipping in the water for a while - wrinkled!

perhaps serve it on the side or something, up to you.

then the gravy, need you put that much? the problem with gravy like the one you have, it doesn't look good. put a lot, the food will be overwhelmed. put little, and you see how it spread unevenly across the plate, some places darker than others.

you guys aren't even taking care of the sides, i see smudges!

to make things worse, look at how the potato was chopped and carelessly placed.

learn to be neat, here's what i took a few months back.



in the end, how do you want it?

fine dining level of presentation? or good enough for a restaurant?

either way, the one in 1st post doesn't satisfy any of those.

anyway here's a dish i took at MIGF Media Launch 2009, might be useful for you if you're intending to serve a slab of fish like in 1st post.



pardon the image quality, i couldn't be bothered much about that. the thing I wish to highlight is the presentation.

try serving in similar manner.

say put the fish at the center of a round plate. for vegetables, can try some sliced tomatoes and lemon. the red and yellow colors should make it more striking.

for greens, try chopped cabbages / lettuce - make sure it's freshed ah, don't go boil long time then only serve. remember that the preparation of the deco also affects appearance.

now after that, you could decorate the plate with a thicker sauce or gravy. up to you.

just giving you ideas.

Thanks for your great reply Thats not my dish lol. Its a pic taken by my bf when he lunch at Deluxious an the moment he show me this, i was like

Aiyah you got bf already...

fuahhh like that Delicious should get me as consultant. LOL. but I'm not food styling, I just take food photos so we also need to know more or less.

visits to MIGF year after year (with invitation to fine dining places) does help with the experience.