Note: Please excuse the less-than-perfect photos all taken in the darkened dining room. For more clarity, please watch today and tomorrow’s videos.
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| When we first got situated at the table, the only special lighting we noticed was this white line around our perfectly placed plates. |
As described online and on each of the two YouTube videos, Friday night’s dining experience was genuinely over-the-top, unlike anything we’d experienced in the past. It’s not easy to explain but here goes:
“Le Petit Chef is a two-hour dining show that tells the story of how the world’s smallest chef followed the route of Marco Polo. The 3D mapping concept has been live since 2015, which uses animated optical illusion techniques to project a little chef cooking on your plate.”
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| Moments later, the letter Q appeared on our plates to represent the specialty restaurant, Qsine. |
What a fantastic experience we had aboard the Celebrity Silhouette in Qsine Restaurant at a shared table, including other diners and members of Cruise Critic, each of us experiencing this unusual show for the first time.
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| More advertising for the ship. |
The conversation at the table was lively, and responses to the animated show were enthusiastic and enthralled over the unique dining experience. The light show, coupled with the exceptional food and service, was as good as it could have been for a memorable experience.
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| The company that created this exciting and entertaining concept. |
Adaptations were made for my way of eating, and I never felt cheated over anything I missed…except perhaps the delicious dessert I eyeballed on Tom’s plate, as shown in the photo below.
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| The digital Le Petit Chef appeared on our plates, dragging a digital lobster onto the plate in preparation for serving the bouillabaisse. |
Instead, our fantastic waiter Alton (who remembered us from a cruise in the same-named specialty restaurant on another Celebrity ship in 2017) brought me a special dessert of a small bowl of fresh berries and a little unsweetened whipped cream, exactly what I needed to “hit the spot.”
Before dinner, we had a delightful happy hour on deck 14 in the Sky Lounge, again meeting new people to become delightfully engaged in enriching conversations.
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| The delicious bouillabaisse was served in “real-time.” |
After the fabulous dinner ended, we headed to the Entertainment Court, next to the Quasar Nightclub where the silent disco was in full force with all the participants dancing in a quiet room with the lighted headsets on their heads, listening and dancing to three options of types of music such as rock, disco or current pop.
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| Le Petit Chef illustrates an upcoming steak to be served in “real-time.” |
I hadn’t danced since the heart surgery, and at first, I was hesitant. It’s so easy to get wildly winded while dancing to fast tempo music, but I gave it a try, and did we ever have fun!
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| Tom’s plate with filet mignon, fingerling potatoes, crispy onions, and broccoli. |
I must admit I checked my fitness watch to see how my pulse was doing a few times, but all seemed fine at a maximum of 130, shortly returning to the 60s when stopping. After this traumatic heart experience, it’s hard not to be a little paranoid when getting one’s pulse up through vigorous exercise.
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| My filet mignon was cooked to perfection…rare. |
By midnight we were back in our cabin with both of us so energized we didn’t fall asleep until after 1:00 am, even with the second of two-time changes. There will be several more time changes as we get closer and closer to the US.
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| A video representation of Tom’s upcoming dessert. |
Tonight is “dress-up night,” and we’ve gotten the wrinkles out of our clothes after hanging them in the steamy bathroom. Ships don’t provide irons due to fire hazards. We won’t be the only passengers with wrinkled clothing and, of course, with this older (like us) crowd, wrinkled faces. Who cares? We’re having fun!
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| What a novel concept! |
Have a superb Sunday!
Photo from one year ago today, October 27, 2018:
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| The Matsamo tribe in Swaziland performs for tourists providing the village with income. The cost for the performance and tour is ZAR 200 (US $13.70) per person. For more photos, please click here. |