1.   Good choices included a creamy asparagus soup, satisfying smoked duck with Asian garnishes, credible roast lamb and an apple-raisin tart.

2.   In addition, Cedric and I came up with a white asparagus soup.

3.   The asparagus soup gets almost all its flavor from the vegetable itself, a flavor that is intensified by a brief period of pan-roasting.

4.   The menu runs to asparagus soup studded with fava beans and carrot cubes, hearty pates, and grilled lamb and beef.

5.   The owner gave the band asparagus soup, lamb and beer, as an older, well-dressed crowd began to trickle in for the entertainment.

6.   Then came a soothing, flavorful asparagus soup, somewhat bizarrely garnished with sliced strawberries.

7.   White asparagus soup is another popular dish.

8.   Pio del Pilar craved sinigang na bangus sa bayabas, and Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, asparagus soup.

9.   For starters, we had asparagus soup with crabstick - which was basically your usual cream soup.

10.   We then sip on cups of steaming hot asparagus cream soup.