Pepper crab and chilli crab ice cream (!!) on charcoal waffle from the newly-opened Mingle Mangle. The surprisingly enjoyable charcoal waffle had a crispy armour but was softcore within, whilst elsewhere the pepper crab ice cream had an intriguing chewy texture and a gritty pepperiness, and the mischievous chilli crab…
Coconut from Cheek by Jowl – laksa leaf ice cream, pomelo, green chilli. Essentially what you get if bubur cha cha, laksa and vanilla had a head-spinningly scorching ménage à trois on a cushion of roasty nuts. 4/5 This was part of an existing $38 3-course lunch menu, and is…
Cha Yen Krup from Whisk & Paddle – Mövenpick vanilla ice cream, butter sugar toasts, Thai tea macaron, Thai tea pastry cream, old-fashioned butter cake, graham crumbs and toasted almond flakes. The temperature difference between the toasty warm and icy cold elements was intriguingly diverting, while elsewhere the gentle vanilla…
Charcoal waffle with mango lime ice cream, Valrhona white chocolate sauce, maple pecan granola and fresh berries from Double Scoops. The mango lime was happily diverting, but the sparsely-populated charcoal waffle needed some nourishment which its (in one instance, ostentatiously monikered) inhabitants were helpless to do much about. 3.6/5 Double…
Strawberry from Pollen Singapore – white peach, basil, bergamot. Rather precocious and precious a creation. The sugary and salty crumble had the rather mystical ability of soaking up the flavour essences of its surroundings, with the dry crumbs somehow harnessing the spirit of the classily restrained basil and the refreshingly…
Lemon meringue sundae from Bao Makers – lemon sponge, lemon curd, meringue, almond slices with vanilla ice cream. The awkward tension in the room of disparate mismatches could be sliced with a knife, with the Gobi-dry lemon sponge better off with a good dose of Cetaphil. 3.2/5 Bao Makers 78…
Thai Milk Tea & Earl Grey Waffle from Les Patisseries. The earl grey waffle confidently lived up to its titular promise, but it quickly ceded attention to the Thai Milk Tea ice cream, which had more flag-waving rahrahness than VJC students during inter-school water polo matches. Elsewhere, the macaron stared…
Deconstructed lemon tart with fried shallot (!) ice cream from Plonk. The exhilaratingly tart lemon curd had a texture that’s best described as Malay kueh meets pudding, whilst elsewhere the fried shallots required careful portioning to ensure the entirety of the largely vanilla ice cream got the necessary fried fragrance…
Espresso Kahlua Waffle from 20F Specialty Coffeehouse – espresso kahlua sauce, dark chocolate sorbet, vanilla ice cream, streusel, pistachio, buttermilk waffle. The waffle had the buttery and salty charisma of a socially fluid scone, whilst elsewhere the dark chocolate sorbet looked broodingly into the distance donning his aviator shades and…