Portico Favourites high tea menu at Portico Prime. Terrific value for money for the quality and quantity on display. The chilled truffle-scented angel hair pasta with avruga caviar and kawa ebi shrimps barges into your sensory pleasure memory orbs with the rapacious ruthlessness of a disgruntled Bukit Gombak-residing Ah Ma…
Matcha Oreo Tart from Bloomsbury Bakers. The green tea – simultaneously milky-sweet and smoulderingly bitter – was as thick and rich as a millionaire hippo, whilst elsewhere the tart base had the defensive valour of a mid-tier knight. 3.4/5 Bloomsbury Bakers 30 Bendemeer Road #01-889 Singapore 330030
Handmade Pineapple Tarts from TCC – The Connoisseur Concerto. Nope, these aren’t monkeys with evolutionarily shifted ears but are actually Pros-Bear-Rity Bears! Taste-wise the bears probably have a disciplinarian momma as they were gentle in butteriness and fairly restrained in sweetness. These tarts are available at all TCC outlets islandwide.
Sparkling yuzu pie from Windowsill Pies – yuzu curd glazed with sweet ume gel, topped with white chocolate dollops. Essentially sweetly-tempered sour curd with a concealed pop-rocking oral surprise, whilst elsewhere the plum gel had a geisha’s gentleness and quiet devotion. 3.7/5 Windowsill Pies 95 Soo Chow Walk Singapore 575382
Sweets from the Hi-Tea Buffet at House. Whilst the Orange Sweet Potatoes Tart was starchily suited and the coffee soil-topped Caramel Banana Cake Flowerpot was like Hermione Granger in salt class, the rich Curry Leaf Almond Brownie swished its savoury saree in glee and the yummy sweet gloop atop the…
Citron & Passion from Roots Kitchen & Bar – curd of lemon and passion fruit with marshmallow cookie ice cream. The passionfruit element tasted like it was birthed from a Koi/Yakult collaborative crossover, and the ice cream was like a malt/caramel-esque hybrid wrapped by a soft cookie shell. Elsewhere, the…
Passionfruit Meringue Tart from Bloomsbury Bakers. The sweet and sour curd was certainly pleasant, but as inoffensive and perfunctory as an Atomic Kitten or Westlife album track. 3.5/5 Bloomsbury Bakers 30 Bendemeer Rd #01-889 Singapore330030
Pulut Hitam Tart from Bloomsbury Bakers. Whilst the combination of coconut cream and a sweet liquid, ricey middle satisfies, I can’t say the same for the crust, so stubborn and hard-headed that he best watch out as somebody confirm tekan and charge him SOL or even DB someday. 3.6/5 Bloomsbury Bakers…
Cherry tart from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. Essentially succulent, posh plum-grape hybrids on a tart dressed by Vivienne Westwood. 4/5 Tarte by Cheryl Koh 350 Orchard Road #01-12 Shaw House Singapore 238868