CY Burger from Chef Yamashita – lady finger sponge with brown sugar mousse and fresh fruits. Despite the cake sporting a rather Vietnamesey hat, the combination of fruits and smothering cream is decidedly Japanese, with the gula melaka-esque mousse giving the burger cake a touch of SG50 sophistication. 3.6/5 Chef…
Melon Snow Milk Bingsu from Snowman Desserts. Despite the visual distractions offered by the veiny green dress, the Marge Simpson hairdo and the admittedly entertaining juggling of orange balls, inevitable is the realisation that the so-named snow milk ice that lies beneath has as much personality as those fake accounts…
Mizu Manjyu (water dumplings) from Hashida Garo – 3 balls of white bean paste and seasonal fruit enclosed in arrowroot jelly, soaked in chilled mint syrup. The dumplings start off tasting like your usual Konnyaku jelly (our seasonal fruit was mango) but sheds its skin and reveals its inner starchy personality…
Foie Gras Macaron from Hashida Garo. Essentially like Little Red Riding Hood’s granny, looking all innocent and come-hither-to-my-(sick)bed with its soft macaron shell and insouciant red dustings before revealing its true grey form and completely taking control of your senses with its heavy-creamed, ferociously savoury fangs. 3.8/5 Hashida Garo 333A…
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
Chendol Cheesecake from Bloomsbury Bakers. The fusion of gula melaka and cheesecake here (in particular with reference to the cheesecake body itself) comes across as a well-conceptualised and consensual marriage instead of gula melaka’s forceful invasion of cheesecake’s purity and virtues, with the chendol elements – crunchy attap chee, corn,…
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…
Burnt banana mille-feuille from Canopy Garden Bar – chocolate cremux, black sesame lace, banana & berry compote. The sugary pastry was puffy and cuttable, the banana slices were nicely caramelised and the chocolate cremux had the texture of ice cream, but the presence of the black sesame was as random…
Banana Nutella gelato in a liquid chocolate-filled cone from Churn Creamery. The gelato must be a psychic Pokémon/dark mage because the experience felt like a disorienting confusion spell was cast – it tastes like both banana and Nutella together and separately at the same time (if that makes any sense).…