Matcha choux – choux pastry filled with matcha pastry cream. The choux pastry is delightfully crumbly, like the baby girl of a croissant and cookie. However, the matcha flavour was rather faint, like pen marks after being assaulted by an eraser. 3.3/5 Les Delices 333 Kreta Ayer Road #01-14 Singapore…
Earl grey milk tea choux. Delightfully crumbly, like the baby boy of a croissant and cookie. The earl grey flavour was, unlike its matcha counterpart, dramatically strong and fragrant, like a Chanel No.5 for urbanite tea leaves. 3.7/5 Les Delices 333 Kreta Ayer Road #01-14 Singapore 080333
French toast with sautéed apple, raisins, house cured bacon, and maple cream. The French toast was a gift from heaven – warm, fat and fluffy, like a Japanese Spitz puppy. The apple maintained its integrity well, being warm, crunchy, intensely sweet and just a tad sour. The bacon was so…
Mango Charlotte. Like the girl with 12.4K Instagram followers who looks really summery and poses in pictures staring shyly away from the camera whilst smiling with milk-shampooed lustrous hair and pouty cherry lips, but once you meet her in person you find out that past the blogshop dresses and flowers…
Buttermilk waffle with butter rum bananas and vanilla bean ice cream. The waffle was fluffy and tall like an Afghan Hound, whilst the bananas were nicely gooey and sweet. Loved the rum element, which added a naughty kick to the otherwise blank vanilla canvas. 3.7/5 Department of Caffeine 15 Duxton…
Basil sorbet, strawberries, sweet tomato, yuzu yogurt and black pepper meringue. The marquee name essentially tastes like a bitter and smooth ball of blended grass. The succulent strawberries and sweet tomatoes lend their sweetness to balance out the sorbet’s bitterness, while the yogurt was sour and ever so slightly tart.…
Firecracker cupcake – citrus and walnut with Tiger beer infused buttercream. The orange peel evokes memories of the yearly spammage of Mandarin oranges, whilst the buttercream kisses with a faint wisp of beer breath. 3.4/5 Cake Spade 1 Tras Link #01-06 Orchid Hotel Singapore 078867
Sweet potato mousse – coconut caramel, pecan crumble, and chantilly cream. The orange cheesecake cubes were relatively moussey, whereas the purple cubes were chunkier and more substantial, like gossipy aunties you met during Chinese New Year who gobbled too many pineapple tarts. Pleasant enough but as impressionable as the conversation…
Cheesecake. Light and not too cheesy, but remarkably tastes like yogurt meets Yakult, solidified. 3.5/5 [Tasting courtesy of Sacha & Sons.] Sacha & Sons 333A Orchard Road #03-02 Mandarin Gallery Singapore 238897