Shibuya Toast with Butter Pecan Brittle and Banana Chocolate ice cream, drizzled with peanut butter and white chocolate green tea sauce from Meet & Melt. Expectations-wise, this was akin to ordering carrot cake and then being served a beta-carotene orange stick with leaves intact and frosting on top. The “Shibuya…
Over-The-Top Shakes from the rebranded The Benjamins at Forum – (from left) Nutella Banana, Old School Vanilla and Coffee Avocado. The big afro-ed Scary Spice (you need to update your pop culture references – Editor) is all attention-seeking with its bright hair dye, pink accessory and Nicki Minaj-esque get-up but…
Hummingbird from Mad About Sucre – African pecan nut, plantain, pineapple, lemon, lavender and honey. Despite possessing neither the SMU-esque professionally proficient attractiveness of the Luna De Miel nor the old school Hollywood glamour of the San Domingue, the Hummingbird proved itself to be, like an industrious and scholarly civil servant, competent…
Butterscotch popcorn waffle with artisanal vanilla bean ice cream, banana and crushed nuts from Hyde & Co. The waffle was razor crispy on the outside and the combination of popcorn and crushed nuts provided a substantial amount of jaw activity while the butterscotch, probably fearful of heights, antisocially remained in…
Banana, Chocolate, Caramel, Malt from Pluck – caramelised banana, inaya chocolate ganache, caramel sauce, and malt ice cream. Essentially a dessert party held by an intensely dark chocolate log pregnant with a sweet banana goo baby, with trendy and young Kacang putih-style sugar nuts, meringue and sticky toffee-esque shards on…
The Ginger Garden from Halia (Singapore Botanic Gardens) – ginger flower sherbet, banana fritter goreng pisang, young root ginger crumble, edible flowers. The sherbet tasted like a floral Sprite soda, while both the chewy biscuit and candy had the sharp, distinct taste of ginger. The goreng pisang had a most…
Banana Flower Paap (pudding) – a light and creamy crossover between luscious banana pulp and soft spongey cake, topped with cookie crumbs in an ickle flower pot. 3.8/5 Banana Tree SG 26 Keong Saik Road Singapore 089133
San Domingue – a jewel box with rum emulsion, chocolate mousse, caramelized plantain and a Brittany crust. Essentially the chocolatey equivalent of Christmas morning. The jewel box reveals liquid rum emulsion by way of in-mouth squirtage once you bite it, and you get to chew the chocolate box with the…
Chocolate banana waffle – chocolate waffle, caramelized banana, vanilla bean ice cream, salted caramel sauce and nutella truffle powder. Essentially a chocolate pound cake (!) with vanilla ice cream and sweet, gooey goreng pisang. The shift from fluffy chiffon to dense cake felt like a Lionhead Rabbit transforming into a…