Milk caramel som som (cotton candy) latte. While the latte aesthetically channels a Korean punk Grandmother with a 大長今/대장금/Jewel in the Palace-esque big-ass hairdo (complete with straws to mimic the chopsticks or whatever they stab in that bush), the drink is much more traditional, tasting exactly like what it says…
Yam Coffee Bailey cake. Pleasingly fragrant, but fairly dry despite being rather creamy. Methinks the Yam probably couldn’t hold his Baileys and was on Attend C. 3.2/5 Monochrome Fusion Bistro 291 South Bridge Road Singapore 058836
Iced Doi Chaang coffee with a rum and raisin mille crepe cake. The former was enjoyable in its masculine sweetness, like an NSF Commando officer with his girlfriend. However, despite its whiffs of alcohol, the cake tasted rather flat and tired, like the same officer after outfield exercise. Coffee: 4/5…
White coffee cake. It’s all about the bass and no treble, as the cake’s thick, J.Lo-sized hazelnut wafer booty triumphantly bounces away most traces of white coffee, which is probably a size two at best. 3.5/5 Do.Main 226 Tanjong Katong Road Singapore 437015
Belgian dark chocolate tart – Belgium dark chocolate and ganache, with a coffee and Baileys topping. Unlike some other places that proudly boast about their alcohol usage but it turns out more Corinne Bailey Rae than Baileys, the cream here is the real McCoy, immediately confirmable with one taste. Tart…
La Loma espresso coffee – plum, toffee, milk chocolate and green apple. Cashless! The Taste Wheel! iPads! Industrial chic! You’d go in because of the rave reviews, and you’d be enthralled by the descriptions on the menu, and impressed by the futuristic science-lab vibes of the establishment, and you’d feel…
Coffee Addict – coffee yogurt parfait, chocolate deco, coffee sauce, brownie, coffee jello and coffee ganache. It’s like going on a speed-dating marathon, meeting a nonstop barrage of good-looking people with names like Blair and Xanthius but ultimately realizing they all have the personality of a cooked rice grain, and…