Cha Yen Krup from Whisk & Paddle – Mövenpick vanilla ice cream, butter sugar toasts, Thai tea macaron, Thai tea pastry cream, old-fashioned butter cake, graham crumbs and toasted almond flakes. The temperature difference between the toasty warm and icy cold elements was intriguingly diverting, while elsewhere the gentle vanilla…
Strawberry from Pollen Singapore – white peach, basil, bergamot. Rather precocious and precious a creation. The sugary and salty crumble had the rather mystical ability of soaking up the flavour essences of its surroundings, with the dry crumbs somehow harnessing the spirit of the classily restrained basil and the refreshingly…
Deconstructed lemon tart with fried shallot (!) ice cream from Plonk. The exhilaratingly tart lemon curd had a texture that’s best described as Malay kueh meets pudding, whilst elsewhere the fried shallots required careful portioning to ensure the entirety of the largely vanilla ice cream got the necessary fried fragrance…
Lemon & White Chocolate Sundae from Populus – Tahitian vanilla ice cream, fresh lemon jelly, white chocolate sauce, meringue kisses, white chocolate crumb, cornflake crumble, citron mascarpone. Essentially a rotund love child of Hokkaido milk and McDonalds’ soft serve. The citrus elements lend a wince-inducingly zesty zing to the proceedings,…
The Soursop from Two Bakers – soursop cheesecake, Malibu infused vanilla cake, meringue, soursop gel, sable crumble and desiccated coconut. The soursop cheesecake ball must have done extensive meditation and ate a lot of almond/sesame dual paste at Hong Kong dessert cafes as it manages to achieve a harmonious yin-yang…
Eight-Spice apple crumble with vanilla custard from Open Door Policy. Essentially sensually gooey and remarkably intense apple meets happily grainy sugar crumble. 4/5 This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Open Door Policy. Open Door Policy 19 Yong Siak Street Singapore 168650
Apple Tortilla Tower from KINS Restaurant – deep fried tortilla skin towered with cinnamon apple and crumble, served with mixed fruits and vanilla ice cream. Essentially your usual apple crumble dessert, only deconstructed and reconstructed. The tortilla was like a cross between curry puff and Chinese baked pastry, and elsewhere…
Buttermilk waffle with wine-poached pear and walnut crumble from Curious Palette. The waffle slays you with no mercy like you’re a stranger while the pears, possessing firmness and integrity, (wine-)party it up in dignified fashion like CBD blazered men at OverEasy on a Friday night, with the red slices being…