Baileys, After Eight and White Rabbit Candy ice cream from Dessert Project. The Baileys and After Eight did what was expected of them like professionally obedient trained puppies, but the White Rabbit Candy was a memorable blast from the past, recreating that signature milkiness in your mouth like a milk ice ball…
Peanut, Coconut, Citrus from Pluck – peanut sponge, coconut sorbet, calamansi gel, mandarin orange. A curious mix of mediocre and flat-tasting cake, refreshing coconut sorbet, peanut butter, sweet mandarin orange and a sharp and wickedly citric gel that would wake you right up, curl your toes and make you wince…
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…
Lemon tart from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. Instead of being hard as some can be, the phenomenally sour lemon here is gloriously wet and almost runny, with the signature “chao tar” lemon rind offering some bitter sass to even the sour-sweet dynamics out. 4.1/5 Tarte by Cheryl Koh 350 Orchard…
Maple marshmallow and coffee cheesecakes from Cravings. The former wore its Canadian roots with flamboyance with little gooey marshmallows for accessories, while the latter tasted like strong, aromatic coffee with no sugar added. Despite being cheesecakes, the texture of both cakes was decidedly thick and jellymoussey, and I really liked…
Fusion at KPO – homemade buttermilk vanilla cake, Hokkaido matcha ice cream, azuki beans, shiratama (mochi balls), and caramelised cornflakes with fresh berries. A busy and basic yet curiously satisfying sweet treat, with enough jaw action involved to make sense as a bar snack. The cornflakes and its wife blocked…
Bean powder snow bingsu from Twins. Essentially a blend of muah chee, rhino skin and O’ma Spoon-esque snowflakey milk ice, but instead created using HL milk and a 3D printer. 2.9/5 Twins 7 Craig Road Singapore 089667
Bliss from Yoğart – yogurt with choice of coco bianco sauce, biscuit crumbs and various fruits served with a wooden spoon. Essentially yogurt with that familiar woody taste of ice cream stick that you get during the ending moments of a bar of Paddle Pop or similar cheap ice cream….repeated twenty-five times…
Diners who stay back after lunch at Portico on Saturdays are welcome to take part in ‘Saturdays at Portico’, a weekly feature whereby various fun and unusual activities such as a conducted tour of Portico’s very own herb garden, margarita making and food plating demo sessions are held…absolutely free of…