Cavaillon Melon (melon panna cotta with French melon) from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. The luscious mini melon balls have a sweet, disarmingly sincere juiciness that never borders on watery, whilst elsewhere the milky panna cotta wobbles with a tightrope walker’s confident steadiness and the softly firm crust surrenders unyieldingly to…
Handcrafted Tart with Mandy-Go Sorbet (mandarin orange and mango) from Geometry. The mandarin orange and mango flavours were so passionately enmeshed in their amorous physicality that you can’t tell when either element starts and ends. Elsewhere, the soft, buttery tart possessed a crumbling, cake-like personality, yielding to your knife like…
Watermelon Lychee sorbet and Strawberry Pocky ice cream with Belgian Waffle from Geometry, located near IKEA Alexandra. The watermelon and lychee flavours are so passionately enmeshed in their amorous physicality that you can’t tell when either element starts and ends while the milky, Meiji-esque strawberry Pocky flavour is true to…
Le Caillou from Mad About Sucre’s new summer cake collection – pecan nut, mandarin orange, Caribbean rum, milk chocolate pecan nut short bread. The slightly grainy pecan orb was nuttily assertive with a Bailey-esque creaminess, and sat its voluptuously buxomly self on a rich, indulgent chocolate rice-y cushion. At its…
Meringue Roll from The Plain Jane. Essentially the airy between-the-cake-sheets love child of soft, clayey meringue and chewy marshmallow. 3.8/5 The Plain Jane Blk 211 Serangoon Ave 4 #01-10 Singapore 550211
Gooey Banana Donuts “Milo Dinosaur” with Milo crumbs, condensed milk and hazelnuts from Redpan. Despite both being mid-embrace, the piping hot goreng pisang-esque balls maintained a frosty emotional disconnect from the Milo crumbs, with the latter gazing longingly across the room at the delectably roasty hazelnuts as Steps’ “It’s The…
Ujikintoki Green Tea Kakigori from Sakurazaka. The bitter, milky green tea ice wore its Tsumori Chisato dress with a refined dignity and poise, while elsewhere even the luxuriously chewy shiratama tasted like it shops at the Mandarin Gallery and high-teas at the Ritz Carlton. 3.9/5 This was a hosted meal,…
Mini Choux Platter from Ollella – Matcha Azuki, Dark Chocolate, Apple Cinnamon, Tiramisu, Raspberry, Vanilla, Lemon Meringue. Generally appealing if you select flavours which reveal the choux’s texturality with minimal distraction. Whilst the crumbly Apple Cinnamon was positively pregnant with sweet apple chunks and the appealingly aromatic Tiramisu had a…
Super Ducky from Non Entrée Desserts – crème fraiche pudding, fresh mango purée, sago, biscuit, frozen exotic cocktail ducky sat on a lemongrass cloud. Essentially a luscious mango duck soaking lazily in a luxurious lemongrass spa, using yogurt-tau huay body butter for suppler skin. 4/5 The Super Ducky is a…