Banana Nutella gelato in a liquid chocolate-filled cone from Churn Creamery. The gelato must be a psychic Pokémon/dark mage because the experience felt like a disorienting confusion spell was cast – it tastes like both banana and Nutella together and separately at the same time (if that makes any sense).…
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…
Hotate Mentai from Kinsa Sushi – crabmeat and cucumber maki topped with aburi scallop mentai, garnished with wasabi-seasoned prawn roe and deep fried radish. The emerald roe may have stepped out of the machine during the infusion process thus bearing only the slightest of wasabi perfume, but the aburi scallop…
HarriAnns High Tea Set from HarriAnns – nonya kaya choux, 6 bite-sized kueh and 2 kopi/teh. The kaya/hazelnut choux pastry was an adventurous lad but may have attended one too many mega sugar rushes during the weekend. Elsewhere, the different kueh – with names ranging from the Kylie Minogue-esque “Pink…
Squid Ink Tagliatelle from Paddy Hills – fresh pasta, seared hotate, compressed watermelon and ikura. The creamy tagliatelle was as firm as a lithe yoga practitioner, with watermelon cubes on hand for mouth cleansing if the murky squid ink gets too interfering, while the scallops were happily-sized, with nicely-grilled skin…
Seafood Laksa Pasta from The Diner by The Travelling C.O.W.. While other laksa/pasta crossover projects (the magnificent Tolido’s Espresso Nook variant comes to mind) bring the flavour of laksa to the pasta playground for exploratory experimentation, here the interpretation remains true to its traditional laksa beliefs. Essentially old-school laksa but…
Coffee Tart from Tarte by Cheryl Koh. Like a dark, roasty Kopi Gao fantasy. 3.9/5 Tarte by Cheryl Koh 350 Orchard Road #01-12 Shaw House Singapore 238868
Chirashi Cupcake – fresh selection of various sashimi on purple rice with sesame ponzu sauce. The fishy frosting performed its duties best as it could, although the squid sashimi tasted like it did not shower after a 5 “klick” run. Elsewhere, the purple rice tasted like a healthy cross between…
Pistachio Strawberry Tart from Bakersfield. The tart base was curiously more sultana cake (!) than crust while the pistachio cream, instead of being overtly explicit with shoving its nuts all up our grill, was a fluffy whipped dream of a leader, gentleman and bilingual scholar of high integrity and robust…