The Bette Midler – earl grey sponge with lemon emulsion and blueberry buttercream. A cake so dense, filling and statuesque that it can probably serve six girls with thigh gaps. Fork vertically and the lemon emulsion essentially overrides everything else; try only the sponge bits and you enjoy the highly…
Big Lub’s Carrot Cake. Despite the carrot cake seemingly wearing a highly avant garde and fashionable carcass of a deceased bird on its back, it tastes extraordinarily masculine. The coconut shavings were the most memorable bits, all rough and gnaw-gnaw-gnaw in your mouth. The carrot cake itself was dense and…
Laksa Supreme – prawns, beancurd puffs, quail eggs, calamari balls and homemade sambal chilli. Essentially the laksa you love, but with fancy plastic surgery from a clinic in Paragon and a Ferragamo headband. The laksa broth was suitably light, and I loved the beancurd puffs which swell marvelously into wet,…
Teriyaki Chicken Aglio Olio. The enjoyably sweet teriyaki chicken went surprisingly well with the salty spiciness of the pasta, and I was sufficiently distracted from the fact that chicken is merely the kept woman of aglio olio whilst his prawny soulmate was away for work. I wanted to say that…
Paddlepop cheesecake, earl grey cheesecake and almond coco. The standout was the earl grey cheesecake which had a chewy, salty crust and flaunted its distinct tea flavour and aroma with more swag than A&F does with its baby prostitute scent outside Knightsbridge. The paddlepop cheesecake, which I initially dismissed as…
Ginger – candied ginger pudding, sticky toffee, caramel ice cream and candied ginger. Essentially sticky date pudding which eats clean. The ginger element of the pudding is not immediately apparent, but when you use your tongue to slowly process the experience (instead of just chewing and swallowing like a common…
Lemon – lemon curd, lemon cake, crumble, and torched marshmallows. A peculiar case of deconstruction being so technically masterful and the lemon tart sensory experience being so faithfully and flawlessly recreated that it renders the entire exercise otiose. Still a good lemon tart though. 3.6/5 Selfish Gene Patisserie 40A Craig…
Matcha Strawberry Field Waffle – green tea waffle, strawberry, mango passionfruit spheres and vanilla ice cream. The waffle is quite intriguing – the fragrance of green tea lingers, but only a faint bitterness in the waffle explicitly betrays its matcha nature. The waffle has a crispy exterior and is warm…
Spicy pork noodle – glass noodle, pork ball, minced pork meat and vegetables. My favourite from the four Thai boat noodles available, and notably the only one that uses glass over rice noodles. It was sour, mildly spicy and rather refreshing, almost like a salad. I was most intrigued by…