Matcha choux – choux pastry filled with matcha pastry cream. The choux pastry is delightfully crumbly, like the baby girl of a croissant and cookie. However, the matcha flavour was rather faint, like pen marks after being assaulted by an eraser. 3.3/5 Les Delices 333 Kreta Ayer Road #01-14 Singapore…
Mango Charlotte. Like the girl with 12.4K Instagram followers who looks really summery and poses in pictures staring shyly away from the camera whilst smiling with milk-shampooed lustrous hair and pouty cherry lips, but once you meet her in person you find out that past the blogshop dresses and flowers…
Firecracker cupcake – citrus and walnut with Tiger beer infused buttercream. The orange peel evokes memories of the yearly spammage of Mandarin oranges, whilst the buttercream kisses with a faint wisp of beer breath. 3.4/5 Cake Spade 1 Tras Link #01-06 Orchid Hotel Singapore 078867
Sweet potato mousse – coconut caramel, pecan crumble, and chantilly cream. The orange cheesecake cubes were relatively moussey, whereas the purple cubes were chunkier and more substantial, like gossipy aunties you met during Chinese New Year who gobbled too many pineapple tarts. Pleasant enough but as impressionable as the conversation…
Strawberry Fields – pure strawberry mousse layered with homemade strawberry preserve and chiffon sponge, topped with fresh strawberries. If this was a girl she probably ties her hair in a neat braid, wears Cotton On, doesn’t swear and always brings her home-baked goods to both class and church to distribute,…
Abalone noodle with salt baked chicken thigh. The noodles were nicely springy, but the overall experience generally felt pretty pedestrian. The salt baked chicken thigh is clearly the star, its salty goodness and accompanying jus being the sort of thing one walks ten minutes in the sweltering heat to taste.…
Iced Doi Chaang coffee with a rum and raisin mille crepe cake. The former was enjoyable in its masculine sweetness, like an NSF Commando officer with his girlfriend. However, despite its whiffs of alcohol, the cake tasted rather flat and tired, like the same officer after outfield exercise. Coffee: 4/5…
Gambas – soba in prawn jus topped with roasted sesame infused minced prawn. Felt like a big vegetarian stir-fry noodle dish. Fantasies of juicy fat prawn chunks sorta got popped with a pin as they probably were so minced, they became molecular. 3.25/5 The Laneway Market 266 Tanjong Katong Road…
Apple swiss roll. A decent throwback to yesteryear cakes, with nice apple chunks. The cake is paired with Tea Forte hot tea as a set. Buy this cake and give cafés who deign charge triple the price for a third of the pleasure a metaphorical kick up the nuts. Toothsome…