Korean shaved ice with three fruits and gelato from Insadong Korea Town. You get to choose the gelato and sauce to drizzle over the ice, and pictured is the green tea gelato with kuromitsu sauce. Essentially an idealistic Korean bingsu challenging itself not to be pigeonholed as “exotic”, “novelty” or “foreign…
Omelette Norvégienne – vanilla ice cream with “griotte” cherries cooked in kirsch, orange confit and almond nougatine, enveloped in a torched blackcurrant meringue and flamed Grand Marnier poured over. A competent competitor to Henri Charpentier in the arsonist dessert stakes. The lights above your table are switched off as Grand…
Compressed Rum Infused Pineapple with alfalfa sprouts, vanilla ice cream and gula melaka drizzle from Feedlot Steakhouse Bar and Grill. The titular pineapple steak was sweet, juicy and really thick – you can convincingly knife and fork it as you would beef steak and role-play as a very glamorous and…
Earl grey and honeyscotch ice cream with waffle from Twenty Grammes. The waffle tasted like it had a good roll in the hay with a hotdog (!!) prior to arriving, and was crispy on the outside and soft and bready on the inside. The earl grey was irresistibly fragrant whilst…
Tart Au Citron with Onion Ice Cream. The onion ice cream proved to be a friendly paper tiger – on its own, it starts off slightly pungent but quickly peters out into an inoffensive buttery ice cream, which you can mix with the lemon curd for an interesting slightly savoury-tasting…
Deconstructed black forest, 70% Valrhona dark chocolate mousse, edible hazelnut soil, cherry coulis and caramel ice cream. Like a playful dessert chef’s literal and visual reimagination of black forest. The leaves, flowers and fruits visually recreate the forest setting, the coldness of the bowl is not unlike the freeze of…
Strawberry sorbet served with prosecco. Essentially a valentine to the Rossini cocktail. The strawberry sorbet was sublime, and truly tasted like (icy) fresh puréed strawberries…or that could be what my rather buzzed mind was telling me, as the prosecco was as ruthlessly efficient as a ninja in accomplishing its mission to…
Bun Bun Bomb with espresso gelato. Essentially bitter and fragrant coffee gelato served sealed within a warm, unassuming bun. My main takeaway from this was dang, I sure miss the familiar smell and fluffiness of neighbourhood buns. 3.5/5 33SixtyEight 8 Jalan Batu #01-07 Di Tanjong Rhu Singapore 431008
Chocolate molten lava cake, flambé with Sambuca and Grand Marnier and served with vanilla ice cream. The cake was fairly competent and the lava thick and oozy, but the alcohol – two separate glasses brought to the table and poured over the cake in a tragic flop of a pyrotechnic…