Baileys, After Eight and White Rabbit Candy ice cream from Dessert Project. The Baileys and After Eight did what was expected of them like professionally obedient trained puppies, but the White Rabbit Candy was a memorable blast from the past, recreating that signature milkiness in your mouth like a milk ice ball…
Peanut, Coconut, Citrus from Pluck – peanut sponge, coconut sorbet, calamansi gel, mandarin orange. A curious mix of mediocre and flat-tasting cake, refreshing coconut sorbet, peanut butter, sweet mandarin orange and a sharp and wickedly citric gel that would wake you right up, curl your toes and make you wince…
Banana, Chocolate, Caramel, Malt from Pluck – caramelised banana, inaya chocolate ganache, caramel sauce, and malt ice cream. Essentially a dessert party held by an intensely dark chocolate log pregnant with a sweet banana goo baby, with trendy and young Kacang putih-style sugar nuts, meringue and sticky toffee-esque shards on…
Fusion at KPO – homemade buttermilk vanilla cake, Hokkaido matcha ice cream, azuki beans, shiratama (mochi balls), and caramelised cornflakes with fresh berries. A busy and basic yet curiously satisfying sweet treat, with enough jaw action involved to make sense as a bar snack. The cornflakes and its wife blocked…
Mango bingsu from Snowy Village. Compared to the erect confidence of the towering bingsus from most other Korean joints, this contender looked majorly flaccid and lethargic. The mangoes tasted like they have led rather fruitful long lives, while the milk ice positively showered me with unadulterated love from Mummy Cow’s…
Mango bingsu. The mangoes were fresh and sweet, whilst the mango ice cream was delightful, with dried sticky mango bits within. The shaved milk melted with more haste than the 6.30pm Raffles Place crowd into MRT trains and thus it would be inaccurate to regard this as a bingsu in…
Ondeh Ondeh pancake from Collective Brewers – traditional buttermilk pancakes infused with aromatic pandan and stacked on shredded coconut and melted palm sugar coating, served with vanilla ice cream. The pancakes were extremely aromatic and rather buttery, and reminded me of the fragrance and texture of a slightly uncooked waffle…
Mango bingsu with soft serve at Snowman Desserts. The soft serve was like McDonald’s ice cream, but with the cow’s mammary glands on hyper super-milky overdrive. The mango chunks were massive, soft and sweet, but somehow the milk snow here was less snowy and more icy than I expected, and…
Snow White in the Blackforest from Halia (Singapore Botanic Gardens) – fresh red apple sorbet in a white chocolate casing, kirsch marinated cherries, dark choux branch, chocolate crumble, whipped cream and castor sugar soil. So jawdroppingly, show-stoppingly gorgeous a concept that the food could have been shit and all would…