Houjicha Pancake (vanilla ice cream, chia seeds, crushed hazelnuts, matcha spread, seasonable berries) from Les Patisseries’ newly-refreshed menu. The pancake starts off like a comfortably light, brownie-esque chocolate cake before quietly unveiling a dusky, gracefully understated hojicha fragrance and bitterness which lingers on your tongue long after the moment has…
Horffles from Les Patisseries – 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream, Horlicks powder, Horlicks sauce, toasted candied almond, fresh berries. Whilst the slightly sour waffle had a gentle crisp and the nuts certainly were welcome guests, the late-blooming vanilla ice cream only revealed its tuition teacher-encouraged potential late in the…
Tropical Paradise toast from Les Patisseries – coconut brioche, fresh mango, caramelised pineapple, candied almond, mango sorbet. The thick, tall toasts are bread trees, and the other tropical elements a refreshing sweet waterfall that cascades relentlessly. 3.6/5 Les Patisseries 222 Upper Thomson Road Singapore S574354
Thai Milk Tea & Earl Grey Waffle from Les Patisseries. The earl grey waffle confidently lived up to its titular promise, but it quickly ceded attention to the Thai Milk Tea ice cream, which had more flag-waving rahrahness than VJC students during inter-school water polo matches. Elsewhere, the macaron stared…
To commemorate the launch of Secret Life of Fatbacks and for my first feature article, I thought it would be pretty interesting to revisit some of my “Greatest Hits” (and by that I mean the posts with the most likes on Instagram, which I presume people enjoyed the most). As…
Waffle Ispahan – rose waffle with raspberry sorbet and litchi sauce. The waffle felt a bit flaccid (not possessing the turgidity of the Horffles) but the warmness and fragrance of the rose flavour enlivened the proceedings. The multiple elements – rose, raspberry and lychee – shared the throne amicably, with…
Apple vanilla mousse cake. The heavens are usually fair in their distribution of looks and taste – you are seldom allowed to be beautiful and delicious at the same time – but they must have been smitten by this minxy apple as it tastes slightly better than it should given…
Horffles – Horlicks sauce and powder on waffle, with vanilla ice cream. Horlicks overkill it ain’t – it all worked rather nicely! 4/5 Les Patisseries Blk 186 Toa Payoh Central #01-428 Singapore 310186