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Watermelon Lychee sorbet and Strawberry Pocky ice cream with Belgian Waffle from Geometry, located near IKEA Alexandra. The watermelon and lychee flavours are so passionately enmeshed in their amorous physicality that you can’t tell when either element starts and ends while the milky, Meiji-esque strawberry Pocky flavour is true to…

TNT from Non Entrée Dessert Cafe. There is enough kinetic energy from all the fizziness from the raspberry poprocks and yuzu form to power a small fart, whilst elsewhere the pistachio sponge smells all masculinely nutty, the lychee sorbet and marinated strawberry basil lend a playful sweetness to the proceedings,…

Lychee prawn from Lin Rooftop Bar – chopped tiger prawns sautéed with garlic and stuffed in whole lychee, served on a bed of savoury tomato concasse sauce. The lychees wrap their angel wings around the happily garlicky prawns like a possessive crazy ex-girlfriend, positively smothering the prawns with sweet, sweet…

Crispy Duck Pancake from Soi 60 – lychee, Thai herbs, black vinegar reduction. The pancake was like a Indian-spiced prata who eats Wheat Baumkuchen and The Daily Cut for lunch, while the juicy lychee and moist duck had the same chemistry with the salty and slightly spicy black sauce as…

Ispahan cupcake from Fluff Bakery. The cupcake was ridiculously moist and delicious, with the fragrance of rose permeating from every pore of both cake and cream whilst an entire piece of succulent, juicy lychee waits patiently within. Now I understand why people queue. 4.2/5 Fluff Bakery 12 Jalan Pisang Singapore…

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…

Duck confit on a bed of red cabbage with lychee gastrique and duck fat potatoes. Essentially sweet and sour pork, but that day the pigs had trotted away. The lychee gastrique, sweet and slightly tart, immediately restored all my HP and was consumed in its entirety, glam be damned. 4/5…