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…
Matcha Pancake (azuki bean paste, fresh berries, azuki ice cream, vanilla sauce) from Pacamara Boutique Coffee Roasters. Whilst the Potong-esque ice cream and thick paste represent the azuki faction with VJC-style flags-ahoy enthusiasm, the titular matcha teammates are demonstrably nonchalant, with the kitkat chunks being more milk than tea and…
Matcha Montblanc with Matcha Ice Cream from Kyushu Pancake. The sheer volume of chestnut drama within the thick, ropey cream would more than excite a scurry of rascally squirrels, the cream possessing a matcha powdery bitterness which adds a zen, masculine edge to the proceedings and prevents you from getting…
The Ultimate (Buttermilk Pancake) from La Ristrettos – salted caramel sauce, bananas, pancetta. Essentially the happy McDonald’s hotcakes you had as a kid but now all grown up, with luscious chestnut locks and donning a sleek café apron. The salted caramel sauce would probably make you reminisce for plastic-boxed butter…
Academïcs Pancake Tower from The Coffee Academïcs Singapore – layered pancakes topped with mixed berries and blueberry coulis, served with berry sorbet and whipped cream. The enormously-filling and portentously looming structure had the heat-trapping cottony fluffiness of an ungroomed Pomeranian, whilst elsewhere the jammy berry sorbet had a Joo Chiat-esque…
Swedish Apple Pancake topped with caramelised apples, Bavarian cream and cinnamon cider glaze from Clinton Street Baking Company. The enormously filling buttery, fluffy pancakes, which stored a 8.15am MRT train passenger-esque steaming rage deep within, provided eggy French toast comfort whilst elsewhere the Bavarian cream was a sugary vanilla ice…
Sticky date pancake from Pacamara Boutique Coffee Roasters – fresh bananas, cookie dough, candied pecan nuts, salted caramel sauce, salted caramel ice cream. The slightly sour pancakes had the fluffiness of a Holland Village pomeranian, whilst elsewhere the sugary nuts evoked strong kachang putih feels (although you must absolutely beware…
Pandan pancakes from Tolido’s Espresso Nook – fragrant pandan pancakes topped with vanilla ice cream and drizzled with gula melaka sauce. The sweet, gloriously scented and earnestly fluffy pancakes had the salesmanship of a coconut-shampooed, blazer-donning Isetan cosmetics agent – you aren’t just being sold pancakes but also pandan-induced nostalgia,…
Lemongrass ricotta hotcakes from Pacamara Boutique Coffee Roasters – fluffy lemongrass infused ricotta hotcakes topped with mixed berry compote and maple syrup on side. The fragrance of lemongrass makes an instant, impressive debut but it is quickly overshadowed by the vivacious sexiness of the mixed berry compote, a delirious combination…