Portico Favourites high tea menu at Portico Prime. Terrific value for money for the quality and quantity on display. The chilled truffle-scented angel hair pasta with avruga caviar and kawa ebi shrimps barges into your sensory pleasure memory orbs with the rapacious ruthlessness of a disgruntled Bukit Gombak-residing Ah Ma…
Eclairs from Dulcet & Studio – (from top) Ethiopian coffee with nuts, mini exotic (melon and mint), chocolate, and corn. If you buy four eclairs, the pricing is almost buy-3-get-1-free, so naturally we went for it. Off the bat, we noted that the choux pastry had a certain airy coarseness to…
Laksa Fisherman’s Pie from Epicurious – prawn, fish, crabmeat, taupok, carrot and zucchini in spicy laksa broth with a puff pastry top. Essentially roti prata served with distilled laksa concentrate, so powerfully flavoured that you must savour it by way of dipping the pastry and only sucking the soak in order…
Mitzo special barbecued pork. The skin of this amazing piggylicious delight must have been separated at birth from crème brûlée. I doodled a diagram in my notes whilst eating this – it was a circle labelled “middle” within a box with area outside the circle shaded and labelled “melts in…
Burnt banana mille-feuille from Canopy Garden Bar – chocolate cremux, black sesame lace, banana & berry compote. The sugary pastry was puffy and cuttable, the banana slices were nicely caramelised and the chocolate cremux had the texture of ice cream, but the presence of the black sesame was as random…
HarriAnns High Tea Set from HarriAnns – nonya kaya choux, 6 bite-sized kueh and 2 kopi/teh. The kaya/hazelnut choux pastry was an adventurous lad but may have attended one too many mega sugar rushes during the weekend. Elsewhere, the different kueh – with names ranging from the Kylie Minogue-esque “Pink…
8 Spices Apple Crumble with Crème Anglaise from Open Farm Community. Deceptively simplistic labelling, but the “crumble” here is a sum of many distinct parts – part warm and lovingly sweet apple chunks, part hard and nutty crunch, and part chao tar and intensely smoky bits which evoke memories of…
TBB savoury croissants from Tiong Bahru Bakery – Jumping Fish (smoked salmon with spinach and ricotta), Running Egg (molten ramen egg with bonito and chilli flakes), Rolling Dumpling (pork and chives topped with pickled ginger, black vinegar dressing and chives), and Flying Pig (artisanal onion jam with spicy pork sausage…
Last minute cooked apple pie, cinnamon ice cream, and calvados (apple brandy). Essentially a delightful puff pastry which had a prior good roll in a bed of sugar granules. The cinnamon ice cream was rather spicy, the apple brandy appreciatedly strong and the caramel-esque sauce added sweet gooeyness to the…