Meringue Roll from The Plain Jane. Essentially the airy between-the-cake-sheets love child of soft, clayey meringue and chewy marshmallow. 3.8/5 The Plain Jane Blk 211 Serangoon Ave 4 #01-10 Singapore 550211
Sriracha maple bacon, avocado and sourdough toast from Plonk. The bacon was like the wavy-haired nymph at the bar you knew was trouble when you walked in – chewy and an alluring BBQ powder-esque spicy at first, but eventually revealing itself to be insistently sticky and possessive. Elsewhere, the avocado…
Deconstructed lemon tart with fried shallot (!) ice cream from Plonk. The exhilaratingly tart lemon curd had a texture that’s best described as Malay kueh meets pudding, whilst elsewhere the fried shallots required careful portioning to ensure the entirety of the largely vanilla ice cream got the necessary fried fragrance…
Melon Snow Milk Bingsu from Snowman Desserts. Despite the visual distractions offered by the veiny green dress, the Marge Simpson hairdo and the admittedly entertaining juggling of orange balls, inevitable is the realisation that the so-named snow milk ice that lies beneath has as much personality as those fake accounts…
Fishball Noodles from Song Kee Fishball Noodles. On this anarchic battlefield, all bets are off and you and your dining companions must divide and conquer in order to safely secure a meal. There’s a queue for the cashier, who grants you a magical numbered plaque; then, you and your friends…
Strawberry bingsu from Nunsongyee. While we were positively smothered with love from all them fleshy and sweet strawberries, the cows that provided the milk used for the shaved milk ice might have been lactationally challenged as the ice was rather tasteless, a far cry from the milky goodness experienced during…
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…
Seafood tagliatelle from Arbite – handmade squid ink tagliatelle, prawns, squid, salmon, mussels, chilli and spring onions in a tomato sauce. The tagliatelle tasted like they may have taken one year’s worth of BodyCombat classes, but thankfully the tomato sauce, all wet and brothy, made the pasta easier and much…
Mixed berries Bingsu. The equivalent of putting a naked panda and monitor lizard in bed and expecting lusty sparks to fly. Whilst the shaved milk ice remains undeniably velvety soft and the berries were legit, there was zero chemistry between the two, and I was left rather confused by it…