Chihuly Lounge- Summer Weekend Afternoon Tea

Take a feast on all the names. Passion fruit mango éclair, casis violet écclair, mango éclair, caramel écair, mac-clair, cherry écair, cookies and cream écair, gula melaka écair, chocolate écair, green tea écair, mixed berries écair, hazelnt éclair, apple écair.

An Equador Rose

Say it with me. #iloveyouimissyousecretfriendshippleaseforgivemeremembermethankyoubemysweetheart. On a rose.

Chihuly Lounge- Summer Weekend Afternoon Tea

Take a feast on all the names. Passion fruit mango éclair, casis violet écclair, mango éclair, caramel écair, mac-clair, cherry écair, cookies and cream écair, gula melaka écair, chocolate écair, green tea écair, mixed berries écair, hazelnt éclair, apple écair.

An Equador Rose

Say it with me. #iloveyouimissyousecretfriendshippleaseforgivemeremembermethankyoubemysweetheart. On a rose.

Chihuly Lounge- Summer Weekend Afternoon Tea

Take a feast on all the names. Passion fruit mango éclair, casis violet écclair, mango éclair, caramel écair, mac-clair, cherry écair, cookies and cream écair, gula melaka écair, chocolate écair, green tea écair, mixed berries écair, hazelnt éclair, apple écair.

Archive for November 2010

Green Tea Cheese Cake

Thursday, November 25   keyboard  


24 Nov, 2010

At Ichiban Sushi, a full-course dinner can be found on its conveyor belt. Like a head into a tunnel, you don't know what will come out.



Unagi rolls approaching, a sweet yet savoury dinner. Gunkan and tamagos, for a buffet. Seasoned jellyfish, for appetizer. Green and orange kyonakyu jellies, for dessert. Chocolate and custard coronets, like the petit four.



Desserts and main course on the conveyor belt! And cheesecake, a slice, peeking from underneath the hood. And not just that, cheesecakes from Ichiban are green(!), at the ends of the brown that used to meet yellow.



Cheesecake (SGD 2.10)

Chanced upon like sushi, this cheesecake is incredibly light and tasty, with thin hissing sounds made when you compress it. Synonymous with the cow; Fiesta cheesecake, yet in between the burnt edges it is scented with green tea. Like eggs, flour, sugar and butter; green tea is in the batter like cinammon is to gingerbread.

P.S. So why is there a green cheesecake? The tale goes as with Fiesta Japanese cheesecake, also remembered as the cow with a chef's hat going green, Matcha, in addition to chocolate, pandan and coffee flavours. From July 2010 they will be in production, and also invited to seat at Ichiban Sushi and Ichiban Boshi Japanese Restaurants.

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Green Chicken Floss

Wednesday, November 17   keyboard  


16 Nov, 2010

Past the stretches of City Square Mall, basement, a host of delectables greet you. Adorned in wood block typography is mugiya, wheat house bakery. Traditional, conventional bread slumps by its displaysill, and under the warm light, their textures are illuminated like shadows of grey glitter.



Giant pillows with needle-like pock marks, a smooth cheese glaze with pressed green shards. And this, a shapely bun in a green moss dress? The brain takes more time to adjust, than the eye in yellow light.


Wasabi C.Floss (SGD 1.50)

Lo and behold, chicken floss in this house is green! Doings of the roots of the horseradish again, making it look like some mythical creature. So, does this variant look as acceptable as it looks? The floss is iced sweet, with the slight stinging nettle of wasabi; making it taste like hot floss, just that it is more earthy of plant nature. The wasabi floss is balanced triadically with the savouriness of mayonnaise, and shearing mayonnaise's fattiness with the spiciness of wasabi. All in one bite of soft, fragrant japanese bun, the wasabi c.floss is the bolsters of seventh heaven.

P.S. The japanese has exploited before, the sweetness of wasabi as a flavour in ice cream. Similarly here, the sugar in the plant is dissected and distilled onto the strands of chicken floss, imaginatively inventive, and beautifully finished. Air-spraying the mosses green, this separates the hot floss bun from the usual chilli floss, as with its visual the wasabi taking the role of the colour.

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Green Carrot Cake

Wednesday, November 10   keyboard  


10 Nov, 2010

Under the hanging corridors of Plaza Singapura, there is this very 'green'-looking café, bespeaking environmental and preservation matters.



The Society Café. Food sold in trinkets of silver, as if to be treasured, savoured. The sun's rays penetrate through the panels of the arena, making you think about global warming, and the better of times, like now.



Lime citrus tart (All Day Special) (Set) (SGD 9.00)

Yet its pantry appeals with the eccentric. Edible printed designs on chocolate- slick marble texture, for powerpoint? Cut-out and pasted like the galaxy. Flavour-wise the lime was a perfect substitute for sugar in the curd, thinning it out calming tea within the dense tart.



Facing their backs together were wedges of tall, tall carrot cakes. Arranged as two cakes in all, there were slices with white stripes, and slices with green stripes. The stripes coming to your nose; its green frost elevating the cake somewhere into faux land, where frostings come in green.



Carrot Cake w/ green tea frosting (All Day Special) (Set) (SGD 9.00)

So how did this elvish-looking frosted cake taste like? The sponge did not lose out to Cedele's, heavily scented with carrot and spice. There is also a generous amount of walnuts! And in between the green butter gave pleasure of saccharin, nothing but a mere vapour of green tea; richness in contrast to the sleekness of the dense cake.

P.S. Green tea. Uprising as the fourth position behind superstars chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. Our glimmer of hope that green foods could be uplifted on the pedastal of stardom, where we gaze upon brown, pink and white foods with affection, in recognition that they are mouthwatering foods.

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Green Baumkuchen

Monday, November 8   keyboard  


Cloudy

The Baumkuchen. Also known as the tree cake, because the tree reveals its age when you chop off its trunk. The the older it gets, the more rings it have.



Named by the Germans but made popular by the Japanese, the Baumchuken looks like a lapis cake, but in the shape of a chiffon cake. Wheat baumkuchen, proudly purported by its baker in Toa Payoh, there is the classic original, chocolate (imagine a brown-looking chiffon), durian/oreo mascarpone cheese (imagine round icing cakes) and valrhona chocolate (imagine glazed donuts). Lovely, earthly-toned series, there is also this green to complement the woods tale.



Baumkuchen (Matcha) (SGD 4.00)

Cloyingly sweet, matcha was like how the japanese mediated their red adzuki beans- full on the sweetness. There was also the egg flavour and richness of a lapis cake. The frills though, is the texture of this cake. A bite of the chiffon sponge tinged with burnished goodness, thin but peelable, forming an alternating gastronomical delight.



A bite of Baumkuchen, in the most classic flavour or this green flavour, one interweaves in and out of reality, in and out of green, in and out of cake/brown, in and out for a breather.

P.S. Almost perennial japan/taiwan fair at ngee ann city one can find the wheat baumkuchen outside toa payoh! Its the refresh page for food enthusiasts. And brouhaha baumkuchen is also found at muji islandwide! For the daredevils, grab these little tree spirits in their round package, complete with the green variant too, at muji.

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Green Scone

Sunday, November 7   keyboard  


Cloudy

Many months ago, Coffee Club was the central kitchen, churning muffins from T3, bottom of Borders, Tiong Bahru. This is because there is oatmeal and cranberry, cinammon, blueberry, orange, amongst many others. Where you don't have to steal seats for a cuppa, them sitting in a glass dome like dolls.



Similarily there is also a case, for scones. Many months ago, they were plain beside the royal crown muffins, until last month, I thought I saw a green one. ???. The tan-tea-lising set is still available until today, for sampling.



A Toast to Scones (SGD 8.90)

My stance to the green scone still stands today! The English Green- not pandan, green tea, but mint. I was right on the spot. A chocolate mint scone- it was a hybrid of a cookie and bread. The bottom of the scone brittle like biscuit, the body plain like flourless cake. Mint acted like an air-refresher through the confectionery, and you could spread it with apricot and mango curd like bread. It felt like christmas peppermint cookie.

P.S. The usual muffin flattened, but in the characteristic of a scone. In the poster flagging tiny icons of russet, brown, green, beige, in the glass case rolling out sweets in russet, brown, green, beige, it is like a rainbow world, and we are in this plastic world.



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Green Sundae

Saturday, November 6   keyboard  

6 Nov, 2010

You know you are back to civilian with new green, black or rainbow. Also the end of psle, e-y-e, mark of op, A's, and ord. Some kind of jet lag but this year is going to end! Indoors are starting to snow with peppermint background.


Chocolate Chip Sundae (Green Apple) (SGD 1.80)

So are Mcdonald's sundae. With a red beside the green in the sundae's poster, you can't help to acknowledge your lag of time. But it is not peppermint, it is green apple. Green apple fragrant like handwash, mellifluous like candy, embedded in the smooth, vanilla puree that we are all familiar with.

P.S. In condensed fashion almost like some kind of trifle or pavlova, you think about yuletide, and that christmas is almost here.


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