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.
