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 December 2011

Ad♥ré berry much- Heart-shaped pocky

Tuesday, December 27   keyboard  


26 December, 2011

The pocky strawberry this season looks extra-valentine! For some reason the new layout seems to have something uncanny about it.


Something about the cutout of the center peach-shaped; the strawberry (note the one at the bottom left-hand) mutated, (and the pocky themselves?), looking like a pair of smiling birds on flight.


Pocky Tsubu Tsubu (SGD 3.85)

Despite being pocky tsubu tsubu. Tsubu tsubu is like chunky peanut butter, or almond crush ice-cream sticks, where this time it is the remnants of berries dried and stuck on the stick. Some riddling texture while consuming the strawberry flavour stick.

P.S. Open up and see the cross sections yourself. Why must it be pocky tsubu tsubu strawberry, pink, and not pocky chocolate, for heart shape.




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Orange Day- Prosperity from McDonald's

Thursday, December 22   keyboard  


Night

The preppy shade refreshing among the blue of the winter, washing over the entire billboard. There is going to be a change in decor very soon.


Tropical Orange Flavour Burst (SGD 0.80)

At the edge of the road; Orchard Road, there were caucasians, filipinos, mexicans enjoying the al fresco, naked weather. The rest of the locals must have stayed indoors for the season. It would be a few days before this place gets flooded.


Pineapple pie (SGD 1.30)

A mouthful on the tongue. An invigorating twist to the baked pie, it is comfort food of crispy golden shell with nectarine syrup inside, but the fruit pieces tangy pineapples. Imagine it shining yellow inside.

P.S. Of course there is also the Orange McFizz, Zesty Orange McFlurry, Twister fries.

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Cosy Company- Coloured wraps at Pacific Coffee Co.

Wednesday, December 21   keyboard  


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We've been waiting for this to happen, Pacific Coffee Company. And it did. For exactly a year now.


The menu to shift, like some kind of stock market. The wraps indeed have new additions to the assortment. Besides the potato (yellow, from tumeric powder), and chicken (orange, from tomato paste), they now come in yummy candy colours for the 2 new flavours. On-the-go, they are as pretty as cake rolls; dine-in, they are squashed flat with grilled lines like quesadillas.


Tandoori Chicken Wrap (Green) Mexican Tex Wrap (Pink) (SGD 7.50 ea)

Your size? Footlong. Sub/wrap? Tandoori and Mex. {Who knows it would have been basil and spinach, and tomato (green, and pink).} The tandoori chicken resembles char siew in a sweet chilli sauce, offset by the melted cheese inside the wrap. The Mexican tex is like a pizza pressed to flaccidity, essentially the strong taste of mozzarella cheese and herby tomato. There are also beef and kidney beans inside!

P.S. The wraps are thin, and flourry. Mex Tex, mexican influenced american food. Rejuvenation; once again, seeing carbohydrate mains turn colour to those equivalent of desserts, transgressing between staple and fiction.

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A Glorious drink- Gloria Jean's Coffees White mocha

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Cloudy

Everything here is still exactly the same, the lampshades, the napkins, the chairs; it feels like yesterday.


This chain from the US has its portions made: hearty. Neverending mugs deep like wells, cakes stoned-sized before they are sliced, even jumbo forks for battling with your mouth.


Minty White Mocha (Regular)

Grab a mug of green coffee this season. They come in latte art of treble clef or gilded fonts. Like flat white, it is a foam of green steamed milk circling the cup's circumference, sweet from the flavour of peppermint. Is it brown/coffee/all green underneath? The drink is a brilliant ochre grey of bejeweled tones, hardly adequate to describe the lucency of mixing mint with coffee, and green and brown this bizarre combination.



P.S. The chocolate in this mocha should have been white chocolate.


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Desserts with girl names- Antoinette

Friday, December 16   keyboard  


Rainy

Exceptionally sweet and charming; is the new kid on the block, Antoinette. It serves up both mains (lunch and brunch), and sweets. It has food names like Florentine, Nordic and Concorde. You would have to comply and name out the belles, in your order.


It would not be hard to guess that rogue and roses, that pretty pink would dominate its palette. In its patisserie display outside, there are some which fall into the theme.


Charlotte Log

Raspberry infused sugar skin with vanilla bean mousse inside. Trying to rub a bit of the nippon with kanji at the other side of the mistletoe tag.


Saint Honore L'amour (SGD 8.50)

A beaming creation by Antoinette, it is rose and lychee flavoured elements injected in this dessert. The rose petal comes with sparkling dew on top.

P.S. The brunch and breakfast looks better, too. Think of the girl when you are having the desserts. They complete the imagery of the food-tasting.


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Winter Hokkaido- Adzuki ice cream from Sushi Tei

Thursday, December 15   keyboard  


Night

Quiet, enchanting atmosphere, Sushi Tei is a place for the relish of sushi, in izakaya-style and comfort with menu according to the months.


Of course, for this season the grilled squid stuffed with flavoured squid rice, and the perennial ikura and chuka kurage and pan-fried salmon tail are also savoured at Sushi Tei. Even the simple silver of crabmeat in chawanmushi and california roll is also outstanding.


Hokkaido Adzuki Ice Cream (SGD 3.40)

Like its picture, it is a soft deft pink. The adzuki ice cream is unconceivable in flavour, more mellow like rum, or chendol. Maybe because Hokkaido's the mix. It is not like any other red bean ice cream.

P.S. After wasabi, yubari melon, apple, shio caramel; so many seasonssoul-searching, finally there is an ice-cream scoop worth fitting in.

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Eggette- egg|baguette from Bo Ji

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Speciality street foods. Of Hong Kong speaking about its lifestyle and mentality; what are the people thinking about. A stall at Raffles City basement means it has a statement to make, about this kind of food on a southeast-asian Singapore stage.

So what is so unique about this food? It is just an universal concept, 'asian'-themed slushies teamed with munchies for a bite.

Eggette (Green Tea) (SGD 3.80 + 0.50)

An eggette is still something unknown to the world, non-existent in the archives of Wikipedia(?). Still, it is something very intriguing, be it its term or the presentation itself.


For eggette, the stall-tender folds heaped spoonfuls of green tea powder into the batter, before cooking it in a golf ball-textured mould. Resulting in a crispy toasted yet also soft and undulating dough compound.

P.S. The air pockets. Bubble foam signifying the termination; mere puffs of our transient lives(?). The crispy somewhat simulates the sweetness and texture of kuih kaput(love letter), and it is acrid bitter, slightly of the stinging nettles of green tea. Double-double consonants. Like coffee. That fuzzy wuzzy would like.

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Out of the pan, out of the box

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Out of the [box], observe intently, the flour of the crepe and waffles are divinely dark in colour! Signature chocolate waffles and crepe from Out of the Pan.


Sipping coffee from beside the prancing fountain. This cafe is known for both its savoury and sweet dessert crepes and waffles. The custard in its sweets hits the spot.


Pear Helene (SGD 14.00)

Chocolate waffles with poached pear and William pear ice cream. Get it on the rarely seen dark-coloured waffles— {wonderful poached pears and luscious ice cream aside}. The waffles have a special demeanor of their own, toasty of a baguette and savouriness of a roti prata. While absurdly dark in colour, it is just partially drenched in some kind of chocolate, but that is hardly tasted on the tongue. Overall, good standard of waffles (out of the (pan)).


Chocolate Mania (SGD 14.00)

Glazed banana wrapped in chocolate crepe with dark chocolate ice cream and nuts. Dig on that finely deep-hued crepe- the highlight of this dessert, amidst the thick-chocolate ice cream, robust bananas and light fluffy custard in the crepe. It is flourry of those of a soft tortilla wrap, with a fresh eggy flavour. With none of the cocoa or developed flavour imagined of a "black coloured" 'chocolate' crepe.

P.S. Widow. Going back to the fundamentals, it is just (cocoa powder), yet it can do magic on a dessert crepe and waffle, turning it incredulously enigmatic and dark, as if it had fitted into the category of black foods. Even though its just brownchocolate.

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Rudolph the pink reindeer

Tuesday, December 13   keyboard  


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Reindeers can get pink nowadays. Our eyes rather suited to such shades in things which come in them.


The (inflammatory) nose has spread to the whole body, making it bright and pink throughout. {It might not be Rudolph}.

P.S. It is still a great idea, pink (red + white), for christmas colour.

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Sweet mint breaths - mini green cream McVities digestive

Friday, December 9   keyboard  


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These are small, green, mint, and digestive (McVitie's).


"Meiji" McVitie's Sweet Mint Biscuit (SGD 2.20)

The oreo comes in so many fashions- the bite-sized, the triple-thick cream, the recognisable foil bag wrapper holding a multitude of them inside. Fun; and inviting to have a lunch-bag of them at a go. So must ritz (Cheese Crackers) and even McVitie's digestives now in this form of a tactic.


So imagine the grandiose Digestive cookies, in the chic form of a mini, plump around the rinds with a drop of cream inside. Shaking off the serious stature of a sweet-meal digestive cookie. Furthermore with invention of green cream (sweet mint) inside.

P.S. The biscuit does not taste earthy of the brown-meal of a digestive biscuit, it is smooth and lightly dusted with cocoa. Taking it in a bite of the sandwich cookie it tastes like english peppermint chocolate, the pale turquoise cream exuding the sweetness of mint.


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Green Logcake @ Cedele

Wednesday, December 7   keyboard  


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It is that time of the year again with fireplaces ablazing fed with logs. And dessert and pastries constructed in ludicrous ways to resemble the immobile log; providing warmth.


This year the harvest upon Cedele include persimmons, cranberry bean, and pistachio, yes,(green). Letting us not lose sight and give thanks to the wi{er}d and exotic plant species created on this earth to furbish our food.


Grand Pistachio Orange Logcake (Limited Edition) (SGD 8.00)

The ingredients used are handmade from scratch, gluten-free/organic, and organic unrefined sugar and grapeseed oil preferred for the sweets. This include the Cedele menu planner/sweet gifts for thanksgiving.


It is a festive log-end in green, the frosting proudly deepened and seasoned by the green of pistachio, making it savoury tarty and creamy at the same time.


P.S. Instead of a swirl inside, (like what logcakes would emulate), it is strips of orange cake layer giving a vibrant combination to the green cake. Orange, it is supposed to be invigorating infused with the juices of orange. The white cream is cream cheese frosting and there are chocolate puffs inside, together with chopped pistachio. A tropical tranquil feel yet knowing it is the logcake.

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(Match)a Perfect- Food Culture @ Ichiban Boshi

Sunday, December 4   keyboard  


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Happy yuletide from Ichiban. From late aug 2011 to mar 2012, Ichiban is going to tide through the seasons with us with the matcha delights food culture, staying put as their pool of outlets offering the dessert menu for different times of the year.


Ichiban Boshi, its concept is different from Ichiban Sushi, and they are distinguished from one another with speciality menus allocated for each venue- that is a new japanese term every time.


Tentokin (SGD 6.90)

Aside its main dishes, the up and coming Food Culture also makes its dessert exotic. Shoryu-ayn, Fuji Goko, Kinkakuji, Kenrokuen. Even the kanji feels good in calligraphy. Tentokin means golden sun?


P.S. Like a Big breakfast, you can choose to add the strawberry jam to the muffin/dunk the warmed muffin in cool ice cream/independent of each other eat in accordance as you like. A note is that instead of a muffin with vanilla ice cream, it is matcha muffin with matcha ice cream and matcha cookies. The cookies remind you of an alternate universe where it is a Matcha World. The strawberry jam is intense and dark and the matcha ice cream leaves a bittersweet note which is refreshing.


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