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 July 2012

Risen- Purple berry bread from Yes Natural

Tuesday, July 31   keyboard  


Sunny

Purple homing berry. A notch above the red, blue, green berry. It loses to the gold, of course, but purple was the second most powerful berry and the gold could not home on enemies. Remnants of what impressed on one in the {then Windows} computer game, A Bug's Life. What got one dug deep on this venerable, mysterious shade, (oh, the silver), second in line to gold, perhaps. Dictated.


In real life no (more) bug's, one couldn't quite believe one's ears and eyes when the stall atendant told one that this is purple berry grain. Pointing to the slab of cracklish brown loaf. And when determined, it was sliced which revealed an interior which was really purple when they rolled off.


Purple Berry Grain (SGD 6.00)

Really purple. Not the trips that boysenberry or grapes give on the musty-looking colour (and emoticon), what nature claims of the violet shades when foods are made from them. Purple = blue + red. And not a hoax, like purpleberry named for namesakes, term which is void.


So purple berry grain, is the wheat berry (unprocessed wheat kernel) of a grain that is purple in colour. It is true. Despite that startling-purple purple colour that makes you take a few steps back.

P.S. *Star. Wheat. *Star. Corn. *Star. Wholegrain flour. The labels slowly loll out at you the exalted whole foods they use in their bread. Even before approaching, a small cube from the tub for sampling, it was unpredictably fragrant and soft with a high level of friendliness that one could not normally associate with such breads of organic steel rules. It is mixed with cranberries (not dried), blowing it with sweet kisses, and studded with walnuts. This lovingly purple, and unique bread only at Yes Natural, a company specialized in organic and natural food products with three resides in Singapore, Geylang, Tiong Bahru, Clementi. Thanks to amethyst too, in keeping note the ingredients it had in the bread.


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Reaching Cloud 9 ice-cream @ Cedele

Monday, July 30   keyboard  


Sunny

Green tea and red bean. They seem to be abounding everywhere, long after the rise of the japanese cuisine. Haato, hokkaido ice-cream, non-hokkaido ice-cream- there have been many places where green tea has stayed a place in the heart of ice-cream parlours. But because its
C e d e l e.


The counters are clean and promising like its foods; made fresh, with time, and with natural ingredients. For the first time joining the riot of colours is the green tea and red bean flavour ice-cream. It has a flavour of chendol, with metallic tones, that is how the "tea" functions, for the slightly sweet pleasing green tea. Let it set a little, scoop it up, it thickens and becomes stretchable, trademark of compressed dairy creamy, where there is no room for air, let alone ice.


Green Tea & Red Bean (Single Scoop) (SGD 3.80)

It has the feel-good factor of frozen yoghurt but indubitably the richness of ice-cream. One thing to note is that the ice-cream at Cedele is called Cloud 9 ice-cream. Eggless. Trans fat-free. Vegetarian. What which is proclaimed at every outlet of Cedele. The Cloud 9 ice-cream-labelled tubs, which you can bring home.

P.S. When one thinks of its eggless, one thinks of its bread, too, eggless, sugarless, fat-free. One sorts of gets under the skin of Cloud 9, the ice-cream under Cedele. Black sesame, pink beet, pandan, pistachio, strawberry. The place which has reached the many rungs of the ladder of time. But, looks like one can never finish understanding green tea.(?)

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Tomato taste hotdog bun @ Peck

Monday, July 16   keyboard  


Sunny

DONQ, St Leavens (my heaven), Peck, PAUL. There can be so many of them because the crowds here have a penchant for the "mean".



Bread fusing the same colour as its ingredient. The tomato taste bread, aptly named by Peck for that sun-dried goldenness harvested within the bread, a seasoned, lickable flavour. Suffice on its own, notable at Peck for (even) selling as solo, as its signature chewy rolls.


Now for the new star item, it is no more tomato taste/pomodoro calzone or tomato taste/pomodoro wrap (postulatable tortillas same as their meat sauce), but hotdog buns in sundried tomato bread. It is not yeasty, of the Japanese, but of soft focaccia, the ones with thin skin for the softs at Peck.


Ham & Asparagus Pomodoro (SGD 2.00)

"Ham and asparagus sandwiched between Tangy tomato taste soft bun, and topped with mayonnaise & tomato sauce." It is an elegant hotdog bun. The ham was natural-tasting, of spices, and it was moist and succulent. The tomato sauce was rich like the generous pulps on a wood-fired pizza.

P.S. No, when were there supposed to be orange. It was just the hotdog bun had finally brushed off to a hotdog colour by nature.


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Best black and white- sumi udon @ Sakae Sushi

Sunday, July 15   keyboard  


Cloudy

The terrific kind of black would be the charcoal, or sumi, a derivative in japanese. Sumi means a type of charcoal that burns cleaner and brighter than conventional charcoal, making it friendly towards the environment. However, sumi only surfaces in context when it is concerned with the charcoal-mixed (longevity) noodles, for some reason. You don't find sumi fried rice or mochi or nabe.



Some new terms learnt, from Sakae Sushi's massively engineered menu for 2012. Its no longer kuro, or kuroi, what the japanese give to black-coloured foods or sesame; or nero, sepia, the Italian term for blackness squid stained foods. Sumosumi; the other side and world of a black released.


In this once in a year change of menu for Sakae Sushi, there are new sushi rolls, a change in taste-(buds), and the main takeaways include hiyashi udon, okayu, japanese simmered porridge for a warm and wholesome meal, and new vegetarian delights. Such are the bold use of corn, corn tempura, (yaki) corn handroll and yaki corn, in gunkan sushi. Lovely blackened to crisps like blow-torches used in searing aburi (sushi) or cheese like sashimi.


Yaki Corn

And of course, the sumi (charcoal) used to dress fat noodles at the rage now due to widened and garnered attention from its health powers. Sumi in udon, the hiyashi chilled noodles way a japanese may sip udon, with tempura, with raw green onions, or now in hot, a more unorthodox way of enjoying udon, fat, sumi.


Wakame Sumi Udon (SGD 9.99)

In broth like ramen, steeping with goodness to one's bones. The best of the protein world-legumes top on the list soybeans (white, milky), to be used for ultimately dyed thick noodles sumi, black. It is not everyday one finds soybeans in savoury, cooked and stirred, and alternate and recent to vegan recipes and restaurant ideas. The soybean soup was tasty and sweet, and one could taste a bit of nuttiness from the depth the soybeans give which was twirly and peculiar because it is the same beans which provided for the sweet, to swamp for curds yet it can also produce satisfaction with every spoonful as broth. With the wakame seaweed and light dressing of enoki mushrooms, it was the most comforting and successful dish from the inventions by Sakae Sushi.

P.S. Clicking one's tongue, like a virus, the blackness blowing from Jollibean to Pizza Hut to Sakae Sushi. It seems like once one starts to prepare a black dish, the rest joins. One is delighted though black, delivered to the masses.

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Pantastic- no longer limits to the pan@ Pizza Hut

Saturday, July 14   keyboard  


Rainy

Pasta Perfecto seems to know it all, a consumer catering-all belt of red, white and even parchment pasta. It also has a sense of something is missing, finally, if be addressed as the great circle of pasta. The not-to-be-neglected, how can we not forget; nonetheless pasta, tasty black.


It has been a long time, and once again, like alarm bells sounding. Thrusting one's glance over the shoulder, peeping if anyone else ordered this what did other customers order. Being insecure. Been self-conscious. Being rusty, at black.


Squid Ink Linguine (SGD 14.90)

From all the amok sauces (non-red or white) [pasta in broth/cannelloni/hazelnut creme] this is just of of them in the uncategorized. Just one word- maybe that's how one started starting all this. It can helm as Pasta Hut. How can one let this squid ink get over me? Its just- Pizza Hut, fast-food.


Thanks to Pizza Hut, one is dawned on the black (squid ink) pasta as white(-based sauce) pasta! It is thick, creamy with a savoury finish, definitely not the tangy, tomato-red sauce category. The rendition here by Pizza Hut has a smooth, boiled like seafood chowder-kind of consistency kindly blanketing over your wheat linguine, it is a supreme experience.

P.S. Salty, one would say, closest to the squeamish perception one would expect of a squid, or from squid's ink. Umami. However, one is to advise the squid rings as partly raw, parboiled. It would probably give off a bit of the rubbery uneasiness that many would flee from from the body or ink of the swimming mollusk. But definitely not from the black (squid ink) sauce. You can still enjoy the pasta. It is not guilty. It is to be pardoned, {or even given a chance to}, for being black.

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(Have not) be(a)n there- @ Jollibean

Wednesday, July 11   keyboard  


Rainy

Bamboo charcoal and adzuki, they sound good together. {Look good too, in a syllable in food}.


For the special birth-month of August for our country, Jollibean is selling maru pancakes that are black as tar, as bitumen in our driveways. It feels like the city of Japan, where it is a common sight for black cakes, health wizards which live for the ashes of bamboo.


Take a hard, great look at the nearest Jollibean stand around you. So mystical, so breath-stealing. So black. Yet just like any other maru (perfectly oval-shaped) pancake, arranged, (to be consumed), made, lying there.


Bamboo Charcoal Adzuki Red Bean (SGD 1.20)

There is only 1 left (at night){!} Gasp, so popular. Imagine few more stacked up together, surreal like sponges (black), lined with a good deal of white sesame seeds at the plateau top. The goodness and natural sweetness of adzuki beans, they were probably hard-core(d) hand-picked [日式], each clear, big and pinky finger nail-sized.

P.S. There wasn't much of an adzuki bean paste. Jam, or natural water, seeping into the black pancake. A hearty combination of adzuki beans and white sesame seed; and for the last time now, bamboo charcoal tastes like the wheat/carbohydrate it clings on to, chewy, of the freshly-made obanyaki batter, unterrifying like a little child seen but not heard.


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Xmas in a pancake- Mr. Obanyaki's fruit 'cake'

Sunday, July 8   keyboard  


Night

Taiyakis and obanyakis. Thick, gorgeous like from a traditional 'heritage' stand. Take a look at this one. Now there also comes a new filling, innovated, variegated like the goodness of fitness products. Mixeddryfruits with banana.


{At that one in the center}-- fruit bar? A pot of candy honey? Taiyaki?(Looking at the grilled ones beside). The swirly feeling of what it is or not is like starry starry night, probably what which rises to rainbow, things which could not but actually does exist in reality.


Mixed dry fruits with Banana (SGD 1.80)

The fruit cake, dotted with candied fruits, has always tried falling in the rainbow category. There's red, green, yellow, orange, my dear. But now that it is an obanyaki, we just let it be. Look this obanyaki and say, it is from a stollen or fruit 'cake' or panettone, in individuals (pieces).

P.S. Crispy, hardy like a biscotti on the outside, one tastes the perky, spiceful (of cinnamon and likes) fruit pieces at first hand; like an arabian journey, later moistened by the smashed banana which gathers it as a pancake (obanyaki)-eating. Imagine it also a pancake interspersed with plump raisins.

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P(re)ppered to blow away- Tri-colour spice @ KFC

Tuesday, July 3   keyboard  


Cloudy

This which was found at 3 60 marketplace, the Pierian Spring of all things which followed, also a reminder of the coloured sugar, which resides at Dean & DeLuca. All of that psychodelic spice that grow out of natural colours like geology stones.


Pink peppercorn, green peppercorn, and black peppercorn. Yes, there are such things in Mother Nature the latter the overflow in usage of what we eat as black pepper. On your chicken.


Tri-pepper Crunch (Meal) (SGD 6.30)

Trepidation with our chicken and fast-food found at the end of the rainbow and how it will look like, tri pepper did not disappoint. A delicate pale pink, green, black-and-yellow pepperheads greeting us, exactly how they might have been if in a gourmet mix. Its thrice the spice. Underneath the crispy, marinated with a layer of spicy oil kind of savouriness, you can bite into the peppercorns, each giving an acrid-biting hotness, but flavourful- because its black pepper(kind), remember. Like peppering your chowder away to a maximum impact.

P.S. These are opaque, yet peppering them on chicken adds it like glitter, {the red at bits pink, red, or orange}, creating the most beautiful chicken yet. Red, green, white, black, on brown/yellow. There are quite a lot of colours. Red, green, blue{dark-the black}, the 3 primary colours. Trust to find them on Kentucky's Favourite Chicken.


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