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 August 2013

The dean approves- rainbow cake @ Dean & DeLuca

Monday, August 5   keyboard  


Sunny

 It was the salt that kept me going, a year plus ago June 2012, when Dean & Deluca first projected its appendages onto Singapore. The coarse sea salt (white), the roasted garlic sea salt (ochre), the wild porcini seat salt (mushroom brown), the Himalayan Mineral salt (flecked and rose, quartzed?). Bringing back that flood of rainbow, like a train of flashback.

Or was it the coarse sugar? Chiseled metal tins for stockings hanging? This era is loose powder, gel liners. Green sugar, blue sugar, yellow sugar, orange sugar, clear sanding sugar, rainbow sugar, purple sugar, pink sugar, red sugar. What your coffee sugar says about you.   



Foods|Gifts|Gourmet- they are interchangeable, welded here. The spirit of eating and giving. From charcuterie to cheeses to wine, and to employ its fresh or organic means to the cafe. But this gourmet retailer is also a backyard for rainbow? Why no radiating forth the gleam; windowsills shortcake and blondies and tart which stole the gem away? 




There it was actually, beside the red velvet and chocolate indulgence. Garmented in ethereal, white clouds (literally), thrown into such an identity crisis slightly cumbersome with jagged ridges, it could be the precipitation beside the meteorological phenomena rolling up a Romantic notion for the rainbow. No wonder the interior linings are pocketed. Rainbow met with a storm here? It can be orange, pink, yellow, green, blue, purple on one day, red, yellow, green, blue, orange, purple (cake) in Dean & DeLuca on another! 


Lemon Meringue (SGD 7.00)

 Less sweet and zesty with rind of citrus, it is solid enough-looking pastry, the crisped browned meringue artful in texture and filled lemon curds well-whipped and stable.  

Rainbow Cake Slice (SGD 7.00)

Though many ways for interpretation, bakehalf bake it ganache it birthday it, this is angel's entry by Dean & Deluca, to rainbow cake in Singapore, though Dean & Deluca departs from New York. The white vanilla-flavoured buttercream. However cherubic as it is casted by Dean & Deluca, the rainbow has been pertained to something. Sandwiched into 3, it is read the sweet and cherry ripe red of Froot Loops {red}, the tangy bursts of orange, yellow and green Froot Loops {orange, yellow, and green}, and the jacked up goodbye kisses of grape in the purple of Froot Loops {blue and purple}. Cake sponge fingers which remind you of the fruits!  

P.S. Dean & Deluca, why it would interject itself as one of another slice in the rainbow scene. {Rainbow cakes, infantine}. It then felled upon me because it is to sweeten it. 





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It's an Australia @ The House of Robert Timms

Friday, August 2   keyboard  


Cloudy


When its not small enough, there's Chinatown, Little Vietnam, Little India, Little Italy. Would we ever have a signature of our own? How about a tiny Australia? The true taste of the wild; not withholding, have a loin of kangaroo, stout braised, braised crocodile casserole, or kangaroo rendang. Catch your whole host of safari animals. The bizarre display. The House of Robert Timms.   


Savouries aside, when you are partially swept away by the bivalves and light bites, steak selection, all-day breakfast, and beer and coffee bar, you'd know that there are sweets at The House of Robert Timms. Those shared, interfusing terms- flourless cake, chocolate ganache, lamington, dip cookie, already so heavily accented in characteristic flavour, more in the chilled, where to go from here? 


Aussie's clotted and cream and glazed. But not so, there's a smear of colour there- rainbow, yes, in such uncomplicated yellow (?), brown (?), purple (?), red (?), pink (?), green (?). Torrent from the macaroons.


To think the mirage of paradise could be reproduced. The Classic (Macaroons)(rainbow)- in rose and lavender and choc mint and mango. Rainbow would not be stitched, without any one of the four in the quadruple. 


Choc Mint (SGD 6.00)

The urbane flavour from the tea leaves macaroons. One of the items that would get on your serving in the end. Be it a conspicuous sight, transplanted on top of counter; but French, painted eggshells, and it be Au Chocolat, or PAUL, having macaroons colossal. The usual seize. No longer a little loot, macarons. 


The colour of your salads. Telling, the pastry has a cripsy cookie shell, appropriately set, and the ice-white buttercream plenty, grand where the filling is substantial and not leaving sad pockets with you languishing a waste. A frosty floral of mint goes on the white, but a sweet ending, definitely.  

 P.S. You'd want to try them all (rainbow)- rose and lavender and choc mint and mango, but it's a misfortune. They are too big to swallow for a rainbow. 

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