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.

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Valentines special- Pink PM Tea@Chihuly Lounge

Sunday, February 14   keyboard  


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This year, someone invited me to stay at Ritz Carlton, an experience with the trademark octagonal windows(, just nice the 15 days of chinese new year weren't over), soaking in the auspicious factor and its lounges. Instead, we went for Pink Afternoon Tea Buffet at Chihuly Lounge. Pink-themed pastries, pink-themed desserts and pink-themed sandwiches with your loved one(s), under the dome-shaped Ritz Carlton lounge. 



Pink roses, to replace the daises used in the ongoing spring-themed season buffet. And Moët & Champon Grand Vintage Rosé 2006 poured exclusively for Valentine's Day.





Pink Afternoon Tea Buffet (SGD 58.00)

A mash of oriental and western, Potato Curry Turnover, Salmon Confit, Tofu and Sesame Tofu Dressing, Baked Slice Beef and White Asparagus. It was the first time I had white asparagus and the beef was more tender than it appeared.

Steamed Scallop Siew Mai and Salted Egg, the prized collection on top was salted egg, Bake Spicy Eringi Mushroom and Oriental Pesto Sauce. Chicken puff served in a glass pastry with aburi cheese, jam, cress. Slow Cooked Egg, Truffle Jus and Chive in a ceramic bowl. Egg as cold and bewildering as the truffle jus. 



Suddenly the staff started wheeling a trolley of cakes, which looked sold at Colony, opposite, too. I caught a few of them- Lychee Tart, Lychee Mousse, Rose Pain de Gene (alcohol) and Elderflower Jelly, Red Velvet, Cream Cheese and Berries Compote, and cheesecake. 



Such service of pushing a cake counter was unexpected for the price, and on Valentine's Day.



Pink-themed Goose Liver Parfait, Port Wine Cherry and Cress was barely touched by me, I can only say tastes change, and Baked Honey Glazed Stuff Chicken. Finger sandwiches were Graviax Salmon, Lettuce Salad and Almond Ring, Egg Salad, Miso Mayonnaise and Seaweed Roll, Beef Pastrami, Celery Salad and Mini Croissant.  



Box of chocolates and Ritz Carlton's rose for every diner on the table, Happy Valentine's Day.  



Gold foil and pomegranate shortcake that focused on lightness and natural sweetness. 



Sakura toast with honey, and vanilla ice cream poured over the berries compote, a bold and tangy customised dessert.  



Hediard jams, strawberry, and orange to go with clotted cream and plain scone.



Heart-shaped balloons, and not red lanterns filled up the lounge for an eerie, sexy atmosphere. Later, did I found out that the Pink Afternoon Tea Buffet modelled after Chihuly Lounge's tea-themed spring afternoon tea buffet, only with the tea flavoured desserts swapped for a three-tiered dessert stand. At least I got my two stalks of roses, two Valentine's Day balloons, a box of Ritz Carlton's chocolates home. 

 P.S. Checking into Ritz Carlton later? The complimentary chocolates dark chocolate, Brandy white, and champagne lavender chocolates would be good to rev up the spirit.

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The daily {grind}- breakfeast @ Rise & Grind

Wednesday, January 20   keyboard  











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True cafe, not? Pink eggs benedict@ Rise & Grind

Sunday, January 3   keyboard  


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White meat eaters, pescetarian, and seafood lovers rejoice. Twin protein powers, eggs from the quality sources, chicken (egg), and fish (salmon roe). 

At the top of the craggy hill (Bukit Timah Hill) (mound on top of the hill) (Bukit Timah Plaza in Bukit Timah Road), a whitewashed container classroom beside the Korean bingsu cafe, in the lukewarm slowly heating things up Bukit Timah belt of Downtown Line 2, it was an authentic cafe experience. Upside down rail pails and vintage cups were found in the cafe.



Avo-ka-dukkah (SGD 15.00)

 The star fruit of the cafe, vegetarian eggs benedict. Eggs benny sauce that is green in colour? An avocado jam that is tarty, saltish, with yoghurt tones.


Oceans's Thirteen (SGD 17.00)

Another (pink)highlight of Rise & Grind, pink eggs benedict. Hollandaise sauce made from beetroot and yoghurt. Your rustic eggs ben toast does not run dry, soak it in the runny egg yolk, pink beets sauce, yuzu hollandaise sauce or skinny sans sauce.



Operated by locals, the minimally designed Rise & Grind menu was a mouthful to read. Many herbs and zests of nature, light on the stomach way of cooking, such as dukkah (superfoods around, ?eastern garlic) on the round poached eggs (of the green eggs benedict), haloumi cheese, grilled (on the green eggs benedict), and chives and cracked pepper (on the pink eggs benedict).  

P.S. There were other proteins of the sphere yet to be explored. Hei Amigo (chorizo), The Italian Job (prosciutto), it would count for another trip. 


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Winter wonderland- weekend tea buffet @ Chihuly Lounge

Sunday, December 27   keyboard  


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Autumn sonata- weekend tea buffet @Chihuly Lounge

Sunday, November 8   keyboard  


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Baked Ham with Autumn Coleslaw in Cereal Roll



New York Pastrami with Semi Dried Tomato in Olive Focaccia 



 Smoked Duck Carpaccio with Jerusalem Artichokes, Autumn Truffle Dressing 



Otar Fish Terrine with Red onion salsa 



 Coriander Crab Cake with Wasabi Seaweed Mayo 





English Scone with Devonshire Cream and Fruit Preserves and Chilli Con Carne





Whiskey Coffee Dome







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Bean('sfan)tastic rainbow mille crepe@ Teddy & Me

Tuesday, September 9   keyboard  


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Unicorn and hologram material, that's what is inside the glass capsule. You poke your head around and this cafe perceives Mr. Bean and Teddy as its stars and suns' axis, no wonder there is a sense of uncanniness to it.



Mr. Bean seems to have a fondness for mille crepe cakes. (Piling the sheets up, the audacity to recreate into a cake.) An extent it is mildly eccentric. Trio chocolate mille crepe, who says mille crepe can't be gorgeous ombre gradient cake, 3 in 1 mille crepe, a vanilla, chocolate, strawberry mille crepe, new strawberry mille crepe, french chestnut mille crepe, yam & red bean mille crepe, green tea & red beans mille crepe, roasted peanut & blueberry mille crepe. Teddy is out now?



Beantastic Mille Crepe (SGD 8.80)

It tops up anything else you like, Singapore flag, Hari Raya Haji on the English icons- making it the first livin' up to name wanderlust-confronting British-inspired Mr. Bean cafe opened in Singapore. 



We'd deduce the cake red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink and purple replacing indigo and violet. However because this is a mille crepe (millefleurs/mille-feuille, chocolate of a thousand leaves) many crepes, as one enjoys the cake one unearths rolls of colour that happens when to be not the 7. The mille crepe cake is dressed the chocolate rainbow cake way, instead of cream cheese rainbow cake, with chocolate sprinkles and berries.  



Each lightly toasted crepe layer comes in vanilla flavour and are separated by cream that is not overtly sweet. Tasting more of mille crepe and less of ?rainbow.

 P.S. Rainbow do not do 7, but in 14 in a mille crepe- red, bright red cream, orange, yellow cream, yellow, equally yellow cream, green, gaspingly blue-green cream, blue, luxe aqua cream, pink, soft pink cream, purple, same pink cream. 

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The dean approves- rainbow cake @ Dean & DeLuca

Monday, August 5   keyboard  


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 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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Selamat Hari Raya Haji- new cupcake @ Cedele

Wednesday, July 31   keyboard  


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 The dense and rich, pretty little things, cupcake. Where the cream is over the top or there has not been enough to last the fairy cake. It takes a further mile to contain unsalted butter, cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, or creaming grapeseed oil and sweetener organic unrefined sugar in these highly fashioned pipes.  


Pandan Coconut (SGD 4.00) 
If you had known Cedele's breads, or curry, you would have chimed in, rhythmically, with the eggless, sugarless, fat free, natural red vegetable juice, organic, stone milled. Feeling fun with escapades in the central kitchen, they have 8 flavours in total to claim for cupcakes. The 4 new- almond chai latte, coffee addiction, peppermint chocolate, pandan coconut. New look you would inspect into a Cedele, the time-tested, old-style stirrings, a naturally spiced and healthier alternative to cappuccino chai latte or home styled almond sugee, hot coffee with organic Arabica coffee beans, ryal desiccants peppermint tea leaves or cold pressed pandan leaves for that beautifully finished reddened green. 


 Sweet and wispy, lingering with natural fragrance of coconut, it is an enviably moist frosting, ripened unhastenedly. The cake loaf base is soft, with an old fashion pandan taste.


P.S. The nutty pandan was for Hari Raya celebration this month. Noxious kueh green sought afters. Knife it, and it is still spruce green inside. Which would it be the cupcake to stay on with the other 4? It was the pandan coconut, and peppermint chocolate, peppering confetti to the rest of Cedele's cupcakes, lemony orange, red velvet, key lime gula melaka and caramel drizzle.

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