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.

The beauty of flowers- Hanami buns

Saturday, April 14   keyboard  


Night

In its beaming pride the matcha green coat, the buns now come emblazoned in pink flower presses.


Hanami Sakura Bun (pink) and Hanami Matcha Bun (SGD 1.40 ea)

In commemoration of the season of the cherry blossoms, where it is a grave error to have the flower heads littered all over the ground. Food buns demarcated with the petals, what is the intention? To pique interest in what is a sakura/matcha bun, the fillings to go inside with a sakura flower bread.


It is chewy mochi fancied with the carbohydrate yeasty dough of japanese recipe. Something predictable of the fusion japanese/japanese, packing the present of a mochi confectionery within the honestness of bread. The mochi stretchy and sticky, a flowery flavour with deep pink hue and strawberry taste for the sakura bun, and a sweet, lingering gel-like mochi for the matcha bun.

P.S. Gooey, almost like pastes themselves. Polarity of the consistencies (bread and mochi) canceling out each other's mass, making it almost weightlessness yet hearty a bun. The bun, cake (rice), and topping (sakura flower). Incongruent imageries to which component defines the matcha/sakura, yet one knows the it is the mochi (and most likely flower) pressed to pay tribute (pictorial) to the custom of hanami.

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No "Mould" Good Food- Why black?

Sunday, April 8   keyboard  


Sunny

Towards a unique direction the predecessor of Daiso, Muji is slave-less, no branding of the flesh nor seals to emboss its goods. Which explains its products minimalist, impeccable, rational.


Black Muffin (SGD 3.30)

One knows why one came about, it goes through much talks and deliberation, before materialization.

P.S. Black muffin carbon colour, black sesame and sesame. It has a slow, gradual flavour releasing a buttery cupcake and a thwarted, almost savoury twang of black sesame. White sesame is also found at the peripherals of the baked good, probably constituting to that earthly, burnt distinctive taste none other than multiplying richness to the blackness of the cake. Muji in kanji is 無印良品, no brand/seal products embracing good or high quality.

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Notes on a string- Rainbow melody

Friday, April 6   keyboard  


Sunny


Where there are no paradise birds or the trickle of springs to quell your soul, look out for things like these, little cowslips amongst the concrete land acting like pacifiers.


They form a double, tones and notes reiterating down a next level. Visual units forming harmony, rhythm. The expanse of space transparency, limpidity, dampening the feeling of tenseness or claustrophobia.


Why do they somehow give the sublime impression of a rainbow. Count your the blessings, red, orange, powdery yellow, green, (turquoise), blue, indigo, pale violet and grey.

P.S. Maketh a rainbow, maketh the journey on your day.

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What The Melon- Watermelon flavoured mochi skewers

Saturday, March 31   keyboard  


Night


A new pink. The nouveau. Offbeaten yet amazingly fitting the bill, of {red + white}= pink shades. At Ion Orchard, there is this stall which sells japanese confectionery, each so lacquered and elaborate it looks like a mini modeling clay showdown. The white mochi balls entice you to bite them, like tapioca pearls.
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The dango, japanese rice balls on a stick. There is also daifuku, japanese treat wrapped in a mochi skin. The thing about them dumplings is, the flavours here can go crazy, pastes milled from all kinds of species.
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Watermelon Paste (SGD 3.00)

It's no more peaches. No more strawberries, ichigo. Sort of caught off-handed in this fleshly, tropical fruit. Its potential to whip up a fierce peach-pink. Once again like the strawberries reminder that watermelon is red; only with the incorporation of milk, eggs(and white) or gluten that it mixes into pink. The watermelon paste atop the dango, (no redbean blacksesame) paste, it has that fruity fragrance of saccharine sweetness that is sandy and a melt-in-the mouth-texture. And the dango was firm, extremely chewy and delectable to the tongue. The black sesame seeds are to recreate a picture of the watermelon {seeds}
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P.S. The De'light sticks. [At Earth Hour.]

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Honey (rockets) - to infinity and beyond

Sunday, March 18   keyboard  

Cloudy

What we know of the Honey Stars (probably your most favorite cereal), is now injecting inventiveness with a mutant shape. So will the shape now replace Honey (Stars); eradicating it, or will it be interspersed with the stars?


Nestle Honey Stars

Not the dysfunctional, sickle-shaped, but the two rotund prongs delineating the model of a rocket. Rocket; the protagonist, blasting the astronauts around, stars; the background, the backdrop you see in outer space.

P.S. Rocket, somehow it is just two forks of (the) star, a 2/3 (Honey Star); that's all. With a pierce in the middle. From the same mould, somehow cut short, the development process. Difference in looks, different in taste! The new Honey Stars with rockets has improved recipe and taste, it is no longer saccharine-sweet as the yesteryears; mildly, maltly barley-like with a crunch like grains.

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The Asses- S for Strawberry

Friday, March 16   keyboard  


Cloudy

Restricted time only, a glimpse of the reined, thrill. When its the silky urbane confectionery Couque D'asses; worth exploring for for its texture and interior, now that it has called for a change in décor.


Sanritsu Kukku Dasse Ichigo

White chocolate, or the "s" in a brown shade. The langue de chat cookies in bars of cat tongue shapes made novel by the japanese's commentary on the french almost became a license in itself, like the Oreos or Mars bars. With its ultra sleek packaging, it is a catchable brand amongst the other cookie companies, now compelling to know why it wanted to melt that s into pink.


An even more lofty look, etching the season of ichigo. A harmony of the weak and tough, when it is a blend of strawberry chocolate.

P.S. French classic, the compressed version of a financier, or an imitation of it. Buttery and salty and equally hard on the vanilla glaze, it is lighter and more easily snapped like honeycomb. The filling is runny chocolate, strawberry flavour and sweet-smelling like flowers, to be hallowed as a financier-in-a-biscuit.


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Macarons in Milkshake - McDonald's Macaron Frappe

Saturday, March 10   keyboard  


Night

What is a frappe? Frappe is ice-blended coffee, with dashes of milk and sugar. Unanticipatedly sprouting up at McCafé, there should be something wrong about it; the milkshake (brown/pink) realm of it is actually blood of macaron, or debris of macaron.


Strawberry Macaron Frappé and Chocolate Macaron Frappé (SGD 4.95 ea)

A blender can perform anything, from Hershey to virus to oreo, so why not in the package of a macaron? The details of a macaron, and the justification of it adding to milkshake. Crisp meringue shell, the sugar for the frappe, the chewy interiors, the flavour of the frappe, and the cream layer between the macaron patties? Probably added glitz, like jelly in my milkshake.

P.S. The taste is really, unique. It is tongue-sharpenly sweet, with an exotic fragrance due to the macaron. There are icing sugar shards within the extreme creaminess, probably the quintessential when macaron meets milkshake. Graham, cakes, yes; so far one hasn't fiction how a macaron burger will be like when blended in milk. The thing about chocolate and strawberry is, the chocolate more indulgent and the strawberry has puree, but is that a parallel comparison between a chocolate macaron and a strawberry macaron, the discrepancy and misdiscrepancy of it just got one thinking.

P.P.S. Curry sauce, apple pie, Filet-O-Fish, this, Double Cheeseburger, McChicken, this, what has happened to you, franchise?

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