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 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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Selamat Hari Raya Haji- new cupcake @ Cedele

Wednesday, July 31   keyboard  


Fine

 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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Papa nana coco the (cucu)factor in soy- Mr Bean

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Sunny

 There. We've got papa (ya), nana (ba), coco (nut). Equatorial, fluid replenishing fruits. How about a mango, kiwi, or perhaps matcha adzuki? The cool tide of greens and oranges. But this is not kiwi, actually. Mr Bean has decided not to launch the kiwi but the lesser, kyuri as the icy blaster this summer. (Cucu) 'mber. 


Icy Kyuri (Small) (SGD 3.00)
No need to look elsewhere. Mr Bean, kindly feeds you what you need. Kyuri are japanese cucumbers. The crocodile-skinned, burly looking scallywags. You are counseled by the familiarity. It is the hunger-staving crunches that mum packs in sandwich lunches, and the lucent pleats served alongside with sashimi. Cucumber slush is sweet, held by the laps of smooth soy milk. The partially bludgeoned cucumbers give off a sharp, pale scent. 

 P.S. Vegetable with milk? Or ovo-vegetarian, floating in beans, protein? Your sanity is preserved with the adjective. Its (Mr Bean's) Fruity Soya Milk series. Then the Veggie Soya Milk (carrot soya milk, celery soya milk).  

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Padang pandan- green blade of home @ Yami

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Summer

 Hardcore g r e e n. Perfectly alright even if we did not traverse into the green tea. One of the less represented in a green; because it is a natively produced flavour, how envelope-pushing contemporary ice-cream parlours would want to make a statement by wiring it into their strain. The local vanilla. Pose with me the doe-eyed wonder panda sweetness pandan. 


Pandan (Regular) (SGD 2.30)

A pretty seafoam green. {Always a sting to the heart.} Pandan, the non-kaya (kaya is coconut jam), non-jam, non-egg, non-coconut, this odd extract of a plant? You could feel the tendrils of the cooking aroma coming towards you, against the flash of a sourish yoghurt.
P.S. Local rose, bandung. Local vanilla, pandan. Yami Yoghurt projects to you, when was it the last time you had relived the full glory of stuffing a pandan chiffon in your face? A dessert. Or pie or cake or bread or muffin. Has anyone ever spanned a web on all the flavours of Yami Yogurt? The range of fruits and plants in yoghurt.  

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Shall We?- what a crack Shall We? Glico Matcha

Thursday, July 18   keyboard  

Sunny

 Matcha connoisseurs are acute, assertive than ever in this age of rapidly reviving consciousness. Breadth-wise, in the ruthless pursuit to secure matcha, that can once again hit the sweetest spot, like aficionados susurrating; length-wise, matcha getting more and more zany. Green, the revolution causing grave disturbances to the scene, you cannot be perturbed or unaffected by the presence. 


 Shall We? Glico Matcha (SGD 6.00)
Glico also scores hard quelling that. After Pocky, Kit Kat Matcha Latte, Ginza sweet Uki Matcha, Pocky Midi Matcha, Fujiya LOOK Matcha Parfait, Glico calls for a reform with traditional hand-baked cookie, laced generously with heaps of matcha equally traditional how Japanese grandmother would prepare. The wide on the eye, disappearing in the mouth cookie. With luxuriant growths like gilded brass on the package, Glico uses traditional to pitch against the other quirky matcha. But the Shall We?- a wet blanket(?)[haha]. It's the notion of raising tea glasses to toast to elevenses, says the Glico, Colonial or benign Japanese way. 


 There it emanates a sweet, grassy small. Reminiscent of shortbread's stature, but sandy and buoyant, sharply giving away what Glico would want. 

P.S. Shall We?- the thinking of hopping onto a boat does not confine to the green tea. So romance is not all green. The Shall We also include others like butter, (probably where it originated from) and chocolate chip macadamia. 

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Nanchuck and all that chops- Meiji's Chip! Chop cereal

Friday, July 12   keyboard  


Hazy

 You're right. There's "delicious salt" there. On the box. {That's how pomelo, smoked duck, mint, rocket comes about? Or oyster sauce, pineapple, wakame perplexes}?

Meiji Chipchop Matcha (SGD 6.00)

 Chocolate matcha, fragrant black pepper, salt. Read the list and it informs bran, cocoa powder, matcha powder, black ground sesame, salt. Like your favourite salt and pepper- a little bit more and it'd be better power brunch. Glico, baffles with the Shall We?; what happen to you now, Meiji? Meiji explains Chippendale, it is crispy, it is thin.   



Triangular cereal puffs, coated with that wee bit of salt/pepper(?) making it savoury and a dusty surface, like grits stuffed with chocolate. It is bittersweet yet popping like poppy seeds and spicy with extra chocolate flavour in the thin chocolate cream, the salt metes it out a palatable finish from cereal to cereal to last the feed. 

 P.S. The product name Meiji Chip Chop, visioned snack of cereal with chocolate to be dunked in milk, rearing its ugly head as forcibly as green fingers slipping out (brusquely) from a chocolate-brown biscuit, it is the seasonal matcha green tea sesame cream. The normal are chocolate, bitter chocolate with cocoa cream.