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.

Green Nian Gao

Saturday, January 29   keyboard  

25 Jan, 2011


Humans age faster than they should. In a year we would have grown 3 years. One, on our birthday, two, when we course the winter solstice festival eating glutinous rice balls, three, when we have the new year cake making us taller, or 'higher'.

Wheat Grass Water Chestnut Cake (SGD 28.80)


So with it grabbing a third of our slice of the pie it must be highly flagged and dressed! Under the work of enterprise and hotels, they are iced, ornate, festive and contemporary. So much so it may be a dense cake, a mochi, riddled with beneficial nuts or losing that glutinous nature until a nian gao is defined as anything that's cake.

P.S.(Had during the new year as long as family is by the side.) This cake tastes luminous, like jelly/agar, of strong chestnut flavour with crunchy dates and nuts between. Sliced into triangles it beams like a mahjong tile. Thirst quenching and palate-cleansing!

Posted in: , , ,

Entrepreneurship

Monday, January 3   keyboard  


Sunny


Green is not a colour, it is actually a flavour. So out of the 96 of them, what constitutes their green?


Green Tea
Pandan
Kaya
Mint
Apple
Spinach
Edamame
Wasabi
Pistachio
Unknown
Others
Wheatgrass


P.S. They are the ones which are distilled to a whiff, or 'scent', but still remain green.


Posted in: ,

Gula Melaka Cake

Saturday, January 1   keyboard  


Thunder

When settling your next cup of coffee/tea, why not go for the more cleaned up? Away with empire corporations, ice-blends and decorum, and you will see organic fairtrade coffee, organic unrefined sugar and pure drinking chocolate.


Gula Melaka Pandan Cake (SGD 5.80)

These are the simple features in Cedele's drinks, as well as its cakes, foods and soups. Something to rub on the diner when they walk into the cafe.


On the cake display the cake is rust-coloured, surface entirely weaved like an egg basket. Pried and served on the table, it reveals a gleaming green interior. A luscious layer of gula melaka cream, kaya and pandan chiffon cake, the kaya jam is made entirely from fresh pandan juice and egg! The gula melaka cream overwhelms with a burnt sugar taste, rolling around the tongue like chendol which never melts. This is mollified by the gentle chiffon, cake of light grassy vanilla, making the cake solid, portable.


P.S. Why dress a pandan chiffon cake like that? The gold beads and coconut shreds (sticking at the back) recites another kind of wealth it has. The pure gula melaka, grapeseed oil.


Posted in: , , ,

Black Tau Kwa

Friday, December 31   keyboard  


Rainy

Hiding with slippers of grass jelly, rice noodle rolls and steamed buns, is this black beauty that is not to be mistaken as any cooling dessert.



It is actually one of our cultural foods, black tau kwa or black beancurd! Firm beancurd that can be added to almost every dish, beans, noodles, spring rolls or meat. Black that is the stunt double of carbohydrate starches, like when we've always had the antagonistic black and white fried turnip cakes.



Nothing of the sinister, this is not smelly fermented beancurd, deep-fried beancurd or severely braised beancurd. It is non-GMO beans eschewing the MSG, wholly vegetarian and tipped with a little caramel.

Unicurd Black Taukwa (SGD 1.25)

Burn it a little till it gets toasty at the sides, and this will manifest the caramel out of them. Caramel, the same moving liquid found at the bottom of your pudding. Give it a whiff and it is like sweet popcorns throwing their pretty heads at you.



Put it in bread for a protein punch! Alongside its fluffy buddies, it feels like eating a scrambled egg sandwich with ketchup, the colourful food granted by this genie beancurd, very old-school yet always working.



The beancurd itself is very plain, despite the harsh colour and appearance. On its own, it is very beany, save for a crunchy crust that tastes like chocolate. Where we have the asian carrot cake, now we have the eastern oreo cheesecake!

P.S. The sparkle of cocoa brown. The delights of this chocolate pizza on its own, now I can conjure why there is cocoa pasta, and spaghetti broken with chocolate sauce.

Posted in: , ,

Green and Red Cuppa

Friday, December 24   keyboard  


23 Dec, 2010


Tcc has always been known for its festive brews. In 2008, Eggnog Desire was a heap of snow, fudge and white edible snowflakes and dark green and red jimmies. In 2007, Berry Oreo was a cold concoction of iced chocolate/coffee with yellow, pink, light purple, blue, green and orange edible stars. This year, it returns with the Nutte Winter. We await at what will be created for 2011.

Nutte Winter (SGD7.00)

Christmas is prescribed in 3 colours, with tiny silhouettes of red and green firs beckoning. The cup is immediately transformed into a landscape. There are robust clusters of peanuts at the bottom.


Tcc is not some catchy syllable trio, it stands for The Connoisseurs Concerto, something found out only today.

P.S. Sipping such coffee, and time away, it feels like winter outside. Sometimes, not only the immaterial, paraphernalia can also do time travel.

Posted in: , ,

Green Buns

Monday, December 20   keyboard  

Drizzling

The light here turns rose-tinted, and the food themselves, soaked in sap green. The atmosphere becomes phantasmagoric, out of a medieval rpg or a virtual encyclopedia.



Green bread! To collect all of them throughout the journey. (We will need their help later on).



For the bread and green breads, they are found in 3 different kinds at green pumpkin. The anpan, a japanese sweet bun, dragon roll, a circle of twisted bread, and matcha (green tea) loaf.



Matcha Koshi Anpan (Left) and Matcha Tsubu Anpan (SGD 1.20 ea)

Intergalactic stars. Opposites of each other. Shade bewitching the sesame seeds out of each bun, making them look a little too numerous and teetering. Yet this is nothing when you think of a hamburger, sesame seeds on a toasted bun, remember?

The fine bean paste (left) and chunky red bean paste right. Smooth and sweet, encrusted in a fragrant soft bun, the fine red bean anpan feels like non-sticky jam. The chunky red bean anpan holds what you call crunchy peanut butter, where you get red bean husks also in the mash.

Sakura Anpan (SGD1.40)

Slapped adroitly with a salted sakura flower on top, this was how anpan looked like and spread around japan. Ham-alert, anybody? Well no, the pinkish crown is actually paste of white adzuki and sakura. Similar in taste and texture to the sakura mops of the new taiyaki, sakura mochi flavour. Beany, but bitten sharply with a saucy sweetness, that's what the pretty pink mass tastes like.


P.S. Sakura, the name of the tree itself. More specifically, its cherry blossom, the name of the pink flowers. Extract of a flower, something so pure and symbolizing life, heinous to ingest it?


Posted in: , , ,

Green Pumpkin

keyboard  


Cloudy

Halfway when we are growing up, we will have nex in between to join us. Its approach is the 'x'; x to spell xciting, xtravagant, xperience. (Ion Orchard was the suffix ion; fashion, sophistication, temptation). During this december.


Nex is also the place to find green food. Green pumpkin, a japanese bakery, isn't named for sheer poetry. Gratefully, it suggests the things it bakes.


Pumpkin-inspired goods! Pumpkin is added everywhere, effortlessly. A pumpkin croquette sandwich, pumpkin mont blanc, pumpkin anpan and pumpkin seed muffins. The flexibility of pumpkins in recipe!


To propel the statuses of pumpkins, artifices are laid beside the breads. A rustic christmas, together with the squashes and snow spray. With a green pumpkin cafe also at Shokutsu 10, you can bask inside such air with a cuppa.


And now trepidation on the higher level of its name- there is really green coloured-bread! Green is made with luxury green tea powder carefully folded into bread.


Green bread everywhere! Green pumpkin uses only one weapon, the colour, enshrouding a whole new culture, of richness in detail and aesthetics. Green pumpkin makes it that we walk into bakeries and see bread green, scarcely noticing their effects, just like green grasses on earth.


Green pumpkin (SGD 1.40)

And on the face which launched green pumpkin. In its name the bread is dressed like one, character play with bread. Green frosting suggesting the pumpkin's shell. A ball of dough for the pumpkin's stem.


There is real pumpkin flesh within the pumpkin! Honest, and moist, they give texture to the soft breads of japan. The frosting is delicately laced with the sweetness of green tea. The star is nothing but the fruit itself- pumpkin.


P.S. Green pumpkin has a slogan. What colour is a pumpkin? - Green in Japan.

Posted in: , , ,