Unique Desserts

A unique and tasty dessert, this features an interesting combination.
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Within a crumbly pastry tart shell with buttery sweet flavour, is a soft vanilla and cream cheese mousse that carries bright floral cheesy salty sweet flavour.
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The tart is garnished with juicy halved muscat grapes with fruity sweet flavour, decorated with pliant gold leaf for a touch of luxury.
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Lola's Cafe
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https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/12/lolas-cafe-2023.html

Named after Jamaica's national bird, where this dessert was created, this is a delicious fruit and spice studded cake.
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With a lovely moist soft spongy texture, the cake is generous studded with chunks of ripe banana, pineapple, golden raisins, black raisins, and flavoured with vanilla and cinnamon, topped with rich cream cheese frosting.
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Has bold fruity sweet spice milky cheesy flavour, tasty and enticing.
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Lola's Cafe
More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/12/lolas-cafe-2023.html

This is a unique artisanal creation, infusing the fruity sour salty sweet flavours of umeboshi / pickled ume fruit and the vegetal herbal earthy flavours of shiso / beefsteak plant, into the creamy smooth ice cream.
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Beautifully presented and alluring, this was a surprisingly intense treat.
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Twenty Eight Cafe
More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/11/twenty-eight-cafe-and-catkin-by-huishan.html

This is warm and soft, infused with addictive notes of lemon and butter. The cake carries a nice zesty tangy sour sweet fruity flavour, yum.
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Twenty Eight Cafe
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https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/11/twenty-eight-cafe-and-catkin-by-huishan.html

This features a hand-made brown butter waffle, crisp dry and fragile in texture, with toasted bready sweet flavour. We selected the unique kaya toast ice cream, which was creamy soft and enhanced with a drizzle of pandan kaya / screwpine leaf coconut egg jam, resulting in a beautiful floral earthy sweet flavour.
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Served with thick maple syrup with floral honeyed sweet notes, and a knob of creamy smooth butter for luscious buttery salty milky flavour. Waiting time of about 15 minutes.
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Twenty Eight Cafe
More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/11/twenty-eight-cafe-and-catkin-by-huishan.html

The Glutinous Rice Ball, Black Sesame Paste was decent, with balls of chewy glutinous rice filled with a thick rich black sesame paste, coated with grainy finely crushed peanuts.
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Bite in to the room-temperature treats, and you get a burst of sweet earthy nutty flavour.
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The Aloe Vera Jelly, Fresh Fruits was nicely refreshing.
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The wobbly soft aloe vera jelly sits in a sweet herbal syrup, surrounded by juicy fresh fruit (peach, raspberry) with fruity sour sweet flavour.
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Part of their Champagne Brunch Buffet at $208 per person.
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Yan Ting
More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/09/yan-ting-2023.html

From the Selection Of Desserts, I enjoyed the mango sticky rice, with the creamy coconut milk and juicy mango chunks over the sticky pandan / screwpine leaf infused glutinous rice, holding bright fruity milky earthy floral sweet flavour.
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Greenhouse Restaurant
More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/07/greenhouse-restaurant.html

This iconic Turkish dessert confectionery consists of multiple layers of fragile thin filo pastry, dressed in a sugar syrup and garnished with finely crushed pistachio nuts.
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When served warm, the crisp crunch of the pastry and the soft chew of the nuts is lovely, however, there was occasions when it wasn't warmed properly, and the middle was cold.
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Taste is lovely though, with bready buttery floral earthy sweet nutty flavour.
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Zuzu Kebab
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https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/07/zuzu-kebab.html

This features a small rosti of sweet potato, crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside, with starchy earthy sweet flavour.
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Sprinkled with white sugar crystals and topped with creamy vanilla ice cream, lending floral earthy sweet flavour.
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Overall, this was decent, but seemed to lack the edge to make it memorable. Perhaps a better quality sweet potato or other garnishes may help.
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Wursthans
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https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/06/wursthans.html

The Wood-Fired Basque Cheese Cake (SGD $18) is so good. The creamy soft cheese cake is smoked with lychee wood, resulting in a smoky cheesy milky sweet flavour.
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Served with a blueberry and honey compote, thick and juicy in texture with bright fruity floral sweet flavour.
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As we were celebrating a friend's birthday, staff surprised us with a candle and song.
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Blue Smoke
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https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/06/blue-smoke.html

The thick fluffy soft wedges of egg-layered toast bread is coated with a sticky crunchy garnish of nutella spread and crushed peanuts, stacked with soft banana slices, rich mascarpone cream, and crisp almond flakes.
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Has lovely chocolatey nutty bready sweet fruity flavour, so tasty.
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The plate is decorated with juicy seasonal berries (strawberries, blueberries) with fruity sweet flavour, edible flowers, a mint leaf, and a creamy scoop of vanilla ice cream with floral earthy milky sweet flavour.
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Halcyon & Crane
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https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2019/07/halcyon-crane.html

This muffin is warm and fluffy.
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The firm crunchy crust has crushed graham cracker clusters, lending a biscuit savoury nutty sweet flavour.
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The infusion of cinnamon and juicy diced apple chunks within the soft moist muffin result in a bright fruity sweet spice bready flavour, very nice.
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Dutch Colony Coffee Co.
More details:
https://ivanteh-runningman.blogspot.com/2023/05/dutch-colony-coffee-co.html