🥧Pulut Hitam Taro Tart
📍Lilac Oak (@lilac.oak)
📌71 Oxley Rise
💰 $4

Everyday I gain a deeper appreciation of vegan food. This tart from @lilac.oak is vegan and consists of a crumbly crust that reminds me of an oat cookie, and the fillings are a really natural and earthy tasting taro paste and sticky, slightly sweet pulut hitam.

Quite a bit of taro out there tastes super processed and overly sweetened, but Lilac Oak offers the real deal. Really satisfying and not jelak, definitely worth getting!

⭐ Rating: 8.7/10
🤑 worth the price: ye
🦖 would I buy again: ye
💍 would I marry: ye

🥧 Matcha Mont Blanc
📍Delicatesse (@delicatesse.sg)
📌 Tanjong Pagar
💰 $9.50

I've never tried mont blanc before, so this was my first time experiencing it. In theory, this sounds like a really exciting dessert, with the mont blanc being matcha flavoured and being encased within a tart, but I found that the flavours weren't as impressive as its concept.

The tart base wasnt super fragrant and was a bit thick, and the matcha taste was a bit too faint for my liking. As for the mont blanc, I couldnt really taste the chestnut elements either.

Wish the elements were stronger, however it is really pretty!

⭐ Rating: 6.7/10
🤑 worth the price: eh
🦖 would I buy again: no
💍 would I marry: no

🍰 Pistachio Honeycomb Cake
📍Rise (@folksatrise)
📌 Potong Pasir
💰 $7.90

Real good cake for dem green nut lovers. The cake is spongey and soft with a generous coating of pistachio. Not too sweet either and absolutely bussin presentation.

⭐ Rating: 7.8/10
🤑 worth the price: ye
🦖 would I buy again: ye
💍 would I marry: ye

🍡 Purple Sweet Potato Snowball Mochi
📍Xiao Gege Snowball Mochi (@xiaogegemochi)
📌 Chinatown
💰 $3.40

Ive seen taro mochi but I've never seen sweet potato being used as a mochi filling before :O this was pretty good, the mochi skin was soft, stretchy and chewy, and the amount of sweet potato cream was hella generous. It had that earthy taste that sweet potato has, which was interesting. Overall I still prefer other flavours for mochi but this was cool to try!

⭐ Rating: 7.2/10
🤑 worth the price: ok
🦖 would I buy again: maybe
💍 would I marry: maybe

🍜 Green King Ramen
📍Ramen Nagi (@ramennagisingapore)
📌 ION Orchard
💰 $17.90++

I really wanted to get the red spicy ramen bowl because I love torturing myself with spice but unfortunately, I was dealing with a lot of pghlem and snot that day (yum yum) so in my best interest, I got the next most interesting item, the Green King Ramen.

This broth is made with basil and even comes with parmesan cheese and bacon, a truly unique fusion of flavours. The soup broth was rich and “fatty” with a liberal amount of oil and a nice umami flavour. The noodles were bouncy and chewy (you can customise the doneness of the noodles, btw). The chashu pieces left something to be desired as they were kinda dry and a little on the bland side.

The broth was definitely the outstanding part of this dish. However it’s really pricey (about $21 after taxes) and there are cheaper ramen spots with better chashu imo.

⭐ Rating: 8/10
🤑 worth the price: eh
🦖 would I buy again: maybe
💍 would I marry: sure

🍞 Blueberry Lava
📍Mr Baguette (@mr_baguette_singapore)
📌 Golden Mile Food Centre
💰 6 for $12.50

Was a little worried about this baguette as I was scared that it would taste overly artificial. While the blueberry element definitely isnt 100% natural, it wasnt cloying or too hard to swallow, and generally I liked it for the price!

⭐ Rating: 7/10
🤑 worth the price: ye
🦖 would I buy again: eh
💍 would I marry: no

🇭🇰 HK XO Fried Rice
Couldnt taste the XO element much but its very slightly more flavourful than the original SG one. However it doesnt taste that much different.

🇨🇳 Chinese Mala Fried Rice
The mala element wasn’t super strong but I could still taste the occasional mala peppercorn and chilli. Generally preferred this over the SG version as it had more flavour.

🇸🇬 Singapore Fried Rice
A pretty typical fried rice dish, it tastes like those zi char fried rice and not really the dtf style ones. Generally not bad, its pretty oily but has enough flavour.

🍞Taro Mochi Scone
📍Humble Bakery (@humblebakery.sg)
📌 One Raffles Place
💰 $4.80

First scone I tried from @humblebakery.sg and it was great! Really buttery and the taro filling was natural and earthy, not too sweet. The mochi was really stretchy and chewy too.

The price is a little on the higher end but its really unique, dont know where else I’d be able to find mochi scones.

⭐ Rating: 8/10
🤑 worth the price: ye
🦖 would I buy again: ye
💍 would I marry: ye

🍝Chicken Rosé Pasta ($10.50)
Never had rosé pasta before and tbh I found that the sauce just tasted like diluted bolognese sauce without the meat chunks. Pretty meh, would get the other dishes over this.

🧄Aglio Olio ($10.50)
Took a bite of my friend’s Aglio Olio, its a pretty standard plate of aglio olio with garlic and herbs. Nothing super outstanding, just a really solid plate of spaghetti.