My Love For Food

This is about my ravings about deserts and other food. I just came back from breakfast at Shunfu Mart with my dad and sister. I tried the abacus yam balls, it was $3 a plate! What a rip-off. The mushroom pieces weren’t big enough for the juices to penetrate into the mushrooms, but yet at the same time, the yam balls were smooth and tasty though.

Due to my dissatisfaction about my breakfast, (breakfast is the meal where I happily gorge myself) I decided to try oneh oneh from “Bake Fresh” by Tina Sum as well as the egg tarts. I think I have a fetish for egg tarts. Be it Portuguese egg tarts or the normal bright yellow ones, whenever my eyes are fixed on them, I just have to taste them.

Let me first comment about the oneh oneh. At first, I had my doubts about it, as it had looked pathetically small. The tag in front of the oneh oneh stated “3 for $1”, I asked the shopowner if it was tasty, she smiled at me and nodded her head. I thought to myself, “Since I had asked such a rhetorical question, I have to purchase it now.” So, it was more of an unwilling purchase by a reluctant customer. I also bought the cute bright yellow egg tart.

I decided to leave the egg tart alone first and devour the oneh oneh. I had wanted to leave the best for the last. I bit into the green ball with white coconut around it. It tasted good. It was succulent and the brown sauce was flowing down my throat in a satisfying manner. Initially, I wanted to save the other 2 for my project work later. But temptation had set in and I finished them off. Next up was the egg tart. Much to my disappointment, the crust wasn’t crispy and the egg filling was not cloyingly sweet. Not that I like my egg filling to be too sugary, but it just did not have much sweet taste to it.

It’s nearly impossible to find a good egg tart in Singapore though. Although, I had eaten one at the Takashimaya food fair. It had cost me $2 a piece but yet, the crust was thick and crispy and the egg filling was moist and sweet.

If I could choose, I would rather have deserts as my regular meals. But that is if provided I do not balloon up after the sweet main courses.

I remember a few weeks ago, I met up with Abigail to eat at Miss Clarity’s Café at Purvis Street. We ordered the caramel steamer, banana tart, mud ooze, bread and butter pudding as well as rhum baba.

The caramel steamer was nothing to boast about. But the banana tart was simply gorgeous. The tart was baked to a beautiful brown colour and the heat from the baked tart and bananas combined with the cold vanilla ice cream was the greatest match ever. It’s still my most favourite desert to date. Abigail and I could not stop “ooh”-ing and “aah”-ing at the deserts. We set our eyes on the mud ooze, which was literally oozing out chocolate from the chocolate brownie. Once the vanilla ice cream and the mud ooze goes into your mouth, you can immediately feel the sensation of happiness going down into your stomach. The ice cream immediately melts into your mouth, mixing together with the chocolate. The last desert we were impressed with was the bread and butter pudding, which was Abigail’s favourite. I loved how moist the desert was. Especially when we ate the pudding together with the special sauce, the combination of the two was good for our palates.

The desert that I was looking forward to but was deeply disappointed was the Rhum Baba. It looked great, it had two creamish white cakes with light brown sides and cream with berries coulisse. I suppose it could only satisfy the prepubescent, it showed goodness but tasted really weird. The cakes were rock hard and the cream was not cold. In addition, the sugar syrup that drenched the cakes was awful.

But all in all, the deserts from Miss Clarity’s were great. Next up, we went to search for the famous “Food For Thought” which was near Purvis Street. We opened the doors and the whole cosy café was filled with the aroma of baked pizzas. Although Abigail and I were only searching for deserts, the pizzas were tempting enough. The boss at the café was a nice gentleman who offered his advice on which deserts we should choose. I was enticed by the red velvet cake with cream cheese. But as we decided we wanted something different, we left the café but felt guilty due to the boss’ nice attitude towards his customers. Abigail and I made a pact to go back and patronise that place next time.

We went to Jidechi and decided to order their favourite desert, durian Puree served with fresh durian. Although the desert suited our palates, but perhaps we had previously stuffed ourselves too much, hence the durian puree was unable to satisfy both of us.

Deserts were made for mankind to get pleasure from. Hopefully, I can get my hands on the red velvet cake with cream cheese soon!

Cheezelmomeezel,
Cereal