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   It's the beginning of the week again, i'm sure everyone out there is working their best to fight away Monday blue right? Well, the blues is unnecessary when you have a cuppa good caffeine. I'm talking about coffee and tea i had during my last Singapore trip. This post is specially for my SG friends as well as those who are going to visit SG soon. Enjoy~

Lola's Cafe, Kovan

   Lola's cafe is on my SG cafe list. We were quite reluctant to visit here at first because of its location in Kovan which is very far away from where we stayed. Nevertheless, the consistent online review finally won us over, and i took around an hour, approximately 20 MRT stations to bring me here. The journey was all worth while when we had a taste of their menu.



   Lola's Cafe is located in a friendly, quiet housing neighbourhood. We took around 15 minutes to walk from the Kovan MRT station. The space is limited, packed with customers, i advise you to come a little bit early than 11am to avoid long waiting time. Lola's Cafe offered the typical brunch menu, along with some fancy looking desserts. We ordered an Eggs Benedict, a Sea Salt Chocolate Tart with Coffee Cream as well as a cup of Cappucino to share.

Eggs Benedict--SGD 15 2 poached eggs dressed with hollandaise sauce, over a slice of toast, accompanied by salad with balsamic vinegar

Runny yolk checked!

Cappucino--SGD 5

Sea Salt Chocolate Tart with Coffee Cream--SGD 5 Dark Chocolate Ganache, Bailey, Espresso and Sea Salt

      There was basically nothing wrong with the Eggs Benedict that we had. We got the perfectly poached eggs with the right texture, a light Hollandaise sauce on a crsipy yet soft toast. The only thing i wish could be better is the portion of the dish. I would recommend a bigger serving for the price the customers are paying. Another delightful find was the Chocolate Tart which redefine the meaning of heavenly matched ingredients. Sweet and salty goes together perfectly in this dessert. We got the sweetness from the chocolate mousse and the saltiness from the sea salt which is not overwhelming at all. Coffee was good and balanced, possibly the best i have tried in SG.

Look at my happy boy

      Good food, delicious desserts, great coffee and reasonable price. Lola's Cafe is here to stay in the SG neighbourhood. I would recommend this cafe to all who loves good quality brunch and desserts.

Contact Info~
Website: http://lolascafe.com.sg/
Menu: http://lolascafe.com.sg/Menu/Food%20menu.pdf
Address: 5, Simon Road, Singapore 545893

High Society, Marina Bay Sands

   Yes! This is basically the front view of the shop and what drew us into at the first place. I was strolling the shops around Marina Bay Sands with Cousie Caryn and we stumbled upon this desserts place filled with visually appealing sweet treats! Without further thinking, we got in and ordered a number of sweets with some tea while resting our feet.

Red Velvet Cupcake, Macarons in Rose, Chocolate and Pistachio flavors--SGD 5 each

Strawberry Cheesecake

Chamomile Tea

Earl Grey for cousie Caryn

   I guess from this you would know, us girls are weak when it comes to desserts. I truly enjoyed our afternoon tea session that day, mainly due to the classy, quiet and elegant ambiance. Service was spectacular and their tea collection was fine and quality. The desserts had some hits and misses. I love all our macarons, which have the right texture, consistency and flavors. However, the red velvet cupcake was too dry and tasted flat; strawberry cheese cake was ordinary and not memorable. I would recommend this place purely for its dining environment and macarons.

What not to love with tea and desserts?

 Contact Info~
Website: http://highsociety.com.sg/wp/
Address: #B2-47/48, Marina Bay Sands

   Well, that wraps up my coffee and tea experience in SG. I hope you guys enjoyed my short updates today. Go get a cuppa to start fresh and alert for the entire week ahead! xoxo

LA/PA

Cappucino-RM 10.50+

Wild Berries Frecnh Toast--RM 21.90+ Housemade chalilah, vanilla custard soak, wild berries compote, honey, vanilla bean whipped cream

   Simple and satisfying would be sufficient to describe my experience in LA/PA. I love the coffee, earthy, fragrant and creamy. French toast was simple, pleasant and delicious. Blackberries compote is unique as it offered a different texture and acidity to the sweet dish.

   Overall, LA/PA allows a relaxing evening for customers to indulge in good food, nice coffee and artsy vibe with amazing paintings and art pieces in their setting. It is a bit pricey, but service was good. If you are a artsy hipster, LA/PA would be the choice for you.

Contact Info~
Website: http://www.lapa.co/
Address: 15, Jalan Telawi 3, Bangsar Baru, 59100 Kuala Lumpur.

Jaslyn Cakes

   Hopping over to the adjacent shop--Jaslyn Cakes, one could find themselves so spoilt from choices of desserts in a small, little European-inspired cake shop. Jaslyn Cakes is entirely different from LA/PA. It is petite and feminine, sweet and comfortable, kind of reminds me of one of the cake shop i visited in German.





   As you can see, in such a limited space like Jaslyn Cakes, every corner of the room is wisely used as room for customers to dine in. It offers an array of cakes, cookies, brownies, light bites as well as tea and coffee. I managed to tried some of their popular home-made cakes like Red Velvet Cake, Peanut Butter and Chocolate Slice as well as Carrot Cake. It is almost impossible to just drink water in this cake shop because they bake their cake freshly, on the spot and filled the space with wonderful and tempting aroma of sugar and butter. How to resist diabetes in Jaslyn's?

Red Velvet Cake--RM 13.90+

Peanut Butter and Chocolate Slice--RM 13.90+

Carrot Cake--RM 13.90+

Cappucino--RM 11+

   Jaslyn's cakes are all homemade, fresh and original. We can totally observe how they prepare the cake batter, the baking process and the decoration process. The open kitchen concept actually improves my appetite and that's the reason i managed to finish all these by myself. (nah, just joking). My favourite would be the Carrot Cake. It was not too sweet, with wonderful texture and rich cream cheese. The red velvet and chocolate peanut butter cake were good as well, but nothing too unique about it. Coffee was a let down, with single dimension bitterness. All the items were overpriced in my opinion due to small portion.

   However, i do love their idea of open kitchen, open displaying of cakes and fresh, homemade cakes. They assure the top quality and freshness everyday. This cafe would be perfect for small group outings or dates, but not a huge crowd. I would definitely go back for the carrot cake! That's all for this post, enjoy your day!

Contact Info~
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jaslyncakes
Address: 7A, Jalan Telawi 2, Bangsar Baru

   Good Sunday my dear peeps! I took a break on last Sunday, which was second Sunday of May to celebrate my mommy's big day! So, today, i'm bringing you guys not just one, but 2 write ups to make it up to you! For starter, let's head over to Second Sunday, a newly launched brunch cafe over in Damansara Jaya, brought to you by the same team from The Front Door which is well known for their gourmet opened sandwich.

Ala black & white

   Being an enthusiast for good brunch, coffee and environment, this new creation in the midst of old Damansara Jaya housing mushrooms really satisfied my inner craving for good cafe. If you are familiar with Inside Scoop, DJ, KDU College, you should be able to locate this cafe within minutes. Parking is freely available outside and its eye-catching name would make things easier for locating. Stepping into the space, i'm immediately overwhelmed by the huge crowd, white surrounding and this modern, urban, chic look of Second Sunday. Its creative play on the wall decor, furniture settings and lighting produced a vastly free and chilled out ambiance for customers to dine and chat.

Love the innovative take of curtain hanger as menu holder.

Relax. Bright. Modern.

    Another amazing change of perspective would be the unique twist in Second Sunday's menu when comparing to other brunch cafe. It offered a handful of familiar breakfast item, with some twist in them. For example, we ordered a Sunny Side Up and Local Pankek that are basically eggs on toast and pancake, but with their personal touch on them. Coffee of the day would be a cup of Flat White, as usual.

Sunny Side Ups--RM 24 Double sunny side upslaced with crispy cheddar cheese served on rye toast with avocado slices, smoked salmon, sauteed herb mushroom topped with seaweed and sesame seeds.

   From a simple eggs on toast, Second Sunday's kitchen team managed to tweak the usual recipe, into a more Japanes/Korean by adding simple ingredients such as seaweed and sesame seeds. As weirdly as you may think, these addition actually worked. I love the strong fragrance of seaweed and sesame seeds that balanced the richness from eggs and avocado, giving this dish a lighter aftertaste.

Local Pankek--RM 16 Pandan and coconut pancake topped with caramalised banana and toasted fragrant desiccated coconut served with gula Melaka syrup, a classic Malaysian kuih flavor.

   Pancake+banana+syrup? Yes, we are all too familiar with this combination. However, when you add in pandan, coconut and gula melaka into the equation, the chemical reaction sets off, releasing a purely old Malaysian flavor! This item totally reminds me of Nyonya kuih which uses a heavy amount of pandan, coconut and gula melaka. I think it is smart to incorporate something Malaysian into a Western menu, producing a fusion item which is sweet, fragrant, rich and memorable. Caramalised banana still held the crispy sugar coat when i cut into it. Desiccated coconut also added some wonderful texture into this item. Thumbs up!

Flat White--RM 10

Earthy, creamy, milky.

     This incredibly white, bright and innovative cafe truly performed well in both visual and taste department. The downsides were the higher price tag and limited choices in their menu. I shall give the credit to Second Sunday as they are new and there are certainly space for improvement. To all the hippie food photographer out there, this place is 100% Insta-worthy. Bring along a camera and empty stomach, enjoy your lazy Sunday here and look forward to the busy week ahead! I hope you enjoy it! xoxo

The hipster photographer wanna-be

Contact Info~
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secondsundaycafe?fref=ts
Address: 31, Jalan SS22/19, Damansara Jaya, Selangor.

   If you notice, soft serve ice-cream has becoming one of the latest trending dessert around. It is basically a type of ice-cream with softer texture, because of the introduction of air into the mixture during freezing. If you haven't try one yet, this kind of ice-cream is something close to MacDonald's sundae, but every shop's version is slightly different. My first encounter with soft serve other than McD's was Milk Cow, Mid Valley but i wasn't impressed by it at all. However, these 3 soft serve ice-cream dessert shops that i'm writing today had definitely changed my mind on soft serve.

Via Tokyo, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Matcha Soft Serve--HKD 32

   Soft, smooth, rich and bitter sweet would be the best descriptive terms for this wonderful dessert. Comparing to the other matcha ice-cream i had in the past, Via Tokyo's version is way much richer, strong in its matcha flavor and creamy at the same time. This would be fantastic for all the matcha lovers out there. They also serve royal milk tea and genmaicha soft serve as well, but they were not available when i went there. If you ever visit HK, please head on to this shop early, if you want to try out these unique flavors!

Contact Info~
Address: 1A, 1B, Ground Floor, Lei Shun Court, 106-126 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/viatokyocafe/timeline

Honey Creme, 313@Somerset, Singapore

Le menu

Comb Honey--SGD 5.50

Honey Comb--SGD 5.90

   Comparing to Milk Cow's, i definitely would prefer Honey Creme's milky soft serve. It was supremely smooth and filled with dairy's goodness. The other component, organic honey was also delightful on the palate. It was perfectly sweetened with natural ingredients and the honey comb was crumbly and filled with generous amount of silky honey. Both the items above were great for those who do not fancy diabetic desserts.

Contact Info~
Address: 01-37 313@somerset, 313 Orchard Road, Singapore 238895
Website: http://honeycreme-icecream.com/sg.html

Softsrve, Damansara Utama

   Last but not least, we have our own Malaysian owned soft serve dessert shop in PJ Uptown as well. Although it has only been operating for less than a year, its popularity in Klang Valley is undeniably high. As a die hard desserts fan, i have got to try this out myself to blend in right? Located in the hub of Damansara Uptown, same row as The Good Batch, Softsrve is not easily missed, though parking can be a headache to many.

Menu

    Softsrve's menu is fairly simple. They offer 3 categories of soft serve flavors: Cereal Milk, Deep Chocolate and Salted Butterscotch. Hence, there is something for everyone, aimed to please the taste buds for all. I decided to go with cereal milk, with 'Breakfast' as topping, because this is the best seller combination here in Softsrve.

Cereal Milk+Breakfast--RM 11 Cereal milk soft serve, made with milk and cereals, topped with cereal flakes and strawberry slices.

The actual size of the soft serve and the bigger cup is for dry ice and some water

    Cereal milk to me, supposed to taste like milk with plenty of cereal within. However, the cereal was too fine and lacked of pleasant texture within. The milk flavor was not substantial enough as well. If i were to close my eyes and taste both the Cereal Milk soft serve and McD's vanilla sundae, i wouldn't know the difference at all! However, it is definitely an eye-catcher, attention-seeking and Instagram-worthy soft serve because of the amazing visual effect you get from dry ice popping with fumes. Personally, i find it over-rated and definitely overpriced. Perhaps i should try out the other flavours like chocolate churros to find out the specialty with Softsrve.

The most photogenic corner

The insanely huge crowd!

Contact Info~
Address: 31, Jalan SS21/1A, Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya.

   That's it! All 3 soft serve desserts shops in a row, from 3 different countries! I hope you are tempted by me to purchase a soft and creamy soft serve right now! Well, i am definitely craving for it right now. I guess my best choice would be McD's because it is near and cheap and why not? McD's sundae are great! Who agrees with me just comment down below alright? I hope you enjoyed the write up! xoxo