Sunday, July 20, 2008

Marvelous Creams

SPONTANEOUS DISCOVERY ALERT!!!!!!



Marvelous Cream - A Jappy (and rather cutsy-kawaii-nehhh~) "Sweet Parfait" place smack at the end of the twisting channels of Citylink mall, before the new fascinating underground tunnel linking to Suntec City. If you've ever heard of the rather famous American ice-cream mix-in parlour Cold Stone, or even the locally famous Ice Cream's Chefs, this would not be a new concept to u.

1) Ice cream Flavours; 2) Other Yummilicious Stuff; 3) mix, smash, crush, pulverize.

the only difference here is that they have pre-decided combinations for u. 25 in fact. You can be your own ice-cream designer but apparently the store finds their own judgment better den yours. (Clearly i hate ppl deciding my flavours for me. they underestimate my propensity for sugar!)

For $4.80, u get a small cup of one of their 25 combinations which contain an average of 3 mix-ins (aka Other Yummilicous Stuff). For $4.30, u can choose ur icecream flavour and 1 mix-in. Additional charges for extra mix-ins.

Choose to eat from a normal cup, a waffle bowl, choco waffle bowl, waffle cone, choco waffle cone. The waffle-ish stuff come at a price so i went for what came FREEE, the cup. Not big on crunchy icecream waffles anyway! Though i'll eat it if u gave it to me free.

i went for Chocolate Sienne, # 18 i think??? Brownies, chocolate cubes and fudge mixed into Belgian Choco icecream. It wasn't very impressive. They didn't mix in the ingredients properly, giving it only 1 or 2 fold-ins.

The brownies were dry and cakey and lacking in that deep fudgy taste. The icecream was nothing spectacular. Coz i don't remember it. Unlike awfully chocolate which is awfully memorable (and i mean it in a VERY GD DELISH way)

The cubes were also hard and un-fudgy. I was expecting the cubes to be like Marks n Spencer's Triple Chocolate Cereal's counterparts. what's the pt of having choco stuff that are not fudgy???

Here's how it looks lighted up. The top layer is mostly coated with all the brownies there were due to the fact that they didn't mix it in.


My Tabtab went for her own creation, Coffee icecream with brownies. The coffee icecream was MUCCHHH better. Fragrant. and light. it went rather well with brownies.

What i really wanted to try though, were the "Sweet Parfaits" that the store is famous for.

Selection of parfaits.

They're basically layers of mousse and sponge cake in different complementary flavours, served in a cup.

The Belgian Choco flavoured one looks soooooooo gddddddddd. But they were sold out!!! As were the Tiramisu. So Tabtab, Ahma and i have made a pact to rush down here one of the days during lunch to BUY before the rest of S'PORE!!!

Other den that one trip to try the parfaits, i doubt i'm much motivated to walk the length of Citylink to eat this again. Unless the parfaits blow my mind.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

you want chinese dessert?

Aunty Chacha's recommendation - Peanut Snow Ice.

"It's like icecream, but it melts immediately in you mouth. Special riiiiggghhhttt???" You heard it from the pro!!! Aunty ChaCha is a nonya-food expert and conneisour, okay.

the flavour was lighter and less sweet den i expected. But the nutty taste was pretty strong. it wasn't creamy / milky but it's texture was more or less like icecream! the choco flakes gave me an extra kick. i'm still a kid after all!
it appeared in a mount of thin sheets of smooth, snow-ice laying upon and melting into one another, into a big heap of peanutty ice-creamy goodness.
Didn't take down the name of the place, gah! But it was in Chinatown. Doesn't help much right.=(