CHOCOHOLIC in SINGAPORE

A quick rundown of my favorite desserts from my last trip to the Lion City.

Crisp Cake by the Grand Hyatt (my mom and I had dinner at Mezza9 and ordered this from the cake shoppe for dessert)

Nutella Cake to-go by Gastronomia (we enjoyed this later that day at the hotel lounge)

Kahlua Cold Poached Chocolate by Awfully Chocolate (I've blogged about this before, and yes, it's SO good that I'm getting it on every trip to Singapore, lah!)

CANTONi - Singapore

New spot alert! It was my first time to eat at Canton-i in Singapore. Since we stayed walking distance from Ion, mom and I found ourselves eating there on more than one occasion. Dim sum is quite popular in the Grandidge family, so mom shared with me a place that she knew I'd enjoy. Canton-i specializes in Hong Kong style cuisine and everything we ordered (which wasn't so much in fact) tasted yummeh! While waiting for our dim sum to arrive, I explored the back end of the restaurant where they had bigger tables -that were still empty- and took a few pictures. Isn't the flowered wall precious?! Our section of the restaurant was full, you can see in the pictures that every table along the wall is taken. I'll take that as a good sign :)

Awfully Chocolate | SINGAPORE

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I got the cold poached chocolate with Kahlua cream. I probably should have tried their signature chocolate cake too... Oh well, there will definitely be a next time. We were browsing the food court at 4pm, after we had been to lunch someplace else... Didn't want to spoil dinner, so there was just room for 1 thing in my tummy. Needless to say, I made a scrumptious choice!

The cold poached chocolate is a soft, rich dark chocolate "slab" that was invented by their own cold-poaching method. It's thicker than a mousse, almost like a creamy ganache. The different "flavors" are the fresh liquor creams on top. Definitely getting this again when I'm in Sing-a-ling!

Awfully Chocolate | SINGAPORE

Leave it up to Ion's food court -Singapore- to have such cool, boutique'y meal/snack/drink/dessert choices. It is here where I fell in love with Awfully Chocolate. A small, corner stall that caught my eye with its simplicity and yes... name. How could I walk past something saying Awfully Chocolate?! I noticed quickly that the choices were quite slim - 3 types of chocolate cake, chocolate ice-cream, 2 cupcake flavors, Kahlua bars and poached chocolate mounds. Everything is based on... duh, chocolate.

I checked out the website and learned that this is exactly their philosophy; to have a limited product line, focusing on quality rather than variety. Awfully Chocolate wants to bring the humble chocolate cake back to its glory days, and that's exactly what the business was first built on - 1 kind of cake. They've expanded a bit since then, but it's clear that chocolate has remained the star attraction of this awfully wonderful concept ;)

Wait 'till my next post to see what I ended up tasting! All the wonderful pictures first...

Happy Lemon | SINGAPORE

After all the Happy Lemon buzz in Manila, Jon and I finally tried it... in Singapore.

I don't know who, or what, started the buzz but it did get around quickly. Everyone was tweeting or talking about their drink from Happy Lemon. The one's that got me most curious were the "rock salt cheese" concoctions. When I heard about it, I couldn't even begin to imagine what that would taste like. In Singapore, they told us that the most popular drink was the Green Tea Rock Salt Cheese - just like in Manila! Jon always goes for the "best sellers" so he was quick to choose it. I still stayed on the rock salt cheese path, but I chose the cocoa instead of the green tea. So there, we broke our Happy Lemon virginities in Singapore together. LOL

For the record, even after having tasted it, it's hard to describe exactly what the rock salt cheese element does to the drink. You'll have to try it yourself ;)