For those of you in the know, Vietnam is actually the 2nd largest producer of coffee in the world, after Brazil. They mainly produce Robusta beans, which has a stronger, more robust (duh) flavour than Arabica, grows at lower altitude and contains about 50% more caffeine. Its resistance to disease, higher yield per tree and… [Read more…]
December 14, 2011
Attended Toby’s Estate Coffee Degustation session last evening. For those of you familiar, degustation in F&B terms kinda means to taste or to sample. And so we had a chance to sample 3 awesome coffees from Costa Rica, Colombia and Guatemala. All 3 coffees were the table toppers in the recent Cup of Excellence competition… [Read more…]
October 23, 2011
Indie ice-cream has had the run of its life in Singapore the past 4 or 5 years; Island Creamery, Daily Scoop, Udders, Salted Caramel, Ice-Cream Chefs. Each, I find, did one up on the other by offering ice-cream in another flavour, crafted in a different way, eaten with a different cup. Some offered additional ingredients… [Read more…]
October 22, 2011
Okay. This is going to just be a quick and simple post on a new cafe that just came up in the CBD a few shops down from The Muffinry on Telok Ayer Street. Sarnies (Brit slang for sandwiches) is opened by a brother and sister pair who have a distinctly Aussie accent. I have… [Read more…]
October 16, 2011
My own emotional journey with Toby’s Estate started when a friend brought back an entire kilogram of their house blend for me from Perth. They were good beans; but alas, a kilogram is way too much for my consumption and some of it ended up as decor in a pretty glass bottle in my room. And… [Read more…]
October 11, 2011
Geishas remind me of beauties primed for admiration. Japanese women they were; trained to impress both with their beauty and with their knowledge. But no, you won’t be finding any male entertainment here at Burlington Square. Not when it is located barely metres away from Sim Lim Square, the true male playground. Walking into this… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
Indie coffee joints are popping up everywhere, seriously. Soon, there won’t be a single quaint housing estate without indie coffee; and I’m sure all the local roasters will be laughing all the way to the bank. What do you do to be different besides using chalk or scrabble tiles for your menu? Lots of things,… [Read more…]
September 11, 2011
Manned by 2 guys who are as different as can be, Broers Cafe is a spanking new place on Petain Road just behind Farrer Park MRT station (exiting from City Square Mall). Broers (pronounced ‘brewers’) actually means ‘brothers’ in Dutch; and if you watch the interaction between these two guys, they seem to so different… [Read more…]
September 1, 2011
Jimmy’s been good. I usually try not to publish 2 CBT posts back to back, but I can’t help it. There are so many cafes popping up in different places that I really can’t catch up! Serious. I think we have reached a stage where we can now confidently say that coffee in Singapore is… [Read more…]
August 26, 2011
Smitten. Ah yes. That kind of a feeling of love which makes you go weak in the knees, and the feeling of warmth just travails the path down into your gut, when you feel an instant of faint tremors overtaking your body for just that few seconds. And yes, I get glimpses of that each… [Read more…]
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