Cupcake in a real ceramic cup @ Passion by Gerard Dubois

Came here a while ago with friends and they tried the cupcakes.

 

Usually they are served in paper cake cases but these are served in ceramic cups so you need to eat them with a spoon.
I was curious if they gave you the cup for takeaways so I got and takeaway, and they do give you the cup too!
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Pandan on chocolate cupcake:

 

With quite alot of these artisan cupcakes, I have had alot of disappointment because they look better than the taste, however the cupcakes here look good as taste good.
I chose the Pancake cupcake because I like Pandan.
It was pandan buttercream on top of chocolate cake.
Intially I was a bit skeptical with the combination because I thought the chocolate taste would be too strong to be paired with pandan but I was wrong!
The chocolate cake at the bottom is richer and denser than the usual cupcake style cakes and the colour of it was BLACK!! and to illustrate the BLACKNESS I used flash.

 

 

I was astonished by the taste of the chocolate cake base because it was not sweet yet it still had a rich cocoa taste which was good because the buttercream was sweet so it was perfect having the pandan buttercream and cake together. I usually scrape away the decorative cream because it is too sweet, but here the sweetness was just right.
The decorative sugars were pretty but I did not like them.
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I will be back for the other cupcakes!

Back for more Beautifood with da beautacious chefs

The food was so delicious last time so I was back for more.
My title should be beautiful chefs to be correct but the chefs are guys so it sounds a bit weird using the word beautiful, so I used beautacious!
This time I dined there so there was a 10% service charge.

I was really hungry so I ordered the Veg Yuba tacos and the sushi burrito.

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Cantonese steamed fish:

In my previous review I forgot to mention the design of this sushi burrito.
There is a twisted end at the end of the wrapper which is designed to make the sushi come out when you twist it like lipstick.
They reminded me of sushi poppers which comeout by pushing the stick at the end.
The taste of this cantonese steamed fish was slightly different this time. There was no chili in it because the version I had before was modified to this one because it was too spicy.
The taste was still as nice as the first time because of the sauces and silky fish but rice was firmer this time and held together.
The sushi burrito also seemed bigger than the first time. I wonder if they made them bigger.
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Vegetarian Taco trio:

This was three all vegetarian yuba tacos filled with roasted pumpkin with cream cheese, eggplant with yellow miso and porcini mushrooms with onion cream.
For the porcini mushrooms please see my previous review.

Roasted pumpkin with cream cheese
I wish there was more cream cheese in it because the taste of cream cheese was not that prominent.
The pumpkin was a bit too sweet for my liking. It would be good if they replaced the pumpkin with potatoes but that is my personal preference.
Eggplant with yellow miso
This was quite nice, it was molten eggplants with miso sauce inside with crispy spring onions.
Out of the three yuba tacos, my favourites were the porcini mushrooms and eggplant.
But in general I love these tacos and I hope to see more flavours in future.
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Mille Feuille @ Paul Lafayet

Last month Paul Lafayet had a FREE ARTISANAL Pastry promotion for people who wrote a review on Open Rice for Paul Lafayet, hence I got the Mille Feuille for free.

For more details of this promotion you can check PL's Facebook page.

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Mille Feuille:

 

The Mille Feuille was quite sweet and the custard filling tasted exactly like Paul Lafayet's creme brulee.
The pastry was nice and flakey and the filling was really smooth.
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Big Slice of Pizza served in a ▼gular shaped box

Previously this joint used to Uncle Hiros, anyway now they sell big slices of pizzas.
Every time I came past the pizzas looked rather burnt so I did not get it.

This time I walked past the pizzas looked OK but the display cabinet was not a heated one, so the pizza was reheated when I ordered it.

There were about five flavours ranging from $30-$40 per slice.

 

 

For $45 you can choose any slice of pizza which includes a drink and 2 chicken wings.

 

Before the pizza is the made, the pieces of dough are carefully cut into smaller pieces and weighed.

 

The pizza box was rather neat, it was triangular shaped to fit the individual slices.

 

 

 

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Chicken tikka pizza:

 

 

The chicken tikka taste was not that strong, but the herbs were nice and strong.
There was lots of tomato sauce on the pizza, which was good, and the cheese was just right.
The chicken was slightly dry though.
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Chicken wings:
They did not look as good as the product shot. They looked paler.
They were quite spicy but they were slightly dry and tasted unfresh.
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