Showing posts with label dessert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dessert. Show all posts

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Yoswirls



At Shangrila Mall, my girls saw this Yoswirls scooping station with few table seats and insisted to have a cup for each. It's another froyo (frozen yogurt) product joining the bandwagon of yogurt cafes making waves in the metro. The girls and I love yogurt. Actually it's icecream that we truly love! But for healthy option, we go for yogurt_ when available.





Similar to other froyos, you get to choose your toppings for a separate price. Yoswirls is a product of BTIC ( Better Than Icecream). Years ago, when yogurt wasn't yet popular as today is,  I would buy from BTIC scooping station in selected malls. Back then froyo wasn't yet a word and yogurt wasn't so accessible as it is now.

BTIC yogurt is more bland in taste for my sweet palate, compared to many other new froyos we frequent. Hadn't the vendor of Yoswirls been quick to announce that they were on buy1 take1 promo, I would have had discouraged my girls, haha. Even the syrup and toppings were on B1T1. Beside, the vendor was also quick to add that their pastry was also on sale. Well, she was successfully used the right  keyword  to this cheapskate consumer (miser me! haha).



I had my eye on this pecan? (almond? forgot what nuts) chocolate slice.



Hence, we also added to try their other pastry which names escape me now. Everything was chocolate thu', the other one was  of white choco.



As expected this froyo was short in flavors and really at this point you have to rely on the toppings and syrup. The way to enjoy it is to constantly remind yourself  that its' non-fat and low-cal per spoonful you shove to your mouth. haha. I would rather have a piece of peace of yogurt than a full of guilt regular icecream, haha.



As for the cakes, they all ended in this take-out brown bag. Not wasted cos when husband picked us from the mall, he gorged on them while driving, haha.




Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Nyonya's Sweets





They look so familiar, right? Like our local delicacies - kutsinta, sapin-sapin, empanada, puto, butchi, lumpia, etc. .


Found this cart of desserts by Nyonya Cafe House in one of the malls at Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
For 1Rm each (not bad, around less than P15, forex as of my visit last month 2011), I tried some just to know if they tasted exactly as they looked as our own desserts. Well, sorry to us but those 5 pieces that I tried with my friends_ were better, creamier and got more character.



I went out of the mall and saw these generic sweets in the street of JB. I didn't try them cos I had enough of sugar from those Nyonya's.

Upon my return in Singapore the next day. . .


. . found more sweets in the outskirts of Little India which looks were quite similar to those desserts in the prev photos in JB. Only this time, it was x2 in price cos an Sg$ is like x2 of a Malaysian Ringgit.


I tried some and well they were a lot distinctive in taste when compare to the Nyonya desserts. Little India's desserts were overly sweet and it was very hard to finish a bar without battling to gulp water in every bite. Too sugary. .even to my high level of sweet tooth-nessy.haha.

Well, if you thought you could beat me on sugar war, here are more sweets I had in my 2009 visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : click this and this.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Sweet Indulgence at Soloma


Above all, I'm a dessert junkie! I love sweets and never I would pass a chance to indulge my sweet tooth.


Soloma's dessert buffet table offers colorful selections of pastries, fresh fruits, and local delicacies.



Malaysian loves sago & gulaman too (pearl & gelatin)



Oh please don't make me name names..







Just indulge!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Malaysian Dessert




Kuala Lumpur had greeted me with colorful Malaysian desserts. Most of them looked so familiar. My expert sweet tooth could recognize each swiftly as most of them are available in our country. I bet, the difference would only be the way they call/name each there.





To prove my point, I tried some of them. The rice cake with layered colors is like our local "sapin-sapin" . The yellow one is like our mais (corn) maja. Although, still early, I have to admit_ theirs were a lot cremier and yes more delicious..sorry :<. Later on,in the course of my KL trip, I was able to taste more of their delicacies.

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