Cuisine: Tea Room & Patisserie
Visited: 28-29 May 2011
During our short trip to Singapore at the end of May, we had a chance to visit 2 tea room, one being Ah Teng's Bakery @ Raffles Singapore and the other one was TWG Tea Room @ ION Shopping Mall.
Ah Teng's Bakery @ Raffles Singapore
Price: SGD9.00 per person (what I paid for)
Food: 5/10
Atmosphere: 6/10
Value for money: 4/10
This Chinese style tea house of Raffles Singapore serves rather quality bakery daily. The area of this place is sharing with the adjacent Empire Cafe. We love the classic colonial decoration of this place, a bit of old fashion but look really calm and fabulous in style.
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| Ah Teng's Bakery @ Raffles Singapore |
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| Menu Board |
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| The Chinese Style Surrounding |
We did not have much chance to try many different things, including the famous banana pastry, but photos were taken to share here.
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| Lychee Raspberry Tart |
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| Tropical Fruits Choux a la Creme |
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| Sacher Cake |
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| Chocolate Banana Cake |
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| Cheese Cake |
Scone Set with English Breakfast Tea had soft texture but would be much appreciated if it was warm. It came with clotted cream that was not so rich in taste and jam was not a home-made one (5/10).
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| Scone Set with English Breakfast Tea |
Black Forest Cake tasted rather standard. Though it was an enjoyable one but more smoothness and cherry would be preferable (5/10).
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| Black Forest Cake |
Strawberry Jelly Lemon Panna Cotta was just a typical panna cotta with jelly but delightful to have though (4/10).
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| Strawberry Jelly Lemon Panna Cotta |
Ah Teng's Bakery @ Raffles Singapore
1 Beach Road
Singapore 189673
Open Hours: Sun-Thu 07:30am - 10:00pm and Fri-Sat 07:30am - 11:00pm
Tel: +65 (0) 6412 1816
TWG Tea Salon & Boutique @ ION Shopping Mall, Singapore
Price: SGD14.00 per person (what I paid for)
Food: 4/10
Atmosphere: 4/10
Value for money: 5/10
TWG is a well-known tea house of Singapore. There are a few houses around Singapore Island. We managed to go there during weekend and without surprise, the shop was packed with customers. For TWG Tea Salon & Boutique @ ION Shopping Mall, the place is rather tiny and can accommodate around 30 guests only. The decoration is elegant but we do not like the large window that allows outsiders to look through though. What impressed us was the long list of fine tea with description, there were around 100 choices of tea to be chosen (just guess ^^).
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| TWG Tea Salon & Boutique @ ION Shopping Mall |
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| The Entrance |
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| Shelf of Tea |
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| Pile of Muffin |
We chose Rwanda Express for the choice of tea. It was a light black tea with hint of caramel. This should be great with pastry that is thick and creamy. Scones came with tea jelly and whipped cream rather that clotted cream. It was dry in texture but tea jelly was interesting (4/10).
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| Rwanda Express |
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| Scones Set |
Raspberry Mille-feuille was wonderful. Unlike scones, this had soft and smooth filling of vanilla chestnut cream with crisp pastry. Loads of raspberry. Not so sweet on the overall (7/10).
We did also try a few macarons: Napoleon Tea & Caramel, Earl Grey Fortune & Chocolate, and 1837 Black Tea & Blackcurrant. Disappointed really but unique. Blending of TWG tea into maroons was interesting but did not go well from our perspective (3/10).
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| Raspberry Mille-feuille |
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| TWG Tea Macarons |
TWG Tea Salon & Boutique @ ION Shopping Mall, Singapore
2 Orchard Turn, #02-21
Singapore 238801
Open Hours: 10:00am - 10:00pm daily
Tel: +65 (0) 6735 1837
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