Chendol is a popular dessert in South East Asia. Each country has it’s own version and they are equally unique and nice. It is natural then for an ice cream company to attempt to make an ice cream flavour out of it. So how it this attempt by Udders? The taste is reasonably accurate. The …
When we talk about blackcurrant, the one thing that comes to mind is Ribena. There’s a little known blackcurrant drink called Vimto, which students from the the University of Manchester would know of. Then there are these occasional blackcurrant products, like this M&S Blackcurrant Sundae. The word “sundae” is really confusing because there is no …
Like coronavirus, the bubble tea mania has gone into a second, third or even fourth wave. The boba or bubbles in the tea is made of tapioca or cassava flour, which contains only starch. The making of these bubbles is an interesting scientific concept, which you can read more and experiment at Scientific American. They …
Framboises or as some would wrongly pronounce it, frem-boy-sirs, is French for raspberries. Raspberries is the perfect fruit to make tarts, due to it’s slightly sweet and slightly tangy flavour. And oh boy, these tarts fully covered in raspberries with a nice crunchy and buttery base looks amazing. But does it taste amazing? The instructions …
A bit late for mooncake, but better late than never. Especially if it’s something off the beaten track. These TWG snowskin mooncake comes in a set of four flavours – Serenity, Blossom, Illumination and Pure. For us mere mortals, we would call it the yellow one, the orange one, the black one and the white …
Chocolate cookies, vanilla and ice cream. What could possibly go wrong? Althought it sounds like a sure-win recipe, the problem is that the customer’s expectations is set sky high. Chocolate cookie is nice. Vanilla is nice. Ice cream is heaven. Put all 3 together than you get heaven in heaven! That is where the problem …
If you have watched CCTV14 in China, which is the kids channel, you’ll very quickly notice that all the advertisements are made up of the same few adverts. And it’s not only for a month or two, it’s been the same for almost six months! To the extent that my kids can already memorize the …
Deep Learning gets messy with food. Ever wondered how our simple images at Crazy Food Club would look like if it was drawn by famous artists? We asked the question previously here, where we merged the Hokkaido Fresh Milk with Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa. In this article, we check out the great master, …
Grapple or Apprape? Konnyaku jelly is made of a plant amorphophallus konjac, native to Asia Pacific. Jelly can also be made from animal based gelatin or algae based agar-agar. For this review, I have two packets of Tarami fruit flavoured konnyaku jelly. One is apple flavoured and the other one grape flavoured. I opened both, …
Making friends with aliens. At the height of matcha-mania, people are coming up with matcha (green tea) flavoured everything. Biscuits, vodka, lipsticks and even condoms. On a recent visit to a relative’s house, I was given a matcha ice cream. Thankfully it’s not one of the weird matcha flavoured items above! I opened the packet …
