I had a nice brunch at this little Parisan cafe called Antoinette. It's located at 30 Penhas Road, about a five minutes walk from Lavender MRT. I had read about this restaurant in the Life! section of the newspaper a few weeks ago. This restaurant is opened by Canele's former executive pastry chef, Chef Pang. The decor is exquisite, and it's located at a pretty obscure place so the moment you step foot into the restaurant, it's almost as if you stepped foot into a time machine and got transported to another world. I literally felt as if I was in France. The ambience is definitely A+.

I started my meal with a choice of 3 pastries from the array of pastries that was laid out on the table at the shop front. I can't remember what the volcano-shaped thing was called but it was good, although it was my least favourite out of the three. Next to it is a hazelnut danish pastry which turned out to taste a little bit like Nutella, which caught me by surprise. I loved the almond coated croissant (Pictured the lowest of the three). Canele has one exactly like this, I'm assuming this is one Chef Pang's signature or something. I was crazy about Canele's almond coated croissant. However when I tried this, Canele's version just pales in comparison. They were very generous in the almonds and the buttery taste of croissant is there, but yet it isn't over powering that is steals away the full taste of the almonds. To add, there was a surprise chocolate centre which I didn't expected. Canele's version was extremely generous with the almonds too, however the croissant didn't seem to come through, there was barely any taste of the croissant.

The main dishes came next and I forgot to take a picture. What a pity. But I had the eggs with truffle shavings. I'm a die-hard truffle fan. I had my eggs done sunny-side up. When the dish came, I saw that they were decently generous with the truffle shavings. I'm usually not a big fan of egg yolks either, but the way the whole egg complements with fragrance of the truffle atop their signature pain de mie, it was literal food heaven. The eggs and toast comes with a side of house salad at a price of 20SGD. In my opinion, well worth it.

I chose 3 cakes as dessert out of the 14 mouth-watering desserts on display. The chocolate-like on is called Antoinette, named after the shop. For the rest of it, I can't quite remember the names but I'll give you a brief description. To the Antoinette's right is a Chantilly cream with a passion fruit centre clasped between two meringues. Below is a raspberry violet layered cake. The Antoinette is a very rich chocolate cake with some bits of nuts in the centre, with a faint earl grey scent/flavour and a raspberry sauce that is held in a bubble-like thing atop it. The bubble-like thing has to be broken first to let the raspberry sauce ooze out of it. It's an interesting and a splendidly wonderful chocolate cake, however the chocolate is extremely rich. My mom is an avid chocolate lover and even she couldn't finish the cake by herself. I'm not as big of a chocolate fan so this is my least favourite out of the three just because I lean more towards the fruity and flowery flavoured desserts. But the Antoinette is a must try. The meringue chantilly cream is a right mixture of sweetness coming from the meringue and a tinge of sour from the passion fruit centre. Some people dislike meringues because they usually find it too sweet, but this is just right. But I have an extremely sweet tooth and I love the likes of meringues so I may be biased. The Chantilly cream is lightly textured which is perfect. My favourite out of the three. The last cake, the violet raspberry layered cake, is pretty great too. It's a right mixture of the raspberry jam and violet tinge. It leans towards more of a fruity kind of cake.

Overall, I'd say this is on of the best meals I've ever had in Singapore, hands down. I'm definitely going back again to try the other 11 desserts. Antoinette is definitely a place of cake-lovers like myself. Also, if you like teas, they have a wide array of teas there for your selection. Why do I speak as if I'm talking to someone?

From a little Parisan cafe to a wet market in Little India.

I tagged along with my mom to purchase some fish for my helper to fry up some fish and chips tonight. It's my very first time seeing the fishmonger butchering up the fish. I literally got the shivers seeing the poor fishes being severed a dozen times. I contemplated going vegan actually. But it was an interesting experience nonetheless with the exception of the fish's blood splattering around and the fish scale flying everywhere.