The Savoy Truffle

The 1st Liquid Nitrogen Ice-Cream Parlour in London

Okay, actually the first liquid nitrogen ice-cream parlour in Europe apparently. Deep in Camden Market, this cosy, chemical lab-like find was the perfect end to a gorging fest of roast pork filled ciabattas. 

The parlour looks like Bill Nye the science guy’s lab but dedicated to the storage of a massive amount of liquid nitrogen, test tubes and a few Kitchen Aid mixers to magically make ice-cream without CHURNING! 

I decided to go for the special of the week: Candied Pina Colada with a shot of rum. Now, add the ice-cream mixture in a mixer, full speed ahead, a substantial amount of good old liquid nitrogen, get a friendly guy in a lab coat explaining the process and with a mad scientist laugh muahahaha:

Ladies and gentlemen, freshly made Pina Colada ice-cream in less than a minute (topped off with a sugar shard):

Verdict: Texture was great: Creamy and no frozen nonsense. Flavour was a little bland, there was a hint of Pina Colada somewhere in there and where the heck was the rum?? It just needed a pinch of salt to release some of these flavours. In all honesty, I was a little disappointed but it was good fun and I’ll definitely come back to try the other flavours. 

Here’s the address:

t h e   c h i n   c h i n   l a b o r a t o r i s t s

49-50   c a m d e n   l o c k   p l a c e,  l o n d o n

Now, where can I find some liquid nitrogen?

Tom’s Kitchen

Sunday…mmm…Brunch….mmm…. 

A reason to wake up much earlier than usual.

This was ages ago for a Birthday celebration with friends at Tom’s Kitchen in Chelsea.

I always have a look at brunch menus before arriving to the restaurant… So I knew what I wanted, French Toast with a twist, a filling with avocado or bacon plus maple syrup, anything really, surprise me!

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Peyton and Bryne Churros Bar

I love Peyton and Bryne. The cakes and pastries looks like your mum just made them, just for you. You can somehow smell the love, if that makes sense.

So I thought their churros bar was dedicated to me, like Oliver Peyton somehow knew that I seriously missed the churros from a Spanish deli outside my old flat.  

The British Library

My big fat latte.

Churros dippped in cinnamon sugar and a dark chocolate dip.

A churros and espresso bar. Genius.

Peyton & Byrne at
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 6DB

Cream Tea Mania at Cotswolds

It’s Spring! Well briefly anyway at Bath and the Cotswolds villages last weekend.

Enjoy the pretty pictures and hopefully it’ll bring some sunshine to you on this rainy London day…

Cream Tea at the Jane Austen Centre, Bath

Mr.Darcy himself.

My Mr.Darcy.

Fluffy Scones with Strawberry Jam and Clotted Cream.

Yellow and Blue…

Have a lovely weekend and if life gets tough, have cream tea :)

Indie Coffee

• Charming Coffee Cart on Church Street 
• A 10 minute walk from LBS
• Had a Flat White, Delish
• Pretty Latte Art
• Open Tue-Fri 8am-3pm, Sat 8am-3.30pm
• Map

Yumm nice find, will look for this dude when I want real coffee. 

Bea’s of Bloomsbury, London

I’ve been wanting to try this place for a while now. Their website made the place look so good but the bad service and mediocre desserts dashed my hopes. Hey, but at least I was with good company (dearest Katie and Billy) and got some pretty pictures.

Katie and I decided to go for the raspberry kugelholf. Would have been nice if it was warmed up but oh well. 

Billy went for the pumpkin cheesecake. Texture-wise, it was pretty good, didn’t really like the crystallised ginger on top though. 

The interior was pretty quirky 

Some autumn, no-snow, blue sky shots

Overall, a nice walk with the buds but an unsatisfied little tummy.

Lanka, London

Hello! I’m back in KL now and can finally sit down, chill and write. 

It has been insane this term. I really thought business school would be a breeze compared to mechanical engineering but wow, I was so wrong. 

But anyway, back to business. 

About a 15 minute walk from my place in St John’s Wood is my new escape haven, Primrose Hill. On Regent’s Park Road, there is without a doubt the best Japanese bakery in London, Lanka. Okay, so maybe there is this form of bias since a good friend of mine works there, Matthew who was my comrade in Paris during our Le Cordon Bleu Basic Pattiserie days.

But seriously, after looking at these pictures, bias or not, you know that I’m telling you the truth.

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The Mont Blanc. One of the sexiest desserts in my opinion. Chestnut cream on a lovely sponge cake base.

Tart Cibst. Starting with a caramelised top with chiboust cream (italian meringue mixed with pastry cream) and apple in between some puff pastry. It was light, creamy and sweet on the right scale.

Green Tea Chocolate Gateau. Amazing texture but flavour-wise, there wasn’t a strong impact by the green tea or even the chocolate.

Creme Brulee. I believe it was an Earl Grey flavour. This was definitely a winner with me. The richness of the dessert is enough to turn your day around. Yum-O. 

Interior shot. Oh gosh, I didn’t realise they have Monmouth Coffee. 

Flapjacks and Croissants

Definitely going to be regular here for next year. 

Took an 8 hour nap today. It’s going to be a long night. Till the next post!

Ultimate Berry Pie

I have finally unpacked and settled into my new place. Nothing better to break into the new oven with an all-American pie! I decided upon three berries: rasp, blue and black. 

I’m a sucker for organic flour or a packaging with a picture that makes it seems like the flour was just milled. 

The pie crust recipe required shortening along with the butter. Not too crazy about shortening especially since it took ages to wash the cup that was used to measure it! But it helps give that perfect crust texture, apparently. This would be an amazing food engineering project btw… Anyway….

Combined that with the flour mixture along with some butter to get some breadcrumbs going.

Jumping the gun here, but here is the lined pie tin with the berries which was previously mixed with lemon juice and peel, corn flour, cinnamon and nutmeg.

I was excited about the next part, the pie lattice for the top. It felt like kindergarten all over again, weaving little pieces of paper to form a pattern like this:

After a good 40 minutes from a scorching 220 degree celcius environment, the berry juices started bubbling and I believe we have hit pie heaven:

Tangy filling, crisp top crust…….. and the taste of home. 

Business and London

Hello! First of all, a big apology for the huge delay in my posts. I have so many things I want to write about but I’ve been moving out of my old place and into my new place in London. That’s right! I’ll be in London for one year, reading Masters in Management in London Business School!

A really big step for me in entrepreneurship and I can’t wait to get to know actual entrepreneurs in the flesh!

Got big plans for this weekend. In one word, PIE!

So in Arnold’s words, I’ll be back :)