Michelle Brunch

Not your typical brunch experience, flavour-wise. The girth of the masculinely spicy, Chinese-esque and well-endowed sausage was ideal for easy in-mouth navigation, whilst elsewhere the chewy, bak kwa-like bacon appeared to have not wiped its mouth after having sugary roti prata and the hashbrown could pass off as a potato patty at a masquerade party. 4/5

While the stubborn baguette-esque toast had the moisture of a Thirsty Hippo-guarded closet, the opulent and corpulent otak slab - none of that minced nonsense, you can clearly see fish when you observe the otak's cross-section - had a remarkably chicken-like tenderness. 3.8/5

Whilst the otak was nicely meaty, the scrambled egg was gloriously fluffy and soft within its seemingly omelette-esque skin and the different sambals - one had a citrusy edge to its heat whilst another was decidedly more shrimpy - added a spark of danger to everything in manner of Midas touch, the turmeric chicken wings probably just finished suntanning in a Bali villa without applying moisturiser thereafter, those reckless sun worshippers. 3.7/5

While the soggy toast sagged under the pressure of its French parents' eggy demands, the absolute smorgasbord of warm egg and salmon chunks atop the toasts (hidden beneath the smoked salmon slices) were a delightful comfort. 3.3/5

P.S. The weather is so depressingly and unrelentingly rainy, even arctic bears now suffer from major (social media) influenzas.

- thick egg toasts, cinnamon apple compote, chopped nuts, whipped cream honey and caramel sauce. Essentially how French toast would be done if your doting, generous aunt made brekkie - the delicious buttery egginess provides a familiar homemade comfort, whilst the cinnamon apple compote may cause pleasurable jitters as the young guns these days like things sweet. 3.8/5

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The moisture-challenged bread was a non-starter, thankfully made more pleasant by the thick white chocolate sauce which when tasted on its own revealed its happily sweet nature but when applied to the bread served more as pistachio adhesive. 3.4/5

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Whilst the fortress walls may prove unsurmountable unless the dining party consists of eight pre-breakfast Primary Two boys before Sports Day at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, what lies beyond is surprisingly good and luxuriously indulgent – soft and buttery bread cubes, crunchy granola, actual hazelnuts, juicy strawberries and mutantly huge blueberries with hazelnut sauce and an accompanying and rather expensive-tasting honey.

Sure, the ice cream may lose their pizzazz amidst all the Shibuya festivities – although the Shangri Latte (lol) holds up wonderfully well with its fragrant bitterness – but the ice cream part of things was always destined to be a supporting act and bread wall lubricant when the leads are so marvelous. 4/5

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Fun fact: Som Tam is from the people behind Gin Khao, and Thai Basil joins the exotic lineup of gelato flavours in their repertoire which currently includes Sticky Rice, Tom Yum and Green Curry.

The fragrance of lemongrass makes an instant, impressive debut but it is quickly overshadowed by the vivacious sexiness of the mixed berry compote, a delirious combination of sweet, squirm-inducing tarty and, in the case of one particularly naughty berry, rather improper in-mouth squirtage for which it should be duly punished. 4.1/5

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What makes this delightfully hearty and generously-portioned Thai breakfast different from your garden variety brunch is the minced pork – which soaks lazily with its baconly siblings in the thick tomato-heavy gravy – and the sausage, which holds a most masculine, exotically spiced flesh beneath its Taiwan sausage-esque skin. 3.9/5

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It started to feel like there was enough dough action here to feed an entire PCF Kindergarten class but thankfully the curry-ish chipotle mayo, so indecently addictive that it was probably enchanted with a dozen infatuation spells by top level wizards with wands made of Thestral tail hair, proved feisty enough to prevent tedium from ever setting in. 3.7/5

This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Craftsmen Specialty Coffee.

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The waffle was sweet and soft like a bunny’s cottontail butt, whilst the grilled streaky bacon had both the salty, crispy edges of bacon and a hammy body so you essentially get a boinking load of oink for your buck. However, the element that would warrant a repeat visit is their curry-esque Craftsmen sauce, which has a mildly devilish kick and leaves a teasing numbness on le lips. They should set up a spinoff meat joint and just slather this magical potion over steak, chicken chop, cod fish, unicorn flesh etc – ker ching. 4.1/5

This was a hosted meal, courtesy of Craftsmen Specialty Coffee.

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