Food: Canele's Le Royale

hello readers, today i bring to you my review on Canele's Le Royale chocolate mousse cake! I was in the city area because i was collecting my christmas presents for Hero and his good friend Ozy, the black labrador (the christmas presents etc will be revealed during xmas itself!). As i was pretty early (one hour in fact lol) i shopped around in raffles city! and then i saw Canele, where i've been dying to try its cakes. hence i hopped there and picked one for takeaway!

i have to say, i'm very sure quite a portion of the considerably expensive price tag for its cakes must have went into the packaging. look at the paper bag and box!

and here's the cake i've chosen: Le Royale. Chocolate mousse 66% layered with hazelnut feullitine, almond success and chocolate genoise with rum as its description says. yum yum. my cam really dont do justice to the cake! here's a better picture from their website:

okay now it looks yummy! alright, my first mouth of this cake sent a long "MMMmmmm" to my brain and thoughts. thick chocolate mouse, light cake, and the light yet crunchy base reminded me of a biscuit-y version of ferrero rocher. while many other foodie bloggers rate this cake as good, i think this is great! maybe it's because i haven't tried the others like Obolo and such. but i have to say it is rather expensive.

i'll most probably go back and try some other cakes, but the price do deter me a little. i'll most probably go when i feel abit more generous. but i'll say the Le Royale is good, worth a try.

Le Royale individual cakes retails at $7.00 (before taxes)
Canele is located at Paragon, Raffles City, Shaw Centre and Robertson Walk.

Food: Soygurt

okay, here comes my first food review. But oh boy, i really wanted my first review to be a pleasant one. unfortunately, the product i chose disappointed me. oh well.

i was doing my grocery shopping in cold storage when i came across this new yogurt on the shelf. It's called Soygurt. This is an alternative to normal yogurts because this is made of soy milk. while in the USA this is pretty common, i haven't seen this before until i went to Cold Storage a few days back, so i bought it.

i bought the vanilla flavoured one, cos i decided i shall try something plain to taste the yogurt itself. i thought vanilla would add a nice sweet taste to the usual sourish plain yogurt. so there. There are other flavours there like peach, mango and strawberry. They do have a plain, soy yogurt one too.

Anyway, i opened it just yesterday night to have it. the texture is very obviously different, as soygurt has this jellyish look compared to the more curdled look for conventional yogurts. then when i put it in my mouth, i just wanted to spit it out. it had a very distinct soy taste (since it's made of soy milk), but the sour taste that came from this yogurt tasted nothing close to normal yogurts - it tasted as if the soygurt is spoilt. urgh. i checked the expiry date immediately, but nope. it's still a month away to it's expiry date. i threw the whole cup away after 2 mouths.

Hence, this soygurt really doesn't suit my tastebuds. it's made of organic beans btw, so health conscious people can try this. but i really didn't like this. and hence it doesn't justify it's 3.70 price tags.

Soygurt is sold in Cold Storage at $3.70