Flor Vs K-Ki

The story goes like this.  A British friend of ours visited last week and we just did what we do best aka brought him to all sort of places and engage in our fave activity - EAT!  After an ultra-spicy sichuan lunch at Chinatown, Mr Britain commented Singapore must have a rather sad cake scene because no one can stomach a rich chocolate cake after all our yummy hawkerfare! I totally disagreed and brought Mr Britain to Flor and K-Ki to show him there's much cake life after a chocolate cake.  The kind of brownie-wannabe-chocolate-cake-made-crudely-by-slapping-on-butter-eggs-chocolate-flour is such a passe in our little cosmopolitan island.  People these days are much more sophisticated than to be satisfied with just another chocolate cake. 

 K-ki's Antoinette, $8

Antoinette according to Mr Britain is like a white chocolate and mango molten lava cake.  Mr Britain likes the taste of mango so this ain't exotic to him at all.  Me?  I always love An.  Move over chocolate molten lava cake.

KKi's Cafe Dumo, $8

The only complaint I have about K-ki is my fave Mont Blanc is forever so difficult to buy.  We were told it's an hour wait to Mont Blanc last Sat so we ordered the Dumo instead.  Mr British was impressed by the layers of differing texture and taste in this coffee-based cake.  Anyway, I decided that the No-Mont-Blanc-Show at K-ki was a good excuse for us to drop by Flor to take-away their waguri millefeuille for our second round of cake feasting! Hey, who says our cake scene is sad!

 Flor's Tahiti, $6

We happily headed home with 4 cakes from Flor.  By the time we reach home we have digested K-ki's wonderfully light yet luxurious cakes!  Flor's Tahiti (as the name implies) is a happy fusion of pineapple cubes, passionfruit cream and coconut dacquoise.  The cake was a bit too tangy at first but soon became rather addictive.  Mr Britain actually likes this more than me as tropical fruits are not quite my thing. 

Flor's BerryBerries, $5.50

This cake is almost as light as air to almost not there.  I did not have a good impression of Glace's strawberry souffle and BerryBerries reminded me of it.  A whose taste buds were less jaded than mine actually said he likes this more than K-ki's cakes.  STRANGE! I STILL LIKE K-KI's BEST. 

Flor's Mango Pie, $6

All of us love the mango pie, I am especially impressed with the flaky pastry and dense almond-laced filling.  The mango pie was the sweetest and heaviest amongst everything we tried but it wasn't cloying at all.  

Flor's Waguri Millefeuille, $6.50

Flor's version of chestnut cake and closest parallel to Mont Blanc.  I enjoyed this more than Glace's Mont Blanc because of the flaky pastry which added a stronger taste of butter.  Other than that I still prefer K-ki's chestnut cream and almond base for Mont Blanc.  Anyway, Mr Britain just learn that Mont Blanc is classically French and the Japanese's take on this classic French is one of the most important contribution to my cake universe :)

And so Mr Britain (after his eating and learning journey) concluded that those chocolate cakes and muffins bakeries in London will have a tough time staying afloat in Singapore.  Who wants that boring chocolate cake where choices are aplenty! Don't think Mr Britain will ever think that the cake scene on our sunny island is boring ever again. 

I am still a K-ki person.  How about you?

Flor Original Cake Gallery
2 Duxton Hill #01-01
Singapore 089588

Kki

7 Ann Siang Hill

#01-00

Tel: 62256650