Patchi

Patchi is the ultimate gianduja* chocolate expert. Better than Kinder Bueno.

There are two types of Patchi—Classic (gold wrapping) and Deluxe (silver wrapping).





There are more than 40 types of Patchi, most of them are gianduja*-based.






Some of the choco I’ve tried:

HARMONIE
White choc filled with crisped rice and hazelnut pieces. Perfect for someone who has a sweet tooth and like to have something to chew on. But I’m not a fan of white choc so I’ll pass.

MARQUISE
Milk Choc filled with gianduja, crisped rice, almond and hazelnut pieces.

FORTUNA
Dark choc stuffed with gianduja. Tastes similar to Marquise. Just simpler and smoother.

BISCUITINE
Milk choc filled with wafers. Tastes like your typical Loacker wafer biscuit.

PARFAIT
Dark choc filled with truffle fudge. Eating this is like having found an exquisite jewel box, and to discover a huge glistening gem inside.



BUT my ultimate Patchi indulgence would be:



ROYAL
Milk choc filled with gianduja and one whole hazelnut.


I’m eating it now while typing.

The choccie is excreamly (sheesus shrus, ze hazelnut cream ish so kao it hangles wis my hongue, I cant even pro-ounce it proherly!!), heavenly.

Nuff said.


*Gianduja—Hazelnut cream. Sounds like drug, I know, haha

Choccie Review

I know all along I’ve been doing reviews on cheese (flavored) snacks, but I’ll make an exception today!

Choccies!

Sorry but no cheese flavored one. Care to sign the “we-want-cheese-chocolate” petition?


Meiji Melty Kiss (Strawberry)



Bought it from Singpore, a winter special edition Meiji. I felt very guilty cuz I actually bought this for Ichigo**. I buy everything strawberry for her. From chocolate to lipgloss to dress (not flavored la, it was a strawberry-motif cocktail dress). Anycheese, I opened and devoured the choc before it even reached her. Too much a temptation.


*Hypnotized emo*


This has to be the most most most strawberrilicious choccie in the Chocolate Kingdom.

They are strawberry cubes sprinkled with thick dark choco powder.

So authentically strawberrilicious you could even taste the tiny strawberry seed bits.

I would trade Rodrigo Santoro’s kiss for this, seriously.

So I ate, and ate, and ate…

O_o

Gommene Ichigo!


(** for Japanese-illiterates, ichigo means Strawberry in jap.)



Meiji Melty Kiss (Green)



I always love green tea. But I cannot get over the hypnotizing strawberry melty kiss.
So this green tea kiss tasted really plain.
Argh. I’m bound to be haunted by that deadly kiss forever.



Meiji Melty Kiss (Precious cocoa)



It has a rich dark choco flavor. It’s dusty-powdery cocoa on the outside and soft-creamy choco filling inside. Double dose of choco!

Princess Lyss likes it a lot. She went Parie-ish and said “That’s hot! Thank you doll, I love it so much, like, totally!”

If I hadn’t tried the strawberry one I would prolly give this a seven…… ok point five.

But too bad lor, I’m damn spoiled. =(


I want my strawberry melty kiss!!

I’m so stupid. I saw it in Taipei but didn’t buy because it was slightly more expensive than the one in Singapore. Now Xmas over d. Hmmph!

*pouts*
*stomps feet*
*arms akimbo*

Then I hunted around in PJ but couldn’t find any. There’re lotsa Meiji choccies but nothing comes close to that breathtaking kiss.

Anycheese, at least a little consolation.



Meiji Macadamia Chocolate (Roiyaru Miruku Tii)



Ok so you ask what the hell is Roiyaru Miruku Tii.

Me suggest you go learn Katakana.

This choccie gave me some lolling. Imagine half way drinking your teh tarik tambah manis and finding yourself chomping chunky macadamia bits.

That’s how it tastes like.

Just they don’t call it teh tarik . It’s called Royal Milk Tea. Repeat after me, Roi-ya-ru Mi-ru-ku-Tiiiii.

=D



Royce Marshmallow Chocolate (Miruku Kohii)



Miruku Kohii Marshmallow choco.

This time no need translation right. If you still don’t get it, seriously, Katakana lessons, CNY special discount for you. And by the cheese, I charge by hour.

I left this box of choccie at home and happily went shopping.

Then I received an sms from Your Majesty.

“The choco is super delicious can’t stop eating by the way what time are you coming home?”

(She hates pressing they keypad many many times hence the lack of punctuation marks.)

Ok I have to tell you the last time mom texted me was two years ago, before she finally decided sms is a stupid thing to do when you can just press call.

Imagine how nice the choccie is it made mom go cheesiao.


Royce Marshmallow Chocolate (Howaito)




It says “Howaito”. But howaito what? howaito chocolate?

It doesn’t taste white chocolate. It tastes like a fluffy marshmallow pillow wrapped in a thick layer of Dumex Baby Formula. So so so milky.

Still I prefer to go cheesiao. =D




Cheese those better-than-Rodrigo’s-kiss-choccie out!!

Cheese of the day #6

Cheese of the day


They are air flown then driven back from far far away land back to PJ, so they’d better be cheesy!!



Epicure Cheese Cocktail


These are little ice-cream cone puffs injected with cheese-flavored cream.
But those little puffs are all broken into halves and the stubborn cream gets stuck on either hemisphere. The cream texture is unrefined, and taste like those crude waffle biscuits come in bulk which could be found in Giant.

After all, it’s cheese flavored, what do you expect.


Cheesability:
/10



Let’s put our hope on some real-cheese snacks.



ROKA Cheese Fingers




These are pastry fingers made with 30% Gouda cheese.

Unlike the previous Epicure assorted mini cheese puffs I’ve reviewed earlier, these fingers are separated in two sections—Poppy seed fingers and sesame fingers. It is good because it doesn’t mix up the flavors and create a chaotic medley on your tastebuds.

Very cheesy and extremely crispy. Crisp crisp crisp crisp!!

Also, love the poppy and sesame bits, which give you extra munchies!
The most munchable snack!



Cheesability:
/10



ROKA Cheese Crispies




Ooops. I’m afraid I have to take back what I just said after eating this, err, Cheese Crispies.

Because, it sure lives up to its name. And I thought Cheese fingers were crispy enough.

These freaking crispy crispies, are the crispiest crispies you’ll ever try!

It tastes almost the same as the fingers, just in flaky flat pastry form.

Warning: do not munch these crispies while watching Lost in Translation. You will never hear a thing from your stereo.



Cheesability:
/10

La Manila + Paddington

Time for some long-time-no-cheese food review.


La Manila (TTDI)


La Manila Fried Rice



The La Manila fried rice got me completely hooked the first time I tried it in Mid Valley with Mozzie. I rated it the 3rd best fried rice I’ve ever eaten. It has got so much eggs. Eggs shreds in the rice, plus another fried egg! Eggilicious! Jewel's gonna love it!

Mozzie’s Fried Kuey Teow was exceptionally delicious too. What’s more, even the cincau was so much better than Yeo’s, Season’s… whatever brand you can name.

BUT.

I have to say, this fried rice here is so disappointing. Is the chef in TTDI branch having PMS or what? Why is the quality so not up to par? The keropok was soggy and the rice was too ajinomotoful.

Therefore, I didn’t really bother to try the Fried Kuey teow.



But of cheese, you can try and let me know. Thank you.


Paddington House of Pancakes

So silly of me to think pancakes are for breakfast/dessert.

So wrong!

There are so so so many varieties of pancakes, big one, small one, flat one, thick one, soft one, hard one, doughy one, fluffy one, round one, square one, dollar-shaped one, crepe-like one, waffle-like one, sweet one, savory one, American one, British one, cheesy one, non-cheesy one… Ok enough. Too much.

Whoa, I need a whole month to finish tasting each and every one of them.

Someone should have enlightened my ignorance of pancakes earlier so I can start my pancake marathon sooner. LOL



Traditional honey stacks


Plain pancake with honey and melting butter. Simple and sweet. =)
Oh, lovely blueberry garnish by the way. =D

Savory American Pancake Stacks


Fluffy pancakes with double gourmet cheese sausages, beef salami, hash brown & grilled mozzarella, served with brown sauce.

Whoa…The melted cheese was eagerly oozing out with every bite on the sausages. Oh so abso-cheesing-lutely cheesy!!



Paddington Style Buckwheat Galettes (gah-let)


For the Galettes, there’re more than 10 varieties and each of them represents a city.

Mine was Brussels.

It is a buckwheat crepe with cheesy beef bacon, mozzarella cheese, sunny-side-up, bake beans and guacamole served with little side salad. Healthy!

Eh, I don’t see no sprouts though. Hehe.

It is so breakfasty! Jewel is gonna love this too. You, egg freak!
Ok I mean we, egg freaks!



And finally...




Hot Choc


My must-order item in a new café.

Well, tasted decent enough but seemed like the cocoa powder was not very well dissolved. However, love the little marshmallows. =)

I’m so going back to Paddington, along with the Stellars, cuz we decided to make every Wed the Egg Day, Thursday the Cheese Day and Friday the Egg and Cheese Day. LOL.