my favourite japanese dessert place at the moment – located in this nondescript open cafe in the new 100am mall. it’s been quite a week, and I can’t wait for it to be over – a matcha soft-serve at the moment sounds like it could be the cure to all this fatigue.
this is the first singaporean outpost of a fifteen-decades-old kyotoian dessert store, and it reminds me of all the tea-time (and post-breakfast and pre-lunch and post-lunch and you-get-what-I-mean) sit-downs I had in japan composed of all this green-tea loveliness.
p.s. that’s my dad’s attempt at teenage enthusiasm in the background.
it’s a menu that looks pretty large – but it’s all permutations of sweet-cooked beans, green tea in liquid and soft-serve form, jellies, mochi and a bit of cake. not a problem – because I love all those things – but the only option for a non-matcha-lover (other than to unbefriend them) is the vanilla soft-serve. it’s an expertly-portioned bit of confectionary: sized to be satisfying without any too-muchness, and small enough so it still feels exquisite – even if you are eating out of plastic cups.
we came thrice in two weeks – and particularly enjoy the parfaits. the just-sweet-enough soft-serve actually tastes of good matcha, and there’s good dairy in it, too (which is why the vanilla also tastes great). the mochi was nice for a sit-down snack, liberally dusted with kinako and matcha; but I didn’t think the chiffon cake anything special – it was a little too dry and uninteresting.
these don’t come cheap – especially when you consider that you’re sitting in a tiny casual place and everything is essentially prepared beforehand; but the quality is fantastic, the serving sizes reasonable, and those adorably-polite japanese staff so engagingly affable you feel like you could be in japan once again.
Tsujiri | 100am
#01-14B 100am
100 Tras Street
Singapore 079027
tel +65 6543 6110
$$: per dessert/drink = eightish
andmorefood 
wahahaa! your dad’s too cute!
I know, and my number one supporter too! he’s now mortified that it’s up (which, of course, is why it’s there)
I enjoy reading your posts because they’re always well-written, nice pictures and most importantly, real opinions of food. There are just too many bloggers using ‘nothing to shout about’, which actually aptly describes their indistinguishable blogs.
thank you, you’re too kind! I
p.s. I like your little bit of snarkwit (taking literary licence here) at the end
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I love the green tea desserts, especially the one from tsujiri! Nice blog entry :)
thank you – and I am also in love with green tea desserts; I think I may have overdone it recently, as my dad is all matcha-ed out!
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