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Hi guys! I'm Nic!
I'm Alison!
Welcome to another episode of Eatbook Vlogs.
On today's episode we're going to be checking out unique durian dishes.
So, you know that durian season is about June/July to September,
but the places we're going to go serve durian dishes all year round!
We're going to two different places today
The first one is called Mao Shan Wang Cafe by Four Seasons Durian.
This is actually the first durian cafe in Singapore.
So let's go check it out!
Let's go!
So we're at Mao Shan Wang Cafe.
This is the first dish, it is the Mao Shan Wang Delight.
So this is actually $15.80,
and like, damn big sia!
It's Mao Shan Wang durian soft serve
On top they have
mini marshmellow,
almond flakes,
and this is almond crispies.
There are brownies below also.
Actually, I'm curious as to how brownies will taste with durian.
I haven't tried brownies with durian before.
I really like the presentation.
When they first brought it out, there was so much dry ice!
Ok, let's go!
Mmmm!
It's so nice!
You can tell it's made from actual durian and not flavouring.
And it's really really creamy.
The almond crispy goes very well with the durian also.
This is damn nice, it tastes like a strudel.
We managed to get to the chocolate brownie,
so we're going to try the ice-cream with chocolate now.
They use dark chocolate
because the ice-cream is quite sweet
when you eat it with the chocolate brownie
it's a bit bitter.
I think it goes quite well together.
I feel, you won't get sian (bored) of it.
Not too jelak.
And it's not too over powering also.
Yeah!
This is the first dish, but I can safely say
if I come here again, I'll order this again.
Yes, me too.
Okay, so next we have the Durian Charcoal Pizza, this is $23.80.
It's on a charcoal base, and they put 100% Mao Shan Wang on top.
Oh my God!
The smell is damn intense!
It looks super good!
On our recent Taste Testers episode, we also tried durian pizza that was from Tinos.
This is slightly, from what I see, thinner.
I'm quite excited to try because it smells super good!
I want a piece with the most cheese.
The best way to eat pizza is to fold it.
No!
So that your hands don't get dirty, and you can hold it like this.
Cheers!
Cheers!
Wow!
There's lots of flesh!
Is it?
Yeah!
Look at all the flesh inside!
Oh my God, so good!
The durian topping is really really creamy.
It's very very flavorful, it really packs a punch when you take your first bite.
Until now I still can't wrap my head around how durian and cheese goes well together.
It's so good! It's like a salty and sweet combination.
I have followed your method.
Good, right?
I think if you share with friends, it's very worth the money.
Yeah!
At most you'll eat 2 or 3 pieces of it.
This one I can imagine it can get quite jelak after a while.
Nic I got something to show you.
Oh, yeah?
You're going to order more food?
When I think of a durian cafe, right.
I'll just think of maybe durian pizza, or the durian ice-cream.
But I wouldn't think of so many other varieties.
Like mochi!
Hong Kong Pancake!
There's even french fries with durian sauce!
There's quite a good variety, I think you can honestly have a meal here.
Okay, we're at our second stop now, we're at Double Durian.
Not single, but double!
Double D's!
Good joke.
Double Durian is the actually first F&B place to be selling baked and grilled durian.
This is the same baked and grilled durian that went viral online
and we actually tried it on the previous episode of Taste Testers.
So today we're going to be trying their other durian based dishes as well.
They actually sell a lot of other western food items on the menu
They do have a lot of durian desserts and drinks as well so we're going to try it out.
For our first dish we have Durian Sticky rice.
This is $8.80
It looks very very worth it, the portion is very decent.
It sounds like a very natural combination.
Like, why wouldn't you try durian with sticky rice?
I feel it wouldn't taste weird at all.
I love the presentation.
It's on this durian shaped wooden plank.
10 out of 10 for aesthetics.
Wow! The sticky rice really xiao sticky!
So, basically what they did was they shaped the sticky rice first.
Then after that, each mound of sticky rice has an entire seed of durian
but they remove the seed for you, so that you don't have to get your hands dirty.
Okay, let's try!
It's quite good.
It's really good!
I really like this.
The durian is not overly sweet
because the rice is sweet on its own already.
So it's very important to use the right type of durian for this dish.
They're essentially using Mao Shan Wang Durian.
And I really like the rice, they actually said they bake it
for 5-10 mins.
The outside is a little bit crispy and the inside is still sticky.
Overall, everything goes together very very well.
So, next up we have the Double Durian Bomb and it's $7.80.
It's the first drink of the day.
How they make it is, it's quite interesting.
They put crushed ice,
then they put their own home made durian ice-cream,
followed by another table spoon of fresh durian meat.
So it's durian on durian and then they put a Pocky on top.
So cute.
And a mint leaf.
Actually, I'm quite impressed about how they serve all their food.
It looks super aesthetic.
It's on a rock!
Wow, shiok (delicious)!
Wow!
Very interesting because based on how it's made,
you would think that the flavour would be a bit too much.
But it's very refreshing.
There's not too much durian.
Do want something stronger?
You have?
Yes.
So this!
Is actually the normal version.
So it's actually much sweeter and stronger tasting.
You want to try it as compare to the one we're having now.
I feel like this one is
you really really love durian
and you haven't had durian for a very long time.
This would be the one for you!
I like that they give you the option.
Let's eat the flesh!
Oh, yeah.
There's actually a lot of flesh!
I feel like this is one whole seed.
This durian is good!
It tastes a bit sweeter than the one we had with the sticky rice.
After eating the flesh and you go back to drinking the smoothie itself
the smoothie is even lighter and even more refreshing.
I think I will buy this again
because even though there is ice, ice-cream and durian
It's still really easy to drink
and I think it's super refreshing.
So, actually for $7.80
to me this is super worth it!
You're getting the durian ice-cream and additional durian meat.
You want to know something?
What?
I'm having durian on the rocks.
Oh, because...
The thing.
The cup.
Yeah.
On...
On the rock.
The rock.
Okay, for the last dish for today we are back at dessert.
We're going to be trying the durian crepe cake.
So this is $7.20 per piece.
If you get the whole cake it's $78, that's 12 pieces.
Actually, I have never eaten crepe cakes before.
Oh, really?
I'm not a big fan of cakes because they always stuff it with a lot of cream.
Crepe cakes are quite different because it's a lot more dense
because it's just layer after layer of crepes.
So you won't have that full of cream taste that you usually get with sponge cake.
I can see that
with every layer there's always a thin layer of cream
followed by durian and then the crepe.
I'm quite curious to try what a durian crepe cake will taste like
because I never had a durian crepe cake before.
Actually, it's very satisfying to see all the layers.
Let's go!
I'm excited!
For someone who doesn't like cake,
I think this is really easy to eat!
It doesn't have that much cream and the durian taste is pretty light.
It's no too heavy on the palate.
What do you think?
Crepe cakes are quite hard to make,
I feel, because it can not be too nua (easy),
but at the same time it cannot be hard and dry.
So it's quite a hard balance to achieve.
So this one is leaning towards
the nua nua (easy) kind of texture, which I don't really like.
I guess if you want something more light, and not so heavy,
then you can give this a go.
But if you're looking for something that's really strong in durian flavour
really has a texture to it, then I would not recommend this.
But props to them, I think the idea of a durian crepe cake
is quite spot on.
Because I actually think that the durian flavor will go better with
crepe texture
than a sponge cake texture.
But it's ok, I'll eat it.
So today we went to Mao Shan Wang Cafe and Double Durian,
what was your favorite dish actually, Ali?
I think my favorite dish would be the Double Durian Smoothie from Double Durian.
It was so good!
I actually really like the Mao Shan Wang Delight from Mao Shan Wang Cafe.
Because to me the quality of the soft serve, right,
it is
easily on par with the kind of soft serve you can get in Japan.
Actually today I'm quite surprised that there are so many
varieties of durian dishes you can get.
It's quite surprising because you would think that
with something with such a strong flavor
like durian
that it cannot go with a lot of things,
but then today
really proved that theory wrong.
I think you all should just go and try the different dishes
because today we just touched on a few.
So if you have ever tried these unique durian dishes before,
let us know in the comments below which one is your favorite.
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