#427 바나나 트리 Banana Tree @ Cantonment, Singapore
The cafe culture is quite prominent in many countries and there has been many opening up in Singapore since few years back. Some cafes served very mediocre food yet the prices of each dish is more than SGD$10. Thus, I am trying not to head to many cafes unless one factor appeals to me. So when I read an article stating the new cafes of Singapore, I was not interested to try out any other cafes except for the Banana Tree.
Banana Tree
26 Keong Saik Road,
Singapore 089133
+65 62215020
Banana Tree is a cafe that originated from Seoul and there are three branches of it in Korea. It opened sometime in April this year and I decided to try it out after work at around 4pm with Jia Ling shortly after their opening. If you realize from the pictures taken above, the theme of the cafe is somewhat a garden. The wooden furniture and tiny decoration tools indicate the surroundings of the garden. The utensils are also depicted as spades and spading forks. How adorable really? Even the name Banana Tree shows that the symbolic garden is figuratively planted with a banana tree. If you have noticed, there are many items colored in yellow in the store. There are too many decorations in the cafe, resulting in limited seats though. The lady serving us was very friendly and she was so kind as to come over to our table multiple times to help us snap shots. I have to agree that the service is impeccable!
What attracted me to come over to this cafe is the presentation of the food! Both Jia Ling and I were so fascinated by the adorable displays of the desserts that we being such gluttons decided to order the Oreo Bomb (second picture), Som Som Latte (forth picture) and Flower Paap (fifth & sixth pictures). The desserts cost SGD$12, SGD$7 and SGD$6.50 respectively. I love Korea for their dessert modifications. The Oreo Bomb consists of many oreo cookies broken into bits and pieces and a scoop of vanilla ice-cream on a hot frying pan. Both Jia Ling and I love oreo cookies / cookies and cream so having the oh-so-hot oreo bits blended with the cooling ice-cream is so gratifying that we felt empty when the ice-cream was finish yet we still had chunks of oreo cookies waiting to be devour. Jia Ling did not want to eat it anymore after the ice-cream was gone so being greedy, I left nothing on the pan. There were a few Som Som Latte flavours such as banana, chai, milk caramel, chocolate and matcha to try. I wanted to try the matcha flavour but it was already sold out by 4pm so we got Jia Ling’s favourite flavour instead and that is none other than chocolate. We love how the chocolate latte without espresso is topped with cotton candy and marshmallows. Even though I am not a sweet beverage fan, I enjoyed dipping the cotton candy and marshmallow into the chocolate latte. It can get quite messy consuming the cotton candy on its own though! Next, just look at the Flower Paap!! Can you even resist that? This dessert is basically pudding topped with sweets and inedible flowers. You can take home the flower pot with an additional SGD$1 fee! The Flower Paap maybe one of my least favourite dessert in the store but it is still better than a lot of desserts served in other cafes. Trust me on that!
OPENING HOURS:
Tue – Sat: 10:00 – 20:00
Sun: 11:00 – 20:00
NEAREST MRT STATION: OUTRAM PARK
PAYMENT METHODS: CASH/CREDIT/DEBIT
Ambiance: 7/10
Service: 8/10
Food (taste & appearance): 7.5/10
Value: 8/10
Total: 7.63/10★
I am very impressed by all the desserts served at Banana Tree & it is such a pity that I did not get to try the Red Bean Pot Bing Soo. I will definitely order that in my next visit!
