wanted dessert after dinner, so settled for saint marc's. saw that they had a new special of vanilla rum bread pudding ($7.80); decided to be adventurous and tried that, along with the miyako ($8.20). 

what came was really different from the picture. the bread pudding looked stodgy and was surprisingly large- twice the size of what i had expected. we took a bite each and immediately gave each other weird looks. it was strangely salty and had none of the pudding texture i like so much about bread pudding. even the rum sauce was weird- extremely thick and the rum was overpowering. i tried to like it, but really couldn't. after some discussion, L and i decided to return it because it was just so bad. i've never had to return food because of its taste before. thankfully the staff was accommodating and processed it for us; we exchanged it for a little fuji. 

the miyako (warabi, green tea ice cream, vanilla soft serve + azuki bean paste) was thankfully normal. liked the warabi- then again i always do. japanese red bean paste is always shockingly sweet though, and this was no exception. 

the little fuji ($6.30) was so much better than the bread pudding. glad we mustered the courage to change it. it came with a crisp croissant base, topped by a generous swirl of soft serve and drizzled with caramel sauce. it was okay- expected it to be better with the rave reviews i read about some time ago. wouldn't get cravings for it, though. 

saint marc café

raffles city #b1-44m

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