What got me curious was the name of this week’s dessert special, the Peach Melba by Sophia Slug. So I press the magic F4 button on my keyboard, which brings up the magic built-in dictionary.

So, the magic built-in dictionary sez:

Don’t you just love the sound of that rolling off your tongue? Dame Nellie Melba. It sounds almost as smooth as a raspberry coulis with vanilla gelato gently swirling in your mouth. Dame Nellie Melba. *imagines a hot fudge raspberry sundae* Dame Nellie Melba. *imagines warm grilled peaches*

Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931, born Helen Porter Mitchell), was an Australian opera singer who was born near Melbourne & she took her professional name from that of the city. It turns out she was quite the diva, and has four foods named after her, all created by a chef/writer named Auguste Escoffier. One of which was, yep you guessed, Peach Melba. I think she liked them peaches. You think?

Anyhoo. There ya go, we’ve just helped you top up your useless information quota for the week. YOU CAN THANK US LATERZ.

By the way, José Slug’s special dessert projekt finally made its way into our/your hearts & into our permanent menu.

Also, this week, José Slug is responsible for almost all of the food pr0n on our weekly specials release. (Usually the photos are taken by long-time pr0nster Sophia Slug, but even food pr0nographers need a break every now & then.)

Did you not catch that cleverly hidden link to our weekly specials again? Well, darn it, you’ll just hafta wait till next week.

On a slightly different note (okay, who am I kidding. On a completely different note), Slugphile Melissa sent us The Owl & The Squirrel which had us all giggling. Thanks Mel, we ♥ you long time!

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Couple of months ago, a very sweet young lady named Anna Shin from SMU contacted us wanting to do an interview. We agreed, as always, but we were surprised to learn it was for the Spirit of Enterprise nomination thingy.

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Firstly, we want to thank Anna & her colleagues for nominating us.

Secondly, Anna – we didn’t get to tell you this: it was one of the best interviews we’ve had the opportunity to be part of. For a young student, you are extremely well-organised & did your job very professionally. We were so impressed! We have no doubt you will go far in whatever career you choose to embark on.

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>> Back to regular Bimbo Slug mode >>

Now, on to the SOE (Spirit of Enterprise) thingy. There are TWO things about this SOE thingy that made us VERY, VERY happy Slugs:

1. We are number

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FWAH!! HUAT HUAT AH!! Can’t get any luckier than that!!

2. The background colour on the SOE website is exactly the same as ours! Instant shallow brownie points oredi.

Hokay. So if you like the number “088″ and you like this particular shade of red (at the Nippon paint shop it’s called “Hibiscus”, and in hex code it’s #99000)… vote for us lah!

There are two ways to vote:
1) Online <– Need to register & can vote once (I think.)
2) By SMS: Just type our lucky number – SOE 088 and send to 79000 <– no need to register, can vote many many times HEHE

We’ve littered the entire blog post with giant SOE 088′s, y’know, just in case.
Masters of Subliminal Messaging we are.

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kthxbye.

p/s: Voting closes 31 August.

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The Small Print:
Each SMS vote will cost $0.50. Normal network operator charges apply. SOE Award SMS voting is open to all postpaid Singtel, Starhub and M1 users. -Spirit of Enterprise, Singapore

photograph © Hansel Tan / hanshoots

Thank you for the lovely photo, Hans. (Yes, it is THE Hansel of “Hansel’s Meatball Pasta” fame and THE same Hansel of “dude in the cow t-shirt” fame.)

We can’t remember how we got to know Hansel now. Well, apparently, it all started with Hansel winning a wagyu burger Haiku contest. To be completely honest, we’d completely forgotten about this if slugphile Bee Kay hadn’t brought it up last week. Bee Kay, apparently, was rather surprised Hansel could write Haiku, much less win a Haiku contest “coz he’s so not the wordsmith sort”. (Note to Bee Kay: Hansel can has hidden talentz, hokay!) Hurhur.

Anyhoo. Before you begin to suspect this post really isn’t going anywhere. You’re right, it isn’t supposed to be about Hansel but we thought we’d give some airtime to the man who consistently orders a meatball pasta . every . single . time . he comes by.

>> Back to regular programming >>

You may or may not know, after much blackmail over Twitter, we’ve finally made pancakes a permanent menu item. You can find it under “All Day Breakfasts” and yez, it iz availablez all-day-long coz generally that’s what All Day meanz. Who’s to say you can’t have pancakes at 2.56pm, right? Right. If anyone judges you, you tell us, we go beat them up.

Where was I? *looks at post title for clues*

Pancakes! We have a different pancake flavour every week. So far we’ve had Nian Gao (Sticky Cake), Pearncakes (Pear Pancakes, geddit? Geddit?) and Azuki Bean.

This week Joseph Slug (a.k.a. Pancakemeister) brings us… HoHoHoHorlicks Pancakes!

Available in two options:
• DINOSAUR ~ HoHoHorlicks Pancakes + more Horlicks on top
• GODZILLA ~ HoHoHorlicks Pancakes + scoop of Vanilla Gelato + more Horlicks on top

Some good ol’ old skool Ho Ho Ho-ing for the coming week (also for the benefit of those who may not know where all this Ho Ho Ho-ing is coming from…)

Has it really been a week since our last weekly special? Ah, how time flies.

Times flies like arrows, fruit flies like bananas.

Anyhoo.

Jian Yun Slug wrote us an ode to Pulled Pork:

Yep. We can has poetic slugs.

In other news, this weekend we’re bringing back the Dark Chocolate & Nutella in a wildberry tartshell. They kinda sold out by Sunday noon last week & there was much clenching of fists & gnashing of teeth amongst youse. So settle down now, O Hearty Slugphiles. There’s enough for everyone to share this week (or we hope so).

Other weekend specials are sekretly well-hidden here. ‘Coz we don’t want the whole world knowing about them. Just special people like youse, who read all the way till here.

Did you just miss that? That cleverly hidden link? Oh kay, nevermind if you blinked & missed it. We’ll have more sekret links next weekend.

Be safe & have a happy National Day weekend.

Majulah Singapura, negara yang makmur, aman dan sentosa! <– (your national language. don’t bluff say cannot read.)

Tartshell. That’s something I’d lovingly call my BFF. “You’re such a tartshell, you are.”

Anyhoo.

That’s our handcrafted dessert special for the weekend (made by Sophia Slug). Limited portions. Comes with a generous scoop of fruit melange.

A lucky Slugphile named Weiru got to have it yesterday evening, waaaayyyy before we officially launched it as a weekend special today. Well, it was her birthday. We like spoiling our Slugphiles.

That’s not all we have this weekend though. Click here for MOARRR stuff like a BA-HAM-KEN.

Whazzat you say? BA-HAM-KEN??!?! You’ll find out here.

Yeah. Click here.

Click.

kthxbye

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p/s: Click here.

Dear Slugphiles, we gotta tell you that Lorong L (at least where our shop is) has been converted to a ‘single white line’ lorong.

This means no parking in front of the shop anymore. We realised a little too late & Joseph Slug just kena saman today.

All is not lost! Here are some happy alternatives:
1) If you live nearby, why not cycle/ walk/ blade/ hop-skip-jump/ hula-hoop to TGS. Decrease carbon footprint, increase muscles!
2) Take public transport – cheap and convenient.

Also, we have an open-air carpark at Bright Centre, the entrance to which is at Telok Kurau Road itself. We’ve made a nice map w/ directions and linked to it permanently on our website here.

You can always give us a call at 6346-0504 if you need further directions/ can’t find the carpark/ need to know where to buy a hula-hoop etc. We’re always happy to help!

This is José (pronounced ho-say) our Operations Supervisor, a.k.a. Handsome José, a.k.a. Mr Muscles.

José’s been with us for over a year now. He is soft-spoken, well-mannered and very diligent. And did we say hemsem?

Before becoming a Slug, José used to be crew on a cruise ship. He likes photography. And animals. And long walks on the beach.

Truth be told, hemsem or not, animal-lover or not, we hired him because of his muscles alone, shallow little Slugs that we are.

José resolved to diminish our shallowness. “I’m not just all-muscle-no-talent you know!” he proclaimed (we’re totally making up this bit). Slowly but surely, José showed us how much he loved to flambé. (we’re not making up this bit)

At home.

At work.

José can flambé all day.

One day we said, “Hokay José, we know you’re good with the flambé. We’re sorry for being such sorry little shallow little Slugs. But now you gotta show us something more. Can you make pretty little desserts?”
(This is where the “next level of Samurai Sluggery” bit comes in, as per the title of this where-is-all-of-this-leading-to post).

Being a muscle-y gentleman of good upbringing, he took up the challenge.

Not only did José bury himself in dessert-y research, he made sure it looked good, tasted good (we all endured enjoyed quite a few rounds of “taste tests” – perks of our job!) and that the entire process is transferable to other Kitchen Slugs. We guided him on the costing and marketing aspects (shameless advertising: if you’re considering a career with us, we will impart you all our secret Kung Fu Sluggery too! After you complete the prerequisite two-month training regime, of course).

On top of everything else, José even took it upon himself to make his own food pr0n.

And so, we present the result of José’s hard work: *jeng jeng* the Apple Cranberry Streusel.

We’ll be featuring the apple cranberry streusel as one of our dessert specials for a month.

At the end of April, we will be measuring the success of José’s creation.
Among other things, we will be taking your feedback into consideration.

If José’s Apple Cranberry Streusel does well, two things will happen:
• we will make it a permanent item on the menu, and
• we will make it a permanent item on the menu.
(actually José gets a little reward but we’re not allowed to talk about it here).

It is made of 15 secret ingredients. Guess ‘em all correctly & you could win yourself a pair of Apple Cranberry Streusels, each comes with a humongous dollop of vanilla gelato. Just like that, no catch.

Apparently for this slug, just one strawberry pear cider does the trick.

We’ve brought in a small quantity of not-so-mainstream beer & ciders.

Come see if we can out-lobster Sophia Slug this weekend. Hur hur

step 1: start with some buttery almond fruitcake

step 2: add freshly grated lemon + lime zest

step 3: lots of rum + kahlua between layers

step 4: lots of dense vanilla gelato between layers (keyword here being: lots)

step 5: Ta-dah!

Ok, we lied. It’s six steps, not five. Sorry.

step 6: slice into manageable portions, drizzle w/ Earl Grey orange glaze. Serve.

And, but… just in case you don’t quite feel like making this at home, we have it as a dessert special this weekend. Available from today until Sunday.

… we bring you a step-by-step on today’s soup: oven roasted herbed veges in a rich tomato stew.

step 1: prepare herbed veges for oven-roasting

step 2: tomato velouté

step 3: (for this step, you need fingers made of asbestos) squeeze the roasted garlic, which is by now very tender & sweet & very the piping hot.

those are Joseph Slug’s asbestos fingers by the way.

step 4: Incorporate.

step 5: allow roasted herbs & veges to infuse w/ the velouté. Finito!

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