My second visit to The V Tea Room, with my parents. Cos was an early treat for mummy for mother's day. The 1st visit was exactly a month ago, with Suet Ming.
Well I knew about this place long ago, but looked pretty classy so I assumed that I couldn't afford it then. But before CNY, mom's ex-colleague bought her a tin of cookies from V Tea Room. So last month when Suet and I were at the Esplanade for Phantom of the Opera, we went there for tea after the show. I was totally mesmerized and captivated by this tea boutique. Like Suet said, it's the kind of place where Jo likes. Yesh, yesh....
This Victorian-inspired decorated tea boutique had a warm, inviting and cozy atmosphere. Simply a place where I could spend a whole afternoon there. Parquet flooring, red wallpaper, high-cushioned chairs and marbled tabletops. Victorian book-binds, masquerade masks.. Very detailed decor.
The service was really excellent. The waitresses were all really friendly and they made me feel like royalty. Feels great to have someone waiting on u. Haha.. They are all well-equipped with the knowledge of all the items in store.
On my 1st visit, Suet and I had a double pot of Turkish Apple Tea. It's real apple bits. Sweet aroma and refreshing. Fantastic. We also had a chocolate melt-cake with mixed berried. It was very delicious, with a very unique texture We were told that the melt-cake was their own concoction. It's a half-baked cake, with equal parts of firm and gooey cake. It was a good combination. Though it was a half-bake
d cake, it didn't taste undercooked at all. The gooey part tasted more like a yoghurt.
Today, we had a pot of Turkish Apple tea and a pot of Tropical Green Passion. It's actually passionfruit green tea. This one had a strong fragrant aroma of passionfruit. But the taste is a little bitter. As for sweeteners, they offered cubes of white cane sugar, brown sugar, rock sugar and candied longans. I would prefer rock sugar though.
We had the warm apple cake and chrysanthemum honey lime sorbert. The cake was just butter cake with apple bits. The apple fragrance aint as strong as the apple tea, but the texture was quite good. The sorbert was simply mind-blowing. A taste which I've never tried. Very special and really light and refreshing. We cleaned the bowl in minut
es.
There was a wide range of cakes. Actually the specialty of the store is liqueur cakes, but due to my low tolerance level for alcohol. I gave that a miss. There are 2 cakes shelves in the boutique where one can pick the cakes he wants. Then the waitresses will warm the cake and decorate the cake before serving for the baked cakes. As for the refrigerated cake shelf, there are many beautifully decorated cupcakes.
According to the waitress, the tea boutique is going through a revamp soon as half of the boutique will be changed into a cookie museum. The cookies are all freshly baked in-store. The cookie museum offers many ranges of cookies. All ingredients are imported from overseas. The cookies are eggless. Great for those allergic to eggs. There are the floral range, fruit and nuts range, chocolate range and the savoury range.
Floral range: 
- Madagascar Orchid: Madagascar vanilla pod with orchid. Taste very creamy.
- Madelein Rose: pure rose. Very floral.
- French Butterflies: Rose with ginger bits. Sweeter than Madelein Rose. I personally love it.
- Lavender: Pure lavendar. Ehh.. Like eating essential oil.
Fruits and Nuts:
- Berry lite: With organic blueberry and macadamia nuts. Best-seller
- Orchard AppleCran: Apple and Cranberry. Well, I simply love the apple.
- Bird of Paradise: Cranberry and sunflower seeds. Light flavored and crunchy.
- John Lemon: Cranberry and lemon. I love it too.
Chocolate:
- Girls are Cheeky: Candied cherries and chocolate chucks. Reminds me of the cherry gracia ice cream from Ben and Jerry's. The cherries are like jelly beans, specially imported from Italy.
- Boys are smelly: It's not smelly. Chocolate chucks and nuts. Taste minty.
- Othello Chips: White and dark chocolates
- White Truffle: White chocolate. It's butter-free. Melts in the mouth.
Savoury:
- Hae Bee Hiam: Chilli Dried Shrimp. Very spicy.
- Ikan Bilis: Mini dried fish. Huh.. Taste ikan la.
- Parmesan Napoleon: Obviously parmesan cheese.. but it just tastes like the milder version of Hae Bee Hiam.
- 3 Piggy: Pork floss. Like keropok. Haha..
Well cos last month, I bought AppleCran and Girls are cheeky and I was invited to be on the list of special invites, as the cookie museum has a special flavour of the month and only bake a limit number of tins of 50. Flavour of the month was cheese and 
vegetarian bacon. Ingredients are all hand-carried back from Venice. The cookie is called American Breakfast. Taste like buttered prawn. I'm completely overwhelmed by it. Cant stop thinking of it. I bought 2 tins cos for every 2 tins of American Breakfast purchased, there's a free gift. It's a glass-beaded necklace from the Glass City, Murano in Italy. And because of the tea vouchers, I bought another 3 tins of cookies. Madelein Rose(cos my folks love it), John Lemon and Berry lite(Cos mom loves it. It's our 2nd tin of it too.) So all in all, 5 tins of cookies today. The cookies can last for 6 months. Each tin of cookies range from S$25-32.
Some may find the cookies too pricey, but honestly, I think it's worth it cos of all the imported ingredients and the packaging. Classy..
This is definitely a lovely place. Once in a while, it's worth pampering yourself. Indulge in the high quality of life. I love it.
The V TeaRoom
#01-02 Esplanade Mall (Main Entrance facing Marina Square)
6333 1965
http://www.thevtearoom.com
Opened 1pm to 10pm Sundays to Thursdays, 1pm to 11pm Fridays and SaturdaysLabels: foodie, Top class life
My second visit to The V Tea Room, with my parents. Cos was an early treat for mummy for mother's day. The 1st visit was exactly a month ago, with Suet Ming.
d cake, it didn't taste undercooked at all. The gooey part tasted more like a yoghurt.
es.
vegetarian bacon. Ingredients are all hand-carried back from Venice. The cookie is called American Breakfast. Taste like buttered prawn. I'm completely overwhelmed by it. Cant stop thinking of it. I bought 2 tins cos for every 2 tins of American Breakfast purchased, there's a free gift. It's a glass-beaded necklace from the Glass City, Murano in Italy. And because of the tea vouchers, I bought another 3 tins of cookies. Madelein Rose(cos my folks love it), John Lemon and Berry lite(Cos mom loves it. It's our 2nd tin of it too.) So all in all, 5 tins of cookies today. The cookies can last for 6 months. Each tin of cookies range from S$25-32. 
