Life is Sweet

Fired up by the extraordinary talent for cakes and pastries exhibited by three of these chefs, we roamed the region searching out Divine Desserts for you to sample. Read our reviews in the Cover theme, with each venue’s top three listed for you, and you’ll know exactly where to go for an exquisite sweet indulgence.

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We’ll see you in June with more delectable gourmet living.

Welcome to Exquisite Taste’s first edition of 2020 and join us as we brighten the start of the decade by roaming the region indulging in life’s sweetness, from the Divine Desserts in our Cover theme to some outstanding new whisky collections from Johnnie Walker Black and Macallan, and a collection of highly notable restaurants in our Gourmet reviews.

We are blessed to have so much choice in dining and drinking venues these days and have indulged our palates with choices as diverse as plant-based Indonesian food at Potato Head’s Tanaman, underwater bistronomy at the exceptional Koral at The Apurva Kempinski Bali, as well as superbly crafted and presented meals at Hong Kong’s Duck & Waffle and Singapore’s Kin and Mott 32.

In Indonesia, female emancipation is celebrated on 21 April with Kartini Day, so we talked to three impressive Indonesian lady chefs about how Kartini inspired them, as well as their hopes and advice for young women today. On the theme of exploring chefs’ inspirations, we also chatted to Lorenzo Sollecito, Janice Wong, Eric Cocollos and Albert Adrià about their passion for cooking.