If Singapore was a safari and flat whites were exotic animals…
[In your best David Attenborough voice] Singapore. One of the many places on earth where you can experience the full majesty of the coffee bean. There’s so much more in the bean than we ever imagined…etc…
It came as a shock to me, one day in my not-very-innocent-anyway youth, to realise that the glorious (educational) nature programmes like the ones Attenborough narrates are by no means objective; they are heavily skewed in favour of the worldview of the writers/narrators.
Then this afternoon, while considering the instructional design model to use for several groups I’ll be training in the next few months, I realised again that such models are by no means objective:
- they are highly dependent on learning theories, and
- these are themselves dependent on epistemological presuppositions,
- which cannot be separated from all sorts of wobbly foundations of metaphysical nature.
Which would be best to instruct people on how to understand the Bible for themselves, rightly interpreting Scripture?
To be discussed another time. For now, the continuing search for the best flat white in Singapore, and an attempt at objective reviews of the coffee (disregarding ambience, instagrammability, service, convenience of location etc.):
In the lowlands of Lorong Chuan, a curious red-and-white beast marks the entrance of Wimbly Lu (15-2 Jalan Riang, facebook). Within the narrow confines of the cafe, the smell of chocolate is strong. For a place where coffee isn’t the focus, they make a decent cup.
One Man Coffee (215R Upper Thomson Road)
- beans: One Man Coffee Seasonal Espresso Blend (Brazilian, Columbian), Axil Coffee Roasters (facebook)
- crema x microfoam: bright
- flavour x body: a promising decent cocoa-citrus body at first
- aftertaste: watery
Assembly Coffee (26 Evans Road, facebook)
- beans: Speakeasy Blend, Liberty Coffee (facebook)
- crema x microfoam: good microfoam, cocoa
- flavour x body: creamy milk chocolate, macadamia nut
- aftertaste: medium finish
The New Black Coffee (1 Upper Circular Road) – was very excited to stumble upon this. Almost like a enomatic machine for coffee!
- beans: Caballero (Honduran), Tim Wendleboe!!
- crema x microfoam: micro-smoothness, red fruit?
- flavour x body: creamy chocolate
- aftertaste: long finish
- beans: Sermon (Brazilian, El Salvadoran, Ethiopian), Verve Coffee Roasters
- crema x microfoam: smooth
- flavour x body: a hint of blue berry in cocoa
- aftertaste: medium finish
Chye Seng Huat Hardware (CSHH) Coffee Bar (150 Tyrwhitt Road, facebook)
- beans: probably Terra Firma, Papa Palheta?
- crema x microfoam: cocoa, nut, smooth
- flavour x body: cream, cocoa, nut
- aftertaste: medium finish
