I’ve developed an obsession with matcha lattes some time early this year, after having a really good one in Hong Kong. I’ve avoided them for years because of caffeine sensitivity, but somehow they don’t affect me like coffee does. Later on I discovered they have anti-viral properties, so I drank them even more regularly.
The quality of matcha lattes exist on a very wide spectrum. There is shitty pre-mixed matcha, and then there is ceremonial grade matcha. So since Hong Kong I’ve been trying the different matcha lattes around Singapore to discover the best ones.
I’ve also been trying to be more flexible in the ways I can do creative things, so today I brought out my camera to document a new matcha place we’re trying out.
I thought this will be a fun experiment to marry two of my interests together: matcha and photography, and also allow me to document these places in case anyone else in Singapore may find them useful (so they can skip the bad-tasting matcha lattes). Because of the way I structured this website, it will be easy for me to bundle this up into a list later.
Calligraph coffee is one of the few places in Singapore where you can try out different grades of matcha. I love that it has outdoor seating. We can enjoy our drinks fresh and enjoy being in a cafe setting, something that has been rare for us since the pandemic due to our covid cautiousness.
I like iced matcha lattes while my partner prefers them hot – she thinks drinking iced drinks messes up our digestive system. She is probably right, but I am a child at heart so I stick to the iced versions. I tried “Nori” on their menu, and my partner tried “Miyabi”. She thinks it is the best hot matcha she’s tried in Singapore (and we’ve tried most of them), having the highest concentration of matcha.
I think my iced drink was great, but perhaps my favourite is still at Hvala, which I’ll probably document later. However this is still second-best, I think.
As a bonus I got to try their mini matcha blondie, which is one of the best matcha desserts I’ve ever eaten. Have I mentioned I love matcha desserts too?
I did spend some time deliberating over whether to post something like this since this website has a mostly international audience. Consciously I don’t really want to think or act this way, because ultimately it is my life I want to document, and it shouldn’t be dependent on the audience.
I do hope it is interesting for some of you though!