The Malaysian Insider :: Food

Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:40 PM PST

A selection of TWG teas. — Pictures by Eu Hooi Khaw

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 — I was at the TWG Tea Garden in Marina Bay Sands in Singapore recently and got intimately acquainted with TWG teas. There's a range of 800 of them, among them exclusive blends with fine fruits, spices, essences and even chocolate and caramel.

At the tea boutique I got to taste the unusual White Earl Grey, infused with young, fuzzy, whitish gray shoots, that produces a slightly bitter tea. "It cools you down," said Maranda Barnes, TWG co-founder and business development director.

The vivid colour of the Creme Caramel tea.

There's the Love Me Tea that's a green tea with a little cherry blossom, and the Tokyo-Singapore Tea that I liked very much, that has the fragrance of yuzu in it. The Secret of Vietnam gives a light bitter edge from the lotus in it.

Even the scones I had here were served with jams infused with tea, such as the exquisite green tea jelly and the rooibos jelly.

Chocolates infused with tea have caught on in Singapore, with a maitre chocolatier making the chocolates fresh every day at the TWG tea salon and boutique in Ion Orchard.

TWG is a luxury tea brand based in Singapore that made its debut in 2007. Now it's in Harrods, London, and Dean & Deluca in New York; it has a tea boutique and salon in Tokyo. It has six stores in Singapore and so far it's in 36 countries!

Scones, chocolate cake and some amazing sandwiches at the TWG Tea Garden in Marina Bay Sands.

Back in KL, we tasted three TWG teas at the Pavilions Lounge at the Sheraton Imperial recently, under the guidance of Louise Benzrihem, PR manager and brand ambassador of TWG Teas from Singapore. The first was the Grand Wedding Tea, a black tea with tropical fruits and flowers that's tangy with passionfruit, with a bit of sweetness coming through.

The Crème Caramel tea is a caffeine-free, red rooibos tea. A whiff of vanilla floats up, from the caramel. The Alexandria tea is a green tea blend with mint and Mediterranean spices that everyone favoured. It was light and refreshing.

Strong black teas drunk with milk and sugar are for the morning, said Louise, and fruity blended teas are for the afternoon. "We also have a non-alcoholic Rum Tea infused with sugar-cane that smells and tastes like rum. It's great for making tea cocktails."

Tea of course goes with scones, cakes, éclairs, strawberry tartlets, cupcakes and macarons, even kuih, at the Pavilions lounge. (I had some divine toasted sandwiches with foie gras at the TWG Tea Garden in Singapore and I'm still thinking of them!)

The Pavilions Lounge at Sheraton Imperial where you can have tea and cakes.

Still, I was content with scones served with clotted cream, marmalade and strawberry jam, a chocolate éclair filled with mocha cream and the strawberry tartlet. I hit a sugar high with these, and wished there were some savoury items such as finger sandwiches on the counter.

Still, the lounge is a nice place to spend an afternoon — from 2pm to 6pm, Monday to Friday. Here you can have all the cakes, chocolate mousse, lemon madeleines and petit fours you can eat, together with a pot of TWG tea for RM38++ per person.

If you stay long enough, you can move on to boutique beers, fine wines and spirits and indulge in some pizzas and finger foods while listening to musicians playing.

Sheraton Imperial is in Jalan Sultan Ismail (Tel: 03-2717-9020).

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Jumaat, 16 Disember 2011

The Malaysian Insider :: Food

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