A guide to fun desserts in Chennai: Try shaved snow, Dubai chocolate ice cream bars, pillow brioche and more

Moutan by Taiwan Maami

In May 2024, Theresa Hu and her hubby Kannan Swamy introduced the metropolis to authentic bubble beverage done Taiwan Maami, a bubble beverage cafe successful Palladium mall, Velachery. Now successful T Nagar, their caller edifice Moutan has bubble teas of course, but alongside pillow brioche with a dulce de leche crust , shaved snowfall with crème caramel, and a savoury paper arsenic well, astatine a much accessible terms point. “We were keen to connection the aforesaid prime arsenic Taiwan Maami, but astatine Moutan prices,” says Kannan, of their caller venture.

The pillowy-soft brioche comes with a dusting of matcha pulverization and blueberry compote heaped connected apical and is conscionable the cleanable magnitude of sweet. From their boba menu, we illustration their newest addition, the popping boba which tin beryllium added to slush pops of antithetic flavours ranging from jeera masala and lassi, to coconut, citrus and watermelon. Their beverage teas see saffron, cinnamon, matcha and the Hong Kong benignant yuen-yueng beverage beverage variants and tin beryllium ordered with oregon without their boba, specially imported from Taiwan. 

“Our savoury paper includes simple, street-style Asian foods that brace good with bubble beverage and to support the flavours authentic, we marque everything from the chilli lipid to the 13-spice substance in-house,” Theresa says. Their hand-pulled biang biang noodles and the yaki onigiri oregon crisp Japanese atom balls marque for a flavourful savoury alleviation from sampling their desserts and teas. Finish up your repast with ribbons of milky shaved crystal that comes successful antithetic flavours including strawberry sherbet, mango coconut and banana chocolate, topped with caller fruit, oregon bite-sized mochi successful antithetic flavours.

Moutan is astatine 29, Burkit Road, CIT Nagar East, T Nagar and is unfastened from 12pm to 12am. 

Kueh and Kopi

 Mithila Jayaraj says Kueh and Kopi, a cute and cosy cafe, was her parent Nirmala Devi’s thought and a abstraction for them to research their Malaysian roots done food. “Kueh means dessert successful Malay and determination are respective Malaysian desserts connected the paper arsenic good arsenic different East-Asian saccharine treats,” Mithila says, of their menu. We wound into ondeh ondeh, small, saccharine glutinous atom balls covered with coconut shavings and a deed of pandan flavour and excavation into a spongy pandan tres-leches, which comes drenched successful coconut beverage and topped with bits of pandan jelly. “People are keen connected experimenting and are excited to travel and effort caller flavours. South Indians successful peculiar emotion coconut and galore of them instrumentality to pandan positively arsenic well,” Mithila says. 

Also connected their paper are Milo bingsu (shaved ice), cendol (a chilled coconut beverage beverage with homemade pandan jelly, roseate jelly, crushed crystal and a affluent thenar sweetener syrup from Malaysia), mango cheesecake shaped similar a food artifact from the Tom and Jerry cartoons, and crisp buttery toast topped with a generous dollop of purple yam oregon ube flavoured coconut jam. 

“The Kopi present is the Malaysian achromatic coffee, which has a unsocial aroma and sensation to it. The java beans are roasted with margarine, brackish and butter, which makes the beans acheronian and flavourful. Our customers emotion the iced Kopi, which goes large with desserts,” says Prabhu Mejel, co-founder, Kueh and Kopi. 

Their cafe besides has shelves stacked with ramen, a certified deed among their K-culture loving customers on with their Korean pick food buns and maize dogs. 

Kueh and Kopi is astatine 2, Co-Operative Colony Road, Austin Nagar, Alwarpet.  

Scoop Dawg

Chef Shriram Rajendran calls Scoop Dawg, his crystal pick marque with the chuckle-worthy name, a ‘frozen-forward’ brand. “We person macromolecule crystal creams, yoghurts, popsicles, chocobars, gelatos, sundaes, and everything other that you tin deliberation of that is frozen,” helium says. On 1 broadside of Double Roti successful Teynampet, Scoop Dawg’s tubs of crystal creams inhabit abstraction nether agleam lights and pops of colours connected the walls. “I had done crystal creams with The Table, but that was mostly thing radical ordered online,” helium says. “With Scoop Dawg, we were keen to person an offline marque catered to Gen Z. Hence the agleam colours and the innovative, amusive flavours,” helium says. 

Scoop Dawg’s bold line-up of flavours includes a pani puri sorbet, zero abv gin and tonic, and Negroni sorbets, crystal pick scoops successful flavours ranging from burrata to achromatic sesame, and acquainted flavours specified arsenic milo and caramel popcorn. “We effort to beryllium arsenic antithetic arsenic imaginable with our flavours; which is wherefore adjacent the vanilla is Pollachi vanilla bean, burnt food and honey,” Shriram says. We illustration the Taro bubble beverage flavour, a airy purple coloured, creamy scoop that allows the flavours of its sweet, starchy main constituent to shine. This is their astir fashionable flavour, we hear. Giving into the Instagram hype of the viral Dubai chocolate, we besides effort Scoop Dawg’s Dubai cocoa bars, which marque for the cleanable crystal pick substitute for the existent cocoa barroom that brings unneurotic cocoa and pistachio. 

“We are keen connected experimenting with flavours, and support switching up and introducing newer flavours, particularly for the sorbets according to the season,” Shriram adds. 

Scoop Dawg is astatine First Street, 4/27, Cenotaph Road, Sri Ram Nagar, Alwarpet, and is unfastened from 11am to 11 pm. 

Amour Ice Cream

Would you devour ail crystal cream? Or adjacent a acold scoop with a subtle greenish chilli flavour hit? Amour, an crystal pick marque from the fashionable biryani concatenation Dindigul Ponram aims to present diners to crystal creams successful autochthonal flavours. 

“From gulkhand made of roses from Nilakottai to bananas from Sirumalai, we person respective autochthonal ingredients that we wished to showcase done our crystal creams. This has ever been highlighted successful our nutrient arsenic well, and it was lone earthy that we wanted to replicate the aforesaid successful our crystal creams,” says S Mani Ram, from the Ponram family. Stating that his uncle started the crystal pick marque successful 2014 backmost successful Dindigul, Mani Ram says that they decided to bring it to their Chennai edifice earlier this year. “There are nary synthetic colours, essence, oregon gelatin. Our flavours see pancake, karupatti, gulkhand, fig and honey, jackfruit, banana, arsenic good arsenic unsocial flowers specified arsenic garlic, greenish chilli and ginger,” helium says.

Made of ail from Poombarai, and greenish chillies from Virakkal, Amour’s savoury flavours beryllium to beryllium a large pick. The sharp, spicy deed of the greenish chilli crystal pick successful peculiar makes for a unsocial tasting experience. “For diners astatine the restaurant, we are blessed to supply samplers and immoderate families are adjacent enthusiastic to conjecture what flavours they are trying. The savoury flavours are proving to beryllium a batch much fashionable than we anticipated,” Mani Ram adds. 

Amour is astatine Dindigul Ponram, 90/35, 1st Street, Ashok Nagar, and is unfastened from 11am to 11pm.