Honey Creme

I had the Pandan Gula Melaka one and it was sooo goooood!!! It’s a little small with not a lot of place to sit but it’s ok because the ice cream is so nice. So flavourful! I wanna go back and try the others! And it’s not too heavy and milky for this hot heat and humidity as I often find ice cream in Singapore to be.

Interesting idea but you’re paying a premium for what the product really is. I came by on a Friday afternoon and luckily there was no line. The guys working in the shop were really polite and let me take my time trying to decide what I wanted. They have lots of options besides the ice cream with honeycomb but since that’s the shop’s namesake, I decided to go with it anyways.
The soft serve itself was alright. It tasted very much like McDonald’s soft serve, honestly. Milky, vanilla, and sweet. The honey multiplied the sweetness and gave it more depth of flavor, but I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to hack away and eat the honeycomb with the ice cream or what. The honeycomb was less waxy than other honeycomb I’ve seen, which made it seem somewhat more edible? Anyways, it was a weird texture combination to mix the waxy honeycomb, sticky honey, and now-​melting soft serve. It was nice and different, but not something I can see myself craving constantly.

I heard so much about Honey Crème but I’ve never had the patience to step in, considering sometimes the queue is longer than the queue for the taxis! They now have a wider menu, covering even local drinks like teh C, which I think is a good twist for this Korean soft serve company. In the super hot and humid weather in Singapore, we all love our ice cream and cold milk tea and now Honey Crème serves up both!
In conjunction with SG50, Honey Crème has created two new flavours Pandan Gula Melaka and Cereal Milk, both valid till 30^th september 2015. Looking at the list of ingredients in the gula melaka, it’s no wonder almost everyone who stepped in the shop was ordering it. Watching the staff, design the soft serve and meticulously place the ingredients showed how much they care about presentation. The staff are very friendly and work with a smile :)
Interestingly the gula melaka comes in a Pipette dripper, the ones commonly seen in secondary school science labs! I love the swirls of the pandan soft serve and it didn’t melt instantly either. So, you can spend some time to take photos with it! You will notice a slight tinge of green pandan in the soft serve and you can indeed taste it. I have never tried their original flavoured soft serve, but this pandan soft serve is heavenly. It has a slighty salty taste to it too, which blends well with the sweet and thick gula melaka syrup. It may look «small» but it is actually enough to share amongst two :) The highlight of the dessert was dripping the gula melaka all over the toasted coconut flakes.
The toasted coconut flakes were so fresh and crisp I was in love with them. It added a good crunch in every bite, and as you dig deeper into the cup, you get attap seeds too, which adds a chewy texture to the dessert.
At the bottom of the cup, you get crunchy rice krispies too! The ingenious idea to add so many crunchy and chewy elements with a Singaporean flavoured soft serve makes this a winner!

For now, I’ve only tried the honey comb. I do like their honey comb. Ice cream is quite nice. The honey is sticky and yummy. Their service are not bad too. Lucky me is that whenever I come for honey comb, there won’t be much people queuing. Will try to try the others next time

Generally I like it because the honey comb is unique although hard to eat with the ice cream. Price wise it’s too close to that other frozen yogurt dessert place in which you can get a bunch of toppings. This is not frozen yogurt but I like how the ice cream is so light in sweetness it’s well balanced with the honey which was sticky and rich.

Only few people in front of us, perhaps 3 group of people. So my friend and I decided to get a honeycomb ice cream to end our weekend. My friend told me that usually there is a long wait line. Ordered the honeycomb since I thought it is their speciality based on their brand name. But the taste is meh. The ice cream tasted weird, tasted a bit like a peanut but also not a peanut, the honey is frozen due to the ice cream so I cannot really taste the honey flavor. I had one in US, called honey mee. The honey was still melting so i can taste the ice cream with the honey. This one is totally disappointing.

If there is a line, just don’t bother.
We only tried it because there was not a single person in line. Yes, the ice cream is smooth and milky, but I even didn’t really like their signature honeycomb. It feels almost like an over-​priced Ikea ice-​cream cone.
I see it as lots of fluff and hype for the moment.

The queue’s definitely getting shorter over time. And for good reason– it’s just not that great. We got one each, cotton candy, affogato, comb honey, honey comb, and mixed grains. All were meh. The ice cream while smooth, creamy and milky, was a very vanilla (lol at own lame humour) vehicle for the toppings.
The cotton candy option was mildly interesting, as it had a nice hit of salt and honey. Honey comb had a reportedly waxy aftertaste, and mixed grains was actually mixed grains powder that left a dusty taste in one’s mouth. Affogato was. Messy. It had cotton candy as well, and dripped sticky coffee coated cotton candy strands all over the cup and one’s hands.
Perhaps the most hilarious might have to be my option– comb honey. Essentially its just honey so I had the brilliant and reasonable, or so I thought, idea that I would have honey comb added to it. Sounds good eh? Comb honey with honey comb. Unfortunately there’s no such option BUT you can have honey comb with additional topping of honey comb for an extra $ 2. I totally did not understand that. Does this make sense to you? If it does, please help explain what sorcery this is as it’s totally lost on me.

Over-​priced for McDonald’s soft serve. I guess you’re paying the premium for aesthetics

Yogurt craze and now soft serve ice cream craze?
Spotted this while driving past 313 one day and decided to come by here since my mother wanted to go to Takashimaya to look around. Yes, and yes, I am crazy enough to join the queue of 20 minutes.
The storefront was pretty compact and people were not able to queue inside so we had to form lines outside. While waiting, I read reviews from other foodies to see what’s a good buy and decided on having honey comb in a cup. I also saw a range of baked goods and was eyeing on the pink colored macaroon.
Upon ordering, the staff that served me was not sure of all the flavors of the macaroons. Since I am into the fruity taste, I decided to go for the pink which normally stands for strawberry or raspberry.
My order was right at the cashier but towards the pick up counter, it got mixed up with the popcorn one. Had to wait for the person to give me the right order for another 2 minutes. The order came in a smaller cup than what I have expected with a honeycomb (small cube).
The soft serve ice cream was good and the caramelized honey comb has interesting texture and taste to it. The honey was pretty good as well but they weren’t generous enough with the honey. For the price of $ 5.90, it was on a pricier end. And was it worth the long wait? Maybe to some.
The macaroon was crispy and it has raspberry sauce in it — sweet and sour taste to it. Won’t probably go there for just a bite of macaroons.
Will I be back? Yes, probably after the crowd quietened down. The next time I’ll probably get just the honey with the soft served ice cream.

So… After all the hype, decided to give Honey Crème a shot since the queue wasn’t insanely long.
Tried their trademark Honey Comb and Organic Cotton Candy Affogato.
Overall the ice creams weren’t too bad. The honey was pretty good and complimented the ice cream well, while the Cotton Candy was a tad too sweet and the ice cream got a bit lost amidst the flavour.
Thankfully, the coffee shot was strong enough and created a pretty yummy creamy iced coffee (for coffee lovers, do take note that the coffee doesn’t give you a caffein kick if that’s something you’re looking for).
The ice cream itself is generally quite good but the big draw back is the price.
Being $ 5.90 for the honey comb and $ 6.20 for the cotton candy, it is rather steep as compared to some of the other creameries available. At $ 12.10 for 2 cups, it eliminates some students (if not most) from it’s list of clienteles.
Would have received a 4* from me if it was more affordable.
Worth eating once, maybe twice every 2 months.

Came here on the second day of its opening. Didn’t know about it until my colleague (who’s a fan of anything Korean) managed to coerce us to try out this place. Yes, apparently this is originally conceptualised in South Korea. 313@Somerset is their first outlet in Singapore.
The place is conveniently situated beside the taxi stand at this mall. Understandably the queue was super long as the parlour is still brand new. But fortunately for us, we arrived about 5 minutes earlier than the lunch-​peak hour, hence the short waiting time. But upon walking back to the area, we finally witnessed the snake-​like queue.
They had a lot of varieties where the soft-​serve ice-​creams are concerned. I opted for the safe choice: dark chocolate ice-​cream. So, initially I’d thought it’s hot fudge, but was disappointed to find that it’s just hardened chocolate. But the taste was nice, it had that salty touch to it. The vanilla ice-​cream itself… let me just say that I’m very particular about my vanilla ice-​creams. So, yes. Needless to say, I wasn’t much impressed by it.
My other two colleagues tried the honeycomb and cotton candy flavoured. The cotton candy one, well we all tried hers, and all 3 of us came up with the same comment, «So sweet!»
There are still a lot other flavours that we have yet to try. Will try the others soon, since I do believe that there’re definitely better tasting ice-​creams in their menu that we don’t know yet.