Oriole | Crema De La Crema - An Espresso Coffee Blog in Singapore - Part 2

Latte Art Showdown II at Oriole Cafe

Posted in News on October 30th, 2009 by Colin Loh

Oriole Cafe will be organising a latte art competition on 2nd November 2009. For those who don’t check or have Facebook accounts, the details are below, as excerpted from their Facebook updates:

Get your milk jugs ready and steady your nerves,
Back after 8 months (sorry we’ve been busy…)!
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Tags: espresso, latte_art, oriole, singapore

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WBC 2009 Atlanta: John Jhi Chiang Ting Singapore

Posted in News on April 17th, 2009 by Colin Loh

Coupled with the bad internet connection, I could only catch every other frame during John’s routine. The emcee is James Hoffmann, WBC 2007 Champion, now at Square Mile Roasters. Anyway, here are whatever pictures I could take during the event. As John says in his routine, “Please enjoy…”

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37 seconds
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Brought back the 40 second ristretto! Hint of brightness leads straight into intense florals, minimal bitter hints, like drinking perfume straight up. Long dry floral perfumed finish.
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