Most desserts were on target, but skip the dry oversize chocolate chip cookie and the sundae made with strawberry preserves, which was nothing special.
For sheer gooey excess, try the sundae, made with cinnamon ice cream, bananas, honey-roasted peanuts and a caramel-like cajeta sauce.
The brownie sundae made with two big slabs of warm, moist brownies, vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce and whipped cream is a must.
But the knowledge that I'll almost certainly end up looking like a cross between Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia and an apricot sundae makes this a definite no-no for me.
Desserts left us feeling down on our luck, with the exception of very minty mint chocolate chip ice cream and a towering brownie sundae made with foamy Guinness ice cream and clouds of whipped cream.
But the chestnut and the pistachio gelatos were the real thing, and a sundae made with a chocolate sorbet and a smooth granita of burnt almonds more than made up for the diversion into sweetened pig's blood.
The newest sugar-heavy creations include Diesel Loverdose (with notes of vanilla and licorice); a "diet" (eau de toilette) version of Angel, with less patchouli and more red berry juice, that took two years to develop; and Prada Candy, which smells like a vanilla-caramel sundae made with artisanal ice cream.
Other recommended dishes are the marinated crab, a half-dozen dredged and fried until the meat is just done and the orange shells become edible; deep-fried whole flounder; and che ba mau, a Sno-Cone sundae made of layers of red bean paste, condensed coconut milk and sticky-sweet green syrup topped by crushed ice and a straw.
For dessert, stop at LW Nyonya Pineapple Tarts, 80 Jalan Tokong, or Donald & Lily's, Jalan Kota Laksamana (behind 31 Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock), specializing in cendol, a sort of Malaysian sundae made of rice jellies, palm sugar and coconut milk on shaved ice.
The retro desserts sounded appealing, but an individual banana cream pie featured underripe bananas and an unyielding crust, and the hot fudge sundae was made with bland ice cream and a cold, thin chocolate sauce.
