Showing posts with label mint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mint. Show all posts

Thursday, March 07, 2013

Double scoop of Mint leaves & chocolate ice cream

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Häagen-Dazs (太古)

I was craving for HD's Mint leaves & chocolate ice cream and luckily I had a $50 coupon from OpenRice, so I got two scoops.

For both scoops I chose Mint leaves & chocolate because it is now my favourite flavour.


The price has slightly gone up because it used to be $52 for two scoops and now it costs $54.

The ice cream tasted really nice and minty with pieces of dark chocolate every now and then.
It was good that they did not use artificial colouring to make it green like the other brands.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Getting “Dressed” with an Avocado and mint Smoothie

Saw some interesting smoothies, so got the Minted Avocado smoothie.

The other interesting one I wanted to get too was the Raspberry cheesecake.

There are nine smoothies to choose from and they mostly contain vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup.

On the poster, the nine smoothies were:
Mango tango (Mango juice, Apple juice, apple, mango and syrup),
Minted avocado (Avocado, mint leaves, milk, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Peanut butter and jelly (banana, strawberry, peanut butter, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Gingered pear (pear, ginger, milk, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Pretty peaches (peach, mango, milk, vanilla yoghurt and peach syrup),
Banana and berry (Banana, mixed berry, apple juice, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Raspberry cheesecake (raspberry, cream cheese, milk, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
Fruits of the forest (blueberry, strawberry, milk, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup),
The classic (banana, strawberry, apple juice, vanilla yoghurt and simple syrup)


I don’t usually like mint, because it is fake mint syrup or artificial flavouring, but here it is fresh mint that tastes Ok, same as the minted pea soup at the Limehouse.
The smoothie had a cooling lime mint colour, and it was thick with fine icy particles in it.

Although it was quite a heavy smoothie, it was very healthy in the sense that it was at the right sweetness level, it was not syrupy sweet, and you could taste each of the elements, ie the avocado, the vanilla yoghurt and the sweetness lingering.
The mint couldn’t be tasted at all, which was fine because I didn’t like mint anyway, and overall, you could also taste the slight savouryness of the avocado.

I was really surprised by it, and went back for the Raspberry cream cheese.

Getting “Dressed” with a Raspbry cheze cake Smu Fi
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Mint mocha frappaccino @ McCafe

When I came, they must have been doing some cleaning because I could smell milk that had gone off, it was rather sickening.

Anyway ordered the mint mocha frappaccino.

I was looking forward to it, but then saw that it was made with MONIN's syrup, it took the magic away.
It seems the whole world is using this to make drinks such Burger King, Kami Teapresso and now McD's.

The taste of coffee in the drink was quite strong, the colour was dark brown, the frappaccinos I have had in the past were not so strong.
The mint taste was quite faint too.
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