Smoked salmon croissant at Le Salon

Le Salon Restaurant et Croissanterie (Causeway Bay)

The croissant craze is finally over and they are no longer constantly out of stock.

They have special flavours every month and this time it is Smoked salmon.


During the craze they only sold about 10 -20 of the special flavours each day.

I never thought about trying the special flavour because the regulars flavours were sold out by 5pm in the past.

On this visit, there were quite a few croissants in the cabinet at 6pm, regular and special flavours.

The mango which used to be a special flavour has now become a standard flavour for mango lovers.

There was a croissant set for $45 so I got the set.

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Salmon croissant:

The croissant was light with flakey layers, but the salmon filling was a bit too light and lacked salmon taste.

The sauce was basically made with flour which acted as a thickener in the sauce.
I could not even taste the onions or the egg as stated on the poster.
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Chestnut croissant:
I got the chestnut again because this is the only place that does decent chestnut filling that is not starchy.
It tasted as good as before with light icing on top.
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Earl Grey tea (large):The tea was really hot!
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Gigantic sized croissants, hotdogs and sandwiches

Gloria Jean's Coffees:
3/F, Macau Ferry Terminal and Helport, Porto Exterior

This was not on my eat list for the Macau trip but I happened to be hungry so I just grabbed the croissant for a light snack.

This coffee joint is easily missed because when you arrive in Macau, the first thing you want to do is get to where your going.

It is probably discovered by people leaving Macau when they have missed their ferry and bored waiting.

Their hotdog was rather cute, it was labelled HOT CAT

When I was choosing what to eat, I was shocked by the sizes of the hotdogs, sandwiches and croissants.
You have to physically see them to or you won't believe how big they are.





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Huge croissant:




The croissant was heated, but it was not that warm in the centre.
It tasted quite nice and the taste of the croissant was quite buttery.
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As well as Macau they have Gloria Jean's Coffees in Singapore as well.

Flaky super mini croissants @ Panash

Walked past and the croissants were freshly out of the oven so I decided to get one.

 

 

 

 

 

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Croissant:

 

 

The croissant was still lovely and warm, you could smell the buttery smell lingering.
It was nice and flakey yet soft in the middle.
The taste was just right, not too sweet or not too salty.
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Delicious filled gourmet croissants @ Le Salon

It must have been my N'th atttempt to try these croissants but they were always sold out as early as 6pm in the evening.

 

 

My second last attempt they only had the Tiramisu flavour and finally on my final attempt there were lots available around 7ish in the evening.

 

I couldnt decide whether to get the caramel or the chestnut so I asked the guy at the counter if the caramel one would be really sweet, then I asked if the Chestnut one would be starchy, I think he got annoyed with me asking too many questions.

Anyway, I rarely get Chestnut products in Hong Kong, because they end up having a really sweet and starchy taste that I do not like.

In the end I got both the caramel and chestnut to try.
When I paid, I gave a $100 note but the guy asked if I had a smaller note, so I found a $50 note and gave it to him.
The cost of two croissants came to $40 so I was expecting $10 in change back, but he gave me $30 back, then I stood there for a while and he realised he only entered one croissant which explains why I have two receipts in the picture.

 

I had already had dinner so I decided to leave the Chestnut last or later because I didnt think I would like it anyway.

When I took the croissants out from the bag, I felt that they were quite oily because the croissant holder had big oil stains on it.

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Caramel croissant:

 

The croissant was extremely flakey, it was really hard to eat it without creating a mess.

 

There was chunky flakes of sea salt on the croissant which balanced out the sweetness of the croissant.
The taste of the sea salt did not taste like the usual saltyness there was an element of unami in it and even though the pieces of sea salt were quite prominent the saltyness was not too salty.
As well as salt, most of the croissant was covered in some sort of chewy caramelized syrup which gave the croissant some chewy texture.
It reminded me of the Maltose syrup that is sandwiched in between the biscuit crackers that kids like in HK.

 

The caramel filling was still warm and the colour was a autumn golden brown and it was lovely.
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Chestnut croissant:

 

 

After finishing the caramel croissant, I was expecting to feel bloated like I do with the usual croissants because the butter/fat content is high, but I did not feel that way, so I started on the chestnut croissant.

 

The chestnut filling was delicious, it tasted how it should taste, natrual and not starchy or cloyingly sweet.
Even the colour of the chestnut filling was 'natural', there were some pieces of chestnut in it too.
The filling was quite thick and viscous.
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As the croissants were really nice I tried the chocolate the next day.
Chocolate croissant:

 

 

Out of the three, this was my least favourite because there was too much chocolate paste inside and I found it too sweet.
I was surprised there was some slight sea salt on it, if there was more it probably would have balanced out the sweetness.
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