Chill out with Häagen-Dazs' new summer drinks 2013

Thanks to Häagen-Dazs and the communications teams for organizing a tasting to try their new summer desserts and drinks.

There are four new icecream flavours:
Banana Chocolate Brownie
Passion fruit cheesecake
Mango and raspberry
Salted caramel

Each new dessert features the new ice cream flavour.
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Moon shadow:

This was basically three scoops of icecream sandwiched in between two halves of a banana.
The three scoops of icecream include: green tea, chocolate and banana brownies.
The banana brownies icecream had a nice natrual banana taste.
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Cheese temptation:

This was a triple cheesy temptation because both icecreams had cheesecake in it, there was passionfruit cheesecake icecream and strawberry cheesecake icecream as well as a cheesecake.
The taste of the passionfruit cheesecake icecream was lively and tropical.
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Summer fiesta:

The presentation and colour of this dessert was vibrant and colourful paired with mango and raspberry icecream and summer berries icecream.
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Fantasy Eiffel:

This was my favourite because it had the salted caramel icecream with lovely marshmallows and crunchies at the bottom.
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Summer mango paradise:

This drink was a nice icy cooler and the taste tasted like sorbet even though it was made with icecream.
Most people said the taste was bland, but I liked it bland because it wasnt too sweet and I do not really like mangoes anyway so the faint mango taste was just right for me.
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Very berries:

Compared to the drink above, this drink was much stronger with delicious berry taste.
The berries on top were frozen too making it extra cool.
It would taste great if there was yoghurt in the drink too.
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Mat Cha Wandering:

This drink was little too milky but I liked the raspberry syrup that was mixed in because it made the drink livelier.
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The tuxedo:

The chocolate drink was nice but I wished there was some coffee or tiramisu blended in to give it some dimension.
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NEW flavours:

On the left is the salted caramel and the banana brownies on the right.
The Salted caramel is really nice while the banana has a natrual taste.
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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.

Häagen-Dazs green tea icecream

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Green tea ice-cream:

 

Usually I will pick macadamia, baileys, rum and raisin but this time I opted for green tea because this is an Asian flavour and not available in the UK.
In UK we have Green tea and hibiscus.
The green tea tasted like milk tea at first with a grassy taste, when it melted there was more bitterness and it was slightly sweeter.
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Häagen-Dazs' Caramel biscuit single scoop icecream

Used my Coupon and got a single scoop of Caramel biscuit at the HD branch near the WTO.

 

 

As usual Häagen-Dazs' icecreams are smooth and silky, the flavour I got this time was caramel and biscuit which had generous pieces of biscuits and caramel swirls in it.
The caramel taste was lovely and intense.

 

Next time I will try the caramel leche.

New flavour @ Häagen-Dazs ★Mint leaves and chocolate★

New flavour@Häagen-Dazs★Mint leaves and chocolate★
Walked past and was attracted by their new "black and white" chocolate fondue sets with the heart handle so stopped and had a look inside.

 

 

 

I was not intending to get any ice-cream as I have had ice-cream nearly everyday but I spotted the Mint leaves and chocolate which I had not seen before so I tried that.

 

I asked them if it was exclusive to the LKF branch and he said is was a new flavour.

Since I had a $50 cash coupon I decided to get two scoops.

For the other scoop I was going to choose the cookies and cream but after going to the tasting at Haagan Daz they talked about pairing and what flavours would taste nice together.

Eg Green Tea + Lemon sorbet = Lemon Tea

In the end I chose the Baileys to go with the mint chocolate and the combination of the two were quite nice.
Also Baileys has a mint version of the liquor too.
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L: mint choc R: Baileys

 

Mint leaves and chocolate:
Although the colour was not green there was a fresh mint taste which was not artifical or tasting like toothpaste.
The flavour reminded me of the mint ice-cream by Walls and I loved the pieces of chocolate.
So far I think this is the best flavour.
Baileys:
This used to be my favourite but now the mint flavour is my favourite. After having the mint icecream, the Baileys tasted quite nice with gentle hints of the melted mint icecream just like the Bailey mint liquor version.
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