Taro snowflake ice with milk pudding @ 甜蜜子甜品店 Sweet C. C. Dessert

Firstly, i think I might be biased, because I like taro flavoured desserts, and not many places have it.

The standard of this one and China Town is quite good, both located in TST. But I preferred this one more, because apart from the usual toppings, you can also add mini puddings to it, such as mango pudding, milk pudding, green tea pudding, champagne peach Jelly etc.

As for the toppings range, there was alot of variety from small crystal pearls to large crystal pearls. They also had my favourite black sugar jelly bits.
Usually I dont like the big pearls found in the Taiwanese drinks, a bit irritating to have to chew and drink at the same time, but with the desserts, it make its fun, to have cold ice in your mouth and something to chew at too.

Overall, everything was presented nicely, and the portion was decent, at least I felt full for the first time after eating a dessert.
The milk pudding was nice and creamy, and the green tea pudding tastes the same as the one in China Town, except here its present in a pudding form, and in China Town, its cut up into squares.

Japanese kanten 寒天 Dessert @ Hui Lau Shan

After trying black sugar kanten in various desserts, I fell in love with the chewy dark brown jelly.

Kanten is the Japanese word for 寒天 meaning cold weather (according to Wikipedia).

I ordered the White snow with Kanten, which is just basically dessert tofu, mango pieces and mango sauce and Kanten.
I have a hatred for Asian mangoes, or to be more specific, amber coloured ones (phillipine ones). I only eat Puerto Rico mangoes, the one with a greenish/reddish skin.

Anyway, the dessert was presented nicely, I spooned some tofu with the jelly, and just a tiny bit of mango sauce, it tasted really good as expected. The bean taste in the tofu took away that nasty mango taste. The jelly was nice and chewy.

After a while, my mouth got a bit numb and couldnt really taste anything.

I rarely go to HLS, only when they have some hard to resist desserts/snacks, the last time I came was for the pancakes and curry sauce. It is not the sort of place I would go as I dont eat the traditional chinese desserts, and mangoes put me off from coming, so does watermelons, and the usual Hongkie stuff. So I wonder, what is the next dessert/snack that will make me visit again.

 

Taro tea with Black sugar kanten @ 麻吉 Match

Out of the blue, saw people queuing, so noticed a shop here selling Taiwanese drinks.
As it is the only shop on that side of the road selling drinks at a reasonable price, I think it should do quite well, from people waiting to get the buses to people from the Southern playground.

The overall shop decor was impressive, clean and slick. The drinks list was clear and easy to read, the best thing was, it had English. The choice is quite wide, and you can choose the sweetness of the drink too.

There was quite a range of things you can add in your drinks too such as Aiyu jelly, pearls, Aloe Vera, Grass Jelly, Brown sugar jelly, Tri colored konjac jelly, Coffee jellys and capsules filled with liquid chocolate, coffee, or fruit.

Anyway ordered the Taro tea and added sugar jelly to it.
Tasted Ok, the milk was made from milk powder, and the brown sugar jelly tasted as it should.

 

Refreshing fruity ice @ Hui Lau Shan

There are two types, one served with red beans and the other served with sugar jelly.
I ordered the sugar jelly one, because most of the elements I liked such as strawberry, peach, sugar jelly, pearls.

It was presented on a bed of fruity ice, with sugar jelly, strawberry slices, peach slices, dragon eye, pearls and another scoop of fruity ice on top.
Overall, it was pleasant, not too sweet.
The pearls let the dessert down as it was hard and chewy.
I was impressed with the strawberries because they were red and ripe.

The texture of the fruity ice was slighty like sorbet, but since it contained hokkaido milk, it was not so moist, but brittle and dry.
It didnt taste that milky but there was hints of dragon eye in it.

Taiwanese froyo @ Share cup

This is my first Taiwanese style froyo.

If you dont think of it as Froyo it actually tastes really nice.

There are two branches of Share Cup this branch and one at Shatin.

The froyo at Shatin is not self service, the one here is self service so you can choose how much froyo you want.

It costs $10/gram which is cheap. Most places cost at least $13 or more per gram.

Anyway, when I extruded the froyo from the machine, its texture was so soft that it slumped on the cup, but it was not watery.
The colour of the froyo was pure WHITE!
For toppings, there were so many taiwanese style toppings such as black sugar kanten.
So I chose strawberry, aloe vera, black sugar kanten, and pineapple jelly stars.

The taste of froyo was really sweet and strong in vanilla taste.
The taste of yogurt was faint, but tasted more of the yakult type of yogurt.
The texture of the froyo was really light, there were no ice crystals in it and it was like supersupersoft soft-serve.
It was sweet but it was not that throat stinging sweetness.

Anyway it tasted like a cheaper version of 菓匠茶屋 Kasho Chaya but not as dense and thick.
It visually looks like the ice-cream from Kasho too, its white and slighty shiny.

 

My cup of froyo felt really light.
Usually for that amount of froyo at other places it feels much heavier (weight without toppings of course).

The cost of my froyo came to exactly $10.
I will be back for more.

Next time I will probably try their fried snacks such as fried chicken and chips, the chips are similar to Ireland's potato with a range of sauces, and the chicken has a range of spices to choose from such as mexican, cumin, indian spice etc.

 

Froyo surrounded by garden magic @ Fru:yo Factory

I was attracted by its name: Fru:yo factory, I was expecting there would be lots of yogurt dispensers just like Tutti-melon and Tutti-Frutti.
I was expecting the experience to be fun like visiting Charlie's chocolate factory such as getting toppings from turning carousels, or cute containers on a conveyor belt just like a real factory.

There are two branches, one in Causeway Bay and this one, two extreme places, one in city side of Hong Kong and the other in the urban side of Hong Kong.
Usually, shops will open either in the city or in the urban areas to see how it goes, and then expand to the other areas.

Anyway, the interior was indeed fun, there was a fountain in the middle where you could sit around it, however the fountain was not flowing.

I liked the tiling on the floor the most, it was printed with flowers in between the lines which looked quite realistic.

 

The main theme of the yogurt was the elephant, I couldnt quite understand why this was chosen as a mascot, I felt that ladybirds or fairies would suit it better, but then these are the type of western styles I have been brought up with.

 

Its wooden approach and earth colours made it down to earth and naturistic, whilst the fonts and names of the drinks made it feel American.
The spoon matched the joint as well; it was matt material and light beige in colour.

 

For the froyo there were only two flavours, original and chocolate.
I tried the chocolate first and it was too strong and floury, so I chose the original.
The original was very thick, but quite sweet. They were very generous with the toppings!
I chose the caramel kanten, which was clear and glistened in gold.

 

After from froyo they had drinks too with attractive names such as: Sunshine in love, blue breeze, gold coast.
The gold coast was interesting because it was kiwi based