McCafe : Love mint mocha series

 

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Mint ice mocha frappe:

 

 

The mint mocha was nice with oreo crumbs on top, however the drink was not smooth because the ice was not blended properly and they were so big that it kept clogging up the straw.

 

But overall it tasted quite nice because it was minty, chocolately with a hint of coffee bitterness.
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Iced mocha frappe:

 

As I do not like coffee, this did not taste as good as the mint mocha because the coffee taste was stronger.
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Chili pomodoro sauce x Pineapple punch @ McDs

The new chili pomodoro sauce for the nuggets was launched so went there to try it.

This year the sauces are better, at least there are two that are not repeats: Chili pomodoro and BBQ chipotle.

Tried the pomodoro sauce and the new pineapple punch drink.
This is a negative review because of the chicken nuggets which I shall explain later.
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Chili pomodoro sauce

I really loved this sauce and it was slightly spicy, there was herbs and onions in it as well although it is not listed on the ingredients list.
I can't wait until the chipotle one comes out!
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Chicken nuggets

First I thought they were over done because they looked so dark, but after pressing them on tissue I realised it was old oil that made the nuggets dark.
You can see how old the oil is by the colour of the oil against the white tissue!
If it was fresh oil it should have been a lighter colour.

old orange oil

The taste of the chicken nuggetts were not that pleasant so I had to dip more sauce to balance out that rancid taste.
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Pineapple punch

The pineapple taste was rather artificial.
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Hot soy green tea

I have never tried the hot version of this drink so tried it.
I was really impressed because when you drink it, the foam and the soy tea gets mixed together and it makes the drink silky with fine bubbly foam.
Because it was hot the taste of soy milk was faint but the green tea was stronger.
However it was slightly too sweet!
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McCafe's new Pandan and Red bean cake

I was really looking forward to this because I love Pandan.

It was an interesting cake to be offered by McCafe because usually the cakes are chocolate, cookies, hazelnuts and berries so this was quite different from their usual range.

I bought this cake with the Himalayan tea, which I have already written about earlier, but the Pandan cake is a new item introduced on 19th April 2012.
A la Carte the cake costs $25 but with the tea, it costs $16.

 

The pandan and red beans in the cake were a strange combination! I am also quite biased because I do not like red beans.

 

Usually pandan is paired with coconut.

Anyway, I found the cake extremely sweet because after finishing the cake, the Himalayan tea was tasteless, so you can imagine how sweet the cake was if the tea tasted not sweet at all.

The cake tasted like those Chinese coconut and red bean puddings and the pandan taste was so faint I couldn’t taste it.
Perhaps the red beans and coconut taste was too strong that I could not taste any pandan.
Without the red beans the cake would have been nice, because I didn’t like the starchy sugary red beans!

 

The cake had biscuit base, layered with pandan sponge cake and cream.
On the top it was dusted with cake crumbs.

It would be great if one day McDs came up with a pie filled with Kaya or Pandan