Showing posts with label Meringe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meringe. Show all posts

Friday, September 26, 2014

Arome Bakery Room's Lemon meringue dessert cup

Saw these vibrant yellow desserts and when I realized it was my favorite lemon meringue I decided to get one.

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Lemon meringue dessert cup:


The dessert was surprisingly quite nice, it had a layer of cake, lemon mousse, a piece of peach in the middle and lemon curd jelly on top with a chewy soft egg white meringue.
It was quite refreshing to find a piece of canned peach in the middle and I loved the balance of the sweet meringue with the tart lemon mousse.
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Delicious coconut egg white munchies @ Orchid Padaria

I have always been a fan of Orchid Padaria Bakery but their shops were located in the New Territories or KCR stations which is not in my path.
Now they have a few shops in the city which is really good.

Previously I have tried their sawdust puddings and they were good.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This time when I went in, there were quite a few interesting items such as the cheese triangles, and macarons.
The cheese triangles can be bought in packs or in twos. Anyway in UK we have Dairylea so it would be interesting to try a different brand that is not imported in the UK.
I really regretted not getting some.
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I spotted some bite size snacks which looked like mini coconut macaroons which are not to be confused with the French Macarons as seen in the above picture.
Coconut macaroons are really sweet snacks made with lots of coconut, almond and starch which gives it firmess.
The ones here looked light and they are called Coconut and egg whites and a bit like baked meringues.
When I opened the packet, I could instantly smell the coconut which was really nice.
I loved the size of them. Anyway, the taste was great, it was not too sweet but it got sweeter after I had quite a few.

It had the same texture as crispy meringue and there was so much dessicated coconut in it.
If you leave them for a while, the humidity will make them chewy and they also tasted gorgeous chewy, so I am going to get another pack and deliberately leave it in the open for a while to make them chewy.

Friday, March 30, 2012

So sweet desserterie by Wong cho nam

Decided to feast out on my desserts cravings because of the interesting variety offered just like Sweetacy, however the choice here is much bigger and you can mix the Western and Chinese selections together.

Previously the pictures of the Oriental oranges, egg whites and apple tart caught my attention so came here just to try them out. The picture of the shop looked Japanese, so before I came, I didn’t know what was to be expected from their menu. It would have been great if they had an English menu too.

Basically there is a sweet platter that allows you to select three items, so I chose three items of mini size for the platter and one full size for Singapore egg white dessert.

My sweet platter: Flakey apple tart, Bread pudding with vanilla sauce, Oriental Orange.

The Singapore egg white was the first to arrive, it arrived in a cup, and the whole dessert reminded me of hot chocolate with marshmallows on top. This dessert was basically a cup of hot vanilla sauce, with egg whites on top. The vanilla sauce was very pleasing, not too sweet at all, and warm with the fluffy egg white. The sauce itself was not thick, almost drinkable as the taste was light. I think served as a drink seems good too, there were slices of toasted almonds on top drizzled with chocolate sauce which gave the egg white some notes of chocolate and toasted nutty flavour.
It was quite good to start off with a warm and light dessert then moving on to the sweeter ones.

The sweet platter arrived, and I tried the bread pudding first, this tasted very sweet (over sweet on my opinion), and very strong in egg taste. Then I tried the apple tart, apart from the egg white, this was also the best, flakey filo paper thin pastry in thousands of layers. Lastly I had the orange, this was also good, but too sweet, the liquor in it was good, however I found some hair on the edge of the cup, it is in the main picture too, but clearer in the close up pic. Comparing my Oriental orange with the pictures before, it seems I am missing a blueberry garnishing!
I quite liked the Orange, but rather syrupy, now I am curious to soak orange in Brandy syrup to see how it tastes.

The staffs there were ok. The young female one tried to be helpful and introduced me to the Chinese desserts such as glutinous wraps and mango based desserts, however these happen to be things I do not like!
I asked the young female waitress what the sauce was for the Singapore desserts, so doing her job, she asked the chefs, however I thought the chefs were a bit rude in answering her, she was doing her job anyway.

I was contemplating on ordering another round of apple tarts and egg whites as it would be along time before another re-visit; then the young guy asked if I would be interested in ordering the “Heart too Soft”, I was definitely not interested in that one either, as this is a common dessert served all other in HK. He then suggested some other thing “sum fa lo fong” wrapped with Filo pastry with apple inside, so I decided to try that too.

However this one took ages, it was ordered at 7.34 pm and it arrived at 7.59, so around 20 minutes for it to be baked.
The presentation of the dessert was quite good, all of the fruit garnishing matched.
Taste wise it was ok, basically just apple and sultanas wrapped in flakey filo pastry.
I think I would have preferred a second round rather than the recommended dessert.

Found out this joint was opened by Wong Cho Lam and if he is present you can take pics with him, as if!

Thursday, March 29, 2012

A wide range of colourful meringues @ C bakery

Previously came here for scones, but they were rock hard, I didn’t expect I would buy anything from here, but their meringues got my attention to buy them surprisingly.

The pastel coloured meringues were in plastic jars displayed on the shelves prettily, there were so many flavours: Mango coconut, Strawberry rose, green tea, Osmanthus, sesame, Lychee, orange plum, vanilla, taro, pineapple and Durian.

As meringues are meant to be very sweet, I was really tempted to pick Durian, but when I asked if there were samples to try, they said no which was a bit stingy and Meringues are easy to keep just like cookies in an airtight container.

Even most places have cookie samples for people to try.

Orange plum sounds good too, but in the end I bought Taro.

As expected they were very sweet, the taro taste could only be tasted on the aftertaste.
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