Rocky Road Roll @ Saint honore

A dreamy swiss roll filled with chocolate cream, marshmallows, and crunchy chocolate balls.

The swiss roll is slightly bigger than the normal big swiss rolls priced at $38.
In terms of price, it is definately dearer than the local chinese bakery, however the quality is assured, at least there will not be eggshells in it.

Compared to the upper end swiss rolls, this would be classified as the economic version.

Anyway, the presentation of the swiss roll was nicely done, it was decorated with castor sugar patterns of leaves and flower shapes, almost like a Japanese sakura roll.

Taste:
The ends of the roll were slightly dry, but the centre was moist.
As with all St Honore bakeries, it has their standards, so it wouldnt taste bad, infact it tasted really good, especially the marshmallows, it melts in your mouth, and the marshmallow dosnt have a skin covering it.

 

Cheese and Ham sub @ Saint Honore

Got a cheese and ham sub, but it didnt even look like a sub.

Basically it is a bun filled with cheese and ham inside topped with ground maize and a some salad cream.

Got through nearly half of the bun before I actually found any ham or cheese, so it was like 75% bun and 25% filling.

Tasted ok, so just treat it as a chinese cheese and ham thing with a slight sweet taste.

 

Walnut cookie @ helping hand by Saint Honores

Saint Honore is a supplier of cookies for the Helping Hand eldery, thanks to a donator who donated to the helping hand, I was able to sample Saint Honores walnut cookie.

The cookie was rather sweet, so not advisable for the eldery or diabetic.

The texture of the cookie was very buttery and crumbles easily.
It has the typical chinese cookie appearance with a glazed surface, and deep cracks of being baked.

The sugar the Chinese use is also different which makes it have that cloying sweetness.

 

 

 

Taro chestnut cake @ Saint Honore Bakery

Got this taro cake for $13 which is considered affordable compared with other cakes priced at >$30 per cake at other prestige places such as the Pantry, Sift etc.

This cake is considered as a higher end product at Saint Honore, but the service and packaging was treated just the same as their ordinary bakery products.

Despite it was a delicate cake, there was no box provided unless two were bought, which was a bit pathetic since you are paying for an expensive cake, and the cake was stuffed in their plastic bag making it hard to carry around.
Luckily, it was still intact when I took it out.

Taro chestnut cake:
It takes the form of a round cake with a sponge base, topped with taro mousse with sponge layers inside.
The taste of the taro was so faint, but luckily it wasnt over sweet.
As for decoration there was a tiny crunchy chocolate ball on top, and chestnut paste on top.
To my surprise, I found white cream inside the chestnut paste.
Fun to eat, but didnt really taste of taro which was dissappointing.
The spongecake base tasted like their usual sponge cake products

 

Taro swiss roll edible cloth towel and egg tarts @ Saint honore

Bought some egg tarts and a taro swiss roll.

The eggs tarts from Saint Honore are unique, the rest in Hong Kong are round, the ones at St Honore are oval shaped.
The egg tarts have the biscuit base crust.

The taro swiss roll was interesting, because its Chinese name was "mo gun darn guen" which means rolled cloth swiss roll.
Its appearance does look similar to a piece of rolled cloth.

Sometimes the Chinese swiss rolls can look different, because when the thin layer of sponge cake is baked, the exposed side is rolled on the outside giving it a smooth texture finish, however some bakeries in Hong Kong like to roll the exposed side on the inside, leaving the porous surface on the outside making it look like cloth.

cloth towel texture

The taro swiss roll I got was lilac in colour, not as purple as the purple on the plastic bag.
The taro sponge tasted nice, but the cream inside it was disgusting, the usual salted chinese cream, which is quite disgusting, the taste of sweet sponge along with salty buttercream.

heng wu mo gun darn go