Cheese salad sandwich with almonds! @ Grove

I dislike the Wan Chai branch so went to this branch.

Here I bought the cheese salad sandwich because the cheese looked interesting, it was more orange in colour than the usual cheese.

 

I wanted to get the prawn and peaches sandwich but the peach is probably canned ones so the salad one seemed more healthier.

Anyway, the cheese and salad sandwich tasted ok.
The cheese was processed cheese so it wasnt cheesy but it had an extremely creamy buttery taste, intially I thought they did not butter it evenly but it turned out to be the cheese.
As well as cheese, cucumbers and tomatoes I found SLIVERED ALMONDS!!!!!!!
Thats weird!

 

 

Overall the sandwiches here are quite westernised, but it still doesnt feel as authentic as Pret A Manger or La Rose bakery.
Some of the ingredients they use are so Chinesey and there are not many expats getting their sandwiches here which explains it!!

Spicy Herbs Scone & Muesli Lemon Aloe Jelly Yogurt Cup @ STARBUCKs

After trying the new drinks I saw some other snacks I wanted to get. So I went to Starbucks again to get the Petites Cup and the Muesli with Lemon Aloe Jelly Yogurt Cup.

The Petites Cup is a cup of bitesize snacks, $22 for five pieces. There are five flavours which can be mixed and matched.

 

The five flavours are (NEW) Spicy Herbs Scone, (NEW) Almond Finger, Double Chocolate Cookie, Chocolate Chips Cookie and Cheese Puff.

On my first visit at the WanChai branch I asked for three pieces of the new spicy herb scone and two pieces of the Cheese Puff, however they gave the Almond Finger instead .
So I went to the Sai Kung branch and just got the cheese puffs and the Lemon Aloe Jelly Yogurt Cup.
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Petits Cup

 

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Spicy Herbs Scone

 

It does not look spicy but the taste was really strong, there is an aftertaste as well.
Bascially I could taste heavy grounded black pepper and pesto.
The scone itself was really dry and hard.
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Almond Finger

 

I didnt intend to try this because they gave me this instead of the cheese puffs I ordered.
Initially I thought it was weird there was almond on top but after I checked online it appears they've given me the almond finger.
The Almond finger was really sweet and too buttery for my liking. It was quite greasy as well.
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Cheese puffs

 

 

These are savory cheese flavoured profiteroles but I found them tasteless. The cheese could not be tasted at all.
It was just buttery. However inside the puff you can see some slight cheese.
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Muesli with Lemon Aloe Jelly Yogurt Cup
Tried mixing the elements together which tasted nice and also tried the elements individually.
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Muesli
This is the ordinary breakfast muesli with raisins, oats and cornflakes which was quite sweet on its own because of the raisins.
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Yogurt
After trying the muesli I tried the yogurt which was natural yogurt and it was quite sweet because the muesli was sweet so the yogurt is normally meant to taste sour after you've had sweet things but it wasnt, so the yogurt was obviously quite sweet.
However it was quite refreshing because there was pieces of aloe in it.
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Lemon Jelly

 

 

This was really refreshing and I wish there was slightly more jelly in the cup.
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