So Sweet standards still silently same

This is my second visit since it opened, the Oriental orange is no longer served.
However there are a few new items such as bread and butter pudding and apple jelly.

There is a pick and mix section where you can pick any 3 desserts from their pick and mix range.
There are two prices either $11 or $13 each.

Picked six items:

Apple jelly, melon sago, bread and butter pudding.
Egg white in vanilla sauce, tofu cheese pudding, apple tart.

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Apple jelly:This is a new item that wasnt there last time, so picked it.
Although it was jelly it lacked the refreshingness of apple.
The jelly that was used was firmer and resembled konjac rather than gelatin.
It was slightly too sweet and the apple bits were too sweet as well.

Melon Sago:
This was also disappointing apart from the melon pieces!!
The sauce was basically purified mango with pieces of grapefruit in it, a blander version of "yeung ji gum lo".
In the sauce there was also bits of plastic too, and the waitor said it was odds and ends of sago?? hmm!!
Anyway, was offered another free dessert to replace it.

Bread and butter pudding:
It was piping hot drenched in alot of vanilla sauce with a few pieces of raisins on top,
Out of the above three, and for the $11 price range, this would be recommended.


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Egg white in vanilla sauce:This has kept its standards, and still tastes as good as it was before.
Fluffly eggwhite in warm vanilla sauce with slivered crunchy almonds.

tofu cheese pudding:
This was firm and not too heavy, although the tofu could not be tasted, it was quite refreshing and decorated with a piece of strawberry.

apple tart
This has also kept its standards since my last visit, flakey and delicate, not too sweet.

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Apple danish @ Yamazaki bakery

Got an apple roll from Yamazaki, but i had it the next day.

I was surprised how soft it was and it had bits of apple in it.

It wasnt too sweet.

Not that I dont want to write much, but not much I can really write about it~

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Apple roll

Pistachio and apple yoghurt @ Starbucks

With the craze of Froyos, I decided to get some yogurt, but not the frozen ones this time, and not the pre-packaged ones.

The yoghurt here consists of three layers, the bottom consists of sliced apples, then yoghurt and then on top it was sprinkled with pistachio nuts.

The apple slices at the bottom were somehow cooked and preserved with a fresh colour and not rusted.
It still had a crunch to it.
As for the pistachio, it only contributed to like 0.01 of the whole serving, it may as well of been a garnishing rather than part of it.

The yoghurt which i wouldnt classify it as real yoghurt, had froyo taste.
It didnt have the slightest of tartness of cultivated yoghurts, also the texture was not even yoghurt, it was more like aired cream tasting like froyo.

Caramel apple spice winter drink @ Starbucks

The new drink at Starbucks sounds interesting, it is hot apple juice rather than coffee, tea or milk as a base.

I wasnt quite sure what to expect, but the taste of cooked apples turn very sour.

From the product shot, I really liked the golden clear liquid topped with cream, however when I got mine, it was in a paper cup, and its best features couldnt be seen by others, it just looked like I was holding a normal coffee or some hot drink from Starbucks.

 

 

Under the US website for Starbucks, this drink is classified as a kids drink.
http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/kids-drinks-and-other/caramel-apple-spice?foodZone=9999

The Caramel apple spice winter drink is basically steamed, freshly pressed apple juice and cinnamon syrup, topped with sweetened whipped cream and caramel drizzle.
In the US, they also do a plain version (steamed apple juice without the cream).

I took my first sip, and it was better than expected, it wasnt the type of apple juice that you would get from a carton, it was like McDonalds apple pie fillng in liquid form, it was slightly sour, but the sourness was not that eye squinting sourness of carton apple juice.

The spices in the drink made it pleasant, the whipped cream made the drink even more dreamy.
I would have loved more cream and caramel, it was like drinking apple pie.
If the cream was ice-cream, it would be like drinking apple pie and ice-cream.
But the whipped cream and caramel tasted perfect with the steamed apple juice.

Apple ring @ Beard papa sweets

Since Saveur de France closed down, I never got to try the upscale Paris Brest in the end, saw a similar looking one here so ordered it.

The cream inside was custard, very thick and cold. The pastry itself was very crunchy and slightly hard, not choux like at all.
I thought there was nothing special about the Paris Brest, it just tasted like their usual cream puffs but in a bigger form of the cruller ring.

The star of the show was actually the apple ring, it was like an apple danish but in ring form, with evenly distributed pieces apples in the middle, so every bite was an even amount of pastry and apple.

It was evenly glazed and smelt very buttery when heated up. It tasted like Starbucks apple caramel drink.

There is a Beard papa' branch in the UK too, but in central london.