Blueberry tart @ Arome bakery

Although the blueberry tart was a bit too sweet, it was actually delicious.

I loved the crust because was not too buttery and the tart was filled with a layer of cake, a thin layer of chocolate and cream topped with glazed blueberries.

Blueberry smoothie and spanish twirls @ Juice bar

Originally wanted to order the strawberry smoothie, but since it was sold out, I tried the blueberry one given by the staff. I found it very syrupy so I ordered one without any sugar at all. But for $20 it can be an option as a thirst quencher.

The smoothie is rather thin in consistency compared with the normal ones. Not as thick as it should be. Without the sugar, the yoghurt can be tasted. The colour of the smoothie was quite purple as real blueberries were put in, however they are frozen ones.

I was also given a box of spanish twirls (churros sprinkled with icing sugar. I didnt like it very much, but then i didnt like it when i was given some to try along while ago.
Firstly it was too sweet, and secondly, u can taste that the oil hasnt been changed and they were so rancid..

Summer donuts @ Krispy Kreme

Got some takeaway donuts from Krispy Kreme, tried 3 of their new flavours out of the 6 choices of lime, mango, melon, pineapple, blueberry and cranberry.

Cranberry:
This was my favourite, since cranberry was sprinkled evenly over the icing, giving it some chew to the donut.

Blueberry:
Not bad, tasted of blueberries too.

Pineapple:
This was my least favorite, since the pineapple flavor was a bit artificial, if it had a little sourness in it, it would mimic the real pineapple taste. Also there was only one piece of the pineapple in the donut, not as good as the cranberry, because that was sprinkled all over.

Blueberry dessert @ Dessert revolution

The old menu has been replaced, no more dark cherries, but replaced with blueberries and more traditional chinese desserts.

Luckily there are a few non traditional ones to select, this time tried coconut sorbet with strawberry, and the young coconut jelly with blueberry.

The blueberry one was as good as expected, but the fruits on the top didnt quite match it.
The coconut sorbet contains quite alot of ground coconut in it.

I think I am quite bored of it so far, so will await for the new menu again, or unless I have cravings for the young coconut jelly!

Blueberry egg shell cake @ Pak Kut See

I saw this blueberry cake after I bought the chocolate forest roll from Sakurashima Bakery.
As mentioned previously the chocolate roll contained eggshell pieces, I didn’t take any pictures because I ate it whilst walking.

The blueberry cake looked more like cranberry, pink in colour.

The cake tasted ok, but as with all Chinese cakes, it was spoilt by the signature Chinese salted cream.

I would have preferred plain cream or simply slightly sweetened cream.
The texture of the cake was a bit flat, not light or springy at all.
Overall I liked the cake, but felt put off after finding eggshell.

Anyway I can't believe over two consecutive days, I found eggshells in my cake and from two totally different bakeries!!

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What are the chances of finding eggshell in a cake from shop 1, and then the next day finding eggshell in a cake from shop 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Eggshells

Berry juice drinks @ Panash

Got these drinks from Panash because they are not native drinks.

There were three flavours: Sour cherry, Clear blueberry nectar, and Strawberry and apple.

These drinks are from serbia, and they all taste sour with a strong apple juice base.

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!

 

 

 

Blueberry puffs @ Pak See Kut Cake shop

Saw this weird long shaped thing walking past, so decided to take a closer look at it.

It appears to be a "cow tongue puff" (ngau lei so) according to its chinese name.
However it is different to the other ones, the conventional ones are just fried dough, but this one is made of puff pastry and flatter.

The ridges make it appear like fried dough but infact it is a line of jam.

The surface was covered in sugar, so it just tasted like flat puff pastry with sugar, the blueberry was faint to the extent it was non existent.
The colour was peachy pink.