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Located in the back streets of Yau Ma Tei, it reminds me of Dessert Revolution because the desserts here are creative as well. However its location is on a street that is quieter than DR.
Langham Place has livened up the street where DR is located.

 

Anyway, this place is decorated by a bright green theme, with green chairs; its logo is rather cartoonistic.

The desserts on the menu were interesting with English descriptions.
Although they had western desserts, they were quite localised.

There were a few desserts I wanted to try but in the end I ordered:
French cherry wine bread pudding with ice-cream $49
Mini crispy chocolate fondue $47
Both came with tea or coffee

I felt that it was slightly overpriced compared to other desserteries.
The staff there was slightly pushy with their recommendations and more concerned on taking orders.
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oxidised grapes

 

French cherry wine bread pudding with ice-cream
The idea of this concept was good especially the use of cherry wine.
The pudding was piping hot and had nice cherry aroma to it.
I just felt that if the fruits are visually rotting, then leave it out.
For this dessert I was given a fork which was more appropriate for the fondue.
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stale wafer rolls

 

 

 

Mini crispy chocolate fondue
This was also another creative dessert, it is similar to the chocolate cake with the runny centre, but instead it is chocolate fondue with baked chocolate crispy cake top, and once you have pierced the top layer there is fondue at the bottom.
The wafer roll had gone stale, it was soft and chewy and not crisp.
Again the combination of fruits that came with the fondue was weird, such as the watermelon and kiwi.
For this dessert I was given a small spoon which is impossible to tackle a fondue!!!!
In the end I had to use the fork from the bread pudding.
I think if the wafer was crisp and it came with berries, I would have given it top marks.
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Tea and Coffee:
I did not like it because the Tea was the Hong Kong version, I specifically enquired before ordering and they said it was the Western one!
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This review was meant to be written last year, so things may have improved since then.
Although there are some thing's that need improving, there were some desserts I found really interesting and intend to try on my next visit.

 

The idea of slushy chocolate and strawberries seem good, it is similar to Hui Lau Shan's chocolate strawberry drink.

 

 

Green tea and herbal jelly look good in the product shot, nice and cooling!

" Love chocolate " fondue @ Hui Lau Shan

Ordered the chocolate fondue, which is practically as good as the fondue else where, the fruit could have been fresher and the fruit selection could have been more appropriate.
Usually it is berries, but I suppose in Hong Kong, I have to make to with the locally available fruit such a melon.
I consider melon as more of a fruit to go with savoury items such as Parma ham

The fondue set comprises of chocolate fondue, ice-cream, plate of cut fruit consisting of banana, kiwi, strawberries, honeydew melon and cantaloupe melon, finger biscuits and 3 marshmallows.

Although the waitress forgot to light up the candle beneath the chocolate fondue until I was halfway through eating it, I could have done without because the type of chocolate they used dosnt harden.

The fondue set costs $58 but there are vouchers to download on their website.

Apart from the chocolate set, I also got the curry mixture, which consists of fish balls, sliced stomach, squid tentacles and white carrot.
The curry was a little too spicy for me and there was a film of chilli oil at the top, which made it even spicy.
The sliced stomach was a little too soft, but the rest was ok.

White Chocolate and orange dark chocolate fondue @ Hui Lau Shan

 

The last time I had the fondue was in February, ten months later, HLS have introduced a better fondue, and the fondue items were slightly better than last time.
This time, there are two chocolate flavours for the fondue, white chocolate and strawberry and chocolate and orange.

 

The white chocolate and strawberry was sweeter than the chocolate. The strawberry flavouring was not as fake as expected.

 

As for the fondue elements there were: melons, cantaloupe melons, kiwis, strawberries, bananas, marshmallow, finger biscuits and frozen mango cream cake.
The finger biscuits were slightly soft and stale.
As usual I think its weird to put melons and kiwi’s into fondue, but maybe its Asian style or the availability of fruit, usually it is berries and banana’s.

The chocolate fondue was not as sweet compared to the strawberry, and there were pieces of orange rind, which gave it some orange flavouring.
The chocolate fondue was nice with the banana, and the rest tasted nice with the strawberry fondue especially the strawberry because the sweetness of the fondue took away the sourness of the strawberry.
The marshmallows were better than last because there was no colour in it.

 

Lastly there was the frozen mango cream cake, I would have preferred more fresh fruit instead or the cookie cake because the cream was just tasteless and not really a cake if it was just plain frozen cream and mango.
It is similar to the serradura, but just made with fake cream.

The candle beneath the fondue was not that strong because the chocolate did not become hot after sitting there for a while, and I tried to burn the marshmallow by placing it close above the flame nothing happened!