Citrus cheesecake @ Arome Bakery Room

 

 

This was a lemon and grapefruit cheesecake which has pieces of shortcake on top.
Overall it was quite refreshing with the combination of grapefruit as well because it is usually lemon.
The texture of the cheesecake was light and smooth.

Chilled egg tarts @ 蛋撻王 King Bakery

King Bakery have introduced their selection of cold tarts claiming to be Hong Kong’s first, I agree they are the first for other flavours, but for the original egg tart there is already one in Yau ma tei that does it

http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/sr2.htm?shopid=13843

There are various of flavours: Set A: (2 flavours) chocolate, ribena, Set B: (2 flavours) black sugar, Hokkaido milk, Assortment A (3 flavours): mango, tofu, black sesame, Assortment B (3 flavours): original, mango and grapefruit (yeung ji gum lo), coconut.

The tart itself, is basically like a wheat biscuit, similar to digestive biscuit, also it is rather sweet and more prominent than the tart fillings.

I chose the black sugar and Hokkaido milk selection; the rest seemed rather common, the Hokkaido milk was very creamy, and since the tart base was very sweet, I couldn’t taste the milk filling. As for the black sugar one, I liked it because the dark brown filling was see-through like jelly. It would have tasted great if the base wasn’t that sweet.

I wanted to try the chocolate and ribena one too, the chocolate one would probably tasted ok, but I wasn’t sure of the Ribena, depends on the ratio of ribena concentration, and if they had used real ribena or a substitute.

 

 

green tea with passionfruit, and Luscious Lychee @ Jungle juice

Despite the bad reviews, I didn’t feel the drinks were that bad at all, all the drinks came with a frothy top.

On a sunny day, the window side of the café can be a scorcher, so sat on the other end.

Ordered green tea with passionfruit, and Luscious Lychee a mix of lychee, cranberry and grapefruit.

The green tea, was room temperature as the waitor stated, not ice-cold, but just normal cold, and it was not syrupy sweet which was good, with a light taste of passionfruit, the tea’s here are not like the ones from the Taiwanese shops, they are much lighter and delicate.

As for the lychee, I was expecting the lychee to be fragrant with a syrupy taste, but it was not.
On the first sip, it was rather sour, then I could tastes the tones of grapefruit, then the cranberry, and then a faint taste of lychee. I though more lychee should have been added because it is called Luscious lychee, hence you would think it tastes mainly of lychee.

It would be good if they had other branches in Hong Kong, the juice selection is quite good, and they also have the soy selection.

Cute Japanese puddings @ Wasakuraya

Nearly missed this shop while I was walking down the street, anyway there was so much choice it was hard choosing which desserts to have.
The only dislikes were that it was take out only.

Luckily half the selection was Green tea, sesame, red beans etc, so that cut down my choice by half, in the end I picked the grapefruit jelly with pineapple stars, Premium custard pudding with vanilla seeds and the plain custard pudding with maple syrup.

Grapefruit jelly:
This was the best and most refreshing, not too sweet, and contained a lot of grapefruit pulp in it as well as real pressed out pineapple star shapes.
The jelly was sloppier than the usual firm jelly

Premium custard pudding:
Reminded me of Easter, probably because of the coloured pieces on the top.
Very smooth and creamy pudding with generous vanilla seeds in it.

Plain custard pudding with maple syrup:
Tasted similar to the premium pudding, however the syrup helped enhanced it by taking out the eggyness in taste.

As well as the taste, the packaging, box and bag were nice too.
Next time I will try the strawberry chocolate pudding.

 Lastly I really want to try the sweet potato pudding which was not available last time.

source of picture: 辣子's review http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2225300

鹿兒島產紫蕃薯布甸

Froyo with nice interior design by Chris Ming @ Myogurt

There are two froyo shops on this street and frankly this one stands out!!

The other one uses an orange tone, whereas this one has white and orange for its logo differientating it from other froyo's in HK.
Berrygood: white, red, pink
Bestberry: white and pastel circle
Yogurtime:white, light green and brown
Tuttimelon: pink, peach and green

The logo for this place is very cute, with two faces and a curly lock of hair on its head, the green leaf on either sides of the word "myogurt" gives it some bling, like fresh leaves sprouting with a young refreshing feeling.
The curly fonts match the curly lock of hair on the logo.
I was also lucky enough to meet the young and talented designer of this place too.

Inside the shop, it is nice and vibrant, althought the bar chairs were slightly too high, as there was not much space between the seat and table hence slightly cramped for people with larger thighs.

Anyway, there were two yogurt flavours, original and passionfruit.
Tried both, the original was slightly too sweet, but the passionfruit was just right.
The taste reminded me of the supermarket dairy yogurt, and it tasted more like mango than passionfruit.

For toppings I chose grapefruit, which went nicely with it.
As an improvement, it would be good if they labelled the toppings, although some are pretty obvious eg strawberry, etc.