Mochified snowy mooncake~! @ Mochi Cream

After reading the review by FoodieWil, I just had to try for myself.
Totally agree with FoodieWil’s comment that it is a Japanese version of ChineseGoGo.

ChineseGoGo is a high-end version of the glutinous sweets with various fillings, and now top class Mochi has appeared.

There are 19 flavours: Apple pie, Chocolate banana, White chocolate, Mango, Peach Yoghurt, Bluebery Yoghurt, Sweet Potato, Darjeeling tea, honey cranberry, Café Au lait, Rum n Raisin, Chocolate, Green Tea, Black Sesame, Green Soybean, Red Sweet Potato and Sakura.

I am not really into Adzuki beans, or the conventional Japanese flavours such as green tea, sweet potatoes etc, so I chose six flavours APPLE PIE, PEACH YOGHURT, DARJEELING TEA, HONEY CRANBERRY, CARAMEL PUDDING, and RUM RAISIN.

I tried the APPLE PIE first, the texture was interesting, just like eating eggshells, like the sugar shells on the mini easter eggs, then oozing with apple sauce with bits of apple in it, and exploding with fluffy light whipped cream.

Then I tried the honey cranberry, also oozing with sweet cranberry liquid, this one contained bean paste, same with the Darjeeling Tea, packed with strong Tea flavour.
The Rum raisin one also surprised me with a strong Rum infusion with the cream.
I didn’t like the Peach Yoghurt one, because the Peach was a bit perfume like, not natural giving an aftertaste, I would assume the same for the blueberry one too.

However the Caramel Pudding was the best along with the Apple pie, it was thick smooth custard filling inside, with a strong bitter caramel syrup in the centre. The brown syrup tasting and looking EXACTLY like the real caramel puddings.

Anyway if your not a fan of Adzuki beans, then Apple pie or Caramel pudding would be the choice, its sweetness is different to the sweetness of the bean paste. Although both are as sweet as each other.
To me the ones with bean paste inside remind me of the Snowy moon cakes during moon cake festival, both full of bean paste. Maybe one day, they will have cheesecake flavours!

 

Honey malt cake @ Starbucks

I rarely go to Starbucks these days, as Pacific Coffee is always nearby, and I can always grab the regular quiches, sandwiches and whatever takes my fancy.

This visit, I came with intention to try their Honey Malt Cake, which is the same one advertised by Maxims as the Angel Chiffon cake.
I would have tried the Maxims one, but it comes as a whole cake.

Anyway, the one here, had the honey comb pieces in a separate little dish.
When I ordered it, the staff asked me if I wanted it to be heated, which is rather weird, cos the cream would melt.
She then passed me the cake, which annoyed me a bit, cos I had the expectation to add the honeycomb pieces myself and sprinkle it where I want.

In general the cake tasted very nice, very soft, not too sweet, and the honey comb pieces gave it some extra sweetness.

I wanted to try their Apple fritter, but I will save it for the next time.

Australian icecream with a twist of Italian-US @ Gelare

First time I visited this ice-cream parlour, I was not imediately attracted, the flavours were the ordinary ones you can get for any other brand.

After visiting their site, www.gelare.com it turns out there are much more better flavours, but not in hong kong. If they had been available I would have tried without hesitation.

The flavours I want to try that are not available in Hong Kong are:
Geláre Super Premium Ice Cream Butter Pecan, Geláre Low Fat Frozen Yogurts Apple Pie Crunch and Geláre New Flavors Asian Ginger Fig Ice Cream.

So in the end I tried Honey malt crunch, and low fat hazelnut, the honey malt one was sweet with bits of malt in it, but not crunchy, the hazelnut was quite good too with plenty of hazelnuts to chew on, both not crunchy, but chewyness with a slight hardness.
The ice-cream texture was very soft that you can stretch it, a bit like mado's, but not as elastic.

Cookie crust egg tart @ Tai Cheong

Saw the new honey green tea ad for $5 so went in and grabbed a bottle, then these fresh egg tarts came out of the oven, so I asked what pastry it was assuming it was the short crust of flaky pastry, but they said it was the cookie one.

So got one to try, also on promotion at 3.8 dollars each.

I drank the drink first, the egg tarts were piping hot, and you cant really taste anything when it is hot.
The green tea tastes a bit like the honey green tea by Tao Ti but tastes stronger of Cane sugar, hence doesn’t really taste of honey.

As for the egg tart, the pastry is a bit strong in butter, and not that cookie like, but different to shortcrust, it is harder and brittle, a bit like wheat crunch.

Chocolate honey cake slice @ Hoixe

Interesting, chocolate and honey cake, so I got it.

The cake was nice and soft, the honey tasted more prominent than the chocolate, overall it was slightly sticky.

The cake slices have other flavours such as green tea etc, its cost $4.5/slice which is only 0.5 dollars more than the original flavour.
It tastes much better than the original because the original is oily, slightly dense with a strong taste off egg.

☆Γρεξοπ☆ΓΡΕΞΟπ☆Grecoπ☆Γρεψοπ☆Γκρέκοπ☆

This restaurant immediately caught my attention because of the Greek letter π (Pi).

For the first year of Maths at Imperial College, you are required to learn the Greek alphabet as a prerequisite, however the most Greek letters I ever used were alpha, beta, sigma and delta.

Anyway, it was really fun to see that their dining tables are decorated with Greek letters.

I faxed them over an order because I was not sure if they would understand me reading out the Greek dishes in a British accent, also if the staff was Asian I wasn’t sure if I could understand them pronouncing Greek dishes with an Asian accent!

Although these are not the types of kebabs I am looking for, I still like to try new dishes especially the Mezedes.

But I wish someone would open a British style Pakistani kebab shop in Hong Kong, the Greasy ones with julienne cabbages, lemon juice and chilli sauce that are WTF (worth the fat) as the-eating-pan saids.

I ordered the following: 1 X Skewer Souvlaki Kalamaki, Greek yoghurt with honey and walnuts, Grilled feta cheese, Patzarosalata (beetroot) and the Melitzanosalata.
The Patzarosalata was not available so I changed it to the Tzatziki.
I was disappointed because I really wanted to try the Patzarosalata mezedes, which is made with beetroot and yoghurt.
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1x Skewer Souvlaki Kalamaki
This was tender grilled smoked chicken on a skewer, the chicken was juicy however it was bland on its own and tasted nice with Mezedes.

Souvlaki Kalamaki

 

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Greek yoghurt with honey and walnuts:
This was my favourite, the yoghurt was extremely thick like cream cheese with a very tart taste!
The texture of the honey is so much different and runnier than the ones I have tried.
The way I ate this was spooning the yoghurt and letting excess honey fall off.
I think this is the best honey because people always say that honey is soothing but I never felt that, all I felt was the sweetness of it stinging my throat! But the honey here was truly soothing! The sweetness was natural.

Honey and walnut yoghurt

 

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Tzatziki:
I did not really want to order this, but because the Patzarosalata was not available I got this instead. The taste of cucumber was faint, and it tasted the same as the yoghurt in the dessert.

Tzatziki

 

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Grilled feta cheese
I have never tried grilled feta before, so this was new to me.
I felt that it could have been grilled more because it just tasted like feta that was steamed.
The texture was not stringy like the typical heated cheese, but it was soft and mushy.
The olive oil and herbs enhanced the grilled feta’s taste nicely.

Grilled Feta cheese

 

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Melitzanosalata
This was grounded parsley, aubergines, red peppers, and walnuts with olive oil.
It reminded me of some starter at Habibi (Mediterranean food).
The paste was very light and moist similar to puree.

Melitzanosalata

 

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Pita bread: This came with dips and there were so many herbs sprinkled on it. The pita bread was thicker and chewier than the ones I have come across before.

Pita bread

 

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Shop: Grecoπ
http://www.grecopi.com/

Shop 13, 1/F, Block A, Causeway Centre, 28 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Service: Good
Sweetness levels: OK
MSG levels: none
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