Showing posts with label nougats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nougats. Show all posts

Monday, January 19, 2015

Mei Foo's hidden golden nuggets of treasure

If I am ever at Mei Foo I always have to stop here for some nougats.
This place is only famous to the small majority that know it but quite famous for Chinese expats because they buy boxes of nougats and cookies as souvenirs.

Hopefully I will be back soon because the nougats are addictive and I regretted not getting the chicken biscuits and the abalone biscuits.

This time I got the nougat variety pack which has all eight nougat flavours:
Original flavour, crispy chocolate, crispy coffee, crispy black sesame, almond nougat, almond and prune, ginger and almond and blueberry and hazelnut.

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[b]Original peanut[/b]

The peanut flavour was quite nice because it was crammed with lots of peanuts in it.
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[b]crispy chocolate[/b]
This one was my favourite because it is crispy and chewy and tastes just like a mini lion bar!
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[b]crispy coffee[/b]

Not a fan of coffee so and I found it too sweet.
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[b]crispy black sesame[/b]
Not a fan of sesame so it just tasted ok.
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[b]almond nougat[/b]

This one was quite addictive because there were lot of crunchy almonds in it.
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[b]almond and prune[/b]

As well as the chocolate, this was also my favourite because it was very chewy and soft.
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[b]ginger and almond[/b]
The ginger one is quite different compared to other ones because it has a fiery kick to it.
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[b]blueberry and hazelnut[/b]

This one was quite sweet but I loved the hazelnuts.
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After trying all the flavours, my favourites are the prune and the crispy chocolate.

http://doordoorbakery.com/

Monday, December 01, 2014

Celebrate Christmas with Kee Wah's festive box set

I used to think Kee Wah Bakery sold just mooncakes, Chinese Bakery and Preserved sausages but it was more modern than I thought. 

As well as Chinese tea leaves they also have festive products for Christmas.
They have launched a Christmas Box set for $135.


There are three tins.
In the Red tin you will find Chinese style shortcakes in Pineapple and mango flavour.

For candy lovers, the white tin is filled with cranberry and almond nougats and pumpkin seed crunchies that were not too sweet.

In  the green tin, it was filled with crumbly cookies. 

There plastic box is well labelled in English and Chinese which makes it a great Christmas gift for everyone.



www.keewah.com

Monday, March 03, 2014

Queen's Konditorei nougats

Queen's Cafe (Wan Chai)
When branches of Queen's Konditorei 皇后餅店 went extinct in Hong Kong, I thought I saw the last of those nougats, but now they are selling them at Queen's Cafe 皇后飯店.
Thanks to wanttoeat for getting me them.

She got me two flavours:
peanut
chocolate

Both were packaged in these cute cardboard packets which look like Russian dolls.

The chocolate one was really nice and chewy with crispy bits of rice and the peanut one tasted nutty, milky and not too sweet.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Cherikoff nougats from Macau

Cherikoff (Vila de Taipa)
Thanks <<IVY>> for these nougats from Macau.

They were individually wrapped.

The nougats were quite crunchy, after chewing them for a bit, they got chewier and the sweetness was just right complemented by the crunchy peanuts.

Thursday, September 05, 2013

Classy nougats

Door Door (Mei Foo)
As mentioned in my previous review, the nougats here are really good and the packaging and design really takes it to another level.

They have fans from Thailand who go there especially for the nougats.

I regretted that I didn't buy any on my last vist, but thanks to Garycwm for getting me these nougats.
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Black sesame nougats:

I loved the packaging and fonts, especially the foil wrapper.
The bag was resealable.

There was crisp rice paper to keep it from sticking to the wrapper.


The taste of these nougats were delicious, you can see black sesame seeds in it and there was a layer of chocolate in the middle sandwiched between the delicious nougat that was not too sweet.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Fascinating cake shop

Door Door (Mei Foo)
After dining nearby, Ivy said there was a shop selling nougats which I found interesting because Mei Foo is a residential area.

As well as Mei Foo, they used to have a branch in Kwun Tong.

When we got there, I was instantly impressed by the variety in there.

There were green tea scones!

Huge donuts on skewers for only $7.5

Pandan cakes!

Charcoal buns:

The nougats were most impressive.

They even had a huge cookie selection!

Infront of the shop, there were so many people queuing for freshly baked egg tarts and portugese tarts. I was surprised at how fast they were sold and the quantities people were buying.

For the coming moon festival, they have these novelty biscuits which are hygienically packed too.
(I remember seeing ones before which were unwrapped and held in a pink plastic baskets).

Thanks to Mjqueen7e for getting me one.

I ended up getting a cheese Pontikege because it looked like a baked meringue.


The cheese pontikege tasted really floury when I took a bite, and it was slightly sweet with a faint taste of cheese.

Monday, July 08, 2013

Sugar & Spice nougats

Lady Sugar (Tsim Sha Tsui)
Thanks to Ivy for getting me these Sugar and Spice nougats which are Taiwanese.

Each nougat is gorgeous and chewy with nuts in it.
The milk taste is strong and creamy and the nougat overall is not too sweet.

The peach jelly cube was also nice covered in sugar.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Nougats of treasure from ABC Bakery

~Thanks to Mjqueen7e for these yummy scrummy nougats~

On my previous visit to ABC Bakery, I did not notice these because I was attracted by their Western style cakes, but the nougats at ABC bakery are actually their most famous items along with the walnut cookies.

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Nougat:
The nougats were so nice and addictive that I could not stop eating them. I did not know that at other places the softness of the nougat was different until Mjqueen7e told me.
For fun I put a piece of nougat in the fridge and it also tasted nice chewier and cold too.
The peanuts in the nougat were a perfect balance.
The sweetness was just right and it tastes like a satisfying SNICKERs bar without the chocolate and caramel.
Each nougat is wrapped in edible rice paper.
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