Showing posts with label oranges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oranges. Show all posts

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Lovely orange mousse cake @ McCafe

There are always good cakes at McCafe, the orange mousse with chocolate is a good match, the citrusness of the orange complements the cocoa sponge.

Also the mousse is slightly heavier than normal mousse mimicking the cheesecake texture. Whether the mousse is light or heavy in texture, it would still taste good.

The appearance of the cake is vibrant with good contrasting colours, dark brown sponge and bright orange mousse.

Friday, March 30, 2012

Lovely fruit tea @ share tea

There are so many Taiwanese drink shops available, its so hard to choose, luckily this was a good choice.

I chose the fruit tea, which contained orange juice, passionfruit, apple, and jasmine.

The fruit tea here is different to the other fruit teas from Taiwanese joints, the taste heavily on juice with Jasmine essence.

It was like drinking watered orange juiced without the sourness, with a strong hint of jasmine essense, then after tones of passionfruit. You can actually see the orange pulp in it too.

I really liked it, and hope that there will be a HK branch soon, it seems healthy too as there is real juice in it.
The cup used for the drink was a sturdy plastic cup with a cute handle to hold it.

Opera + chocolate orange liquor cake @ Dessert Loma

The cake looked really good on display so went in to try them, however both were disappointing.

Chocolate cake with orange liquor:Absolutely no taste in orange whatsoever, only the pieces of orange on the top.
There was no alcohol taste either, and the whole texture was very crumbly.

Opera:Looked like an authentic Opera cake with layers, however tasted nothing like the real thing.

The face blushes with the rush of blood! @ ZOE

Zoe has been around for a while, but hasn’t really caught my attention much, the cakes are quite commonly offered everywhere, such as the chocolate mousse, mille feuille.
The price is rather expensive, but then if they tasted good, then that price would have been reasonable.

Anyway, when I got there, the shop assistant was a bit annoying, instead of standing behind the counter, she came out and stood by my side!
She tried to recommend me the typical flavours such as Rose, Mango, but unfortunately, these are my least favourites!

In the end, I got the Blood Orange, and Blush.

Blood Orange:It had a layer of jelly on top to look nice, and layered with mousse, and a crunchy layer at the bottom.
It had a yoghurt tone to it rather than a citrus flavour.

Blush:I was disappointed with this cake, the chocolate mousse was very faint, and the cherries were the bright red glacier type. I was expecting strong black cherries, or at least cherries that had been soaked in brandy.

Orange and butter cookies @ Crabtree & Evelyn The Tearoom

Nice elegant packaging that contains orange butter cookies inside the rolled cardboard tin.

Each cookie is thin in thickness, however its texture is like a cross between a shortbread and a cookie, less of a crunch.

The cookie contains alot of orange peel in it, and has a jaffa taste rather than citrus flavouring which complements the buttery flavour.

On the aftertaste, there was a slight mintyness to it.

Other cookie flavours include all butter hazelnut, chocolate, lemon, breakfast, oat and cranberry, strawberry and cream, white chocolate and raspberry, shortbread.
Although not all the flavours may be available in HK.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Orange chocolate cake @ McCafe

Tried the new chocolate and orange cake, which was similar to the earlier orange and mousse version.

McDonald's orange and mousse cake.
http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2041186

The cake tasted a bit like McVities Jaffa Cake and orange peel.
The cake is basically a hard coating of dark chocolate on the outside with layers of chocolate sponge and orange cream.

Jaffa Cakes are circular and have three layers: a sponge cake base, a layer of orange flavoured jelly and a coating of chocolate.

Overall, I preferred the orange and mousse version.

Super cute mini fries inside a burger @ MOS Burger

It is so cool, MOS is spreading like viral!

Now in Kowloon Bay as well as Lok Fu~!~


Tried the grilled chicken burger with orange sauce (HK) name, which was launched simultaneously all over Asia on 26th Dec 2010.

Singapore version - Orange - Pepper
Singapore version - Orange - Pepper
 

The Singapore one is slightly different, it is called Grilled chicken burger with Orange-Pepper sauce, however when I tried the HK version, it was the same, it also had pepper in it.
Hopefully it is here to stay for good!



When I got the burger, it was just like the product shot, it was layered with thinly sliced onions at the bottom, which were semi-cooked, with a slight crispy texture. Then it was the grilled chicken on top with golden orange sauce on top with pieces of black pepper.
Finally the best part! A scrunched up cake make of miniature friesl HOW CUTE!!!!!!

I just couldnt resist breaking it up, so that they were individual chips!!

Anyway, this is my favourite burger out of the whole MOS selection.
I really liked the chicken with the wafer thin sliced onions, crispy potato and the sweet orange sauce.
However it was slighly messy to eat, and the chicken was slightly tough.

The crunchy potato was certainly fun and delicious, they are similar to coated chips, but in super cute mini form.
So cute I had to place those mini fries next to a chicken nugget.


But overall I still felt hungry afterwards, even though I had a burger, chicken nuggets and a tea!
 
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