Trek into the New Territories for Taro snowflake ice @ 綿綿冰甜品屋

I rarely go to the New Territories, but I came all the way just to try their Taro flakey ice, after researching on openrice, this is the only place that does Taro flavour.

However, when it was served, the texture just turned out to be 100% ice-cream, the taste was purely frozen Taiwanese Taro milk tea, made with that milk powder.

I believe the suppliers do not have Taro flavour, so they must have made their own concoction of it, and processed it with the flake shaving machine. Probably the mixture was too creamy, hence it doesnt have that icey texture.

For the toppings, there were somes that were not offered in other dessert houses, such as the black sugar jelly (shaped like chopped spaghetti), and the green tea jelly cubes usually found in the Taiwanese drinks. Awkwardly enough, the topping were placed beneath the shaved ice rather than on top!

Apart from dessert, also ordered fried smiley potatoes and taiwanese fried chicken with your choice seasoning.

The smiley potatoes are not a a regular menu item in alot of places, so I ordered that, they were golden yellow, but still too overfried for my liking, as I like it crunchy outside with a soft inside. But I think this is the way Hong Kong people like to fry their stuff.

For the fried chicken pieces, it is basically fried chunks of chicken thigh in a crunchy flour coating, and my choice of seasoning was seaweed. There are various other seasonings such as curry, mexican chili, spring onion and so on.

 

 

Peanut butter snowflake ice @ 甜品大少 Mr. Sweetheart

After trying their signature items previously, was not expecting myself to come back again so soon.

This time I came here to try its grated ice dessert, tried most of the flavours in various dessert place, this time tried the peanut one.
I wasnt quite sure how it would taste, ie if it would have crushed peanuts in it, but probably not, as it might break down the ice grater!!

The taste of the grated peanut flavoured ice was better than imagined, buttery and creamy just like peanut butter in frozen form, less salty than real peanut butter and velvety texture.
Had coco pops as a topping, which went quite well.

The other vanilla one was rather boring, but coming here, it made me try the chiuchow jelly as a topping, chewy cubes of flour.

I was quite impressed with the menu too, and the translation was correct too, such as coco pops, and chiu chow jelly.

 

Peanut flavoured snowflake ice @ Tong Bak Fu

Although this is the first one to open in hong kong serving snow flake ice, the long queues deterred me to come, finally another branch has just opened in Hong Kong, so I had to take this opportunity to try it before the congestion starts.

I feel fortunate I didn't go to the Mong Kok one and queue for it, because after trying 6 dessert houses including this one, I felt that other places offered more choices.

The only thing I liked was their mini white flour balls (tong yuen), cute in size and rather chewy, unlike the ones I had at Mr Sweetheart, which were rather soggy.
However the white pearls here were too soft, and less chewy.
I also tried the Aiyu jelly, it was light and melts in the mouth, not as firm as Fangfiona describe, but probably due to the ratio of ingredients when making of it.

I just felt their "pick your choice" forms could be printed better, the chinese characters are all blurred together. (see pic)

For menu design, Mr Sweetheart must be praised for, as the menu has clearly been given thought to it, also it has English as well.

In terms of portion size, quite reasonable, and texture was reasonable.
However the one in Yuen long called "min min bing" is just like ice-cream, and not worth travelling for it.

Lately, the two at TST, China Town and Sweet C. C are quite good too, also with plenty of choice, both serving taro flavour, the one at China Town is white, and the other one is purple.

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illegable chinese characters

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receipt that clearly confirms wat u ordered

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aiyu jelly pictured center of marshmallows

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yummy chewy little flour balls

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3.6 mystery solved @ 米芝甜 McSweety

I wonder if this desserterie has anything connected to Sweetacy in Kowloon City because they both have SWEET as part of the English name, and the Chinese name here read backwards is the Chinese name for SWEETACY!!

With so many places serving snowflake ice, this place has tofu flavour which is yet another flavour I havent tried.
So I ordered a plain tofu one, tofu pudding and 3.6 Hokkaido milk pudding.
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Tofu snowflake ice:Basically the same texture as the other ones, however the taste was not that sweet, and tasted exactly of soy milk (vitasoy, but not sweet)

tofu flavoured snowflake ice

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Tofu pudding:This was my favourite, light and fluffy, a bit like mousse. It was textured with coconut like particles in it, without that, it would have been dead flat, just like cream. The tofu flavour was better than the snowflake one, much sweeter and delicate.

fluffy n light tofu pudding

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3.6 Hokkaido milk pudding:Before I came here, I was rather intrigued why it was named 3.6, it turns out the milk they used for this pudding is 3.6 hokkaido milk, as shown on the photos.
The texture of the pudding was rather wobbly like jelly, but not as firm as jelly.
For me, I found it slightly too creamy and lacking that hokkaido butterness aroma.

cartons of 3.6 hokkaido milk

3.6 hokkaido milking with red beans

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