Softserve with candyfloss at Honey Creme

Finally tried Honey Creme.

The softserve with the honeycomb or honey is probably the simplest and best but I decided to choose the candyfloss one because it looked better.

It was quite difficult to eat because you have to eat the candyfloss first so by the time you get to the softserve it is not sweet enough.

Address:

34 lee garden road.

Causeway Bay

A very messy mini softserve cone from Softree

Softree is a Korean brand of softserve.

They serve softserve with a variety of choices including:
honey comb
chocolate
candyfloss
guerande salt

In Korea, they have mini sweet potatoes as well which are probably expensive to import, hence not on the menu.
It is nice that they have guerande salt on the menu because their competitors don't have it.

As I was having dinner later that night, I got the mini cone just to see what the softserve tastes like.

There are two mini cone flavours: Strawberry or chocolate.


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Mini cone:

To be honest the mini cone is cute but they gave me too much softserve which made it top heavy and extremely difficult to handle.
Hopefully they will give me less next time so that the softserve will be proportional to the cone which would look really cute.

It was already dripping when they gave it to me so it was really fiddly to eat.
The softserve tasted like the ones that you buy from the icecream van.
It was sweet and milky but not thick.
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Smoking softserve

Soft Creme is famous for softserve but as it was sold out I only tried the champagne.




There are quite a few flavours and some have piece of honeycomb or a macaron on top.


Colourful wafer cones.

The wow factor at Soft Creme is the dry ice.

First, dry ice is put into the cups and another smaller cup sits on top of that.


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Champagne softserve:



The champagne taste was evidently strong and on the poster it says the alcoholic content is 11%, so one cup of that is equivalent to a glass of champagne.
It had bitter strong champagne taste and the texture was just like sorbet.
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Soft creme:
G/F., 6-7 Shepherd Street Tai Hang.

Softserve with honeycomb at Honey Creme

When I first tried this, I found a really big contrast in taste because the topping was really sweet which made the softserve tasteless so this time I had the plain softserve with honeycomb.

It's quite strange and weird to eat honeycomb just like that because it is just wax but then it is the new craze in Hong Kong.



This time the softserve was much nicer because I could truly taste it, I loved it because it only had a touch of sweetness and you could taste the milkiness in the softserve.
I had the Honeycomb towards the end which made the softserve taste better but the waxy honeycomb was a bit weird for me so I left it.

Bingo it's Bingco from the Food Expo 2014!

Bingco got the most attention at the recent food expo because of the huge long extruded icecream cones that could be made in any shape.

[Photos from Food and Expo 2014]




Now you can get them at Tin Hau, just left of the MTR exit.

The display J cones look like deep fried fish gas bladders (炸鱼鳔)!


When I went, the cones were not ready and the media were there doing a shoot so I left and visited another day.


They didn't have any cones that day so I got the softserve.
There were two flavours: banana and milk or vitasoy which happen to be both that I don't like.
Out of the two I chose vitasoy because banana usually has an artificial taste.
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Vitasoy softserve:

The vitasoy softserve was actually quite nice because it tasted like a creamy version of vitasoy and it was not too sweet.
I would have preferred plain vitasoy softserve because I found the cereal and ovaltine powder too distracting.
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Bingco

3 Lau Sin Street,

Tin Hau

McDonalds Hong Kong: Green tea softserve

Thanks to hardcore foodie LLWL for letting me know where I could get this trial edition of green tea softserve.
It is currently available in a few branches in HK at the moment.

Costing $4.4 it is worth trying.

You are either going to like it or not because it depends how you like your green tea.

If you like the green tea at Via Tokyo and sweet house cha cha, don't bother with this because the green tea taste and bitterness will not be strong enough for your tastebuds.
But if your not keen on green tea, this is a mild one because the vanilla taste is stronger with a hint of green tea.
It tastes like a mix of 70% vanilla softserve with 30% green tea.

The colour of the softserve is a pleasant dull pastel green.




The colour of the softserve without flash.



Personally I liked it because I don't like the green tea flavour too strong and I like the combined taste of vanilla and greentea because it balances the sweetness.
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New Hojicha softserve from Via Tokyo

After having a super delicious savory waffle from next door.
Decided to have some icecream.
I was contemplating on Dolci's gelato or Via Tokyo's new Hojicha flavour but since I was right next door I decided to try the Hojicha because there was no queue.

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Hojicha softserve:

They provide you with a nice sturdy spoon for the icecream.
Although it was a nice big cup of softserve, I didn't like it because it was bitter, grassy and the texture was too powdery for my liking.
But anyway, everyone has different preferences for tea so if it had been a different flavour I would probably have liked it.
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Via Tokyo

1A-1B, 

G/F., Leishun Court, 

106-126 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay

Coconut sundae with marshmallows from McDonalds

The new sundae looked cute with colourful marshmallows so decided to try it.


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Coconut sundae with marshmallows:




Evidently it was softserve topped with coconut syrup and young coconut pieces.
The taste was quite pleasant because the coconut was not that strong and there were pieces of young coconut that gave it some extra mouthfeel.
After a few spoons, it got too sweet.
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$10 for an unusual experience

Initial Ice Cream Store (Tsim Sha Tsui)

After reading the reviews I was curious about their softserve icecreams.

Currently there are two flavours:
-Usual experience - 3.6 hokkaido milk
-Unusual experience - I dig leather

There is some speculation that there will be a new flavour to come called "tears".
(I wonder if it is going to be savoury!)

The softserve costs $10.

It was hard deciding which one to get, so I asked the guy about the Unusual experience and he said it tastes like tea.

I was silly to have thought that he meant Western milk tea coming from a Chinese guy because for milk tea they only have one kind which is the one I hate.
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I dig leather :


Unfortunately I did not like it because it tasted just like Hong Kong Style tea.
I really regretted not getting the Usual experience because it tastes like white rabbit sweets according to the reviews.
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Maintenance!
Yeah right!
I was so annoyed they stopped serving softserve because no one eats froyo/icecream during the winter except me because the temperature of winter here is probably autumn in the UK.
COME ON... ITS NOT COLD!!!


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