Showing posts with label sweets/candies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweets/candies. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

More chocolates from Ali Baba

Ali Baba (Kowloon City)


I was given some chocolates over the new year so decided to write about them.
The silver and gold ones were chocolate filled with cornflakes, it was quite fun eating this because it was loose cornflakes inside.

The green one was chocolate filled with deliciously creamy caramel.

For candied aubergine, candied cactus and pistachio nougat, please read my previous review:http://supersupergirl-dining.blogspot.hk/2012/03/sweet-middle-eastern-delicacies-ali.html

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Rancid sweets from Tai Cheong

Tai Cheong Bakery (Mong Kok)

Originally planned to get these grapefruit sweets for some fellow foodies because they seemed interesting.


As always I will also get one for myself to try so that I know whether it actually tastes good before giving them to people.

In this case, when I unscrewed the lid, I could smell rancid coconut so I tried a little bit and it had definitely gone off.

I checked the rest and they smelt the same so I took them back.

The staff at Tai Cheong could also smell it and offered to exchange it for other products so I got them exchanged.
The other ones on the shelf smelt rancid as well and I wondered if it was because of the bright light directly above the jars heating them up.

Thankfully this place had basic customer service unlike other local places.

It would be amusing if I did not try them because the ones I would have given to foodies would definately be negative reviews.

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.

Saturday, June 08, 2013

Tropical assorted taffy

Mrs Fields Cookies (Central)

Thanks to Garycwm for getting me these Taffy.

The taffy were really nice and chewy, it was much softer than toffee.
The chocolate and lime tasted the best.

Apart from the Tropical assorted they also have other flavours but I like the tropical ones because they are colourful.

Taffy is a chewy candy similar to toffee, in the UK they are called chews.
The taffy is rolled, cut into small pastel-coloured pieces and wrapped in wax paper to keep it soft.

There is also salt water taffy that was accidentally invented due to a flood at a sweet shop in Atlanta City.
The sweet shop was flooded with Alantic Ocean water which ruined the candies.

When a young girl went into the shop and asked for taffy, they offered some "salt water taffy." At the time it was a joke, because all the taffy had been soaked with salt water, but the girl was delighted. She bought the candy and proudly walked down to the beach to show her friends.

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Black sugar and malt lollipops

華記永昌號名酒食品 (Causeway Bay)

I have always wanted to get Taiwanese food from here but did not know where it was.

Finally stumbled across it after dining at Keung Kee's for glutinous rice.

The items I wanted to buy such as the frozen cake was not there so I ended up getting these lollipops because they looked interesting.

It was a preserved plum embedded in candy, there was black sugar or malt and I couldn't decide so got both.



It looks like a fossilized preserved prune!!



The black sugar one tasted sugary and the malt one was my favourite because the taste was less sweet.
The preserved prune was salty and sour.

I am not sure if this is a traditional sweet, but it is interesting having a preserved prune with candy!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Oolong Tea Candy @ cha FOR TEA

Shop: cha FOR TEA
Thank you IVYCWK for getting me these Oolong Tea candies.


They were from the new branch in Sheung Wan.
I really like this new branch because it is much more accessible compared to the one at Hysan Place where you have to take numerous escalators to get up there.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Oolong tea candy:
The candies are green and have a leaf imprinted on it.
The taste of these candies were delicious and not syrupy.
It was surprising you can actually taste the tea and it also tasted powdery like the powder they use to make tea.
There was some slight bitterness from the tea.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Sweet Middle Eastern delicacies @ 阿里吧吧 Ali Baba

At first, I didnt realise this little shop sold delicacies of dried fruit and chocolate.

When I went it, I was amazed at the selection, very rare and exotic choices of dried cactus fruit, dried figs, dried dates, dried apricots, dried apple, dried aubergine and various nougats.

One of the pistachio nougat I tried was interesting, it was pistachio in grape jelly, the grape taste was real grape extract too, rather than the fake grape essense or the wine flavour type.

My favourite nougat was the pistachio nougat sandwiched between the apricot, the nuttyness and sweetness of the nougat infused with the sour fruitiness of the apricot.

The candied fruits tasted quite the same for most of them, except for strong tasting fruits such as dates, or strawberries, the candied cactus fruit had a waxy skin, just like the dates, and many rock hard seeds in it too.

The candied aubergine tasted starchy.
For middle eastern delicacies, they contain alot of figs, dates, and apricots.
Although the sweets were really nice, I found the occaisional sand/grit in some, most probably blown on the fruits when they were being sun-dried.
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