Fried Taro Rolls @ Big Big Chick

Saw the promotional poster and the taro rolls looked interesting.

 

It looked like a fish roll filled with taro.

Anyway I wanted to try those taro balls too as seen on the picture below, but the music from the shop beside it was pumping so loud that it was difficult to order, so in the end I just ordered the rolls as I could just point to the poster without verbally ordering it.

 

When the rolls were ready they put lots of MSG flavoured seasoning on it which really ruined it, it made it too salty.

The inside of the roll was quite disappointing because I was expecting real taro puree inside but it was glutinous filling and there was no taro taste.

Happy me @ Jollibee

A really good place for Philippino food, I was surprised, there were not many reviews during that burger madness period.

During this visit, I tried the Palabok, Savory Beef rice, Wonton noodles and the Pearl coolers.

Palabok:My favourite, glass noodles with thick shrimp sauce.
Although the flavour was not strong or salty enough, it was good with lemon juice.
The sauce was a bit thick.

Wontons:A bit bizzarre seeing wonton noodles in a Philipino hamburger shop, so ordered it,
very strong taste in garlic, with glass noodles.
Also the wontons were wrapped different to the chinese one, u can see the prawn.
The portion was very small.

Savory beef rice:Yummy minced beef in tomato sauce and rice. (forgot to take pic)

Pearl Coolers:Very strong in coconut taste, and very sweet!

 

 

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.

 

 

White taro snowflake ice @ 糖仁街 China Town Dessert

Initially intended to visit another dessertery nearby, but due to limited time, I came here.

Anyway, ordering snowflake ice, has now become similar to ordering car noodles, choosing your ice flavour, toppings, fruits, sauces etc.

I ordered the Taro flavour as my snowflake ice flavour, and chose 4 toppings: caramel pudding bits, angel jelly (which is just grass jelly), green tea pudding, and rainbow pearls, and had black sugar syrup as sauce.

The taro snowflake was white in colour, rather than purple, so probably it was flavoured by taro oil essence rather than the powder used in the Taiwan milk teas.
It didn’t taste very strong of taro, but there were slight hints of it. As for the toppings, the green tea cubes had a texture of milk pudding, the rainbow pearls just had the normal chewy texture with a hint of citrus in it, yellow with lemon, green with lime and orange with orange. The rainbow pearls were not on the ordering form, you need to enquire for it.

The grass jelly, was a bit bland, but I preferred it that way with my dessert, or the strong taste would over power the sweetness. The caramel pudding bits, was slightly different, they were like hard gelatin, and quite sweet, cut to tiny rectangles, clear brown for the caramel, and the custard colored bits for the pudding.

 

Taro snowflake ice with milk pudding @ 甜蜜子甜品店 Sweet C. C. Dessert

Firstly, i think I might be biased, because I like taro flavoured desserts, and not many places have it.

The standard of this one and China Town is quite good, both located in TST. But I preferred this one more, because apart from the usual toppings, you can also add mini puddings to it, such as mango pudding, milk pudding, green tea pudding, champagne peach Jelly etc.

As for the toppings range, there was alot of variety from small crystal pearls to large crystal pearls. They also had my favourite black sugar jelly bits.
Usually I dont like the big pearls found in the Taiwanese drinks, a bit irritating to have to chew and drink at the same time, but with the desserts, it make its fun, to have cold ice in your mouth and something to chew at too.

Overall, everything was presented nicely, and the portion was decent, at least I felt full for the first time after eating a dessert.
The milk pudding was nice and creamy, and the green tea pudding tastes the same as the one in China Town, except here its present in a pudding form, and in China Town, its cut up into squares.