Pistachio Baklava@ Istanbul

 

On my last visit, I had their Turkish ice-cream, since then have added another sweet item to their menu.

They have added the Baklava to the menu, it costs $42 for three.

Baklava (Greek:μπακλαβάς) is a rich, sweet pastry made of layers of filo pastry filled with chopped nuts and sweetened with syrup or honey.

 

The size of the Baklava's were about 4cm x 4cm, the appearance looked like ordinary pastries with green pistachio filling in the middle.

 

The top of it was flaky, while the bottom layer was chewy, sticky and oozed with syrup.

In the middle there was moist grounded pistachios that was not sweet.

But overall, it was very sweet from the syrup soaked bottom layer.

If it were less sweet I would have liked it more or if there was cream to go with it.
For $42 it was slightly expensive considering it was just puff pastry, pistachio and syrup.

Foamy hot chocolate @ MOS Burger

This was the sort of drink I was expecting at Kami Teapresso, tea with fancy foam on top.

This was my first hot chocolate in HK from a fast food chain. It is commonly served in KFC and McDs in UK, but not served in HK.

Anyway the Foamy hot chocolate at MOS costs $15. There was lots of lovely foam on top, foamy fun alternative for people who do not drink coffee.

Sugar was provided too which was not pre-mixed, you can adjust the sweetness level to your liking.

The foam at the top was made from milk, and the hot chocolate had a strong taste of cocoa and slightly bitter, which was compensated by adding the required amount of sugar.

Overall, the hot chocolate was fun to drink and didn’t leave a sour aftertaste like other milk products.

Chinese Chocolate swiss roll @ Maxim's

The chocolate swiss roll at Maxim's has been jazzed up.

They never used to have icing sugar drizzled on top.

Anyway, it still tastes the same as the swiss rolls years ago, the roll is ok, but the cream inside is the nasty chinese salted buttercream.