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Located in the back streets of Yau Ma Tei, it reminds me of Dessert Revolution because the desserts here are creative as well. However its location is on a street that is quieter than DR.
Langham Place has livened up the street where DR is located.

 

Anyway, this place is decorated by a bright green theme, with green chairs; its logo is rather cartoonistic.

The desserts on the menu were interesting with English descriptions.
Although they had western desserts, they were quite localised.

There were a few desserts I wanted to try but in the end I ordered:
French cherry wine bread pudding with ice-cream $49
Mini crispy chocolate fondue $47
Both came with tea or coffee

I felt that it was slightly overpriced compared to other desserteries.
The staff there was slightly pushy with their recommendations and more concerned on taking orders.
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oxidised grapes

 

French cherry wine bread pudding with ice-cream
The idea of this concept was good especially the use of cherry wine.
The pudding was piping hot and had nice cherry aroma to it.
I just felt that if the fruits are visually rotting, then leave it out.
For this dessert I was given a fork which was more appropriate for the fondue.
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stale wafer rolls

 

 

 

Mini crispy chocolate fondue
This was also another creative dessert, it is similar to the chocolate cake with the runny centre, but instead it is chocolate fondue with baked chocolate crispy cake top, and once you have pierced the top layer there is fondue at the bottom.
The wafer roll had gone stale, it was soft and chewy and not crisp.
Again the combination of fruits that came with the fondue was weird, such as the watermelon and kiwi.
For this dessert I was given a small spoon which is impossible to tackle a fondue!!!!
In the end I had to use the fork from the bread pudding.
I think if the wafer was crisp and it came with berries, I would have given it top marks.
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Tea and Coffee:
I did not like it because the Tea was the Hong Kong version, I specifically enquired before ordering and they said it was the Western one!
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This review was meant to be written last year, so things may have improved since then.
Although there are some thing's that need improving, there were some desserts I found really interesting and intend to try on my next visit.

 

The idea of slushy chocolate and strawberries seem good, it is similar to Hui Lau Shan's chocolate strawberry drink.

 

 

Green tea and herbal jelly look good in the product shot, nice and cooling!

Wild phaseoloide herb drink @ Herb Tea Workshop

I randomly got the wild Phaseoloide herb drink which I did not know what it was, apparently in Chinese its called GORTCHOY.

I googled the English name from their menu [Phaseoloide] but didnt find much on the web.

Although it couldnt be found, it was good that they had English on the menu.

I got a small bottle for $12 and it was smaller than what I was expecting.
For $12 it is quite expensive compared to other places.
However the location and decoration was quite modern, so I guess that made up for the price.
The drink was not pre-bottled but when you order they fill it infront of you.

When I drank it, I loved the taste, it was savory, it tasted like double strength watercress but without the pork!
Sugar free too!

 

No magic in the Vietnamese moon @ 越亮

This restaurant previously used to be Fukui Tea Room, a restaurant that served Japanese scrambled eggs with toast similar to Hokkaido dairy milk farm.

It has now been replaced by a vietnamese restaurant.

 

When I went in, the decoration was much the same as before, the air-conditioning was freezing with water droplets dripping down.
There was odours from the outside sewer nearby seeping in.

The food on the menu was slightly more expensive than other Vietnamese joints.
I was attracted here by the previous pictures of the beef filet which turned out to be around $1xx per order.
The pricing was erratic, it was either very expensive for high end items such as huge prawns and beef filet or average priced for the usual items.
It was hard establishing whether they were serving high end items or just the usual fare.

In the end, I ordered the French beef in tomato sauce with red rice.
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French beef in tomato sauce with red rice
When it came, it just visually looked like beef cooked in tomato sauce with sliced onions.
The taste was exactly the same as the ones served in Chinese cafes and the fried rice tasted merely like "western fried rice" also from chinese cafes.
The beef was really disappointing it had so much fat and chewy bits in it and the rice was oily.
I suspect the beef pieces may have been odds and ends cut from the beef filet.
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Yummy waffles now available @ Kramp House

I was back for the waffles, which were previously on the menu but weren’t available yet.

Anyway, the menu has changed, there were more options and choices with weekend brunches and afternoon tea sets.
The front of the restaurant is semi al-fresco with some breeze flowing in.

The owner was really nice and let me order the waffles even though it wasnt tea time.

The waffles arrived pretty quickly and I loved it, it was lovely and soft, slightly chewy in the middle.
They taste similar to American pancakes but better and more texture due to the grid structure.
They are different from the local ones, which are crispy and empty in the middle.

It is slightly different to the waffles at Waffle yo, primarily because of the shape, but both were deliciously soft, however the one at Kramp is chewier.