A real mooncake at Twelve cupcakes

Every year, Chinese people celebrate moon festival with moon cakes.

Although it is called a mooncake, it does not actually contain any cake because it is filled with lotus paste and egg yolk.

The mooncakes here are going to go down well with Westerners and people who do not like the traditional mooncakes.

There are four cupcakes in the box, each one is decorated with moon festival related chocolate plaques and comes with Twinnings fruit tea for $190.

The cupcake flavours are:
Cranberry and chocolate
Strawberry and vanilla
Expresso
Earl Grey

The sachets of tea are:
chamomile, honey and vanilla
hibiscus and rosehip
Passionfruit and mango
strawberry and mango

If you order before 31st August, it costs $161.5 and $180.5 before 7th September including Two x 1 free cupcake coupon.

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Earl Grey:

As soon as it was sliced, you could smell the earl grey.
It was moist, soft and sweet infused with earl grey tea leaves in the cake.

In the middle, it is orange to mimic the yolk.
I paired this cake with the strawberry and mango tea which had a sweet scent.
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Strawberry and vanilla:

The vanilla cake was rich and buttery which was best paired with Rosehip and Hibiscus.

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Expresso:


The expresso is great for coffee lovers because it had rich expresso buttercream frosting.
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Cranberry and chocolate:


This was my favourite because it had a strong taste of cocao decorated with chocolate buttercream and dried cranberries.
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www.twelvecupcakes.com.hk

McScam x Earl Grey

Went to McCafe because of the new Earl Grey cake and the Earl grey jelly latte.




The Earl grey cake only costs $16 with the purchase of a drink from the Earl Grey series.



I didn't get a chance to check the bill because I was not given the bill, but since they gave me the wrong drink I had the bill reprinted and discovered that I was overcharged.

The rude biatch insisted that it was because the hot drink and cold drink costs different but I was not even on this issue.
The cake should have cost $16 not $2X.

Finally had the issue resolved when a smart senior spotted the problem.
Surely, special offers should be pre-programmed into their POS systems??!!!

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Iced Earl grey jelly latte:

I was given the usual straw hence the jelly cubes got stuck!!!


The drink was a bit dissappointing because the Earl Grey taste was not strong enough.
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Earl grey cake:

The Earl Grey taste was really artificial and the cake was too sweet.
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Finally tried Musang King durian

I have always wanted to try this place but Yuen Long is too far.

Before I went in the shop, I was given a flyer which I did not really take a look at.

The lady who gave me the leaflet strongly recommended the durian softserve.

There were other items I wanted to try such as the durian milkshake which was not available yet.

The only items that were available were the pancakes $42, crepes $58 and soft serve (dine in $68, takeaway $38).

The menu was rather weird, the crepes were called pancakes and the pancakes that looked like French crepes were called pancakes.

The guy at the till recommended the soft serve to dine in or the pancake (French crepe).

As I have not tried Musang Durian on its own I opted for the pancake because it was just pancake with durian meat. The crepe had Musang durian meat as well but it had cream too.


Anyway, after I finished the dessert my bored friend who does not eat durian noticed on the flyer that you get a free soft serve icecream with any purchase.

Initially I couldn't be bothered to redeem it but my bored friend did the deed.

It seem's that they print these flyers to attract people but if you were already intending to dine there they won't bother to tell you about the offer because they just want you to order the most expensive item on the menu ie the softserve!!

Just for fun a 2.5kg durian would cost £37.99 (HKD46X) in the UK.

When I got the pancake, the first thing I did was try the durian on its own and the taste is evidently stronger and richer which a heavy savoury taste.
I am glad to have finally tried Musang durian because it would be difficult to have a whole one to yourself.



Finally tried Musang King durian Musang King

【La Forêt-Noire】

Black forest is always my favourite cake because of cherries and chocolate.

At Maxim's, they have launched a luxury version of the black forest cake called 【La Forêt-Noire】.


There are two sizes, the big one which weighs 1lb ($218) and a smaller one ($128).
*** Please note that the cherries on top may be replaced with other berries due to seasonal availability.***

To match the black forest cake, they have a specially designed box for it.

The cake is covered in thin chocolate pieces and garnished with a layer of cream and fresh cherries on top.



The cake contains French chocolate with a layer of Bavarois cream in the middle, and cherries soaked in wine.


There were layers of delicious chocolate cake in between.

It was such a delicious cake with all these layers with juicy alcoholic cherries, cream and Bavarois cream which tasted a bit like custard.

If the cake is too much for your sweet tooth, there is also a dessert version.

Wholesome veggie juices made by Veggie Boys

I love the concept at Veggie Boys because it is young and fun.


At the juice joint, all the vegetables and fruits are neatly stored in the fridge.


On the wall, there is a juice selection.



The juices are made to order so you will see the boys weighing the required amount before the vegetables are blended.



Since my first visit, the prices have gone up.


Each juice has a different nourishing property.
I chose the SKIN which had pineapple, apple, avocado and romaine lettuce.

The bill was only $2 Thanks to Ivy because she bought a package of prepaid coupons so if you choose something that costs more then you pay the difference.

I adored this drink because it was lovely and thick, the juices did not separate and held together all the way through.
As for the taste, the avocado was really prominent which was why I liked it with faint notes of apple and pineapple that balanced out the creamy and heaviness of the avocado.

Overall I was impressed by the drink and their enthusiasm.

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Address:

Veggie Boys:

Room 403, Hung Kei Mansions

5-8 Queen Victoria Street
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Dreamy pure white marshmallows

Thanks to Wanttoeat for getting me these marshmallows which are made by Ling.



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Marshmallows:


Each one was pretty and uniquely shaped like meringue kisses.
The texture was bouncy and soft with a delicious strong vanilla taste just like the marshmallow flumps that you can buy.
I really liked these homemade marshmallows because the sweetness was just right with lots of gelatin and there are no artificial colours in it.
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Hoping to see other flavours such as Earl Grey.
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Leisure Time Crêpe (Western District)

Consistently delicious vegetarian rolls at sooo vegi

Came here for a quick fix before the Durian tasting event held by openrice.
Since my last visit, Sooo Vegi has had so many interviews with the media.

I had the rolls because it was hard eating hot food in the hot weather outside.
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Mexican roll:

The roll was wrapped with avocado, vegetarian meat sauce, kidney beans, purple onions, sour cream and tomato sauce.
It was consistently delicious as the first time I tried it because it was packed with flavours.
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American roll:

The roll had a vegetarian frank which tasted like the normal ones and there was coleslaw which was refreshing and gave it a nice crunch.
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Sooo Vegi (North Point)