[Review 3769] Halloween Tai Cheong jumbo pandan egg tart cake @ 泰昌餅家 Tai Cheong Bakery

21/10/2014
泰昌餅家 Tai Cheong Bakery
慈雲山毓華街23號慈雲山中心1樓105號舖
Shop 105, 1/F, Tsz Wan Shan Shopping Centre, 23 Yuk Wah Street, Tsz Wan Shan
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/halloween-tai-cheong-jumbo-pandan-egg-tart-cake-e2400155

Previously tried the huge jumbo egg tart cake at Tai Cheong which got popular.
At first they began with the lemon flavour and then they launched the chocolate one.
For Halloween, they have the new pandan flavour as well as the other two flavours with Halloween images on it.
The lady at the till forgot to add the Halloween images on it.
When I started taking photos of the promotional poster she realized she forgot about the Halloween finishing on the cake and offered to add it for me but as it was just icing sugar that will make the cake sweeter I did not bother with it.

As well as forgetting that, she also forgot that there was a special box for it that says jumbo eggtarts.

Anyway, the egg tart cake tasted the best out of the three flavours.
Initially I was skeptical because I tried their Japanese Pandan cheesecake and didn't like it.

But the egg tart cake version is definitely good because it has triple pandan flavour, there is a layer of pandan cake, pandan cream and pandan pudding layer.

***Further reading***
Tai cheong pandan Japanese cheesecake
http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2171801
Chocolate jumbo eggtart cake
http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2362266
Lemon jumbo eggtart cake
http://www.openrice.com/english/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2368765

[Review 3592] Delicious fluffy pandan buns @ 麗姐廚房 Liza Veggies

17/08/2014
麗姐廚房  Liza Veggies
灣仔譚臣道105-111號豪富商業大廈二樓A-D室
Room A-D, 2/F, Harvard House, 105-111 Thomson Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/delicious-fluffy-pandan-buns-e2384937

I only found out about this place because of the recent review so I went there just for the pandan buns.
When the staff gave it to me, she said that if I could not finish them all, the buns could be refrigerated and steamed again later.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Steamed Pandan buns:
When I opened the box, you could smell how fragrant and sweet they were, there were 8 buns in a portion.
Each bun had a uniform shape and the size of it was just a little bigger than a normal Xiao long bao.
While they were hot, the bun texture was so soft and fluffy, the sweetness was just right and the pandan filling texture was like a light paste.
After the buns cooled down, the taste was much stronger and the pandan flavour was more prominent with a hint of glutinous rice taste.
In the filling I found some rice grains in it.
Overall, the buns turned out to be amazing without being too sweet so I managed to eat eight in one go!!
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
I plan to go again for dumplings and these buns.
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The bill: $68
Service: good

[Review 2491] Heart shaped Pandan cake @ 豪華餅店 Hoover Cake Shop

07/05/2013
豪華餅店 Hoover Cake Shop
九龍城衙前圍道136號
136 Nga Tsin Wai Road, Kowloon City
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/heart-shaped-pandan-cake-e2295764

After a dinner gathering, someone brought out a Heart shaped Pandan cake for dessert.
The Heart shaped Pandan cake was from Kowloon City's Hoover cake shop.
I have tried their pandan cakes before so I expected this to taste good.
The cake has two layers, there is no filling in between so the top and bottom layer can be eaten separately.
The taste of this cake was delicious, it was soft and eggy just like the Chinese paper wrapped cakes with a strong hint of pandan.

[Review 2425] Pandan chinese glutinous tea cake @ 豪江豆業 Macau Soya Bean

12/04/2013
豪江豆業 Macau Soya Bean
灣仔石水渠街
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pandan-chinese-glutinous-tea-cake-e2292077

Every now and then, this soya joint will have Pandan flavoured items.
This time they had Pandan flavoured glutinous tea cakes steamed on lotus leaves (cha gwores).

They were $4 each so I tried one.

There was not much Pandan taste, and it was really sweet a well.
It was filled with sesame, peanuts and yellow sugar.

The lotus leaf taste was much stronger than anything else because the tea cake absorbed the scent while it was being steamed.

[Review 2275] Relatively good dim sum from a hot pot specialist @ 滾得棧 Hot in A Pot

20/03/2013
滾得棧 Hot in A Pot
天后電氣道80-86號成功樓地下C舖連閣樓
Shop C, Sing Kung Lau, 80-86 Electric Road, Tin Hau
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/relatively-good-dimsim-from-a-hot-pot-specialist-e2284268

This hotpot specialists served hotpot by night and during the day they serve dim sum as well.
The decor is black and the restaurant is located upstairs which is why I never tried it because I was too lazy to go upstairs.
There were pictures outside showing the types of dim sum that they serve, I wanted to try the deep fried dumplings filled with green tea, but they did not have it.
The dim sums that they offer and the presentation of the dim sums remind me of the dim sum restaurant in Kowloon City.
The rice rolls were presented nicely and they were cut into smaller pieces to make sharing easier and the mini burgers were presented in dinky dishes as shown on the menu.
Inside the restaurant it was quite big with two sides to the restaurant, however the chairs and tables were slightly cramped and hard to get to your seat.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Steamed rice roll with beef and preserved egg:
This was slightly disappointing because the preserved egg was tasteless.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Steamed rice roll with beancurd skin crackers and prawn:
The concept of this was good and it tasted good because the prawn gave the beancurd skin crackers some taste.
The beancurd skin crackers were still crispy and it was good that the oil they used was fresh and did not ruin their nice dish.
The rice roll on the outside held it together nicely and it tasted much nicer with beancurd skin which is a change from dough sticks in the middle.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Steamed pork knuckle in red beancurd sauce:
The pork knuckles were too salty but I loved the strong red beancurd taste.
After I finished the knuckles I used the remaining sauce on the rice rolls and they tasted even nicer.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Beancurd roll in soup:
This was not as exciting as the rice roll because the soup was boring and I found it quite oily.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Steamed pandan flavoured Malaysian cake:
Pandan cake has always been my favourite cake and as it was baked Malaysian style which tasted even better because the texture was better and it smelt really nice.
The sweetness was not too sweet so I ended up ordering other one.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

[Review 2201] Cupcake in a real ceramic cup @ Passion by Gerard Dubois

12/01/2013
Passion by Gerard Dubois
灣仔莊士敦道74至80號地下1號舖
Shop 1, G/F, 74-80 Johnston Road, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cupcake-in-a-real-ceramic-cup-passion-e2278791

Came here a while ago with friends and they tried the cupcakes.
Usually they are served in paper cake cases but these are served in ceramic cups so you need to eat them with a spoon.
I was curious if they gave you the cup for takeaways so I got and takeaway, and they do give you the cup too!
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Pandan on chocolate cupcake:

With quite alot of these artisan cupcakes, I have had alot of disappointment because they look better than the taste, however the cupcakes here look good as taste good.
I chose the Pancake cupcake because I like Pandan.
It was pandan buttercream on top of chocolate cake.
Initially I was a bit skeptical with the combination because I thought the chocolate taste would be too strong to be paired with pandan but I was wrong!
The chocolate cake at the bottom is richer and denser than the usual cupcake style cakes and the colour of it was BLACK!! and to illustrate the BLACKNESS I used flash.

I was astonished by the taste of the chocolate cake base because it was not sweet yet it still had a rich cocoa taste which was good because the buttercream was sweet so it was perfect having the pandan buttercream and cake together. I usually scrape away the decorative cream because it is too sweet, but here the sweetness was just right.
The decorative sugars were pretty but I did not like them.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
I will be back for the other cupcakes!

[Review 2071] Steamed Pandan cake @ 畔溪尚粵館 Riverside Restaurant

26/11/2012
畔溪尚粵館  休息中
Riverside Restaurant
將軍澳坑口重華路8號東港城2樓235號舖
Shop 235, 2/F, East Point City, 8 Chung Wa Road, Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/steamed-pandan-cake-riverside-restaurant-e2271777

Although their food was not that good I still wanted to try their dessert.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Steamed pandan cake:

This was quite nice and tasted like the steamed buns with a hint of pandan and egg yolk in between the layers.
There were six pieces in the box.
The sweetness was just right and the cake was really fragrant.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

[Review 2046] A kiss of pandan @ Kisses Cupcakes

26/11/2012
Kisses Cupcakes
中環歌賦街24號地下
G/F, 24 Gough Street , Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/a-kiss-of-pandan-kisses-cupcakes-e2271741

I have previously read the reviews here but they did not really get my attention because the icing looked really heavy.

Anyway went past this cake shop and decided to go in and have a look.


Saw that they had the pandan flavoured cup cake so tried it as I am a pandan freak.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
pandan flavoured cup cake:

Compared to the other cup cakes, the rest were covered with thick icing, the green stuff on top looked like buttercream.
Overall this cup cake was better than anticipated, the pandan taste and smell was strong, and after you finished it, there was still pandan taste lingering in the mouth.
The only negative comment was that it was too sweet.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

[Review 1929] Sweet and cute cookie world @ 簡品堂 Fresh Fresh

30/10/2012
簡品堂 Fresh Fresh
旺角彌敦道688號旺角中心一期2樓SA9舖
Shop SA9, 2/F, Argyle Centre, 688 Nathan Road, Mong Kok
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/sweet-and-cute-cookie-world-fresh-fresh-e2266607

Recently bought their pandan cake from their pop up stall at Diamond Hill and got addicted to it.

Found out from OpenRice that there is a shop at Mong Kok when I wrote the review so came here hoping to get the Pandan cake, however they only had the cookies and the dessert that day.

The cookie selection here was good, they had so many fun shapes and colours.
The flavours ranged from Seaweed to milk tea and of course my favourite pandan.

The cookies are sold by weight and you can specify how many of each flavour you want.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Pandan cookies:

I did not want to try the other flavours so I just got the Pandan flavour which is a butter based cookie.
The cookies were extremely crumbly and the balance of the butter and the flavouring was just right.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★

[Review 1917] Pandan coconut agar jelly @ PHO 24

26/10/2012
PHO 24 店已改名為 Pho Hoi An
尖沙咀彌敦道63號iSQUARE 國際廣場3樓303號舖
Shop 303, 3/F, iSquare, 63 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/pandan-coconut-agar-jelly-pho-24-e2266029

I have always wanted to come here for the desserts but there are only two branches.
I got Pho 24 mixed up with Pho26 but luckily I checked the menu of Pho 26 and did not go in.

Finally was in the TST area so got one of the desserts as a takeaway, the other one I wanted to try was Cassava pudding made from a root vegetable.
I was impressed with the service too! They knew about their products extremely well.

While I was waiting for the takeaway I went to look at the menu at the restaurant opposite and the dessert was brought over to me.

★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Pandan Coconut agar jelly:
This pudding had two layers, the bottom layer was white and the top layer was green.
At first the green looked too bright but the pudding was delicious, it was made from Ajar jelly which is extremely soothing and decomposes into liquid when you eat it.
The sweetness was just right and the pandan taste was strong, the coconut layer was not that strong which was good for me because I do not really like coconut unless it is young coconut.
On top of the pudding it was garnished was a piece of leaf which I suspect was Pandan leaf because it did not smell like lemongrass.
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★