[Review 1692] Mint chocolate snowy mooncake 2012 @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

06/08/2012
聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop
西貢親民街18/32號錦華大廈地下D舖及閣樓
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/mint-chocolate-snowy-mooncake-2012-sh-e2249903

When I saw the poster for Saint Honore's 2012 mooncakes there were two flavours I really wanted to get.
It was the crispy apple and the mint chocolate.
The crispy apple is not sold individually at HKD26 each so you have to get the variety pack which includes it.
But for the mint chocolate it is available individually.
Again it contains bean paste which I don't like and another surprisingly ingredient I found was orange juice.

When I opened it, I was surprised the flavour of the mooncake was stamped on the surface.
After cutting it in half, the colour was the usual mint colour and there were substantial pieces of chocolate in it.

I was hoping the mint chocolate taste to be strong so I wouldn't taste much of the bean paste.
The chocolate pieces in it were really nice so I did not taste much of the bean paste.
The mint flavouring was natrual too, it tastes like Wall's mint chocolate ice-cream.

Either this is a popular pick or it is not sold everywhere because I went to three branches and could not find it, then finally I found it sold in Sai Kung where I was least expecting to find it.

[Review 1638] Belgian chocolate trio cake set @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

06/07/2012

聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心1期2樓259-260號舖
Shops 259-260, 2/F, MCP l, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/belgian-chocolate-trio-cake-set-saint-honore-e2243913

Walked past the Wan Chai branch and saw these Belgian Trio cakes which were not labelled, so I had to go in the shop and ask what each of them were.

Later I went past a branch in Central and they were all labelled and it had the price as a set or individually.
They can be bought individually for hkd25 or the whole set for $68.


All the flavours were unique in their own way so I decided to get the whole set.

The cakes were appealing and visually attractive but not appetizing because it just looked like dense heavy chocolate!

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Chocolate honey mousse
This cake was the shape of an inverted cone with two layers. The taste of honey was faint and it was similar to tiramisu but with more proportion of sponge and dense chocolate mousse.
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Chocolate and cherry
The lilac drop on top which had fallen off was a piece of marshmallow.
On top of the cake was a piece of cherry, and some cherry sauce beneath it with real pieces of cherry.
The cake was slightly similar to a black forest cake with a layer of cherry in the middle but not much.
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Chocolate and banana cup
I was expecting this one to taste the worst because I don't really like banana but it was actually quite nice.
It had a real piece of banana in the middle and some pudding like layer.
I havent tried the Saint Honore's banana and chocolate cake but I reckon it tastes similar.
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[Review 1462] Chocolate Lamington @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

28/02/2012

聖安娜餅屋  Saint Honore Cake Shop
灣仔春園街29-41號春園大廈地下F號舖
Shop F, G/F, Spring Garden Mansion, 29-41 Spring Garden Lane, Wan Chai

https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/saint-honore-cake-shops-chocolate-lamington-e2221674


There were two flavours for the Lamingtons at Saint Honore's cake shop: Lemon or Chocolate.
I got the chocolate lamington which costs $4.
The usual Lamingtons are shaped like a cube.
However the shape of Saint Honore's one was not a cube, it was a rectangular cuboid, the only advantage your getting is that you are getting more.
The Lamington tasted quite nice, it was moist and soft.
The outside of the lamington was covered in dessicated coconut.
The outermost layers of the sponge was really moist because it was dipped in chocolate sauce to adhere the dessicated coconuts.

[Review 1367] Saint Honore's winter series - Part 1 @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop
將軍澳貿業路8號新都城中心1期2樓259-260號舖
Shops 259-260, 2/F, MCP l, 8 Mau Yip Road, Tseung Kwan O
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/saint-honores-2011-winter-series-part-1-e2207288

Saw this poster for the winter series special, which features the puff pastry.
In Chinese the direct translation, is Herbs and tomato meat sauce puff.
I wonder if they meant puff pasty with Bolognaise sauce inside.

Apart from the puff, they had chocolate donuts and potato and chicken herb bun.

To be honest all three are tempting, but since the puff pastry was not sold out, I bought that one.
In their bakery range, I found another bun that was similar to the chicken and herb, it was a long shaped bun, but its description was chicken potato and cream bun.
The bolognaise puff was interesting, because puff pastry and bolognaise are a western thing and they have combined them both together.
That’s assuming it really does taste like Bolognaise!
The common Western puff pastry flavours are usually Cheese and onion, cheese and mushroom, Tuna… and the chinese style ones are curry, BBQ….

Anyway, I should have heated it up and it would have tasted nicer.

The filling was dark red and it contained meat and green peppers, overall it was similar to bolognaise. The tomato sauce and herbs could have been stronger.
It is definitely worth trying but needs heating up.

[Review 1363] 2011 Saint Honore's winter series - Part 2 @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

26/11/2011

聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop
灣仔春園街29-41號春園大廈地下F號舖
Shop F, G/F, Spring Garden Mansion, 29-41 Spring Garden Lane, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/2011-saint-honores-winter-series-part-2-e2207387

After trying the so-called Bolognaise puff named by me, I got the potato, herb and chicken bun from the Wan Chai branch.
They also had the chocolate donut however it was not made of the usual donut dough, it was the Chinese bun type of dough shaped into a donut ring and baked.

The potato, herb and chicken bun looked like a flat circular bun dusted like a muffin.

I did not expect the filling inside to be generous because it had the characteristics of the Chinese bakery that the bun itself is thin and there is not much filling inside.

The bun itself was the typical Chinese bun, which does not spring back when pressure is applied to it.
The filling inside was like a thin layer of jam on bread.

But anyway, it did taste quite nice, the potato was slightly starchy and the herb was strong, although they did not mention what herb it was, it tasted like Rosemary.
I think the only thing that spoiled it was the sweetness.

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[Review 1161] Taro Cloth towel style edible Swiss roll @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

12/06/2011

聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop
灣仔春園街29-41號春園大廈地下F號舖
Shop F, G/F, Spring Garden Mansion, 29-41 Spring Garden Lane, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/taro-swiss-roll-edible-cloth-towel-saint-honore-e2175558

The eggs tarts from Saint Honore are unique, the rest in Hong Kong are round, the ones at St Honore are oval shaped.
The egg tarts have the biscuit base crust.

The taro swiss roll was interesting, because its Chinese name was "mo gun darn guen" which means rolled cloth swiss roll.
Its appearance does look similar to a piece of rolled cloth.

Sometimes the Chinese swiss rolls can look different, because when the thin layer of sponge cake is baked, the exposed side is rolled on the outside giving it a smooth texture finish, however some bakeries in Hong Kong like to roll the exposed side on the inside, leaving the porous surface on the outside making it look like cloth.

The taro swiss roll I got was lilac in colour, not as purple as the purple on the plastic bag.
The taro sponge tasted nice, but the cream inside it was disgusting, the usual salted chinese cream, which is quite disgusting, the taste of sweet sponge along with salty buttercream.

[Review 1058] Taro chestnut cake @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

14/04/2011
聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop
銅鑼灣富明街2-6號寶明大廈地下E舖
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/taro-chestnut-cake-e2162380

Got this taro cake for $13 which is considered affordable compared with other cakes priced at >$30 per cake at other prestige places such as the Pantry, Sift etc.

This cake is considered as a higher end product at Saint Honore, but the service and packaging was treated just the same as their ordinary bakery products.

Despite it was a delicate cake, there was no box provided unless two were bought, which was a bit pathetic since you are paying for an expensive cake, and the cake was stuffed in their plastic bag making it hard to carry around.
Luckily, it was still intact when I took it out.

Taro chestnut cake:
It takes the form of a round cake with a sponge base, topped with taro mousse with sponge layers inside.
The taste of the taro was so faint, but luckily it wasnt over sweet.
As for decoration there was a tiny crunchy chocolate ball on top, and chestnut paste on top.
To my surprise, I found white cream inside the chestnut paste.
Fun to eat, but didnt really taste of taro which was disappointing.
The spongecake base tasted like their usual sponge cake products

[Review 999] Walnut cookie - helping hand @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

24/02/2011

聖安娜餅屋  Saint Honore Cake Shop
灣仔春園街29-41號春園大廈地下F號舖
Shop F, G/F, Spring Garden Mansion, 29-41 Spring Garden Lane, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/walnut-cookie-helping-hand-e2151559

Saint Honore is a supplier of cookies for the Helping Hand eldery, thanks to a donator who donated to the helping hand, I was able to sample Saint Honores walnut cookie.

The cookie was rather sweet, so not advisable for the eldery or diabetic.

The texture of the cookie was very buttery and crumbles easily.
It has the typical chinese cookie appearance with a glazed surface, and deep cracks of being baked.

The sugar the Chinese use is also different which makes it have that cloying sweetness.

[Review 800] Cheese and Ham sub @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

05/07/2010

聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop
銅鑼灣富明街2-6號寶明大廈地下E舖
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/cheese-and-ham-sub-e2097422

Got a cheese and ham sub, but it didnt even look like a sub.

Basically it is a bun filled with cheese and ham inside topped with ground maize and a some salad cream.

Got through nearly half of the bun before I actually found any ham or cheese, so it was like 75% bun and 25% filling.

Tasted ok, so just treat it as a Chinese cheese and ham thing with a slight sweet taste.

[Review 751] Rocky Road Swiss Roll @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

16/05/2010

聖安娜餅屋  Saint Honore Cake Shop
灣仔春園街29-41號春園大廈地下F號舖
Shop F, G/F, Spring Garden Mansion, 29-41 Spring Garden Lane, Wan Chai
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/rocky-road-roll-e2084720

A dreamy swiss roll filled with chocolate cream, marshmallows, and crunchy chocolate balls.

The swiss roll is slightly bigger than the normal big swiss rolls priced at $38.
In terms of price, it is definitely dearer than the local chinese bakery, however the quality is assured, at least there will not be eggshells in it.

Compared to the upper end swiss rolls, this would be classified as the economic version.

Anyway, the presentation of the swiss roll was nicely done, it was decorated with castor sugar patterns of leaves and flower shapes, almost like a Japanese sakura roll.

Taste:
The ends of the roll were slightly dry, but the centre was moist.
As with all St Honore bakeries, it has their standards, so it wouldnt taste bad, infact it tasted really good, especially the marshmallows, it melts in your mouth, and the marshmallow dosnt have a skin covering it.

[Review 571] 55% Belgian chocolate cherry cake @ 聖安娜餅屋 Saint Honore Cake Shop

聖安娜餅屋  Saint Honore Cake Shop
13/12/2009
西貢親民街18/32號錦華大廈地下D舖及閣樓
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/55-belgian-chocolate-cherry-cake-e2049387

Had one of those coupons for half a dozen of complimentary cakes, so decided to get a whole cake instead and pay extra.

Got the 55% belgian chocolate cherry cake.

Basically the cake was quite rich, same with the sauce.
Compared to Maxim's Valhrona, the maxims one has the chiffon texture, and the St Honore is richer.

I only liked it because of the cherries.

[Review 236] Saint Honore hot foods @ 聖安娜餅屋 (西貢)

聖安娜餅屋 (西貢) Saint Honore Cake Shop
04/01/2009
西貢親民街18/32號錦華大廈地下D舖及閣樓
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/saint-honore-hot-foods-e1963658

Apart from bakery items, Saint Honore also produces hot items such as Chinese buns, Wrapped glutinous rice etc.

When I walked it, the rice in abalone sauce wrapped in Lotus leaves had just been made and put in the steam baskets.
So I ordered one of these freshly made parcels, the parcel was neatly wrapped and tied with those organic twigs.

The rice was moist and lots of egg, dried scallops inside, anyway I think it tasted good, and I want to eat another one soon!