10/02/2010 心飴 So Sweet
尖沙咀加連威老道100號港晶中心地下44B舖
Shop 44B, G/F, Harbour Crystal Centre, 100 Granville Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/choices-and-choices-e2062583
Decided to feast out on my desserts cravings because of the interesting variety offered just like Sweetacy, however the choice here is much bigger and you can mix the Western and Chinese selections together.
Previously the pictures of the Oriental oranges, egg whites and apple tart caught my attention so came here just to try them out. The picture of the shop looked Japanese, so before I came, I didn’t know what was to be expected from their menu. It would have been great if they had an English menu too.
Basically there is a sweet platter that allows you to select three items, so I chose three items of mini size for the platter and one full size for Singapore egg white dessert.
My sweet platter: Flakey apple tart, Bread pudding with vanilla sauce, Oriental Orange.
The Singapore egg white was the first to arrive, it arrived in a cup, and the whole dessert reminded me of hot chocolate with marshmallows on top. This dessert was basically a cup of hot vanilla sauce, with egg whites on top. The vanilla sauce was very pleasing, not too sweet at all, and warm with the fluffy egg white. The sauce itself was not thick, almost drinkable as the taste was light. I think served as a drink seems good too, there were slices of toasted almonds on top drizzled with chocolate sauce which gave the egg white some notes of chocolate and toasted nutty flavour.
It was quite good to start off with a warm and light dessert then moving on to the sweeter ones.
The sweet platter arrived, and I tried the bread pudding first, this tasted very sweet (over sweet on my opinion), and very strong in egg taste. Then I tried the apple tart, apart from the egg white, this was also the best, flakey filo paper thin pastry in thousands of layers. Lastly I had the orange, this was also good, but too sweet, the liquor in it was good, however I found some hair on the edge of the cup, it is in the main picture too, but clearer in the close up pic. Comparing my Oriental orange with the pictures before, it seems I am missing a blueberry garnishing!
I quite liked the Orange, but rather syrupy, now I am curious to soak orange in Brandy syrup to see how it tastes.
The staffs there were ok. The young female one tried to be helpful and introduced me to the Chinese desserts such as glutinous wraps and mango based desserts, however these happen to be things I do not like!
I asked the young female waitress what the sauce was for the Singapore desserts, so doing her job, she asked the chefs, however I thought the chefs were a bit rude in answering her, she was doing her job anyway.
I was contemplating on ordering another round of apple tarts and egg whites as it would be along time before another re-visit; then the young guy asked if I would be interested in ordering the “Heart too Soft”, I was definitely not interested in that one either, as this is a common dessert served all other in HK. He then suggested some other thing “sum fa lo fong” wrapped with Filo pastry with apple inside, so I decided to try that too.
However this one took ages, it was ordered at 7.34 pm and it arrived at 7.59, so around 20 minutes for it to be baked.
The presentation of the dessert was quite good, all of the fruit garnishing matched.
Taste wise it was ok, basically just apple and sultanas wrapped in flakey filo pastry.
I think I would have preferred a second round rather than the recommended dessert.
Found out this joint was opened by Wong Cho Lam and if he is present you can take pics with him, as if!
