SohoWay
中環擺花街8號地下2號舖
Shop 2, G/F, 8 Lyndhurst Street, Central
https://www.openrice.com/zh/hongkong/review/so-ho-way-to-the-land-of-magic-happiness-e2179803
Found out that this place has interesting drinks such as coffee with wasabi, chili or lava salt, so went there to try out their drinks.
This cafe is situated on Lyndhurst Street, near the real Soho.
I was expecting it to be Western style but it was Taiwanese/Hong Kong style.
They had a tea set featuring the local Chinese milk tea and cakes made from Chinese milk tea.
I ordered a peach coffee and Jasmine milk tea with jobs tears.
I would have ordered the coffees with wasabi/chili/lava salt, but it was not mixed in with the coffee, the powder was just on the rims of the glass like margarita.
The product shot for the Jasmine tea was interesting because it had two layers, the Jasmine tea at the bottom with Jobs tears and on top it was foamy milk.
I am not a person for Jasmine milk tea, because it tastes weird, but here the milk and tea has cleverly been separated.
The addition of jobs tears was really innovative and healthy instead of Taiwanese bubble tea pearls.
Peach Coffee:
If I had read about the sodas earlier, I would have ordered a soda instead of coffee.
The coffee had peach syrup added instead of ordinary sugar/syrup, however it was too sweet even though I had requested it to be less sweet.
Jasmine milk tea:
It looked exactly like the product shot, which was good, and the milk had been made foamy so that it does not weigh down the delicate Jasmine Tea.
If you’ve had Jasmine milk teas from those bubble tea places you will know what I mean.
The sweetness was just right, but when I ordered it I made a request for it to be less sweet.
Th jobs tears were just right, not soft and mushy like other places where it seems to have been boiled for years.
The colour of the jobs tears were slightly stained rather than pure white.
The most outstanding drink would have been their sodas if I had read articles on it.
Their sodas are made with Nitrous oxide instead of the usual carbonated water.
Nitrous oxide is known as sweet air or laughing gas that gives people euphoric effects (a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania).
I think if it was stated on the menu, more people would have ordered it.
But according to one of the previous reviews, the nitrous oxide seems to work because someone got happy from drinking it.
Apart from Nitrous oxide, Heston Blumenthal has been known to use sulphur hexafluoride, which temporarily deepens the voice, wouldn’t that be fun? and helium gas which is commonly known to temporarily make the voice squeaky.
It would be fun if they had drinks with those gases someday!
