My wife loves dessert and coffee. Beans was the perfect place to satisfy both of her cravings…read more
We were walking around the malls around 5pm, trying to score an afternoon combo set deal before dinner service starts. We first stopped by Beans to check out the menu. Although we were quite interested in Beans' afternoon combo set menu, we decided to browse around first because Beans' afternoon menu is available until 6pm.
After quickly walking around Popcorn, Park Central and TKO Plaza, we decided to come back to Beans. This was our first cafe experience on this trip to Hong Kong, and it can easily be the best one because we had a wonderful time at the cafe.
We ordered one afternoon combo to share ($58 HKD). We also upgraded the combo for an additional $25 HKD and received another signature cake. We ordered a lava Earl Grey toast, a rose latte with 3D latte art (no extra charge), and a stone (a black sesame dessert with yuzu and cream filling).
The toast was beautifully presented and its toasty exterior (yet somehow without a hint of being burnt) juxtaposed perfectly with its Earl Grey flavored lava.
The stone dessert looked so real that I gingerly tapped its exterior, expecting some kind of hard-shelled dessert. To my surprise, despite its deceptively smooth exterior, the black sesame exterior was soft and provided no resistance to my fork. It was a nouvelle, yet well-executed, dessert.
The only mild letdown from this cafe was the latte, as its rose flavor overpowered the coffee taste. However, the lovely 3D latte art more than made up for it as it kept a smile on my wife's face during the whole meal.