::Throwback Thursday::
My graduate school classmates from China are obsessed with durian. Not exactly sure why, but they go cucu for some durian dessert. So us nice Hong Kongers took them to some durian dessert. And what we ended up with were really happy friends. :)
The durian pancake tastes just as it sounds - durian, pancake, with cream in between each layer of pancake. Tasted okay.
Mango pudding was too... jelly for me. There were chunks of mango solidified together through some sort of thick textured jello under the mountain of cream. I'm not a fan of jello, so it was too overwhelming for me. I just stuck with eating the fresh mangoes on top, those were good enough for me.
I ordered a 中三 - literal translation is middle three. Basically three small / middle size bowls of a variety of sweets. I really like black sesame, coconut sago, and red bean in general - so I figured this would be the perfect for me. I got the hot version instead of the cold version since restaurants and buildings in Hong Kong blasts their A/C to an uncomfortable freezing temperature, thus I wanted something that would warm me up as opposed to make me feel even more cold.
The desserts were way too sweet... My friend got the cold black sesame and that was less sweet than my hot black sesame. Not sure why there was such a huge difference, but we both agreed that my desserts were unnecessarily and overpoweringly sweet. In order of super sweet to kind of sweet, it goes from: red bean, black sesame, coconut sago. I ate the black sesame first, then coconut sago, and finally finished the red bean on my way home. It was less sweet once the dessert cooled down. Which I find odd. o.O The coconut sago tasted the best. But there were a few, strangely, sour chestnuts in the soup. It probably tasted sour since everything else were so overly sweet. Nevertheless, it just tasted too sour and strange that I left them to the side instead of finishing them.
The quality and price of the food are okay. But this place is too sweet for my taste. I wouldn't personally seek this place out or come back on my own. read more