Hui Lau Shan, Hong Kong

Hui Lau Shan

Various branches in Hong Kong.

http://www.hkhls.com/

For me, when i think of Hong Kong, one thing in my mind is Mango juice/dessert. Normally, i love the shop on the corner of Lock Road, Kowloon but now i have another favorite shop :)

Hui Lau Shan opened its first shop more than 60 years ago as the herbal tea shop. Nowadays, they developed themselves and end up having 40 branches of 'popular Hong Kong style dessert brand' around Hong Kong.

I went to the branch near Harbour City, Kowloon, opposite to the pier.

Look at the menu! I spent several minutes to decide what to order as everything looked sooooo good!

End up ordering Mango Platter (HKD 35).

Mango Platter consisted of 3 small portions of mango desserts; Crystal jelly with extra mango, Glutinous rice balls in mango juice with extra mango, and Fresh mango mochi.

First one, Crystal jelly with extra mango, they served the crystal jelly with mango pieces and mango icecream. The crystal jelly (which i cannot recall of what it made of) gave you clean and cool feeling while mango cube and mango icecream gave you the clean sweetness and freshness of fruit!

Glutinous rice balls in mango juice with extra mango. The chewy sticky rice ball with mango juice and mango pieces. Another version of the mango dish with the chewy ball!

Fresh mango mochi. They served the mochi with mango flesh.

Not only the mango flesh as the side, they also put big chunk of mango inside mochi with the coconut flakes outside. Good combination of chewy dough outside and the fresh sweet mango inside!

They also provided the take-away (they charge a bit more for eat-in). You will see lots of people waiting in front of the shop with the queue number in their hands. The mango drinks are great, with the full texture and full flavour of mango (the price is around HKD20 per serve). If you have time and love mango, this is another 'a must' to try!