Showing posts with label eating around the world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eating around the world. Show all posts

Friday, January 8, 2010

Hui Lau Shan, Hong Kong

Hui Lau Shan
Various branches in Hong Kong.

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!

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Lord Stow's Bakery

Lord Stow's Bakery
1 Rua Do Tassara, Coloane,
Town Square, Macau
Opening hours: 7.00 a.m. - 10.00 p.m. (early close on Wed at 6.00 p.m.)

Lord Stow's Cafe
Largo Do Matadouro,
Coloane Village, Macau
Opening hours: 10.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.

Lord Stow's Garden Cafe
Rua da Cordoaria, 105, Edf.,
Coloane, Coloane Village, Macau
Opening hours: 10.30 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.

http://www.lordstow.com/

Before I went to Macau (for food only!!!), I did my research and everywhere I read, they all said, it's a must to go to Lord Stow's Bakery!!!

To go to Lord Stow's bakery, you have to take a bus for about half an hour from Senado Square. (you can ask the visitor center there which bus you have to take to go to Coloane Village.

Get off the bus when you see the cupid garden!!!

For your information, Coloane was the the location of one famous Korean Serie (sorry that i can't remember the name) and Lord Stow's Bakery was one of the places here in that Serie. So, it's kind of the famous place now, for lots of people come here to visit Lord Stow's Bakery and the church.

This is the original shop, full of people. some just come here for take away and have the taxi wait for them.

This is the latest shop at Coloane, Lord Stow's Garden Cafe, it locates near the cupid garden.

I chose to sit at Lord Stow's Cafe.

We ordered Ice Lemon Tea for drink, just normal.

Here they are!!! egg tarts!!!

In case the first photos of egg tarts does not tempt enough, i also took the photo after my few first bite to let you see inside and make you envy me!!! LOL.

It was creamy with crispy and fluffy puff pastry! Best egg tart ever! There is no words to descript it, but i agree that it's a must to visit Lord Stow's Bakery if you have a chance to go to Macau!

Ok, before I end this blog, let spoil you for a bit, LOL, before i went back to the city, i stopped at the original shop for the take away (yes, take them back to Bangkok!). I did buy 7 boxs, 6 tarts each, not all for myself, but for my relatives and we kept only 1 box at home. After my dad tasted it, he just realized what he missed, LOL, for at first he though i was too crazy on food and too crazy for taking a bus just for egg tarts...but after he ate it, he told me that next time i have to take him to the shop!!! haha