滿記甜品 Honeymoon Desserts

滿記甜品
旺角亞皆老街8號
朗豪坊4樓409號
Honeymoon Desserts
Langham Place
8 Argyle St., 4th Fl. Shop 409

MTR: Mong Kok

courtesy openrice.com

A few years back, if you asked anybody in Hong Kong what was the dessert place of Hong Kong, you'd probably get 許留山 Hui Lau San for an answer. They've got yummy mango desserts and delicious drink mixtures to die for, including ingredients from strawberries and mangoes to grass jelly and aloe, a sure bet to quenching your "healthy dessert" craving and to chill you out from the Hong Kong humidity.

But if you ask the same question these days, more and more you might get Honeymoon Desserts as the dessert destination of choice instead. With a feel-good artistic decor to make you feel right at home (or at a quaint sip-a-cup-of-coffee bookshop because of the fake books stacked on the fake bookshelves), Honeymoon Desserts boasts a darn good variety of desserts including mochis topped with peanut butter, or mochis stuffed with sweet black sesame served in a sweet ginger soup, or different flavors of ice-cream bathing in coconut milk with pomelo or smooth delicious grass jelly. Even lovers of durian will find themselves at home here, and haters of durian need not worry, because there are specific durian-eating areas (no, they don't ask "durian or non-durian" when you enter the shop) so you won't be inhaling any second-hand durian smells (this is only at some outlets though, I can't say for sure if this specific one at Langham Place has one or not).

芒果白雪黑糯米 Thai Black Glutinous Rice in Vanilla Sauce

With a distinct vanilla flavor permeating the sweet purple sticky rice, you get a mouthful of heavenly goodness with an interesting looking, albeit plastic, spoon. Soaking within the vanilla goodness are little sheets of shaved-ice, giving an ever-so-subtle ice-crunchy texture to an otherwise empty soup. The Mango was just a bit sour, but not enough to put a dent really on the overall experience, which is a tasty dessert with a delicately harmonious balance of ingredients.

楊枝甘露 Mango Pomelo and Sago Sweet Soup

Pomelo is a kind of fruit very similar in texture as grapefruit, but not in taste because pomelo is a whole heck of a lot better in that it's sweet, never sour or tart.
A good companion with sago (little glutinous rice balls) in this sweet soup served cold, they're a pleasant sensation to bite into because although they're small, they're packed with little bursts of juice that just give a great smooth, but not boring, texture for the sweet juice. The centerpiece to the juice is of course the mango (it's in there! don't worry, I just didn't get it in this picture =( ), which combines to make a truly simple dish, yet one that surprises with a memorable, and for many a favorite, taste.

The menu at Honeymoon really seems quite endless, so this is really just the tip of an iceberg of dessert goodness. Honeymoon Desserts is a chain that did have its humble beginnings. I had my first taste actually right after the first hike I did in Hong Kong, of course in Sai Kung where the original honeymoon shop is. If you get a chance, check it out there because it's a lovely place. Otherwise, keep your eyes out and you should be able to stumble upon one in one of many places in Hong Kong.