I Am Not A Foodie

I know I haven’t blogged for a while ( Ok, Ok, a long time). To get myself going again, I figured I’d start writing about my favorite food group, desserts.

First up is Creations Desserts. J and I went to check it out a long time ago. The chain (许留山) is very very popular in Hong Kong, and has started doing business in mainland China as well as in Taiwan. I think they are most famous for their various mango desserts.

I ordered the bird’s nest with mixed fruit, with sago in mango juice. It was pretty good. It was very refreshing. It wasn’t overly sweet, I think I’d like it more in a hot and humid weather, not so much in cold and windy San Francisco. J had the mango juice, and a scoop of mango ice cream. I thought the juice was good, but it wasn’t really full of mango flavor, which just might be because we went in March, and mangos tend not be in season during that time. Overall I thought it was a decent place. My only problem would be the price. For the three items we had, I think we spend about $12 dollars. It just seemed too much. I know they will stay in business because people will either try it out of curiosity, or they are from Hong Kong and this reminds them of home. Nonetheless, I think the price should come down a little bit.

Next dessert place was in New York. It’s called Pink Berry, which is a L.A. based chain. It was on L.A. times claimed as the frozen yogurt that cause a thousand parking tickets. I, really, really loved this. I had the green tea flavored frozen yogurt, with strawberries, raspberries and mango. The frozen yogurt had a slight green tea flavor, but a rather strong yogurt taste. I’m so used to frozen yogurt tasting like soft serve/low fat ice cream. This one was really different, and it was good! I’ll definitely go back again. Oh, and this is not that cheap either. This little thing will set you back about $5, but it’s so worth it.

The third place is called BreakTime Desserts. It’s located in Cupertino inside the Wolfe Ranch 99 shopping center. I ordered their sweet tofu (豆腐花). It was delicious. The syrup had just the right amount of sugar and ginger taste in it. The tofu’s soft and slurpy. They have a lot mango based desserts too (I’m noticing a trend here). I didn’t get to take a picture of my dessert, so you’ll have to check it out yourself. There are a lot of restaurant choices, as well as huge asian grocery store, Chinese book store and tea store in the same shopping center, you definitely should check it out if you’ve never been.