[Review] McVites Jaffa Cakes 5 Pineapple Cake Bar

I like pineapple so when I heard about the McVites Jaffa Cakes 5 Pineapple Cake Bars I had to get them.

Shortly after that, Pineapple Jaffa Cakes were also launched.

To be honest, I was a bit disappointed with these pineapple cake bars because the pineapple smell was rather artificial and it was so strong that you could smell it through the wrapper without even opening it.
Although I did not like the Pineapple cake bars, I am still going to try the Pineapple Jaffa Cakes because the strawberry jaffa cakes were nice.

McVities Blackcurrant cake bars

2015 McDonald's Prawn burger and pineapple pie

McDonald's have launched a new prawn burger with pineapple and a pineapple pie so tried them.

Whenever the ebi burger (prawn burger) is launched, it becomes a popular choice.
Now they have launched the ebi burger with pineapple, which basically has a slice of pineapple in the middle with the same mayonnaise sauce that they use for the chicken sandwich.


The pineapple in the burger was a bit too juicy and stole the show with its sweet flavours.
It was also difficult eating the burger because when you bite into it, you are biting against the pineapple fibres so you have to tear the pineapple.

To my knowledge the pies that have been launched before in HK are red bean and taro.
Hopefully they will launch peach as well because that would taste quite nice.

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pineapple pie:

The pineapple pie filling is the same as the apple in terms of consistency and viscosity.
It has the same sort of sweetness as the apple but it has small chunks of pineapple instead and the pineapple taste is not that strong.
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Crispi I Fruits

Got these vacuum dried fruits from Octopus Inc or you can get them here:

http://shop.ilovemama.com/deals/20140225d_driedfruit/

There was freeze dried pineapples, longans and bananas which I have not tried before.

It feels really interesting holding a bag of these vacuum dried fruits because I love the clinking noise it makes when you rattle the bag just like pieces of ceramics clinking together and it feels so weightless too because all the water has been drawn out in the vacuuming process.

I love vacuum dried items because it keeps the nutrients while the flavour gets concentrated and intense.

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Banana:
Usually banana chips are fried so it was good to try the vacuum dried version which are non oily and crispy. The fried version is really hard and not so nice.

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Longan:
The vacuum dried Longans were quite sweet but then the fresh ones are real sweet anyway and the colour was interestingly brown.

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Pineapple:
The vacuum dried pineapples taste better than fresh ones because I've never liked them fresh as they were too juicy and the fibres were woody.

But as a vacuum dried snack, the fibres are brittle and the pineapple pieces are crispy with natrual tartness of the pineapple.

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Francis Pineapple cakes

Got these lovely Taiwanese pineapple cakes from a friend.

The pastel blue packaging and design was really nice, each pineapple cake was individually wrapped and colour coded.






There were five flavours: 
-Coconut
-Lemon
-Walnut and coffee
-Macadamia and sunflower seeds
-Flax seeds
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Coconut:


I really liked this because it had dried coconut flakes on the pastry which gave it a great mouthfeel and coconutty taste.
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Lemon:

Lemon was also my favourite because it was refreshing and an unusual flavour.
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Walnut and coffee:


The flavour of this was quite strong with a hint of coffee that was not bitter balanced by the walnuts.
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Macadamia and sunflower seeds:
This was had a lot of texture in it because there were sunflower seeds and macadamia pieces in it.
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Flaxseeds:
This one was similar to the above, but flaxseeds are smaller than sunflower seeds.
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NineSuns Taiwanese Pineapple cake / Pastry

This is a Taiwanese version of Pineapple Tart known as ( 鳳梨酥 funglayso).

The filling is fully enclosed within a rectangular tart. The taste is sweet, however, some bakers add or even substitute pineapple with winter melon to make the jam less tart.

The NineSuns version was rather sweet and the pastry was too buttery and I didnt like it!

Emmi Swiss Premium yoghurt

Tried the Emmi Swiss yogurts which has six flavours: aloe vera, pineapple, raspberry, apple apricot and blueberry.
Aloe vera and raspberry tasted the best. The pineapple was slightly sour.

Alfresco meatballs

Interesting! chicken meatballs instead of being made with the usual red meat, they are teriyaki flavoured with ginger n pineapple!

yummy yummy! tomato n basil chicken meatballs wiv asiago and mozzarella cheese

Edible arrangements - cute fruit arrangements

http://www.ediblearrangements.hk/