DAYPLUS Green Tea natural yeast bread

Marbled bread with green tea from 7-11.

The bread was nicely flavoured and not too sweet but not springy enough.

Inside the packet there is some sort of interesting dessicant called "Fresh Dot" technology which involves ethanol.

Izumiya Castella (sponge cake)

Thanks to Hong Kong's 7-11 for these Izumiya Castella (sponge cakes) $11.9.

Castella cakes are made of starch syrup, sugar, eggs and flour.

There were two flavours Matcha or Honey, both were nice and soft with a slightly sticky and chewy texture.

I preferred the honey flavour because it was much lighter.

As for the Matcha, the matcha flavour was not strong enough.

Choco Crunch bars from 7-11 in Hong Kong

Got these delicious Choco Crunch snacks from 7-11 which cost $9.9 per box.

There are three flavours: chocolate, strawberry and banana.

In each box, there are three bars.

They are similar to rice crispy bars but the shape of the crispy pieces are just like cute little balls, similar to deep fried couscous made into a sweet snack bar.
They all had a nice crisp crunch and the texture of the bar was not too hard.
Out of the three flavours, the chocolate flavour was the best.

Next I liked the strawberry because it had a hint of coconut in it and lastly the banana because I am not really a banana person.

7-11 Japanese Korean Hamper

Thanks to Hong Kong's 7-11 for sending me this stash of irresistible snacks.
It contains Korean Choco crunch, cakes, chocopens and more.

Shezan lemon barley drink

After taking a closer look at the address I was surprised this bottle of Lemon Barley was from Pakistan because the flavour was quite Western.

As for the taste it was way too sweet and syrupy.
Apart from Lemon Barley they also had Lychee.

HIT autumn festival goodies

A nice container load of Kee Wah's almond biscuits and pineapple cakes from HIT - Hong Kong International Terminals.

With working wheels too!

Tomato cream cake

Saw this really weird product by Japanese Bourbon!

Tomato cream cake!

I can't even imagine how it would taste.

Heinz Baked Beans Ham Sauce (Australian)

Tried the Baked beans in Ham sauce by Heinz in Australia.

They were surprisingly quite nice because they tasted like the original with a smoky smell and a hint of ham in the taste and the tomato flavour was not so prominent.
It would be so cool if there were tiny bits of ham in it.

The only thing I did not like was the can because the insides were a bit black.

I can't wait to get my hands on the modernized Baked Bean flavours:
Garlic and herbs, cheese, chili, curry and barbecue.

Also the BEANZ FOR GROWN UPZ which are fives different types of beans in a can for more protein.

The delicious mix of haricot, red kidney, pinto, cannellini and borlotti beans.

Maruka Instant soba noodles

I love soba noodles so I had to try this.

The portion of noodles seemed bigger than the standard ones.

There was a sachet of crispy tempura pieces and spring onions.

After adding the sauce, it was sweet and smoky and the noodles had some reminiscene to soba noodles with its wheaty texture.
I was a bit disappointed in the sauce because it was just sweet and using all the sauce in the sachet made it quite salty..

Happy Cow dairy-free ice cream

As you know Hong Kong is slow and even if they wanted to try new ideas from other places they are quite cautious about approaching them.

Luckily we have Happy Cow a brand of dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free, low glycemic vegan and most importantly Kosher icecream.


A genius brand, ice-cream made with coconut milk!

I was really lucky and got to visit Happy Cow and watch them make ice-cream and try their other flavours.

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Lets start with ice cream making:
The main ingredients were put into a blender including guar gum a natrual thickener, coconut sugar (brown) which gives their ice-creams a brown colour.
Then water is added and the mixture is blended and put in the machine.

After it is churned for a while, Coconut milk is added

While the mixture is churning, the icecream containers and lids are being prepared.



When the icecream mixture gets thick the icecream is almost ready.

A sample is tasted before it is put into the cartons and frozen to ensure quality of smoothness and taste.

The final steps!! Ice Cream in containers and into the freezer!!

Final Products!!

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At the moment the main flavours they offer are:

Chocolate
Lime
Cherry, almond, fudge
Pistachio
Coffee

Pina Colada

There are many other tempting flavours in development to be launched later!

All these flavours have an extremely coconutty taste attributed to coconut milk and coconut sugar, and the texture is thick and creamier than ordinary icecreams.
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Pistachio:

There was no colouring used in the Pistachio which is why it is not green and the brown colour is because of the coconut sugar.
This flavour was rich and creamy with delicious pieces of pistachio in it.

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Chocolate:

There was a rich chocolate and coconut taste.
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Lime:

Again its colour is slightly caramel because of the coconut sugar.
This was my favourite because the taste of lime was strong and refreshing.
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Cherry, almond fudge:

This is bound to be everyones favourite with chunks of American cherries, fudge and almond flavour.
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