There wasn’t much happening for us this weekend. Little nugget had a number of classes scheduled on Saturday and Sunday; and the plan was to lay low for the rest of the day. When it comes to food, we’ll simply grab something quick in our hood. Nothing fancy. But things were about to heat up when Jelloman popped the question, “don’t think there will be train tickets available to Futian this late right?”.
That got the ball rolling and the next thing I knew, we were already on a taxi on our way to West Kowloon. It was already 2pm.
As planned, we arrived at Futian’s Wongtee Plaza (皇庭廣場) a little after 3pm. Since we already decided to have Peking duck dinner tonight, there was no point for us to have another late lunch at this stage. So, we hurried up to get ourselves a ticket at Jingwei Zhang Roast Duck Restsurant (京味張烤鴨店) and before returning for an early dinner there at 4:30pm, we headed off to NiNi’s Cake for a round of sweet treats to kill some time off the clock.
NiNi’s Cake is a French patisserie and cafe I spotted on my last visit to Wongting around CNY. They have some amazing cakes on display including one that looked like a fire cracker (炮仗). Very eye catching. 🧨
Strawberry passion fruit (莓果慕斯) (¥43) – Inside the crust made with strawberry flavored white chocolate was a layer of strawberry mousse.
This came with a sponge cake base and a centre of strawberry ganache. I didn’t get the chance to try it myself but I assumed that’s also where the passion fruit was hiding, right in the middle of the sponge.
Peach, cream cheese, earl grey (桃礼) (¥43) – Here we have a slice of peach 🍑 sitting on top of some cream cheese. The base was a crepe pouch filled with peach and cream. OK.
Hazelnut praline, dulce, coffee (香草榛果) (¥48) – I am an absolute sucker for hazelnut praline (榛果帕林內) so this should be right up my alley.
I thought it was by far the best out of the three we tried this afternoon. Yes, the hazelnut praline could have been richer in flavors, especially the nuttiness part (It was more creamy than nutty) but all in all, the hazelnut praline, crushed hazelnuts and caramel (menu did say coffee) worked well together as a team.
Food Rating: 5.5/10
Price: ¥¥¥
Address: Shop L2-6, Level 2 Wongtee Plaza Exit C, 118 Fuhua Road, Futian, Guangzhou, China
深圳市福田区福华三路118号皇庭广场西門 L2-6铺
Closest Metro Station: Convention & Exhibition Centre (會展中心)
Tel: +86 (755) 13570811368
Opening Hours: 10:00am - 10:00pm daily
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