All of a sudden, A la Folie Patisserie came to mind.
I read about this place from the web a while ago and the buzz largely came from their executive pastry chef Kato Tomohiko who used to work for the Roppongi Grand Hyatt hotel in Japan at a similar position. He's a highly regarded talent who is famous for combining French pastries with his Japanese roots.
"A la Folie" stands for "Madness" and if my very limited French serves me well enough, it's often used to describe the most intense love (almost to a point of madness?). Unfortunately, out of the 20 different pastries that were freshly made, we could not find one which we were madly in love with.
At the end, we had to randomly pick a few. Meet Rhapsody - a dome shaped white chocolate mousse cake embedded with slow-cooked orange and raspberry in the middle. I thought it was very average.
Lovers' Concerto is a layered peach cake made using three different types of peaches and fluffy sponge cake.
Mousse au Chocolat-banane is probably the only one with a passing grade. I liked the caramel coating hugging around the soft hazelnut chocolate mousse and banana bits. This was easily the best of the three.
Despite the disappointing cakes, the macarons were surprisingly good. This earl grey tea flavor was my personal favorite.
If you plan on making a special trip to Mongkok East for A la Folie Patisserie, I say forget about it (Harlan's cake shop at The One is also under the same group and they have almost the same collection.).
Food Rating: 3.5/10
Price: $$$
Address: 2/F Grand Century Place, 193 Prince Edward Road West, Mong Kok, Hong Kong
Closest Metro Station: Mongkok EastTel: +852 2327-9090
Website: www.jcgroup.hk/restaurants/alafolie/
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