Angelina (Hong Kong, CHINA) ★★★☆☆

It was a lot of fun going through Timeout Hong Kong's top 30 dishes of 2014 but I was a little down to find out that I only managed to hit one third of these dishes.  

One of the dishes (or pastries) mentioned on the list was Angelina's Cheesecake Abricot and I thought I better went to check it out after work this afternoon.



Cheesecake Abricot, 5/10
A thin layer of apricot confit was topped with a foamy, marshmallow-like cream cheese and finished with crunchy shortbread and madeleine biscuit on the bottom. Not bad but I was expecting a little more. Perhaps a flavored cream cheese (yuzu?) would do a better job in bringing out the best of the apricot confit?



Vendôme, 5/10
This was a combination of crunchy lemon biscuit, wild strawberry confit and nougat praline mousse in a white chocolate dome. The mousse was silky mousse but again something seemed to be missing here - something with a little more acidity might have done the trick, perhaps a wild strawberry compote instead of the confit which was a tad too sweet in my opinion.





Food Rating: 5/10
Price: $$$
Address: Angelina, 3/F, Lane Crawford, IFC Mall, 8 Finance Street, Central, Hong Kong
Closest Metro Station: Hong Kong Station
Tel: +852 3188-0842


Hong Kong, cafe, dessert, patisserie, French, pastry, cake, IFC