Our next stop was Loja de Doces Hang Heong Un (杏香園雪糕甜品屋), an old-school Chinese sweet soup restaurant a stone's throw from the iconic Rua da Felicidade (福隆新街).
It was my first visit to Macau since 2015 and we noticed that the stores here are now wearing a different color, green instead of red.
We had a long walk from Monte Fort (大炮台) and everybody was sweating hard when we arrived at the front of Loja de Doces Hang Heong Un. But we were dealt with some bad news immediately. The restaurant is full! So, we had to wait across the street under the nasty heat.
It took about 15 minutes for us to finally get a table but that's only the beginning. For whatever reason, service was very very slow from this family-run restaurant.
If they had trouble offering such a wide selection of dessert soups, perhaps they should consider cutting it down.
After a very impatient wait of nearly 30 minutes, our snow fungus sweet soup with longan (龍眼雪耳糖水) eventually showed up. The sweet soup was pretty heartwarming but I thought it was a little more gluey than I would like.
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I have to admit, the water chestnut sweet soup with bamboo pith, longan and coconut juice (竹笙龍眼椰汁馬蹄沙) was a very nice treat especially in a hot and humid summer day like this. It's very soothing to the palate but was it worth the extensive walk and long wait!? Probably not.
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Our desserts arrive in pair (looks like that's the "capacity" of the kitchen. Two bowls every time) and since we have 7 people in our group, it took more than 3 rounds before everyone got to enjoy some sweetness. That's not very efficient service if you ask me. In fact, some of us already finished their desserts while others were still waiting.
Food Rating: 5/10
Price: $$$$
Address: G/F, 13 Tv. do Auto Novo, Macau
Tel: +853 2857-2701
Opening Hours: 1:30pm - 12:00am daily
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