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| - Finally ... a chinese dessert place close to where I live! Yay!
Found this place from yelp so decided to give this a try, in short, I like it! The décor is clean and simple and spacious. The service in general is friendly and are quite accommodating. This place offer variety of sweet treats and drinks. As a first visit, we tried several items and to my surprise, quite good! I think they just updated their menu... so looks like they are still evolving based on customer reactions to their offerings.
So we tried these:
1. Waffle - This is surely a surprise for me as not too many places in uptown that offer these "bubble" waffles (see my pic). (~$5 if I remember correctly). It is freshly made upon ordering and it's crunchy on the outside and soft inside. I tried the black sesame flavored one and I liked it.
2. Hot Herbal tea - T14 on the current menu. This tea contain Osmanthus (some flower thingie) with Longan and Goji. The taste is lighter than the herbal tea you will find from Ten Ren, but tea here taste less artificial. I do prefer this kind. Price is similar to ten ren, ~$7.50 level.
3. Sesame Dumpling in Ginger soup with Osmanthus - sesame dumpling is soft with thin wrapping filled with strong black sesame flavor. If you like ginger, you shouldn't be disappointed as the ginger soup is loaded with ginger flavor.
4. Walnet puree - Taste like made with real walnut and not the kind you find using lots of starch and sugar. Good quality.
From talking to the owner, turns out owner here was the previous owner of another dessert place in Market Village (??? or something like that) several years ago. So if you used to love the Chinese dessert and/or Sesame Dumpling there, you can find them here again. This place also offer other snacks and bubble tea, but I didn't have a chance to try... I do have limited tummy space. Maybe next time ... which will be quite soon, considering this place is the closest dessert place from where I live, plus quality is good also, from my personal preferences.
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