Yuen Kee is a very long-standing dessert shop that is renowned for their traditional Chinese dessert soups.

I tried a few of the dessert soups, and liked the almond dessert soup the best for its silky texture and refined almond taste. I also liked how you could add an egg or lotus seeds to any of the dessert soups.They are also famous for a housemade steamed cake made with eggs. The cake was light and fluffy, but it was a tad dry.

The 蓮子桑寄生菜 was very very good. Sponge cake was dry, unfortunately. 杏仁露 was nothing special and not very thick. Nice that the store has been around for 100+ years, though!

extremely appreciate they are still doing old fasioned desserts!!!!very very sweet sponge cakeThe famous old fashioned chinese dessert. you can clearly see that the egg was soaked with the "soup" very very long time.
the soup is not too sweet just about the right amount and I like it !

Try pronouncing this: Taxillus Chinensis. I can’t either! But that’s exactly what they’re famous for here at Yuen Kee in Sai Wan. This dessert shop is one of the oldest around town and has been operating for many years and for generations. Everyone come and order their Taxillus Chinensis. My 1st visit to here was during many years ago when we used to have Hot Pot at a shop close by to here. And recently I’ve had a few chances to revisit, either visiting with overseas Bloggers or having an after dinner dessert, to order our Taxillus Chinensis…

桑寄生蓮子蛋茶 - Taxillus Chinensis Herbal Tea with Lotus Seeds and Egg
The recent visits have yielded a better result, as in the past, this could sometimes taste really diluted weak. This a quite herbal-medicinal in taste, and feels healthy. The lotus seeds are cooked to the perfect powdery stage, the egg is not bad. I am now really hooked with Taxillus Chinensis…

Taxillus Chinensis: ♕♕♕♕ 1/2

Chinese sweet soups are relatively easy to make, provided you have the tools necessary. Although I know and have made them in the past, my current kitchen is too unequipped to enable me to make tasty desserts....

I know this place is very old, and pass by it often enough but never have tried. This was my chance.
Almond sweet soup with boiled egg $2x
This was more thick in consistency than I hoped for, but then again the name 'hung yun lo' suggests it is the thicker variety, as opposed to almond tea ('hung yun cha').

The soup was very white and had a slight bitter taste to it (i am hoping from real bitter almonds)... not far from those powder mixes you can buy from supermarkets. Not too sweet, this dessert wasn't bad. However, the added egg was total disappointment. It was cold and the yolk was so over-done it had turned blue on the outer part. The egg white was also really really hard, probably from over-cooking and refrigeration.

walnut sweet soup with ginko nuts $2x
This was not bad. Not my ideal choice, but it tasted more like walnut than the almond soup of real almonds. It was slightly thinner in consistency, and the sweetness was just right. The added ginko nuts for me was quite poor. I would've preferred them to be slightly softer, but here they were pretty hard to bite on.

The sweet soups here seem to be pretty average, not bad by all means but not good enough to worth the price they charge for, especially in Western District. The add-ons are also total failures, so i would probably forget them if i re-visit here.

Revisit again and again. The 蓮子桑寄生 tea with egg is still the best in town. It's my comfort food lately. I felt good having one of these, after my heavy dinner.
This is a place with history and its secret receipe. You would love to give it a try, their 桑寄生 herbal tea is just different from the others

Went with cousin and sister yesterday. We had egg tea, red bean soup and sesame soup. Egg tea is fine but a little bit too sweet for me. Red bean soup is what I won't recommend. There is no bean, too smooth that remind me of the instant one bought from supermarket. Sesame soup is again a bit too smooth but acceptable. Well, I'll go back and try the cake next time!

I visited this desert shop agian last week after many years of absence. The place has not changed at all, and everything seemed the same. The menu and the setting were exactly the same and I guess the owner never succumbed to the notion that change is part of business.

I tried the 桑寄生蓮子茶 for the first time after seeing so many good reviews about this on Openrice. In my many previous visits, I often had 合桃糊 or 杏仁露.

The egg was hard boiled and on first bite, there was a hint of smoke. The egg and the 蓮子 were complemented nicely by the 桑寄生茶, which was not too sweet and not too heavy. The dessert was served very hot in a soup bowl, filled to the brim. The bowl fit snugly on a metal saucer, which allowed the server to hold it without having to dip a finger into the soup to have a grip.

A very pleasant and nostalgic visit, and I would come back more often.

This is a long well-known desert house that went back a long time ago!
I recommend the cake and the Song-kee tea! My friend says these are a few of the most traditional desert that made this place renown.

I grew up in this area (my family were living on High Street) and Yuen Kee was not unfamiliar to me. It has been in the same location since the mid 70's, and was already very well known. In those days I had only been here twice, because it was expensive for my budget, and when I grew older with more pocket money, it had become old fashion....
So much for reminiscence. Nowadays old fashion become trendy again and I read many rave reviews from Openrice. Therefore, on a lazy afternoon my husband and I paid a visit to this place again.
As far as I can remember, the interior remains unchanged. We ordered the favourite: "Song Kee Sang" Tea with lotus seed and egg ($20) and Almond tea with lotus seed. Somehow I never have "Song Kee Sang"( anyone know the English name?) tea before, so I didn't know how to compare. It had a pleasant taste anyway. The almond tea was for sure splendid. Full of almond flavour, it was smooth and had the right amount of sweetness.
There were hardly any customer in the afternoon, and the place had a very laid back feeling in it. So was the service. Great to hang around and let time to drift away. Would be perfect if Uncle Ray's radio show is the background music though.