Heard the Green Apple was a one of the new signature desgins, so I ordered two and turened out to be a big let down. First of all, the ladies offered the poor-quality, fragile plastic forks which snapped easily while cracking the Green Apple cake. Inside, the Cheese was too sour and the fluid texture didn't please us. Three of us stopped after the first few bites and the 2nd Green Apple was left unattended . THe Pink raspberry tasted fine, but it didn't excite me much either.Napoleon , one of the signature desserts too, wasn't as nice as I imagined. The crisp was too thick and not crispy enough. I recommend the Napoleon lovers should go for the one in HK Shangri-La instead, it was the best Napoleon I ever treid.Black Forest. The layers and colors looked so attractive and again it's a let down. Two of the girls thought it was too sour. We wanted something sweet and didn't expect it was a sour journey to begin with.Chocolate Truffle Cake. It was the only tasty cake at Fine Foods. Rich chocolate , creamy texture, three of us finished it up in a minute.Nice designElegant, Classy DecorElegant, Classy DecorThe staff here was rather impudent and rude. Lack of smile served with impatient answer and description, especially the older women was unbearable.

I have always wanted to try the cakes from Fine Foods but East Tsim Sha Tsui is too far and inconvenient.

They had a counter at Hang Hau so I bought some cakes from there.

Initially I did not know they were Fine Foods because I went over thinking they were selling English foods until I went to the counter. The cake selection was not that British because I was expecting the cakes that you would find at Teakha even thought I still havent been yet..The cakes at the stall were exactly the same ones at Tsim Sha Tsui.

In the end I chose the strawberry yogurt and the green tea and mango.
I ate the strawberry one first because the taste was lighter.
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strawberry yogurt cakeThis was the favourite of the two because the yogurt tasted natrual and light, the texture was silky mousse with soft sponge at the bottom.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
green tea and mangoI am not fan of mango but got this because I wanted to try the green tea.
There was a layer of green tea that had a truffle/praline texture which I really liked.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

We had a good Chinese New Year dinner at the Royal Garden Hotel Chinese restaurant last night for about 14 friends. Some of my dear friends brought a few bottles of fine red wine. My girlfriend would like to treat everyone a nice cake. I suggested her to order a 2 pound tiramisu at the Fine Foods. They could deliver the cake to our table directly. This was one of the best Tiramisu in Hong Kong. It was not too sweet. I could tasted different layers of egg white, chocolate, and sponge cake. They also offer credit card 15%off discount. This cake was $442, very reasonable price.

As there comes a French chef to fine foods, I came here today to take a look whether things have changed.
Blueberry cheesecake has certainly changed a new face,and there is a new chocolate cake besides the traditional truffle and earl grey mousse,
it's the black sesame and dark chocolate,unluckily, the above two new flavors are only available in so a large size,
i can't afford them~!so let's check on to the small cake.the rasberry fancier and lemon tart is specially labelled to be invented by the new French chef,
but they don't look good, do they?
so i chose the beautiful 慕絲脆批 $35 which their cakes were originally $32.
this慕絲脆批慕絲味道輕薄不膩。下面的脆批底入口鬆化，牛油味重了一點，香脆，甜味夠。
um...may come again to check out other new items~!

Received this beautifully packed 蝴蝶酥(Palmiers) from a dear friend. She asked me to compare this with Cookies Quartet's palmiers. In fact, I really love palmiers since I don't even remember when, so when I received this gift, I was thrilled as I always wanted to try this very well known bakery's.

Palmiers - The sizes of each pieces are quite even and in comparison, they are much larger than the ones offered by Cookies Quartet. As they are basically puff pastry, larger size does enhance its crispiness. First bite proves that it is much more crisp than its competitors and for most, the sweetness is just right, but for myself who usually prefer sweeter taste find it not quite up to my liking.

Overall, I am extremely impress by these beautifully made palmiers which went well with my daily coffee. It is also important to note that after I have opened the packing for a few days, they stay crispy! Bravo!

I called Royal Garden Fine Foods shop only during noon time on the day before mother's day, and was happy to know that they still accept orders. I ordered a mixed berries napoleon cake.

It looks really great, and I noticed that most others ordered napoleon cake too (mainly strawberry or mango though). The cake tastes very delicious. The only difficulty is to cut it into pieces without breaking it. :-)

It is a bit expensive ($5xx for 2 pounds), but I think I will try again next time (during normal days when the usual discounts by purchase with certain credit cards applies)

My Mum went to Royal Garden on the weekend and managed to snag the last three milk pudding desserts ($34 each) by Chef Wada. It was covered in a food review magazine last week, and it says on the Royal Garden website: "2010 The Sapporo Sweets Ambassador Koichiro Wada is at The Royal Garden to showcase his wonderful pastries and desserts. Recommended items include mango cheese cake, Fuji apple tart, white tiramisu mousse cake, green tea short cake and more. New creations every week - be among the first to try them!"

Although I am loathe to share the surprise that was at the bottom of the milk pudding...it really is quite indicative of Chef Wada's skills. My Uncle thought the milk pudding a bit too sweet but the consensus was that it was smooth and delicious. But the proof is indeed in the pudding, or beneath the pudding. What lied beneath was mille-feuille with a cool custard sandwiched in between.

Together it was a clash of textures, but what a beautiful clash it was.

He's here until September, so ring ahead and reserve!

(My Mum also picked up the Green Tea with Mango cake, which was very strong on the green tea, (slightly bitter, to be honest). Also a fruit tart, a hit and miss.)

I took a friend here for an afternoon sweet-tooth fix. we initially wanted to have the desserts consumed in Greenery upstairs but having learnt that they were going to charge a surplus of nearly double the prices of take-out and the poor poor service of waitresses upstairs and downstairs, we decided to forgo the extra cost and take out.

It seems all I eat are sweets these days...but as long as they're good I'm not complaining!

Chocolate Truffle $40
This cake was rich but not in the dense way. Rather, it had an excellent combination of a plain biscuit base for crunchiness, a chocolate sponge (base) for that soft spongey texture, a chocolate mousse for some chocolate sweetness and finally a chocolate glaze. The sponge and biscuit at the bottom balanced the sweetness of the mousse and glaze very well. This is one of their best-sellers I think, and it is justified for this was a very good piece of well-designed and thought-out cake.

[bSapporo Hasakappu Fromage] $36
This was made from a cheese imported from sapporo i believe. The staff had a hard time explaining what the cake really was composed of, so I got it to try it out myself. The outer red shiny layer is actually a sweet yet sour fruit flavoured jelly, with a soft and slightly sweet cheese mouse inside, with the centre being a fruit flavoured mousse. The cake was all soft, a much contrast to the chocolate truffle cake. I liked this cake very much as the sourness of the fruit went very well with the cheese mouse. A better way to enjoy this cake though, was in between bites of the chocolate truffle cake!

A very tasty sweet experience despite the unexpectedly poor service from a hotel.

Decided to visit RG's cake shop since I've heard a lot of hype about their cakes. On arriving, we realised there wasn't anywhere to eat it - we couldn't take out because where would we take it to? The weather was bad outside... so we walked a little further on the street and there was martini bar. For 10-20% more (in value) you can actually have your cakes be brought in here to be eaten =). So we went back next door to place our orders.

There weren't much choices today. Looking from previous reviews, I seem to have gone on a bad day (public holiday) because there were no small cakes, only sliced cakes like chocolate truffle or blackforest and a few pastries.

So, deciding I'd come another time for their cakes I ordered the following:
Raspberry Tart
A brief description of this would be a short crust tart shell, with a very thin chocolate coating, a thick dollop of pastry cream (custard), and raspberries. The tart shell remained crisp, thanks to the pastry chef's use of the chocolate layer to prevent the custard from soaking into the tart shell. It was more cookie-like than buttery, and had a slight sweetness to it - very good!. It was hard, but not like Paul Lafayet's which was literally unbreakable.... The pastry cream was the best I've had in a long long time. It was the right sweetness and you could taste a hint of egg yolk used in cooking the custard, as well as a little vanilla. Using vanilla beans would have been better but this was still really good. It was thick and gelatinous so it would hold the fruit in place. The raspberries were very fresh although sour, but I don't mind the sourness!

Mango Mille-feuille/napoleon
I wasn't exactly hungry so I shouldn't have ordered this as well...but in search for a really good mille-feuille I had to! On this day they used mangoes - not my favourite fruit choice but they were still really ripe and sweet. The pastry cream (custard) used was the same as the raspberry tart but what was the star was the crisp and crunchy pastry. True there were a lot of layers, and I think they were mostly glazed (with a sugar coating) before layering so they would stick and also become a 'block' against the liquid from the pastry cream. It was skilfully made and thus when eaten, it was very crunchy and crisp and the had the right sweetness. Some pastry chefs omit using the sugar glaze which makes the pastry become soggy (where it touches the pastry cream) and also doesn't remain crunchy/crisp. I must make a mental note to buy one of their whole napoleon cakes when a special occasion comes up!

In brief, this shop sells the best pastries I have tried and if you would like a place to eat them straight away I would recommend you try martini bar if you don't mind the slight price-hike.

Butterfly pastry ($60 a pack about 22 pieces): ordered two packs on the previous day. the butterfly pastry is very crispy. sweet and delicious. My friend siad that it is better than Cookie Quartet.

Tiramisu:well balance of coffee, chocoalte and wine. best in the town.

Chocoalte hazelnut cake: crunchy, smooth and rich chocoalte. very very delcious. a good alternative for the chocolate truffle cake.