Yuen Kee is a traditional Chinese dessert shop in Hong Kong. It started since 1855, existed around 161 years in Third Street of Sai Ying Pun. The dessert shops in Hong Kong are normally providing limited options only for dessert. Yuen Kee is more focus on fewer options of sweet soups. Grind black sesame soup, Green and red bean soup etc. All the Chinese’s desserts are stew by themselves, especially the black sesame soup. They adopted the stone mill method in the traditional way instead of machine or purchase from other supplier and defreeze to serve it. Using stone mill would taste the finest favor from sesame, likewise, the aroma is more intensive compare with machine grinned.
Yuen Kee has a dessert that has the best sale till now, the mistletoe tea with lotus seeds. It is one of herbal tea boiled with eggs, crystallize sugarcane and red dates. The tea has deep brown of the visual and served into a traditional ceramic blow and spoon represented nostalgia of ageist. Take a sip and feel the combination of flagrantly from mistletoe, nice balance of the sweetness between ratio of crystallize sugarcane and crispy lotus seeds, unlike most of the Chinese herbal tea, it would not have any bitterness because of the recipe they adopt. Moreover, the mistletoe tea is extremely benefit to woman while pregnant. It also helps to boost health of human bodies physically and mentally, also heal or prevent illness.