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2014-05-26
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Sense Dessert is a dessert place in Yuen Long I’ve been wanting to visit ever since I found out about it. Ironically I’ve never had a chance to even though I live so close. So on a stay-at-home Friday night I asked my parents to go with me. Funny story – my dad was pretty reluctant when I suggested going out for dessert after dinner. After a bit of pushing he finally agreed “OK, we’ll go after M Club is finished on TV” LOL my dad is addicted to TVB dramas!The location might or might not be diffi
The location might or might not be difficult to find, depending on where you’re coming from. It’s further away from the YL “City Center” where all the restaurants are located, but closer to the MTR Station. Luckily we drove and even managed to find parking in front of the store. When we got there it was almost 11 but there was still quite a bit of lineup, probably from the dinner crowd. We waited for almost half an hour for a table of 3.
Why is this place so famous? Sense specializes in ‘molecular gastronomy dessert’ at a local dessert joint price range. Mind you, I still haven’t had a proper molecular gastronomy meal yet so I can’t comment on their use of the term, but it’s proven to be very popular among locals. People actually commute all the way to YL to visit Sense!
By the way, while we were waiting for a table a loud scream erupted from inside the restaurant – someone saw a huge cockroach moving around on the wall. I didn’t see it but from what I heard it’s almost as long as a thumb -__- Usually this level of hygiene is what I expect at these street-side restaurants in Hong Kong, but still pretty effing disgusting when you think about it.
We ordered two desserts to share among 3. Trying to keep my dad (and my tummy) in shape!
One of their more popular choices would be their Tiramisu Potted Plants. Since I made tiramisu for Mother’s Day the previous week, we decided to order a more unique version which is the Green Tea Tiramisu, $45
-The size was much smaller than the photos – probably only around 3″ to 4″ tall.-The ‘soil’ on top consist mainly of chocolate and a variety of nuts. They also mixed in some popping candy which surprisingly went well with the dessert, both flavour and texture-wise. Other than the popping sensation which kept the texture interesting, it also helped to cut down some of the sweetness from the tiramisu
-The tiramisu, like many other matcha interpretations was really a tiramisu-inspired matcha dessert. Still it was actually not that sweet, though a stronger matcha taste would have been nice as well. Overall not a bad dessert!
Chocolate Lava Cake with Raspberry & Vanilla flash frozen Ice Cream, ~$7x
-When it was served to us the entire dish was smoking from the dry ice. The waiter told us not to eat it yet, and wait for the ice cream to melt a little. Of course I couldn’t wait and dug in right away. And sure enough within seconds I had ice cream stuck onto my tongue and starting freaking out…oops-After the ice cream had cooled down/warmed up a bit I took another bite and it reminded me of mini melts!
-To be honest I couldn’t really taste the vanilla ice cream, but the raspberry ice cream did taste of raspberries and had sufficient tartness
-As for the lava cake, the outside wall had started get very burnt/frozen looking (I really can’t tell) and I thought the inside would be all cooked/burnt as well. However that wasn’t the case, fortunately. Chocolate still flowed out as you can see below.
-The texture of the cake was definitely affected by the cold – while the inside was still liquid, the cake part was a bit rubbery. As for the taste I couldn’t really tell since my tongue was half-frozen by the ice cream lol but I recall that it wasn’t too sweet either. Though again it could have been my tongue.
-That being said, I really don’t see how the ‘molecular gastronomy’ elements added anything to this dish aside from the presentation. It’s all about gimmick.
That being said, I have a feeling I’d come back again since it’s not that far from where I live. They do have seasonal desserts every now and then that might be interesting to try.For those of you who don’t want to travel all the way to YL, they just opened a new branch in Jordan this week so it might be a good idea to visit this location. (and keep the YL line ups shorter for me! XD)
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