To my delight two weekends ago, I discovered that there’s a dessert stall in Chinatown that sells my favourite HK dessert.


Located at the New Bridge Road end of Temple Street, 味香园甜品 (Wei Xiang Yuan Desserts) serves all the different cream pastes which I love.
The one featured below is 花生糊 (peanut cream paste). A bowl goes for $2 and $2.50 if you’re taking away. This was pretty good. The paste was thick, creamy and smooth. They also sell steamed egg pudding (燉蛋), another typical Cantonese dessert.


But my favourite on a hot day is 杨枝甘露 as shown below. Oh, I first had this in HK and it was so heavenly on a hot summer’s day. This cold dessert has mango puree with small cubes of mango and generous bits of pomelo thrown in. In HK, I had one version with cubes of watermelon and shaved ice thrown in as well. That was SO good. I think shaved ice is better than the cubes of ice as shown in the one below.


This one was going for $3 per bowl. The shop’s really raking in good money going by the constant stream of customers. I think I should consider setting up one of these HK desserts outlets around in Singapore!