This is not a normal tang yuan because my grandmother has added ginger while making the tang yuan. Do you like tang yuan? Frankly, I don’t really like. I’ve tried tang yuan with wasabi in it and it taste good. Hehe.

Tāngyuán is a Chinese food made from glutinous rice flour. Glutinous rice flour is mixed with a small amount of water to form balls and is then cooked and served in boiling water. Tangyuan can be either filled or unfilled. It is traditionally eaten during Yuanxiao, or the Lantern Festival. [wikipedia]

Happy Winter Solstice Festival! =)

Get home and celebrate this wonderful Chinese Dong Zhi 冬至 festival with your family, it’s time for some reunion.

I was bored and I added a slice of lemon into the glass so that it looks pretty. Normally, it’s only 7UP carbonated softdrink and vanila flavour ice cream but there’s a slice of lemon inside. Making the 7UP taste a bit more sour and beautiful. =)

Big Apple Donuts and Coffee is in Penang, one in Aeon Jusco Seberang Prai and another one which is on the island in the basement of Gurney Plaza.

This is just a random photos post showing the donuts that I’ve tried before. So far, I’ve been there once time, at 2 donuts before. There’s so many choices and I can’t remember all the names, I should jot down all the names next time, buy all and try it all. You can ask the staff to pick all the recommended one for you.

I’ve tried the chocolate and cappuccino flavoured. Love them as they are very creamy in the inside. That day, I just ordered 6 for take away because there’s no place to sit already, so I took them to the food court.

One thing I don’t like about the location of the shop being in the basement, I prefer something bright like at the alfresco area of the mall where’s there’s inside and open air.

Anyway, various choice of donuts, some coffee and free wifi, nice.

Additional information for you, Big Apple Donuts and Coffee is Made in Malaysia. Big Apple is a nickname for New York City.

When you are going to Hong Kong, there’s a dessert shop that you must visit and it is Hui Lao Shan 许留山 (mandarin:xu3 liu2 shan1; cantonese:hoi2 lao3 shan4). It’s a very famous desert chain store in Hong Kong and you can find it at a lot of places in Hong Kong.

What they are famous for is their mango smoothy. A lot of mango cutlet, has a mango flavoured ice cream and taste very sweet.

Here’s a bird nest with coconut milk. It’s hot and not that bad. However, it taste more coconut then bird nest. I prefer ordering the fruit based dessert.

This is the carrot cake in XO sauce and I got to tell you that I like this so much. Delicious but then it’s small in portion. I have ate it twice when I was in Hong Kong few months back.

Lastly, we did try another light dish and it is the curry beef offal 牛杂 (cantonese:ngao3zhap2). It taste too much of curry powder and I still like the XO carrot cake more than this.

Price of dessert and food is like 15HKD-50HKD, and yet there’s still a lot of people visit the shop. This means that they are real good. Remembered there’s a Hui Lao Shan in Singapore few years ago but then it has closed down now.

Must visit, must go when you go to Hong Kong.

It will be great if someone franchise it in Malaysia.