The night before leaving China at the end of April 2013, le bf and I decided to splurge and have dinner at the Häagen-Dazs® store in Wanda Plaza, the mall near where we lived in Ningbo. We’ve chosen what we wanted to order weeks ago, their new promoted spring product: Queen Kelly’s Ice Cream Hightea Set.
Getting a bit too excited before going insde the store
It looked exactly as advertised!
This is what was included for us at the price of 238RMB (around $40.76 CAD):
Top layer – “Queen’s Beloved”
– 8 different flavors of ice cream with small waffle container underneath: Green tea, strawberry, raspberry sorbet, lemon sorbet, chocolate, wild berries, mint leaves & chocolate, coffee
– 1 White chocolate jewelry box with cream and strawberry pieces in the middle
Top: Queen’s Beloved
Middle layer – “Dessert Art”
– 2 Opera cakes
– 2 Lemon tarts
– 2 Macarons
– 2 Almond biscuits
– 1 Chicken mushroom quiche
– 1 Berries Grand Marnier & Cream in cup
Middle: “Dessert Art”
Lower layer – “Royal Orchard”
– 2 Slices of honeydew
– A mixture of blueberries, strawberries and kiwi slices
Lower: “Royal Orchard”
Tea of our choice: Peach passion fruit
It was a pretty pink color (:
Conclusion:
Though it might not look like it, the portions were quite big and enough to replace dinner for the two of us. My favorite was probably the top layer, we split all the ice cream so I got to try every flavor, and all of them were amazing (well, Häagen-Dazs® IS famous for ice cream)! The white chocolate from the jewelry box was pretty tasteless though, I suppose it’s mostly just for decoration. The middle layer was good too, I liked how most items were came in pairs so it was easy to share (otherwise a fight might have broke out between me and le bf lol). And the chicken mushroom quiche, which was the only salty item in the entire set, was surprisingly tasty. As for the bottom layer, since I’m a big fan of fruits, and especially blueberries, for me it was the perfect way to finish off the lovely meal.
I think this set is only a limited summer product in China, since I couldn’t find any information on it on Häagen-Dazs®’s official website. I highly recommend anyone who has the chance to go and try it in China, though it is a bit pricey, the store atmosphere is quite nice, and having high tea always makes me feel like an extravagant, elegant English lady (:
Typical us:
le bf: “Can I eat yet?”
me: “NO! I gotta take pics of the pretty food.”
Oh boy was I a happy camper
Have a lovely omnomnom adventure guys (:
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