Hong Kong people love to eat sweet soups and desserts, and they also like to chat with friends in dessert stores after meals, so dessert stores are all over the streets.
There are traditional Chinese sweet soups such as red bean soup, sesame paste, and walnut dew that will nourish and beautify you. There are also unique Hong Kong-style desserts that combine East and West, with rich and varied fruits from Southeast Asia.
You can also enjoy delicious western desserts, such as cheesecake, mousse, pudding, and chocolate, which are delicate and lovely in hotel restaurants, cafes, cake stores, and chain dessert stores.
Many internationally renowned dessert masters have developed in Hong Kong, bringing top-notch taste experience. Are you excited? Take a sweet trip!
Food recommendations
Each store has its own signature dessert, but most offer the following popular styles:
Red bean soup
Traditional sweet soup flavors, sweetened with the refreshing aroma of tangerine peels; and red bean ice on ice with light milk.
Bean Blossom
Soft bean blossom, which used to be eaten with sugar water, is now flavored with red beans, green beans, sesame paste or a variety of fruits.
Soup dumplings (usually stuffed)
Large soup dumplings, mostly stuffed with sesame, peanuts, and red beans, can be served with simple ginger or red bean soup, sesame sauce, and other flavors.
Li Xuexue'er Sugar Water
The winter choice has the effect of nourishing the face and moisturizing the lungs.
Mango Pudding
Paired with fresh mango, whipped cream and evaporated custard, it mixes Southeast Asian and Hong Kong flavors.
Durian desserts
Durian fans are in luck! Some Hong Kong dessert stores use durian to make a variety of desserts, including durian ice cream, durian cake, and durian muffins.