Sweet Classroom

Date of visit: 17th July 2010

Sweet Classroom @ Third Street, Western District

After dinner at a Tea Restaurant nearby, S and I walked here to have dessert. After looking at their menu, we decided on a crème brulee, Hokkaido Milk soufflé, and a Green Tea Snowflake Ice.

The Crème Brulee ($30) was superb. To be honest when it arrived there were two miniscule slices of strawberries and a single blueberry which made the not-very-brown caramelized sugar on top quite sad-looking and generally not as appetizing as a plain well-caramelized crème brulee would look (an example would be like Paul Lafayet’s). The top caramelized sugar cracked nicely with a tap of the spoon and cut through easily without ruining the ‘look’ of the custard. The torched sugar, even though not brown enough in colour, was surprisingly sufficient and good to give the burnt-sugar taste and aroma. The custard underneath was cold, creamy, smooth and rich – very addictive!

 First soufflé, quite white on outside

The Hokkaido soufflé took a bit of time to arrive, but when it did it was barely cooked. The middle was very ‘wet’ and I asked for them to bake it longer. When they returned later it looked quite hopeless so the other waitress /chef offered to make us another one! As it took a while we decided to order a snowflake ice ($28) to kill time, and settled for green tea as I remember liking their green tea flavour. We ordered chocolate sauce and black sugar to go with it for no additional costs. This was S’s first time having snowflake ice and she loved it – light, clear matcha flavour and silky texture, but the snowflake ice was quite small in portion compared to other dessert places with similar pricing.

birds eye view of our green T snowflake ice with black sugar jelly + chocolate syrup

 second Hokkaido milk soufflé arrives, looking much browner on the top - i.e. cooked properly

Twenty minutes or so later our new Hokkaido Milk soufflé ($35) arrived. Whilst I was happy with its doneness, it didn’t taste as good as I remember. The texture was a little more ‘plastic’ on the outside, and was quite lacking in any flavour. A vanilla crème anglaise would certainly help here! Not a bad dessert at all, but definitely room for improvement.

We probably overdosed on sugar between us two but it was all good! 

Food: ♥♥♥♥

Service: ♥♥♥

Price: $$

Sweet Classroom

G/f, 150 Third Street, Sai Ying Pun, 

Western District, Hong Kong