Krispy Kreme

> Location : 51 Elgin Street, SoHo, Central, Hong Kong
> Cuisine : American Doughnuts
> Tel. # : (852) 2580-8338
> Website : http://www.krispykreme.com.hk/

What else do I need to explain? Krispy Kreme in Hong Kong is the same old goodness from the states! Starting off at the Causeway Bay location on Lee Garden Road, Krispy Kreme Hong Kong has expanded to Central (address listed above) and also at the Times Square MTR station.

Various selections of doughnuts, coffee, chilled drinks and also early bird specials, Krispy Kreme Hong Kong serves it all! Some of the selections they serve besides the infamous original glazed are caramel kreme crunch, strawberry shortcake, New York cheesecake, and glazed raspberry filled. There are 11 other choices for you to choose!

Pricing wise, for each original glazed, it costs $10 HKD and $88 per dozen. For everything else, it's $12 HKD each and $110 per dozen. There's also a two dozen deal of original glazed for $168 HKD! A good choice if you want to treat your co-workers to some doughnut goodness.

As for their coffee, this is what their advertisement has to say, "Krispy Kreme ensures that our coffee meets the same exacting standards as our doughnuts, We believe that the perfect doughnut deserves the perfect cup of coffee. That is why we are proud to serve Illy premium blend coffee in all our stores, Illy coffee produces a single, unique and unmistakable blend of traditional coffee that will complement your Krispy Kreme experience." Illy coffee? A famous Italian coffee company for over 70 years, you can't go wrong with that!

So what are you waiting for? How does it taste? It's a world wide thing, don't waste time reading what I have to say anymore! Just go now to your nearest location and enjoy some doughnut goodness today!

< 4 out of 5 >

Delifrance

> Location : 1/F, Shui on Centre, 6-8 Harbour Rd., Wanchai
(check website for other locations)
> Cuisine : French deli, coffee and Bakery
> Tel. # : (check website)
> Website : http://www.delifrance.com.hk/

Many locations throughout Hong Kong, Delifrance is a massive chain serving various types of coffee (espresso, cappuccino, latte, etc), bakery items (cakes, cookies, tarts, bread, viennoiseries, etc) and food (sandwiches, soup, salad, pasta, pizza, etc). From Hong Kong Island to Kowloon to New Territories, Delifrance is hard to miss with so many locations. Sometimes Delifrance to me is almost like another Star Bucks. Why? Due to the fact that it isn't hard to find one when you want it! In fact, Delifrance can be found in other parts of the world too! Since this place is so easy to run into, I'm going to make this review short and sweet. I'm going to be specific and talk about one particular sandwich I had a good experience with.

The Delifrance club sandwich is a great sandwich with a lot of ingredients. The ingredients are as follows: 3 slices of whole grain wheat bread, turkey, ham, tomatoes, lettuce, smashed boil eggs, and mustard. This sandwich is not small at all. With 3 large pieces of whole grain wheat bread, you can imagine it to be a decent size. Excluding bacon like most American style club sandwiches, the Delifrance club sandwich is like a health sandwich. You have whole grain wheat bread which is your source of grains and is very healthy. You have your vegetables in lettuce (fiber) and tomatoes (vitamin c). You also have your protein from the eggs. The lack of mayo and bacon helps the sandwich to stay away from all the fat and cholesterol and the sweetness of the whole grain wheat bread along with some mustard is a comparable replacement for the mayo. Taste wise, the highlight to the tongue would be the mustard, ham and turkey. Second in line would be the bread. The bread carries a define grain wheat taste especially in its crust. The crust of the bread is chewy which at first seems kind of annoying. On a personal level, I think it was good that it didn't break easily base on its texture and some entertainment factor if that makes sense at all, haha. It feels like sour dough bread's crust but harder to break. It takes away your usual soft crust sensation giving you that fun to eat experience along with the taste which had a nice, strong grain wheat taste. Yes, it does take a little effort, but in some weird way, I enjoyed it! Here's a good comparison: Beef Jerky.

From my point of view, some people like to stay away from chains because the more there are, the quality gets worst. Yet, base on this one sandwich we discussed here, I think it is safe to deny that comment! This is a great, tasty and light sandwich by Delifrance that anybody should order. Definitely there will be a revisit to this review to help some non-experienced understand better. Heck, even me, haha. Anyhow, hope this helps and my verdict base on this sandwich is...

< 4 out of 5 >