Soft serve Ice-Cream Sprint: Via Tokyo--Honey Creme--Softsrve

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   If you notice, soft serve ice-cream has becoming one of the latest trending dessert around. It is basically a type of ice-cream with softer texture, because of the introduction of air into the mixture during freezing. If you haven't try one yet, this kind of ice-cream is something close to MacDonald's sundae, but every shop's version is slightly different. My first encounter with soft serve other than McD's was Milk Cow, Mid Valley but i wasn't impressed by it at all. However, these 3 soft serve ice-cream dessert shops that i'm writing today had definitely changed my mind on soft serve.

Via Tokyo, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong



   I visited this shop out of a recommendation by a friend of mine, Jeff, who lives in HK. He is a huge fan of the Japanese-tea soft serve ice-cream here and everything matcha means heaven to me. Hence, when i got the opportunity to visit HK last year, i made sure i hunt it down despite having to travel a distance away. It is a small and humble corner lot located on the outskirt of the busy Time Square area. Via Tokyo as its name suggests, offers the customers a wide range of Japanese desserts, from matcha to coffee, from a simple soft serve to waffle and parfait. It is something like Nana's Green Tea we have in Malaysia. Due to time constraint, i only managed to try out the Matcha soft serve in waffle cone.

Matcha Soft Serve--HKD 32

   Soft, smooth, rich and bitter sweet would be the best descriptive terms for this wonderful dessert. Comparing to the other matcha ice-cream i had in the past, Via Tokyo's version is way much richer, strong in its matcha flavor and creamy at the same time. This would be fantastic for all the matcha lovers out there. They also serve royal milk tea and genmaicha soft serve as well, but they were not available when i went there. If you ever visit HK, please head on to this shop early, if you want to try out these unique flavors!

Contact Info~
Address: 1A, 1B, Ground Floor, Lei Shun Court, 106-126 Leighton Road, Causeway Bay
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/viatokyocafe/timeline

Honey Creme, 313@Somerset, Singapore


   The second soft serve dessert shop that i would like to recommend, is located in 313@Somerset, Orchard Road, Singapore. Similar to Milk Cow, Honey Creme is also a Korea-Taiwan soft serve brand that focused on organic milk soft serve with high quality honey. My cousin highly recommended me to try out this popular dessert chain in Singapore that people would not mind queuing for an hour just for a taste of it. When i was in town, i managed to try out their signature Comb Honey and Honey Comb soft serve.

Le menu
Comb Honey--SGD 5.50
Honey Comb--SGD 5.90
   Comparing to Milk Cow's, i definitely would prefer Honey Creme's milky soft serve. It was supremely smooth and filled with dairy's goodness. The other component, organic honey was also delightful on the palate. It was perfectly sweetened with natural ingredients and the honey comb was crumbly and filled with generous amount of silky honey. Both the items above were great for those who do not fancy diabetic desserts.

Contact Info~
Address: 01-37 313@somerset, 313 Orchard Road, Singapore 238895
Website: http://honeycreme-icecream.com/sg.html

Softsrve, Damansara Utama

   Last but not least, we have our own Malaysian owned soft serve dessert shop in PJ Uptown as well. Although it has only been operating for less than a year, its popularity in Klang Valley is undeniably high. As a die hard desserts fan, i have got to try this out myself to blend in right? Located in the hub of Damansara Uptown, same row as The Good Batch, Softsrve is not easily missed, though parking can be a headache to many.


Menu
    Softsrve's menu is fairly simple. They offer 3 categories of soft serve flavors: Cereal Milk, Deep Chocolate and Salted Butterscotch. Hence, there is something for everyone, aimed to please the taste buds for all. I decided to go with cereal milk, with 'Breakfast' as topping, because this is the best seller combination here in Softsrve.

Cereal Milk+Breakfast--RM 11
Cereal milk soft serve, made with milk and cereals, topped with cereal flakes and strawberry slices.

The actual size of the soft serve and the bigger cup is for dry ice and some water
    Cereal milk to me, supposed to taste like milk with plenty of cereal within. However, the cereal was too fine and lacked of pleasant texture within. The milk flavor was not substantial enough as well. If i were to close my eyes and taste both the Cereal Milk soft serve and McD's vanilla sundae, i wouldn't know the difference at all! However, it is definitely an eye-catcher, attention-seeking and Instagram-worthy soft serve because of the amazing visual effect you get from dry ice popping with fumes. Personally, i find it over-rated and definitely overpriced. Perhaps i should try out the other flavours like chocolate churros to find out the specialty with Softsrve.
The most photogenic corner
The insanely huge crowd!
Contact Info~
Address: 31, Jalan SS21/1A, Damansara Utama, Petaling Jaya.

   That's it! All 3 soft serve desserts shops in a row, from 3 different countries! I hope you are tempted by me to purchase a soft and creamy soft serve right now! Well, i am definitely craving for it right now. I guess my best choice would be McD's because it is near and cheap and why not? McD's sundae are great! Who agrees with me just comment down below alright? I hope you enjoyed the write up! xoxo

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