Hello Kitty Secret Garden

Hihi! :)

As you can see from the title, I finally visited the Hello Kitty cafe! I have found a Hello Kitty lover who wanted to go as well and so we did after our morning classes ended. 

We reached Tai Hang at about 2 p.m. and there was already a short queue. Thankfully we did not have to wait long - about 10 minutes. I have read reviews where people had to wait for 30 minutes! The cafe is quite small with limited seats, and due to the long queues, customers are only allowed to stay for an hour before being asked to leave. 

The food is quite pricey so be sure to bring enough cash because this cafe will literally eat your wallet. I felt so broke after paying my portion of the bill! It was really difficult to choose as there is a variety of choices available, such as All Day Breakfasts, spaghetti, burgers, salad, soup, appetizers, dessert and drinks! My friend and I settled on the poporn latte, but I decided to try the chocolate tart whilst she tried the strawberry tart. 

Nevertheless, all Hello Kitty lovers should visit this cafe at least once! The cafe is decked with Hello Kitty from the ceiling to the floor, and it's just so cute! 

Review:

I didn't have a bite of the strawberry tart, so I will have to trust my friend's review on this. She found the presentation of the tart very cute, with the strawberries very nicely laid out and the cute Hello Kitty chocolate peeking out from the tip of the mountain-like strawberries. 

She said that the strawberry tart tasted really good, and there was cream with the strawberry mousse. The Hello Kitty chocolate was hollow on the inside and she broke it to pieces. Overall, she didn't say much except that the strawberry tart tasted good and it really did taste like strawberries with cream. xD 

Hello Kitty Strawberry Tart

Next comes the chocolate tart, which was the one I ate! The chocolate tart was surprisingly good. The chocolate (sheets? pieces? thins?) was quite bitter considering it looked pretty dark. However, it was really hard to dig in without the chocolate sheets getting in the way. I had to eat all the chocolate sheets before I could actually take a bite out of the chocolate mousse! Eventually, eating the chocolate sheets got quite messy because I had to carefully remove the embedded chocolate from the mousse and it was just quite annoying. 

Finally, I finished the chocolate sheets and I just dug into the mousse! However, the tart base was hard and needless to say, a chunk of the chocolate tart flew towards me and fell to the floor. Argh!!! Anyways, the mousse was good though, very creamy and had a strong chocolate taste. It's such a pity that the tart base was too hard to cut with the fork because things got super messy in the process of eating and it felt like I was murdering the tart with my fork. 

Although it did taste good, the chocolate sheets just got in the way of eating the tart, and the tart base was really too hard for me to cut so I wouldn't mind trying the other tarts next time. My friend successfully cut a portion of the tart base with no trouble, so I'm wondering if it's just the chocolate tart or just the tart they gave me... I guess that I'll never find out. xD

Hello Kitty Chocolate Tart

Popcorn latte! Yes, they had popcorn latte! It was on the daily special menu so my friend and I decided to try it out. It costs $40 so we were quite disappointed at how pricey it was but decided to give it a shot because it sounded interesting. The latte took quite some time to make so we were slowly enjoying our tart and taking pictures of it while waiting.

Finally the latte came and they had an imprint of Hello Kitty and Daniel on it! They also served the latte with some popcorn on the saucer. The appearance of the drink looked really cute as a whole. However, the latte didn't have any popcorn flavour, it just tasted like normal latte. The popcorn was supposed to be placed in the latte so it will melt and absorb the popcorn flavour. We did that, but it still tasted the same. The only popcorn I tasted was at the very end, when the leftover unmelted popcorn was left. I ate the popcorn and it tasted minty! My friend and I were confused because that would be disguising the real popcorn taste, so it was more like a mint latte instead?

We were disappointed because we were expecting more from the popcorn latte, but we decided to let it slide because "it was our first time" and we "didn't know".

Daily Special - Popcorn Latte

So that's the end of the food review, but here are some pictures of the exterior of the Hello Kitty cafe! It's just too cute to not include with the review. :D

Exterior of Hello Kitty Secret Garden, taken with wide angle lens.

Close up of Hello Kitty holding a coffee cup, so cute!

Waiting area, with a Hello Kitty bicycle and helmet with a plush toy!

Price:
$97 per person // 10% service charge 
$40 - popcorn latte
$48 - tarts & other desserts

Ratings:
Taste: ★★★☆☆
Value for Money: ★★☆☆☆
Presentation: ★★★★★
Environment: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

Address:
中文: 大坑安庶庇街19號地下
English: G/F, 19 Ormsby Street, Tai Hang