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2014-05-01
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I bought a Groupon deal where you get a $40 voucher that is good for $70 worth of food. Boyfriend and I came here and there was no line as we arrived at 9 PM on a Wednesday night. Though, by the time we left, there was a huge line outside.A little background of the place. Mangochacha is from Taiwan and as you can guess from the name, it serves everything mango. Yes, for those wondering .... this is the Taiwan equivalent of Hui Lau San. Though Hui Lau San uses the yellow, skinny mangos more popul
A little background of the place. Mangochacha is from Taiwan and as you can guess from the name, it serves everything mango. Yes, for those wondering .... this is the Taiwan equivalent of Hui Lau San. Though Hui Lau San uses the yellow, skinny mangos more popularly seen in the Phillippines and Mangochacha uses the red/orange round ones more popularly seen in India or if you grew up in North America ... Mexico.
The place is a rather small and located in the same small side road with all the bars in Tsim Sha Tsui. It has a bright orange and white interior ... how very mango in tone. Menu items ranged from waffles with mango, mango smoothies, mango tea, mango puff pastry and a series of mango snowy ice. They even sell a plate of just sliced mango for $32. So, if you're not a fan of mango ... you've come to the wrong place. All desserts were from $50 - 70.
Boyfriend and I ordered a mango snowflake ice, with mango ice cream, mango bits and shaved brown sugar ice. Cost $68. The ice was extremely soft much like ... yes, snow. And lots of very artificial mango flavor. Inside was a hill of shaved ice drizzled in brown sugar syrup which was quite good though nit very finely shaved as I did bite in to large chunks. The mango ice cream was smooth but not very strong mango flavor. And the fresh mango? Yes, sweet. Portion size was enough to share between two people.
Since it's newly opened shop, if you like their Facebook page, they will give you a small glass of fresh mango juice. Though, we had to remind them to give it to us as it was very busy and getting a glass of water was hard enough, it did come promptly after asking for it. Taste? Kinda of like watered down mango juice. But it's free ... so, can't complain I guess? I'd hate to pay for it.
I still have one more Groupon voucher, so I will return. We will try something else. But personally, for $68, it wasn't worth the price. Glad I paid a Groupon deal for this.
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