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2016-07-02
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A friend from Canada was in town and I had to take her here. As last year she came, we did the Hello Kitty Cafe, I thought it only fitting we follow up with the Pompompurin Cafe.Pompompurin, for those that do not know, is a dog (a golden retriever to be exact) that loves to eat pudding. He always has a brown beret on his head. Since he's yelllow in color, combined with the brown beret, he pretty much looks like a custard pudding.The cafe is, of course, from the land of kawaii. Japan. Their curre
Pompompurin, for those that do not know, is a dog (a golden retriever to be exact) that loves to eat pudding. He always has a brown beret on his head. Since he's yelllow in color, combined with the brown beret, he pretty much looks like a custard pudding.
The cafe is, of course, from the land of kawaii. Japan. Their current branch in Hong Kong is located in Causeway Bay, right next to Sogo. You have to go down a flight of stairs that are decorated with a cute story of Pompompurin and how he came to be. However, there is an elevator available. It's located in the Macau Yat Yuen Center.
The cafe was super cute. The chairs were shaped like Pompompurin. There were Pompompurin plushies found at every table so there was no need to fight for one.
Even the ceiling was cute!
The walls had drawings of the cute little dog.
They also have a tiny gift shop to buy items such as water bottles and stationary.The plates and placemat were all themed with the yellow pudding loving dog.
It was pretty quiet. I think maybe 3 other people were there. I guess, he's not as popular as Hello Kitty?? So, we could pretty much sit anywhere and we had a lot of fun taking photos of everything. Selfies for all!Menu was in English and Chinese. They have photos of all the food. So, we ordered a number of items. Now the true test. Does it look like the photos in the menu? Or some slopped together item?
Ice Cream on Mango Soda ($64). The one on the left is the mango soda. The scoop of vanilla ice cream was in the shape of the dog. His little beret was a piece of chocolate. Drink was tasted like soda water with mango syrup.
Gelatinous Pudding Shake ($69). My drink was not really thick and I would say it was more like drinking sweetened milk. A marshmallow with an image of the dog was placed on top. Sucking on my drink, there was a lot of huge chunks of custard pudding on the bottom.
Taco Rice in a Cup of Friendship ($139). When this arrived, it looked exactly like what was shown on the menu!It was cute to look at. The rice was in the shape of the dog. There was actually quite a bit of rice because the entire cup was filled with rice. However, it was cold. I guess it took them a while to make the shape. His hat was half a meat ball and his friend was a bit of mash potato. All was stuck together with a piece of pasta. The meat sauce was ok and tasted more like bolognese than taco filling. We weren't sure what the green clover were made of. We suspect some sort of fish meat?
Bagel Special Pancake Tower ($149). If you order certain items you can keep the small yellow Pompompurin cup that is found on the dish. There's a limited daily quota and we got one. They give it to you a new one in a small box. The pancakes were ok. A bit dry. It was layered with custard cream that wasn't too sweet.
Pompompurin Mango Parfait ($119). This was bigger than we expected. The parfait had a Pompompurin in custard pudding shape. The parfait included mango slices, two scoops of ice cream and fruit. Digging to the bottom was a layer of custard! It was actually pretty good but far too decadent to finish.
Prices maybe expensive but portion size was actually quite large to make up for it. Food tasted ok wasn't great but a lot of effort was done to recreate Pompompurin and stick to this theme. Design of the cafe was excellent as it really stuck to theme. I was pretty impressed as far as theme restaurants go. This is probably one of the best in Hong Kong! Would probably return but I don't like him as much as I like Hello Kitty.
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