Food, glorious food!

Omgosh I got so fat in the lower abdomen area. 

Not only does the media here keep telling me with their Linda Chung ads that I'm super fat, but binging on the awesome cakes from Italian Tomato, curry fishballs from street vendors, and milktea (with sweatened condensed milk) from the Tai Po Cooked Food Market is not helping.

Muuuust lose weight to eat more!

Anyway back to Italian Tomato.  So far I have tried Mousse au Chocolat, Tiramisu, and Renoir.

Mousse au Chocolat has a rich creamy cocoa taste and fragrance.  The mousse is balanced with three thin layers of chocolate cake.  The rim of the cake is surrounded by a layer of silky chocolate truffle.  Cocoa powder covers the entire surface.  How could anyone resist!?

I must say that the Tiramisu was a total disappointment (it's usually a hit).  It didn't have enough moisture and tasted like any other ordinary cake.  It had no character of its own and was lacking the key element of a Tiramisu: sweet coffee!  The bottom cake level should have been soaked in sweet coffee to give it a complex texture and taste.  Yes the cake cannot be soaked for too long, and yes it is a challenge to keep it in the fridge to sell for the whole day (because the cake will collapse if you soak it too much), but that is the challenge and the highlight of a Tiramisu!!

The Renoir wasn't bad.  Renoir is just a fancy name for cappuccino cake.  I think it was generally a good piece of work, but it must be eaten first.  Everything just falls flat after Mousse au Chocolat.  To be honest I don't remember much of what it tasted like...  I just love the little walnut they put on the top though.