Eating Out- Dessert Culture!

So I was wondering the streets of the city with my friends looking for a late night asian dessert house and along the busy strip stood Passionflower. The cafe whose ice-cream affair began in 1997, allures us, foodie lovers on a platform longed for Asian exotic ice creams and desserts.

The brand is synonymous with 'Asian exotic ice cream signature flavours:- black sesame, sticky rice, japanese green tea, durian, lychee rose, pandan, jackfruit and taro.'

Instead of ordering individual desserts, we all decided to share a huge dessert consisting of six ice cream scoops served with fresh fruit.

The six delicious flavours were:

• black sesame
• green tea
• mango sorbet
• hokey pokey
• vanilla bean
• taro

The verdict: the dessert tasted sooooo unbelievably GOOD. We all enjoyed it. Passionflower was a great dessert house which did not drain our wallets. We will sure be visiting it again very soon! You all should give it a try. Its a definite stand out amongst the crowd.

INFO:

Address:

Shop G12, Capitol Square
730-742 George Street
Haymarket, NSW 2000

Opening Hours:

Sunday to Thursday: 10am - mignight
Friday & Saturday:    10am - 1am

Phone number: (02) 9281 8322

Email: people@passionflower.com.au 

Until next time, foodie lovers!

pohxox

A Sweet Treat - Black Sesame Ice Cream

Ice Cream Ice Cream.
We all want ice cream
You scream
I scream
We all want Ice Cream!!

lol.

Getting back to the point. One of the my less important goals every year is to try a different flavour of ice cream. I use to always choose the one flavour: cookies n cream but then one day i discovered green tea at my local baskin robbins and that was it. I said my farewells to good old cookies n cream and since then green tea and I became have been the best of friends for the past 4 years. However, this year, when i was at a gelato shop with my family i decided to try a new flavour: black sesame!! I wasnt quite convinced that it would live up to the flavour of green tea but boy was I wrong. So now i'm proud to introduce to you my good friend black sesame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And you know what, what's even better then buying ice cream is making it. So heres a special secret recipe of black sesame ice cream courtesy of the japanese cooking book 'okashi' by Keiko Ishida~

Ingredients

• 200 g Fresh Whole Milk
• 3 Egg Yolks
• 60g Castor Sugar
• 50g Black Sesame Paste
• 100g Whipping cream

Method

1. Heat milk in a saucepan almost to the boiling point, then remove from heat and set aside.
2. In a mixing bowl, beat egg yolks and sugar until pale yellow in colour.
3. Add warm milk and mix well. Return mixture to the same saucepan and heat very gently, stirring constantly, until it thickens to form a custard.
4. Transfer custard into a mixing bowl. Place bowl in a larger bowl half-filled with iced water to cool. Add black sesame paste and mix well. Set aside.
5. In a chilled bowl, whip whipping cream until stiff peaks form. Add whipped cream to custard and fold through. Transfer mixture to an ice cream maker and churn according to the manufacturer's instructions.
6. Store in the freezer or serve immeadiately!

(:

pohxox