passionflower icecream and hontou pancakes

27 June 2006, 20:44

mmm i love a day of just roaming around the city eating whatever you wish (also, i love having random days off work. i hated my previous 9-5 mon-fri job)
first off: Passionflower icecream! Passionflower is the icecream chain which caters to asian tastes with flavours like durian, black sesame and sticky rice to the more normalish chocolate, mango and pink grapefruit. when we walked in the entrance i immediately got suckered into trying the cookies and cream cheesecake becos LOOK its sooo pretty…


unfortunately it was lukewarm which made me question if it had even been refrigerated over night… and it was a bit too dense for my liking so i ordered 2 scoops of sticky rice and pink grapefruit in a waffle basket. (btw i dont actually like the waffle basket but its the same price as in a glass and i reallllli hate the sound/feeling when you scrape a metal spoon against glass). noods got the hm. uh cant quite remember… but it was raspberry and something mousse? texture was odd like it hadnt been refrigerated haha

later on we were wandering down sussex st and found this place:

think it was called hontou pancakes and its right next door to ippon sushi. looks sooo pretty too! after having tried the beard papas puffs i was curious to see if the custard in these ‘pancakes’ tasted anything similar. they were 3 for $5 and we chose 2 custard and 1 chocolate.

BITES. hmm. i liked the way it felt when i was holding it, it felt like a mini waffle but smooth. unfortunately i didnt like it. at all. surprisingly noods liked it. alot. and scoffed the rest!

1. after 2 1/2yrs of you telling me about passionflower, i still havent been there…one day. and I’m surprised you didnt get the cheese flavoured pancake.

   — amie    Jun 27, 10:39 PM    #
   
   

2. Sounds like a disappointment? I had one myself today but it`s my own cooking (even though it was a low price food brand, which probably is one reason) so I won`t complain to much about my not so tasty tortellini, but it wasn`t exactly italian cuisine ;-)

   — Vintage wine    Jun 28, 04:35 AM    #
   
   

3. I used to hate doing shift work. But having a day off when everyone else was working was kinda cool.

   I’m not that big on the Hontou pancakes either. Kinda like dense heavy pikelets.

   — Helen    Jun 28, 11:35 AM    #
   
   

4. those pancakes are the best!

   — noods    Jun 28, 07:12 PM    #
   
   

5. ooh. i like your sticky rice – pink grapefruit combo. i’ve had both flavours before, but separately. too bad about the obanyaki. i would’ve scoffed your lot too. :) the chocolate could be more chocolatey though.

   — bowb    Jun 28, 08:43 PM    #
   
   

6. amie: lol yeah the asian flavours are the best! hmm cheese yeah i was kinda ina sweet mood
   
   vintage wine: yeah i guess i was hoping for a new taste sensation heh
   
   helen: yeah i like having mondays off! or course then i get different days that are my ‘mondays’
   
   noods: blargh
   
   bowb: i agree with you on the chocolate. i reckon itd be heaps good if it was COVERED in chocolate! mmm

   — chocolatesuze    Jul 1, 12:20 AM    #
   
   

7. These are the kickass pancakes! Always buy every week for the delicious taste of white chedder cheese… MmmMMmmm… in fact i’m eating one right now. Don’t buy the choc or Custard cos they’ll make you sick with the texture of rice pudding. And as a bonus, theres a sexy chick working there! MmmmMMmmm…

   — Danielle    Jul 1, 06:44 PM    #
   
   

8. danielle: lol i didnt get the cheese but now im dying to try it!

   — chocolatesuze    Jul 1, 09:22 PM    #
   
   

9. hot hontous taste good :D

   but once they cool down they get sucky fast

   — Grace    Mar 31, 04:09 PM    #