Give a warm hug to the newest tea salon of
Bangkok, TWG.
Originally a famous tea room from Singapore,
TWG has high reputation through out the world with numerous selection of tea to
enjoy with fancy dessert.
It was the 2nd day after the
opening on the day of our visit. The place was crowded with both local Thai and
foreigner. We had to wait for the table for 30mins.
This is the tea list. The selection of
the teas alone was 8 pages long. I assume the variety is about 400kinds
of tea.
We ended up selected one of the famous
original blended tea, Geisha Blossom.
Green tea with fragrant of ripe southern
fruits. (It smells like Mango and Peach to me.) Refreshing and delightful. A
great choice of tea in deed.
We had few dessert to sweeten our afternoon. TWG
offer 8 kinds of Macarons. All are different kind of tea flavor.
We selected 3 out of 8. Here are our choices.
Purple macaron; Grand Wedding Tea shell.
Passion Fruit and Coconut filling.
Black macaron;. Napoleon Tea shell. Caramel
filling
Brown macaron; Earl grey fortune tea shell.
Chocolate Filling.
They manage to bring out the flavor of the tea
nicely. Taste like what they claim with the name. Even though the texture of
the shell was to moist and soft to my liking.
I wish these were a bit more chewy.
Other than Macarons, We also order 3 desserts.
Mango crumble . The mango sauce with chunky
mango pieces on the top is so full flavor that we all said Wow! out loud. I
doubt it if the mango crumble being served at main branch in SG is as good. As
I am sure Thai Mango is one of the best in the world.
We had another decent dessert from the show
case. The name was Singapore Surprise. Pretty much like a tart filled with crème brulee and raspberry.
Burned sugar was aromatic and the crème was rich.
The dessert I found okay, not impressive, was
Caramel vanilla bourbon. This caramel glazed vanilla mousse cake was so plain.
I wish it is richer and more buttery than this.
The biggest failure of the meal would be
scones. Despite their mouth-watering appearance, these scones have smell of raw
material. Unbaked dough could be the word. (Even though these are completely cooked
thoroughly. I can’t figure the reason neither.)
Scones were accompanied by Tea Jelly and fluffy
whipped cream. Whipped cream is a mistake. I prefer clotted cream to my scones.
The tea jelly was new and creative yet it tastes too subtle. None of these were
able to help improving the taste of scones.
Over all, the meal was half way
impressive. Many dessert were nice creations made by ingredients with slightly
better than average quality. And TWG’s tea itself sure lives up to its name. Even
though I found some of their treat a lousy one. Anyhow, the place is new. I am
looking forward to good improvement.
TWG Tea Salon
& Boutique
Emporium G floor
622 Sukhumvit
(Sukhumvit Road), Bangkok
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