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Hong Kong diners may already be familiar with French toast, but what about brick toast? Also known as Shibuya or honey toast, brick toast is a dessert consisting of a large piece of milk bread with drizzled toppings. While this dessert is all the rage in Taiwan and Japan, Hong Kong’s foodscape has given this mouth-filling delight unique twists. Looking to get a taste of this block of sweetness? Here are the best places to try brick toast in Hong Kong.
Since its Hong Kong launch in 2022, After You Dessert Café has been stealing the hearts of patrons with its signature toasts. The Thai dessert house serves some of the best sweets in town, featuring a menu of delectable brick toasts coming in creative and intriguing flavours. Dig into the top-selling Shibuya honey toast and mango sticky rice toast, which all come with seasonal ingredients and a generous scoop of ice cream.
If you are feeling bold, we recommend trying the Thai tea toast, covered in tantalising Thai milk tea sauce, and, of course, the Hong Kong-exclusive salted egg toast. This sweet and savoury combo is guaranteed to surprise your taste buds!
Those with sudden cravings for sweet bread bricks would find TeaWood a good bet to sate their appetites. This Taiwanese casual dining restaurant has multiple branches across Hong Kong, making it a convenient go-to venue for authentic Taiwanese food. More importantly, its ice cream toasts are a spectacular sight to behold. Picture layers of crispy toasts slathered in cream and marshmallows, and drizzled in a chocolate sauce—simply irresistible! TeaWood offers plenty of flavours, including strawberry, cookies and chocolate, and green tea with red bean and brown sugar. These photogenic delicacies come in incredibly large portions, so bring friends along to share the dessert.
Here comes an underrated gem for brick toast enjoyment: Sweet Moment. Situated in the unassuming streets of Sham Shui Po, this fuss-free dessert shop has been a neighbourhood favourite for serving affordable desserts late at night. Its roster of traditional Hong Kong desserts are popular choices, but customers ultimately return for the toast mountains. Cut open the dessert and you will discover small pieces of freshly baked toast fillings boasting rich honeyed sensations. What’s more, each mound of toast is even coated in melting ice cream and cut strawberries. Take your pick from four lovely toppings, but you can’t go wrong by ordering the fan-favourite mango toast mountain.
Sweet Moment, Shop 62, G/F, 218 Manor Centre, Fuk Wing Street, Sham Shui Po
As per its name, dining at Dazzling Café is truly a dazzling experience. Embellished in pastel-pink interiors, heart-shaped chairs, and floral wall installations, there’s no better place for an aesthetic hang out. Originating from Taiwan, the café serves an array of pasta, salad, sandwiches, and traditional Taiwanese dishes. Nevertheless, the cube-like honey toasts remain the showstoppers. The Dazzling classic honey toast is paired with Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice cream, while the strawberry time honey toast and chocolate banana toast are topped with mouth-watering strawberries and caramelised banana slices. Fun fact: waitresses here are dressed in maid outfits to maximise the experience!
Dazzling Café, Shop L322–L323, 3/F, The One, 100 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
You might think brick toasts can only be sweet, but E For Egg is here to prove you wrong with its savoury toast options. This egg-themed café not only serves great Japanese cuisine but also delicious brick toasts. Indulge in its iconic toasts stuffed with scrumptious fillings like soft-shell crab, salmon roe, and sausage patties. The finishing touch: all toasts are accompanied by an egg-cellent serving of scrambled eggs. Popular items include the scrambled egg toast, the ebi fry, cheese, pineapple, and scrambled egg toast, and the black truffle, garlic mushroom, mozzarella cheese, and scrambled egg toast. We’re giving bonus points to the café for being pet-friendly as well.
You may not expect to find brick toast at a burger place, but Cutting Onion’s toasts are just as mouth-filling as any. While browsing its menu, look out for the innovative peanut butter toast, which combines Hong Kong’s iconic French toast with the culinary techniques of brick toast. Indulge in a thick crunchy piece of toast with generous fillings. For toppings, savour the enticing blend of peanut butter ice cream, butterscotch, and candied peanuts. We guarantee that the sweet buttery finish tastes absolutely wonderful.
Cutting Onions, Shop 02, 1/F, The Vantage, 63 Ma Tau Wai Road, Hung Hom
Fuelled by tea and oat milk, Stella is on a mission to discover the best cafés and teahouses for weekend lounging. This also entails the side quest for camera angle exploration on foodie pics. Other times, you will find her binge-watching video essays on YouTube, having private concerts in the shower, or experimenting with vocals on her microphone.
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