Voucher Food Hunt: Delicious

Delicious is a lifestyle café famous for their dessert and the place was crowded all the time. It’s a pleasant surprise that they were selling their Afternoon tea set voucher on livingsocial.

Traditional Afternoon Tea Set for 2 Pax @ Delicious (Straits Quay)
http://www.everyday.com.my/coupons/pg/delicious_afternoontea_pg.htm

A total of 2600 vouchers were sold and the weekend slot was almost fully booked for more than a month – we were told that they only prepare 40 sets a day for this voucher. So if you’ve bought this voucher, please do make your reservation quickly else you risk the chance of only getting an appointment on weekday! We were pretty lucky to take the last slot on Sunday 5pm with 4 days advance appointment.

The Menu

The Afternoon Tea Set!

When we first stepped into the café, we were told to choose the dessert first – there was no tiramisu on display and the last strawberry cheesecake was taken like 30 seconds ago literally. So we settled for “Chilled Pineapple Cheesecake with Raspberry Mousse” since we heard that their cheesecake is one of the best.

We were served with our Earl Grey with some biscuit and Ta da! Our giant afternoon tea set has arrived. I guess the picture below is pretty self-explanatory.

Earl Grey

The decks... 

From Another Angle

We started out feast with the lowest deck of Duck Confit in Filo Pastry and Finger Sandwiches. The Duck Confit in Filo Pastry is heavenly! The pastry was so crispy and it complimented the duck confit well.

The Sandwiches & the Duck Confit in Filo Pastry

This is really Yummy!

The finger sandwiches consisted of:-
Cucumber sandwich with cream cheese – taste blah, nothing special
Egg sandwich – the only thing special is the little caviar on top, other than that the sandwich is basic egg sandwich with scrambled hardboiled egg
Smoke salmon sandwich – my favourite of all the sandwiches but I wish the salmon slice was thicker

See the Lil Black stuffs on the Sandwich? Caviar Perhaps? 

The Different Sandwiches...

Smoked Salmon! What a Pleasant Surprise! Wish it was thicker!

Then we continued to the middle deck:-
Scones – it’s hot and fluffy and served with cream and jam – nice!
Rosemary & Cheese Cookies – the cheese flavour is rather strong – too strong till the verge of being too salty
Strawberry Chocolate Dip – big strawberries with generous amount of chocolate dip
Handrolled Chocolate Truffles – bitter on the outside and not too sweet on the inside – thumbs up!

The Middle Deck...

Strawberry anyone?

Last but not least, there was our Chilled Pineapple Cheesecake with Raspberry Mousse! We expect this would be the best out of our afternoon tea set but we quickly discovered that it was not the case. The pinepple seems out of place with the cheese cake - the taste just did not compliment well. The so-called cheesecake had a jelly-like texture. Jenny Cakehouse has much better cheesecake than this! Even Full House (I actually loathed their food) had better cheesecake than this! The worst part of the cheesecake? The base itself! It tasted like stale cornflakes – yucks!!! Definitely THE worst cheesecake base I’d ever eaten.

Look Nice? It was really not that nice... 

Worst Cheesecake Base EVER!

The So-Called Mousse...

The verdict? The environment is wonderful for gathering and the afternoon tea set was overall okay – just don’t go for the cheesecake! Perhaps you might find better dessert on other choices.

Delicious is located at Straits Quay, Penang.