Hello (again!) Kitty Bakery
April2
So this is the second visit to the Hello Kitty Bakery in Taipei. (And probably not the last…) This time, however, we actually saw the inside of this genius operation. After being seated at a pink, frilly, fluffy, cushy booth, in a totally pink, frilly room (I guess it is what the inside of Kitty’s house would look like…so good job on that one), and after being ignored for about 30 minutes while people all around us were being attended to by small Taiwanese waitresses dressed in pink and lace…no one wanted to talk to the foreigners in the corner (us), we finally got some attention. Now this might not have been so hard if not for a couple things:
1. Abby’s allergies. Being allergic to eggs and nuts isn’t really convenient at a bakery.
We had to whip out some flashcards she brought with her, but we still ended up with an egg product. And no worries…this is not the last allergy complication we had. Oy.
2. None of us can read Chinese, so no one knew about the hidden set meal part of the ordering. Or the minimum charge of 300 NTD.
So the waitress takes our orders. We all get ridiculous looking cakes (good thing the menu had pictures) because we wanted something small. And Abs opted for a fruity icecream. Well she couldn’t just get the icecream because it wasn’t 300NTD so we asked if we could combine that price with Amanda’s drink price to make 300. No. Not possible. Then after about 15 minutes of trying to figure out why we couldn’t order cakes, we found out that each cake came with a set meal. So we all got cake, even Abby got a little tart thing with no eggs…supposedly…since her icecream was too cheap, then we all had to choose a drink to go with it. And most of the drinks were like a meal in themselves!
First came the drinks:
Amanda and I chose kiwi milk (basically a kiwi smoothie) and Steve and Abby got mixed berry tea.
Then the cakes:
So this is some kind of fruit tart with cream and apples around the outside. Then a chocolate dusting of Hello Kitty’s face. Obviously necessary.
This was kind of like a strawberry poundcake…kind of. plus choco-kitty head.
Then a strawberry+apple+poundcake+crepe cake. And a chocolate Hello Kitty bow.
Then Abs ended up getting the ice cream in the end anyway.
Fresh fruit, waffle cookies, whipped cream, ice cream, marshmellows, strawberry pudding-like stuff. What’s not to like?
And then, if we weren’t in sugar coma already, we got dessert. Dessert for our dessert. It was more like our dessert’s (drink) dessert’s (cake) dessert. A hidden factor of our set meal.
I was wondering what was missing from this experience. Of course a Hello Kitty jello mold! What was I thinking??
All us us + Frank. The friendly Taiwanese man we met on the bus who offered to take us around Taipei all day because he had nothing better to do. He was the one that helped us out with the whole ‘this tart really does have eggs’-thing.
What have we learned today? 1. Too much pink doesn’t exist. 2. Hello Kitty rocks my socks. Next time I plan on getting the Hello Kitty burger on a Hello Kitty bun. I kid you not.
