Dessert restaurants in Asia
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Havmor
Ahmedabad is famous for its ice cream and the Havmor ice-cream bar, behind Navrangpura bus stop, has tons of flavours.
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Highlands Coffee
Aboard a big old ferry boat, Highlands gets you out on the water without actually setting sail. Its decks offer a fine vantage point and a chance to catch a refreshing breeze while enjoying smoothies, shakes and ice cream. You can also order a light meal or breakfast. The signature product, of course, is coffee.
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Max Brenner
This jazzy outlet of the revered chain of chocolate shops has all the rich drinks and treats you'd expect. There's also a small menu of breakfast items and heartier fare served through the day.
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Zam Zam
These guys have been here since 1908, so we figure they know what they’re doing. Tenure hasn’t bred complacency – the touts try to herd passers-by through the door as frenetic chefs whip up murtabaks (flaky, flat bread filled with mutton, chicken or vegetables).
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Island Creamery
Small and nondescript, with only a handful of tables, Island Creamery serves ice creams and sorbets that are the stuff of legend. Local flavours are a speciality, including teh tarik (Indian spiced tea), cendol and the refreshing Tiger Beer sorbet. Others, like burnt caramel, black forest, Horlicks and berry are just plain superb. Be prepared to eat standing up.
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English Tea Room
A civilised air-con retreat, this delightful place, located in a shopping plaza, offers a wide choice of salads and sandwiches as well as terrific cakes. The teas include Ceylon and Indonesian green and you'll find some interesting coffees too. There's a terrace table upstairs.
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Jayaram Fast Foods
There’s a busy (and yummy) bakery downstairs, and a crisp and clean restaurant up top that does a nice line in Indian fare, plus burgers and pizzas. While the latter aren’t winning any awards, this is as good a piece of pie as you’ll find in Madurai.
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Moonpeak Espresso
A little bit of Seattle, transported to India. Come for excellent coffee, cakes, imaginative sandwiches and dishes like poached chicken with mango, lime and coriander sauce.
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Namgyal Cafe
Located at Namgyal Gompa (part of the Tsuglagkhang Complex), and this cafe serves cakes and vegetarian food. It also provides vocational training for refugees.
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Chocolate Log
One of McLeod’s original cake shops and still setting a high standard for sweets, coffee and freshly baked cakes.
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Kartika Sari
Next door to the Cupu Manik puppet factory; has an incredible array of sweets and a steady flow of customers.
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Dumpukht
Named after the cuisine championed by the nawabs (Muslim princes) of Avadh (Lucknow, India) some 300 years ago, this is one of the PC's five fine restaurants. Try the delicious murgh pukhraaj (chicken cooked in yogurt, saffron, Afghan spices and garnished with edible silver paper) - one of the chef's personal favourites. For a midnight snack later, takeaway cakes, croissants, chocolate donuts and other sugary delights are available at the hotel's Pastry Shop.
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Sweet Dynasty
Though specialising in Chinese desserts, Sweet Dynasty also serves a wide variety of mouth-watering dishes such as Shanghainese prawns, braised beef ribs with bitter melon and other Chinese classics. Desserts, of course, are amazing, so top off your meal with a slice of taro cake or a dish of mango pudding. Lines can be long, especially on the weekends, so make reservations or be prepared to spend some time people watching on the sidewalk outside.
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Jimmy's Kitchen
High on nostalgia and one of the oldest names in the game, Jimmy's, a Hong Kong feature for seven decades, rests on its laurels. The baked onion soup, char-grilled king prawns, seven-pepper steak and a whole medley of desserts (including its famous baked Alaska, around HK$58 per person) all compete for the diners' attention. There's a branch in Tsim Sha Tsui (2376 0327, 1/F, Kowloon Centre, 29-39 Ashley Rd).
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Miravile Impakt
It's hard to know what's more striking at this trendy café - the chic modern interior of bold colours and angular furniture, or the fact that everything on the menu here will overload your sweet tooth. Specialising in just dessert, Miravile Impakt serves up an elegant three-course meal that is rounded out by designer teas and speciality coffees.
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Chin Mee Chin Confectionery
Kaya (jam made from coconut and egg) toast like grandma used to make. A nostalgia trip for many older Singaporeans, old-style bakeries like Chin Mee Chin are a dying breed, with their mosaic tile floors, wooden chairs and strong steaming coffee. One of the few Singaporean breakfast joints that still makes its own kaya, apparently.
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Freddy's Café
Convivial yet with attitude, Freddy's flaunts a 'politically correct menu' that includes Continental dishes 'flavoured to local preferences'. There's everything from Dijon steak to Afghan 'Tora Bora' chicken. The dessert menu is deliciously insane - who could possibly resist the 'Limited Democracy' ice cream and 'Day & Night' chocolate mousse.
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Snowman Restaurant
A long-running and mellow, if slightly dingy, place, this is one of those rare Kathmandu hang-outs that attracts both locals and backpackers. The chocolate cake has been drawing overland travellers for close to 40 years now. When John Lennon starts singing ‘I am the Walrus’ on the stereo it suddenly feels like 1967 all over again…
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Nánxìn
A specialist in Xīguān xiǎochī, this busy restaurant is a very popular pit stop for Cantonese desserts. Try the steamed egg whites with milk (双皮奶; shuāngpínǎi).
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Zanzibar
Hip and happening, Zanzibar has attentive staff, a chic interior and a swanky circular bar (all that's missing is the alcohol!). The ambitious menu here sports everything from seafood chowder, to hot dogs, to Mexican chicken fajitas. Zanzibar's dessert list even includes an Australian-inspired 'summer pavlova'.
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Commons
This cafe has a strong following among Colombo’s upwardly mobile. Customers lounge in soft seats arranged around low tables and feast on an array of Western dishes, including baked crab, burgers, pastas and wraps. The pancake and bacon breakfast is very good and the desserts are spot on.
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Dhanraj Bhatia Sweets
This place in Bhatia Market has been churning out traditional sweet treats for 10 generations. It is renowned in Jaisalmer and beyond for its local specialities, such as ghotua ladoos (sweetmeat balls made with gram flour) and panchadhari ladoos (made with wheat flour).
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Portobello
Portobello pays tribute to the boot-land by serving up favourites such as ravioli stuffed with shrimp and crab, or personal pizzas topped with scrumptious imported cheeses. Dessert enthusiasts can earn a place in the 'hall of fame' by devouring a slice of thick chocolate cake sans hands.
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Lai Kei
This ice-cream parlour oozes nostalgia for Macau in the 1960s, and indeed, the menu and prices haven’t changed for decades. The simplicity of the food conjures up bitter-sweet feelings of childhood. Fans of retro must try the perennial favourite wafer Neapolitan ice-cream sandwiches.
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Bread of Life
If the heavenly smells from the bakery don’t win you over, the American menu of pancakes, pizza and other comfort foods (biscuits and gravy, anyone?) surely will. The restaurant is almost entirely run by deaf staff and proceeds go towards training activities for the deaf in Danang.
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