Between Xu Liu Shan and Tong Pak Fu, then I like Tong Pak Fu more because they got more options on hot dessert, well I don't really like to have cold drink or dessert. So far, I found there are three Tong Pak Fu outlets in Penang Island, one on Burma Road, one in Gurney Plaza and another one in Queesbay Mall, I still haven't visited to the Burma Road outlet, but I have been to Gurney Plaza and Queensbay Mall once each.
My first visit to Tong Pak Fu was the Gurney Plaza outlet and we ordered Black Seasame Cream and Glutinous Cream, I am fan of black seasame so that black seasame is my first order from Tong Pak Fu and SL took the Glutinous Cream, and we exchanged our portion with each other. After having Glutinous, I think I prefer taste of Glutinous and SL also the same, black seasame cream is tasted a bit sweeter and we found hard to finish the whole bowl by one person, while glutinous cream's taste is just right. After all, our visit in Gurney Plaza was pleasure.
Then we visited to Queensbay Mall Tong Pak Fu outlet about a week later, and we expected they will have same standard of taste, we ordered Walnut Cream and Peanut Cream this time, but their portion seems like less than bowl that we had in Gurney Plaza outlet, the bad part is their cream wasn't warm enough for taste, the even worst part is creams wasn't as thick as the Gurney Plaza and we every can feel corn stratch was inside their cream, this made us felt they didn't use fully ingredient in their creams. Honestly, we found dissapointed with the shop and we were doubt whether Gurney Plaza outlet is actually used corn stratch in their creams as well but they are more professional to hide them in the cream.
After walking out from the Queensbay Mall Tong Pak Fu outlet, we discussed this is a way to save more money to boost their profit, but the thing is whether corn stratch is the ingredient from Tong Pak Fu factory but the outlet failed to hide it properly, or this is added by outlet itself to gain more profit margin by themselves. Anyways, we are no keen to visit the outlet in Queensbay Mall anymore and hesitated to visit the other Tong Pak Fu outlets as well.
My Black Seasame Cream
SL's Glutinous Cream
