Tutorial A- Chang Yu-Lun, Yijun Liu, Chenyu Li

Five special tea desserts for summer in Melbourne

We live for food and always here to recommend the suitable dessert for you in
this burning summer in Melbourne, check out which one you would like to try.

Food

Recently the weather in Melbourne often rose up to over 30 degrees, lots of people
doesn’t want to go out in this sizzling hot summer day, however, sitting in a
comfortable place that is cool and relax with a cup of tea and several desserts will be
great. Now, we will tell you where to go and what to eat in Melbourne. There are five
tea desserts that are going to be introduced to you below.

1. Pinky promise in Luxbite

Location: 38 Toorak Rd, South Yarra VIC 3141, Australia

Business hours:
● Monday-Friday: 8:00-19:00
● Saturday-Sunday: 10:00-18:00

[Pinky promise.jpg]
Photo via Luxbite

This dessert store is clean and tidy, the wall outside is colored dark giving customers
a feeling of cool and prestigious. Inside the cafe, tables are neat and white marbling
which is a wonderful background for people to take photos of deserts. There are also
green freshness plants settled on the wall, which makes the whole environment an
exuberant feeling. When sitting down, you will feel the relatively atmosphere that
people are chatting with each other, and the sound of teaspoons collapse with the
teacup, or the sound of people reading their newspapers.

If you visit this store, you won’t want to miss the “Pinky promise”, which is a pink,
lovely, and heart-shaped cake. The pink layer is made by strawberry chocolate it
tastes crispy. Inside the chocolate layer is strawberry mousse that is a bit sour but
sweet. On the base layer is berry biscuits, this layer will melt in your mouth smoothly
when you try it, you are going to feel the rich creamy aroma that comes from the
cake. In addition, if you try this cake with green tea, it will be perfect to dilute the
sweet and sour and make your mouth fresh.

The reason you must try is that the pinky out looking is attractive for both children
and young ladies, as well as the taste of this cake is wonderful and people are hard
to get tired of its taste. Besides, the shape is like a heart which is suitable on
Valentine's Day to attract girls. Because the aroma is not that sweet, and it combined
with a little bit of sour in strawberry, the pinky promise is just suitable for this
blistering summer.

Online ranking: 4.5 stars

Author ranking: 4.5 stars

2. New York baked cheesecake in Brunetti

Location: Myer Melbourne, 3/314-336 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Business hours:
● Monday- Sunday: 9:00- 19:00
● Thursday- Friday: 9:00- 21:00

[New-York-baked-cheesecake.jpg]
Photo: Jolin

Brunetti is a very comfortable, bright and relaxing place, it is located in the Myer
building with its cool and clean environment, which is suitable for summer. This store
not only provides various desserts and drinks (coffee or tea) to eat in or take away
but also have an ice cream bar next to it, this is the perfect nice place to spend your
whole afternoon and enjoy food with friends.

You must try the cheesecake, which is the most famous one and had won the most
delicious dessert in the world, it relies on heavy cream or sour cream, with its
smoothie and soft taste with some vanilla extract with sugar, which baked twice with
the cake in the oven. Because of the sweetness, we recommend to have it with a
cup of mint tea, which will release the heavy and sweet flavor of the cheesecake and
make it cool. It is always a distribution when you are having a heavy taste of
something in this hot summer. With the hotness outside, this place is both clean and
neat to relax and chill.

Online ranking: 4.5 stars

Author ranking: 5 stars

3. Chokolait. Lemon cheesecake in Chokolait

Location: Shop 342, Level 3, Emporium, 287 Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000
 Business hours:
● Monday- Sunday: 10:00-19:00
● Thursday- Friday: 10:00-21:00

[Chokolait. Lemon-cheese-cake. jpg]

Photo via Chokolait Emporium

This store is located inside a shopping mall, the tousled of the store is black which
indicates its famous dessert is chocolate. Inside the cafe, there are beautiful
chocolates displayed in the center on a clean counter for customers to choose.

The Lemon cheesecake is the one you definitely want to try. The smoothy taste
combined with rich creamy aroma makes people feel happy and satisfy. The lemon
flavor was hidden inside the cake naturalized the creamy aroma, and it adds a sweet
and sour taste to the rich aroma, having it with a cup of black tea will level up its
special flavor. Strawberry sauce combined with a half strawberry piece on the top of
this cake make it colorful and looked cool in the summer. The base layer is made of
milk cookies, which provides enough sweet for the cake. Customers are able to
adjust their preference on the sweetness as to choose either have the strawberry or
scream inside the plate.

This type of cake is suitable almost for all types of tea. It can make tea less bitter and
add cream flavor into it. It is also fit in summer because of the taste of lemon make
people a little bit cool down from the extreme temperature. Cheese, which is inside
the cake provides an appropriate amount of sugar for people who lose too much
energy outside. Its location is in the city of Melbourne CBD, it is relaxing to spend an
hour after shopping.

Online ranking: 4 stars

Author ranking: 4.5 stars

4. Frasier sponge cake in Runya’s Room

Location: rg03/260 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Business hours:
● Monday- Sunday: 9:30-18:00
● Friday: 9:30-19:00

[Frasier-sponge-cake.jpg]
 Photo: Frasier Torte

This dessert store is very fancy and both high quality, it is beautiful and also
comfortable. As its outlook, you are able to find this is a place for people to take
thousands of pretty photos. There are plenty of exquisite desserts with special
design and flavor, those plates and forks are all similar to what princesses use in the
palace. Although compared with other desserts shop, this one is more expensive
due to its ingredients and creative decorations, yet for meeting friends and giving
yourself a bit relax time, this is the place for you to meet good friends, gossiping and
enjoying happy moments during busy days.
The “Frasier sponge cake” is a cake with strawberries, as the name tells that it is like
a “sponge”, which actually taste smoothie, fresh lemon included with little sweet from
the strawberry. The sponge cake is not that sweet but cool and it will melt after
seconds in your mouth, having a green tea with it is definitely fresh for this summer.
Sometimes we need time and a nice place to rest and chill, as we tried the cake and
some other desserts that were really stunning and relaxing. In Addition, this shop is
not noisy but surrounded by soft music so that it is suitable for you to have a good
time with your friends.

Online ranking: 4 stars

Author ranking: 4 stars

5. The tennis ball mango& blueberry tart in Hopetoun Tea Rooms

Location: shop 1&2, The Block Arcade, 282 Collins Street, Melbourne 3000

Business hours:
● Friday-Saturday: 8:00-17:00
● Sunday: 9:00-17:00

[The-tennis-ball-mango& blueberry-tart.jpg]
Photo via Hopetoun Tea Rooms’ Facebook

This dessert shop has a forest look, which can be a place for you to cool
down in a hot summer. From the display window, you are able to see various
cakes and desserts, and the lights and decorations in the shop are viewable
from outside. While you get in the store, you can feel the cool atmosphere and
little flower smell, with only the feeling you enter, you can get rid of the heat.
The most popular dessert for summer is “The tennis ball mango & blueberry
tart”, which is a tennis-like ice-cream on the top of the tart with several
blueberries and mango fruit in the tart. From the plate above, it is colorful and
French style