Taste of Hong Kong: Instagram-famous watermelon cake to tempt taste buds at four-day food extravaganza
Sink your teeth into Black Star Pastry’s famous cake or down a gourmet hot dog with bubbly this March, as a mix of international and local eateries roll out their goods at the Central Harbourfront
Strawberry watermelon cake and gourmet hot dogs paired with champagne will be on the menu when Sydney’s famed cake shop Black Star Pastry and London’s Bubbledogs make their debut at Taste of Hong Kong 2018 at the Central Harbourfront from March 22 to 25.
“We love Hong Kong and we’ve done events in Singapore, Indonesia and Japan where they know us,” says Black Star Pastry director Christopher Thé, speaking about his excitement from Sydney. “We know we have a fan base in Hong Kong, but we want to see it in person.”
Black Star Pastry opened a decade ago in Sydney and has since expanded to four stores selling croissants, brownies, pastries, quiches, sandwiches, and of course its signature strawberry watermelon cake, which Thé says is probably the most Instagrammed cake in the world.
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The creation was originally conceived as a wedding cake for Thé’s friend in 2009. It features a slice of watermelon sandwiched between two layers of almond dacquoise with rose-scented cream, and topped off with strawberries, pistachios and dried rose petals.