The Pudding Nouveau

Food (**** out of *****); The chocolate fondant was special. It has a chocolate cake with molten chocolate filling. Other restaurants make this with chocolate filling that is too sweet. Their chocolate filling is not too sweet as to overpower the bittersweet natural chocolate flavor. The cake is tender and moderately fluffy.
Also on the fondant plate is ice cream on a bed of chocolate crumble with a chocolate egg roll. I wish they did something to with the ice cream instead of just putting it on top of something. A chef is supposed to prepare food, not just put something on top of something else. Same goes for the fruit on the fondant plate. They could’ve made a fruit salad or done something else with the fruit. Instead, they just put cut fruit on a plate.
Service (**** out of *****); Good service. They will check up on you and if your order takes a long time like mine or the soufflé, then they’ll let you know after awhile that your dish will take a couple more minutes to prepare.
They will also honor special requests. On their menu is a plain jane soufflé. I asked if they could make a special chocolate soufflé for me. They said, «yes.»
Atmosphere (**** out of *****); Very clean, very cute little café.
Conclusion (**** out of *****); It’s a good dessert place that makes your dessert to order. I would not go out of my way to come here because they run out of a lot of stuff really early in the day. They open at 3PM. I went there at 4PM and they were already out of the following items; ice dripped coffee, Pudding Trio, Smoked Panna Cotta, and Mixberry Shavings Ice. The pudding trio is their signature dish and the ice dripped coffee is their signature drink. Both were out of stock only an hour after opening. There were 3 employees working there. If it were me, I would’ve said, «The show must go on,» and sent one employee to the grocery store to source the ingredients if my regular supplier dropped the ball. They would’ve gotten 5 stars for service and if their signature dishes were great, then 5 star food rating, too, if they had went to the grocery store to buy ingredients that their supplier had dropped the ball on.
English menu is available and staff speaks fluent English.

Craving for something sweet and wish to cool down a bit under the scorching heat? After reviewing on all those nice restaurants in Tai hang, it is high time to write one on a dessert place — The Pudding Nouveau.
It is time to satisfy the cravings and they offer lots of choices. Mango Yogurt, Chocolate Fondant, Lemon Parfait, Soufflé, you name it! I have not tried all of them but it surely does not disappoint. If you are just looking for a simple meal, of course they do have other choices like all day breakfast that costs ranging from HKD$ 88 to HKD$ 98. However, I stand by what I said before, Bricklane still offers the best Egg Benedict so I will stick with the desserts instead.
However, there is still room for improvement unfortunately. First, I understand that dessert places normally do not provide nice seatings and stuff; but given that it is decorated as one of those café, I expected a lot more in terms of the atmosphere. I wish it was more cozy as this was not spacious at all; to pay the enormous rent here, you will expect diners come and go and you will be expected to leave the table once you finish your meal. Which is very disappointing to be honest. Also, I do not understand why there is only one waiter when it is that hectic all the time there. I feel sorry for the server sometimes as it clearly is too much to handle.