Dessert Kitchen

I was asked once upon a time whether I ate at any of the many dessert restaurants in around town or did I just ate at regular meal restaurants.  Well in short I do eat at dessert restaurants and it was actually very recently that I went and tried out Dessert Kitchen in Markham, Ontario.  This place had been there for about a year now and is located in a small plaza tucked underneath some newly built commercial buildings.  It can be somewhat difficult to locate as it's not quite visible on a major street and unless you knew where it was, locating it could be somewhat of a problem.

When we got there, there were a few tables still available for us.  For some of my friends, it was their second or third time there but for yours truly, it was actually my first time there.  The place looked pretty clean and was populated with many young adults just chilling and enjoying their desserts for the night.  They had menus posted on their walls and a fancier paper version menu at the table.  Since we had just come off having a rather large dinner earlier in the evening, we decided to try a couple of their specialties and a couple of their more simpler desserts.  For that evening, we decided to go with their Taste of Uji, A Creme Brulee, A Peanut Tong Yuan and a Green Tea Molten.

Taste Of Uji

The Taste of Uji was the first to land on our table.  It looked somewhat exotic or as exotic as one could be with green tea "noodles" mixed with red bean and in coconut sauce or milk.  The dish could be served hot or cold although on that particular evening we decided to go with the cold.  Despite the coconut flavored milk or sauce, it was not an overly sweet dessert as the green tea noodles lacked some flavor to it and the red beans were just red beans.  Most of the taste actually came from the coconut sauce itself.  It was a good dessert nonetheless, however a bit more stronger on the flavor would have been nice.

Creme Brulee

The Creme Brulee appeared to be a little more burnt than one would like when it came out of the kitchen. The bottom side of it was crispy and yellow, while the top side of it was unfortunately burnt black.  I know for some, the burnt sugary part of the creme brulee might not be the most appealing part.  We just pushed that part of the creme brulee away.  The under side of the crispy layer however was pretty smooth.  Despite the amount of sugar on the creme brulee, it too was not as sweet as some of the other creme brulees I have had before.

Peanut Tong Yuan

The Peanut Tong Yuan was pretty good but again the ginger soup base was not overly sweet.  The peanut pasting on the inside was perfect.  What I liked was that the whole dish was pretty hot inside and out including the peanut stuffing on the inside.  It's a simple dish to make that usually requires no magic hands to make however the soup base did taste a bit diluted which was a little disappointing to me.

Green Tea Molten

The Green Tea Molten was the last to arrive and this was probably the best of the bunch on that particular evening.  Cutting into the cake, the green tea oozed beautifully out the cake.  It was nice and hot and had that rich green look to it.  The interior was smooth, sweet and not chunky at all.  It certainly earned high marks for hitting everything perfectly on that evening.

Overall, all the desserts were pretty decent. Some of the comments I made about the sweetness could be construed as personal preference.  For me, I like my desserts sweeter and to me the desserts outside of the green tea molten were a tad bit bland.  For those, who prefer a lesser sweet tasting dessert, then they would certainly love this place.  The dessert restaurant was pretty much filled to capacity around 9 pm that night and by 10 pm, people were unfortunately lined up all the way outside the door on a cold winter evening. Despite the long lineups out the door, the staff never came by to rush us out the door.  Overall I give it a 3.5 out of 5.

Dessert Kitchen
3623 Highway 7 East
Unit 106
Markham, Ontario

905-604-6300