Shari Shari Kakigori House 氷屋

It is generally agreed that if you want to maintain and grow your blog’s readership, you should focus on one specialist subject and post frequently. Well, not one to be dictated to, I laugh in the face of such wisdom – preferring instead to opt for a rather scattergun, sporadic approach. If you are one of my handful of regular readers – and I can only sincerely apologise if you are – I do offer you my upmost respect, you are evidently made of steely stuff. The thing is, I’m afraid, it is all probably about to get worse…

During the summer, like many expat families, we packed up our suitcases and waved a sad goodbye to Hong Kong, off to a new home in Prague. Now September is here, and my son – my first, and for a long time, only little adventurer – has just started big school and so is no longer my lively companion on our treks around the city. Instead, for the bulk of the day, I have the company of my hilarious and disarmingly cute nearly-one-year-old girl, whose main interests involve chewing on power cords, hiding all her brother’s Lego and generally getting filthy.

And so life has changed. And by extension my blog no doubt will too – although in exactly what ways it is hard to say yet. I daresay there will probably be a bit more European travel, as well as some baby and babywearing stuff thrown in. Who knows, I might even start doing some arty crafty features or books reviews. Although not one to befuddle you completely, I expect I’ll keep the irregularity of my posts a constant.

Anyway, whilst I puzzle it all out, and because in my heart-of-hearts I’m not quite done with Hong Kong just yet, I’m going to dust down one of the small, yellow folders that patiently sits in my laptop, waiting for me to finish the washing-up and stop faffing around on Facebook, and reminisce happily about some of Causeway Bay’s finest icy desserts. Enjoy!

Via Tokyo

As a small child, the pinnacle of my ice cream sophistication was getting a slice of Vienetta from the freezer, whereas nowadays my son gets taken to cute little Japanese dessert shops to try stunning sesame and matcha soft serve! Being a traditionalist, mind you, he does normally opt for the creamy deliciousness of the Hokkaido Milk ice-cream. A good choice. With such tasty and beautiful desserts, it is little wonder that Via Tokyo has won three gongs in the 2016 Openrice Best Restaurant Awards. If you choose to eat in, you might get lucky enough to get to sit in the beautiful wooden swinging seat, or you can also opt for takeout.