Sweet desserts can make people feel happier

There's a phase that "Sweet desserts can make people feel happier", desserts can be a relaxing snack after a heavy full meal or a refreshing sweet before a snap during the late afternoon. Generally, desserts are categorized into solid and liquid form, whereas Western style desserts are mainly in solid form. Some typical examples of Western desserts are cakes, patisseries, pancakes, chocolates etc. Some Western people would like to serve coffee with the desserts too. In Chinese desserts as well as Hong Kong desserts, there are several of them are served with a more liquid form, for example a mango juicy-like mixed with coconut milk, as they think a liquid form dessert may be more effectively to release the fullness-feeling after a big heavy meal and this might be better for the food digesting system.

Take a high tea desserts meal at QVB – The Tea Room as an example of a western style experience, I felt very full and quite dry after having the desserts. It is true that the tiny good looking cakes with different flavours tasted yummy and alluring, but I could not really finish all of them and felt like I just had a very heavy meal after that. My suggestion of a successful tasty desserts meal is avoid putting in too much flour and sugar when preparing the ingredients, otherwise people may not feel as enjoyable as the outstanding look of the dessert. In this situation, I might prefer more of a liquid-form dessert.

Photo taken from QVB The Tea Room when having high tea