Anyeong Noona

First, let Noona introduces you to Kobitos (which she only googled when she was waiting for the food). Kobitos is nor a man (definitely, right?) neither a bug (oh really?). Kobitos is well, Kobitos. It is a creature created by none other than a Japanese creator as part of children's book (omg, really?). Apparently Kobitos has gained popularity outside Japan as well. Noona supposes that makes sense cause otherwise, Kobitos will not be featured in Dimsum Icon's menu if they are not famous in Hong Kong. The menu is pretty creative so we made sure we ordered the dish featuring Kobitos in the most prominent way. 

We also ordered some teas which come in Kobitos' teapot and cup, ah, of course. The teapot and the cup are for sale too, if you are interested. Noona can't help but think that Kobitos are totally not cute, oops, she hopes she does not hurt their feelings. Hahahaha.

Other than Kobitos, Dimsum Icon offers the permanent menu such as the custard buns and BBQ pork buns, both have face plastered on each bun. Uh, this kinda makes it hard to eat them. 

Dimsum Icon adopts the concept of "playing-with-the-food" because you can make the Kobitos milk buns transform into puking Kobitos. If you get deeply distressed by playing with the food, you may skip this step entirely and just pop it immediately into your mouth. Be careful, they are hot. Despite the puke, the milk bun tastes quite good.

We did not realise we basically ordered all BUNS and thanks to that, gotten pretty full kinda quick. The BBQ pork buns are so nice though, as expected of Hong Kong dimsum. The face are plastered on the cheese bits. 

Last but not least, we finally came to the last piece of custard bun, oh gosh, it gave me a rather cute smiley face. Thanks to you, Noona now has a happy face too. 

Dimsum Icon's location:

Level 3, The One

100 Nathan Road

Tsim Sha Tsui

Opening hours:

Everyday 11AM - 11PM

The good thing about this exhibition is there is a proper queue line which is guarded with the shopping mall's staff to ensure that there are only a limited number of people at one time inside the exhibition. This is great as this helps everybody not to photobomb each other or fight over certain Maruko-chan inside the exhibition. Noona only needs to wait around 10 minutes or so. That's more than enough to test out the selfie-stick.

There is a total of four rows of Maruko-chan for you to choose. Some have normal expression, while some have weirder expression.

Noona finds the row of Maruko(s) on the right side to be cuter but everyone has different taste. The yellow haired Maruko gives a particularly cute "blank" face. Kawaii~~~

The flowerbed shaped in Maruko-chan's face is so beautiful. Could not help not to take picture with it. 

Noona chose to stand behind Maruko who gives an awkward expression but she does realise that she gives this expression occasionally too. Hehehe.

"Maruko, why you give Noona such an awkward look when Noona kiss you?". At this point of the post, Noona just realises that Maruko should refer to her as Unni instead of Noona. #failkoreanlanguage

If you want to see Maruko-chan, do come to the One quickly as the exhibition lasts only until 31 August, which is pretty soon.