Anyeong Noona

Anyeong! Noona feels very full from the heavy dinner + beer that she just had with her bestie earlier. That means now is a good time to blog about food since it won't make Noona feels hungry again, especially at this timing. Where were we? Oh right, Noona and her friend finally managed to get their seat inside this popular cafe in Harbour City, Moomin Cafe. To her surprise, the restaurant is not even 100% full. Oh well, it seems that Moomin Cafe calculate the diner turnover pretty slowly, more time to prep the food, probably?

K-in-HongKong: Moomin Cafe, Harbour City Part 2

The waiting for the food part may not be as boring and gruelling as the waiting for the seat part. This is because Moomin Cafe's staff ensure that the characters from Moomin's story are there to accompany you (or to make diners busy taking picture with the characters and hence, forgot about their hungry stomach for a while). You don't have to worry if you have not got the chance to take picture with the character that you like because the cafe staff rotate the characters' location all the time throughout the dinner time. Everyone will have the chance to take picture with Moomin, it seems.

Eating with Stinky at Moomin Cafe Harbour City

Noona loves to pay a lot of attention to small things when she dines inside a themed cafe. For instance, the utensils...lol.

The paper coaster...and oh yeay, here comes the Hot Chocolate. If you order Hot Coffee/ Hot Chocolate, you can choose which latte art you would like to see on your coffee/ chocolate. The choices are Moomin, Little My, Snufkin and Hattifatteners. Noona has to choose Moomin of course. <3

Moomin Hot Chocolate at Moomin Cafe Harbour City

Here comes Noona's order of Spaghetti Carbonara which comes with mushroom and ham. The Spaghetti Carbonara tastes oh-so-good just like the pasta she had back in her Europe trip. It's nothing like pasta usually served in Singapore's restaurants (okay, the lower class ones of course, not the high-end ones). Noona was actually quite taken aback because she has pretty low expectation on themed cafe's food.

Spaghetti Carbonara at Moomin Cafe Harbour City

Noona's travelling buddy also enjoyed her "healthier" option which consists of a huge slab of Norwegian grilled salmon. Tasty!

Norwegian Grilled Salmon at Moomin Cafe Harbour City

Moomin Cafe is located at Shop 32, Level 3, LCX, Ocean Terminal,

Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui

Hong Kong

Opening hours:

Everyday 11AM - 9.30PM

Okay, apparently eating at Harbour City, one of the most popular shopping malls in Hong Kong, around 7PM on a Saturday is a very very bad decision ever. Every restaurants have long queue formed in front of the entrance. We were getting tired and hungry too from all the walking. When we were at this situation, we were at Lcx section of this mega shopping centre and it would be a long way to go back to the MTR area. That's when we decided to just join the queue of one of the nearby restaurants. And the nearest restaurant from our location was Moomin Cafe.

K-in-HongKong: Moomin Cafe, Harbour City

We used the queue machine which generate queue number based on how many people dining. We thought the queue won't be long until we realised that the number was not generated in orderly fashion. It jumps from A to C to B and any random number with no particular sequence. Faintz.

Oh well, one of the things which you could do is to check out the menu first. You could grab the menu book from the table located in front of the store. Some of the popular dishes are on bigger display though. It seems that Moomin Cafe serves Western food.

30 minutes later, Noona got seriously bored and tired from all the standing (yes, standing does make you tired too) but we saw people coming from one restaurant to another just to check out the queue so every restaurants in the mall seem to be in "FULLY CROWDED" condition at 7.30PM-ish.

Moomin Dolls at Moomin Cafe Harbour City

Finally, Noona and her dinner buddy could get their table at 7.45PM. Oh my gawd, the way to dine in Moomin Cafe seems to be as far as the painted road in the painting hanged inside the restaurant (oh apparently Noona still has the energy to joke...lol).

Moomin Painting at Moomin Cafe Harbour City

Jolly seated, with Little My sitting right opposite Noona.

If you are a fan of Moomin, you will squeal with happiness because this is basically a themed cafe which allow you to eat with the characters from the Moomin's story. However, so far, Noona has not seen anyone coming alone to really eat one-on-one with one of these characters though. Probably Saturday night is not really the best time for solo-diners to pop in. =P

Noona will cover more on the food and the characters in Moomin Cafe in the next post as the pictures are quite a lot for one blog post. Until then, anyeong!

Anyeong Noona

K-in-HongKong: Moomin Cafe, Harbour City Part 2

K-in-HongKong: Moomin Cafe, Harbour City Part 1