港女行：Elephant Grounds Coffee.

Hey, you pretentious people. Follow me to Elephant Grounds Coffee.

If you're into those photogenic coffee, ice-cream sandwiches and dainty coffee shops, this is the post for you.

I visited Elephant Grounds in Sai Ying Pun the other day, it’s located in a designer shop called WOAW so if you’re not on the lookout for it I’d say it’s quite difficult to locate. For a “parasite” coffee shop I daresay that its marketing is quite nicely done. At least it’s got me (who lives under a rock) noticing it (on Instagram).

The shop was quite interesting, there's all sorts of designer stuff there that's a pleasure to browse through. Although I didn't buy anything it's still enjoyable to look around and poke my nose into their pretty displays.

I ordered a latte and the legendary ice-cream sandwich for me and my friend, and we settled on one of the stools outside.

Let me first talk about the coffee shop corner. It is dainty. It has around 10 seats around the bar and outside and that’s it. And the stools are small too. I made the mistake of going there with a backpack. Go in a rock band tee, shorts, platforms and an envelope clutch. You'll match the atmosphere more, trust me. 

The coffee was alright. I ordered a latte, priced at $40. The milk foam heart was neatly done. Nothing special there. 

The ice-cream sandwich, at around $60, was avocado and lime between peanut-butter cookies with little crunchy chocolate balls. The ice-cream was really creamy but I didn’t like the cookie that much as I found it a bit too hard. It’s better for you to share the sandwich if you’re not a big eater as I find the portion a bit too large for a snack.

My experience there wouldn’t be very memorable if it weren’t for the impulsive photo session I had with my friend. After we took pictures of our food, the surroundings, us with the food, the food with the surroundings, and every other picturable possibilities… we started to have fun with ourselves. And this is what we ended up with…

 

Guess I'm more found of taking "after pictures", at least I am able to tell people I actually consumed those stuff and enjoyed the moment rather than letting the camera have a higher priority over my food.

We had enough of taking pictures of the food and took selfies instead.  

We ended up spending more than an hour playing trapped in a cup.

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