The Erratic Collection 2011 – Adriano Zumbo – Manly

Wednesday, 18 Jan 12

My my, hasn’t it been a while since we’ve seen this logo. It has also been a very long time since I’ve seen Ms Jen and Ms Donut, over a year in the latter case. But, the stars and schedules having finally aligned, we met up for a long-planned catch up and cake. N.B. While the collection is called Erratic, the same might be said about this post. My apologies for the lack of coherent transitions!

Indecisive as we are, we opted for a last minute change to the Manly shop over the Balmain fuelled in part by the hope that there would be seating, as we had done last time, although we noted on our return journey that a trip to The Star should have also been considered. Oops…

The orb of lychee-flavoured goodness above was my pick of the day, the Ssnowmanorr. A plump pâté a choux filled with lychee coconut crème légère, bubble tea custard and lychee gel sat atop a very anzac-biscuit tasting disc of coconut crunch. As we’d forgotten to bring or ask for utensils (geniuses, aren’t we?) it was quite difficult to eat…at times like this, I wish I were a snake, like my Chinese calendar year, so I could dislocate my jaw to take bigger bites. But the flavour of lychee was very distinct and I loved the fact the bubble tea custard had sago pearls resembling those in actual bubble tea!

Ssnowmanorr innards

Man Goes Peanuts

Ms. Jen had similar problems eating her cake sans utensils, except rather than being hamburger shaped, her Man goes Peanuts was more akin to a taco. With an ingredients list of “Peanut butter crunch, mango compote, mango burnt honey mousse, pain”, I’m slightly concerned…Pain? Oh dear! She was particularly fascinated by the candy like mango jelly at the bottom and describes the outer ‘shell’ as “nutty”.

√ Caramel – Passionfruit crème, ginger vanilla bavaroise, tonka bean caramel, ginger sable breton, caramel chantilly, caramel sponge

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We were eyed by several seagulls. Did you know that the usual red-footed and beaked seagulls are actually the adult of the species and that the ones with brown legs and beaks and mottled feathers on their wings are the juveniles? Neither did Ms Donut. But now you do too!

The returning ferry, onto which we collapsed, sugar-filled, and played Shoot Bubble, all the way home. Let’s hope it’s not another full year until we see each other again.

Adriano Zumbo – Manly is located about 2 minutes walk from the ferry terminal and is open 7am to 7pm Monday-Friday, and 8am to 5.30pm weekends.

Shop 1a/40 The East Esplanade
Manly, NSW 2095

 

1 Comment

1. zumbos has expanded to manly too? mm i always wanted to try that lychee puff!

   Comment by excusemewaiter — January 26, 2012 @ 6:51 pm

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