Opened in 2017, the store is hidden in an office building and is not easy to find. The disadvantage of the location did not affect the popularity of the store, and the Happiness Dynasty Food Department is a "hot player" among Nanjing cake shops, which is highly sought after by local young people.
The menu of the Happiness Dynasty Food Department changes from time to time, and the cake styles are kept at about ten, and the ingredients used in the new products are often in line with the season, such as strawberries in spring, green grapes in summer, and persimmons and pumpkins in autumn and winter. The Happiness Asahi Restaurant also offers four types of cake sets, which are matched according to the number of diners, making it easy for diners to order.
Seasonal cakes catch the eye of most diners, but in fact, it's the "resident guests" on the menu that are truly hidden. The Floating Cloud Roll, also known as the MOF Roll, is a classic by world-class pastry chef Angelo Musa. It subverts the traditional method of cake rolls, which requires a high liquid content to create a fluffy texture, but if you do too much of it, the whole roll will break, so the failure rate is very high. The floating cloud rolls of the Happiness Dynasty Food Department are made of exquisite materials, the blue windmill whipping cream has a silky and delicate taste, and the outer layer of the cake rolls is soft and fluffy, and the combination of the two makes the taste sweet and not greasy.
Matcha mille-feuille is the staple of the Happiness Asahi Food Department. In terms of raw materials, the Happiness Asahi Department chooses Isuzu from Maruku Koyamaen, one of the most famous tea suppliers in Uji City, Japan, and Isuzu is a high-quality matcha powder, which is higher than the Qinglan and Wakatake, which are often used in domestic cake shops, and can be said to be "luxury" for baking. The matcha flavor in the mille-feuille cake is mellow but not bitter, and the fly in the ointment is that the mille-feuille skin is hard, which affects the overall taste.
The cake called "Barton" is actually a whipped cream chocolate hazelnut mousse. The cake has four layers, from top to bottom, cream, hazelnut mousse, chocolate ganache, and meringue. The cream is the same as in the cloud roll, and the blue windmill is chosen, and the taste is creamy. The hazelnut jam is homemade and is made by roasting selected hazelnuts and almonds at low temperature and slowly boiling them. Hazelnut butter has a rich flavor and a unique nutty flavor. The chocolate is made of Valrhona's Caribbean black chocolate, which has a light coffee aroma. Barton has a rich taste layer, and the bitter black skillfully neutralizes the sweetness of the cream, which is suitable for diners who don't like sweetness.
In terms of decoration design, the Happiness Asahi Restaurant is a simple Japanese style, and the tableware, lamps and other items in the store are collected by the owner from all over the world. There are not many seats in the restaurant, but it can accommodate about 15 diners, and the seats are close to each other and not very private. Service is one of the major shortcomings of the Happiness Morning Food Department, because there are not many people, it is not possible to take care of every diner, and the speed of ordering and serving cakes is relatively slow. There is a certain amount of cake every day, so diners are advised to choose an earlier time to arrive. In addition to the above, the Happiness Dynasty Food Department can also make birthday cakes, the style is the same as dine-in cakes, and customization is not supported, and birthday cakes need to be booked at least one day in advance.
