Ocio

Don’t underestimate Mong Kok as an old district with few chic restaurants, the area around Hak Po (Black Cloth) Street is actually developing and flourishing very well in the recent years into a food street, especially focusing on desserts, providing a much wider choice than the typical Mong Kong Cha Chan Tangs.
I’ve already introduced HeSheEat in my previous article, and Ocio is another nicely done café in that hood. Focusing on waffles and crepes, this place provides BOTH sweet and savoury topping choices to both. The shop is quite small and its not easy to find a seat. Luckily this café actually has 2 shops across a short distance, so if you can’t find a place in one, try looking in the other. The portion for waffle dishes are kind of huge so, sharing is recommended. On the other hand, the crepes are less gigantic and any girl can easily handle one dish.
Besides the signature waffles and crepes, they also offers a variety of drinks, ad their smoothies are quite nicely done. I also like to try their other dessert options, such as the one in photo with raspberry ice cream on mango ice, fitted with rose-​flavoured carbonated water below, a lighter choice than the waffles or crepes but equally satisfying!

Some say that it’s hard to find real friends in university. They say that most people you meet in university are just hi-​bye friends instead of life-​long ones. Some of my friends also complain that they always unfortunately encountered the problem of having «free-​riders», who don’t contribute much but take benefits — the shared grade, in group projects. Comparatively speaking, I’m rather lucky. I haven’t experienced such issue, and of course I hope I won’t have any! My groupmates are quite responsible — even though most of us are deadline fighters… Working on the little research project together for 2 – 3 months, four of us gradually became good friends who share everything in our whatsapp group. After settling down all the final assignments, it’s time for gathering!
We reserved a table in Ocio to have dinner at 7:30pm. It was quite easy to get there — just to walk along Dundas Street. After passing Ho King Commercial Centre and reaching Kwong Wa Street, you’ll see the name of the restaurant on a brown board on the opposite side. Knowing the all-​day breakfast was a signature dish in Ocio, all of us ordered the Ocio Special which includes garden salad, baked beans, German sausage, chicken breast, smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, potato wedges, etc. When it was served, we were amazed by the size of the whole dish! All the ingredients were plenty for our large appetite after a day’s work! I particularly loved the scrambled eggs as they were really creamy and smooth in texture! The German sausage was cooked with herbs and it tasted fantastic! The grilled tomato and salad helped maintain the balance with the meat. The potato wedges were delicious as well. They weren’t very crispy, but I was okay with them. The generous portion of the all-​day breakfast made us 80% full, but we still have some room for desserts — waffles! We ordered the Parisian, the 4-​layer waffles with two scoops of ice cream. Two layers were original waffles and the other two were chocolate ones. I loved eating the original waffle with caramel. The chocolate one was lovely as well! The combination of the hot (waffles) and the cold (the ice cream) was awesome. Sharing the Parisian together was enough for four of us, and it’s much cheaper than buying it one by one! Apart from the enjoying food, we’ve chatted about a multitude of topics in a relaxing way. Luckily there weren’t many people in the restaurant and we could chat till 10pm!