In a previous post, we delved into some matcha in Lot 10: Matcha Hero.
Today, we’re going to jump not from hero to zero but from hero to eight.
Matcha Eight in Lalaport Bukit Bintang City Centre.
How to get to Matcha Eight
It is very convenient to get to Lalaport. Firstly, via public transport. Take the monorail, stop at the Hang Tuah station, and then walk down to the ground floor. Alternatively, ride the LRT on the Ampang or Sri Petaling lines and then get off at the Hang Tuah station. Then walk towards BBCC.
If you’re driving, there are multiple entrances to Lalaport’s basement parking. There’s one car park entrance along Jalan Huang Tuah and another along Jalan Pudu.
Matcha Eight
Matcha Eight is located on the ground floor of Lalaport. There is the air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned section of Lalaport. Where Matcha Eight is, is at the non-air-conditioned section: Gourmet Street.
Matcha Eight is a small outlet. Seating for dine-in is available just outside but it’s umbrella sheltered. Since it’s open air, if it rains then it can get uncomfortable and inconvenient.
Matcha Menu
It’s all things matcha.
You can choose your matcha to be in the form of beverage or dessert. Ice cream or cold brewed tea.
I was craving for some ice cream.
As of this post, there were only eight ice cream flavours to select from. Flavours are coolly called Lovesick Girl, Soul Mate, Maybe it’s Love, Matcha Me Tonight, Hocus Matcha-cus, Melodrama Queen, Hojilicious, and Ho Ho Hoji. Each flavour has different ranges of sencha, matcha, sweetness, and bitterness.
Different flavours have different prices. Prices ranged from the lowest at RM13.00 for like the Lovesick Girl, Soul Mate, and Maybe It’s Love to the highest at RM16.00 for the Hojilicious and Ho Ho Hoji.
It’s quite a complex mix of flavours but you do get to taste them, but up to 4 spoons! That says alot about the demand and curiosity for the ice creams.
Then once you’re done tasting, next is to select the base and the size. For the base, of course, the ice cream can be in a cup or cone. If you want your ice cream to be in a cone, then it’s an additional charge.
Then on to the size. If you want to eat your ice cream in a cone, then it’s a single-scoop ice cream only and no additional charges. However, if you want to eat your ice cream from a cup, then based on how many additional scoops, there’ll be additional charges on top. You can do a single, double, or triple scoop in a cup.
Finally, the last step. You can add toppings to give more texture and taste to your ice cream. For certain toppings in a cup, there’ll be additional charges.
So you’d like to bear in mind the additional charges when choosing your flavour, base, cup, and topping; as they can add on.
For me, it was so delicious, it was Hojilicious. I had a single scoop of hojilicious in a cup.
