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Hey, Here Are Two Trendy Food Items of Varying Degrees of Gross-ness

Food! Is it for people? Or is it for Moments? Trick question, it's both. Every few days hours, some hot new thing to eat (often made by combining two already hot edible things) scrolls its away across...

Food! Is it for people? Or is it for Moments? Trick question, it's both. Every few days hours, some hot new thing to eat (often made by combining two already hot edible things) scrolls its away across our screens and, like a crustacean in an angler fish's lure, we have to get closer to investigate. Here are two: ice cream and corn on the cob from Tea Funny, and Oreos on croissants at Our Bakery. Are either of them fit for consumption by either the person or, more importantly, the camera?

Tea Funny café, over on Yongkang Lu, is no stranger to dessert creativity. They already spawned a luo tang ji (落汤鸡) themed grey rain cloud cake with a little sugar chicken inside, and a grilled corn tea ice cream(烤玉米冰Tea淋). This new take on creamed corn is a cute-looking thing; a picture-perfect grilled corn on the cob with a dollop of jasmine-tea flavored soft serve on top (that's worth ordering by itself). 7/10, very photo-worthy, guaranteed viral response on your Moments. Points deducted for being messy to eat. Definitely start with the ice cream and be cautious alternating between them. The ice cream might just go splat. Tea Funny say they invented it years ago, but we found records of the same thing being sold by French pastry chef Dominique Ansel in Tokyo a year before Tea Funny opened. Hmmm... File it next to the Korean corn-shaped ice cream and the gawdawful Kedi Corn Guys. Across town, Korean bakery Our Bakery continues its desperate, fumbling grasp for that wanghong spotlight (don't we all) with decadent takes on the humble croissant. Their latest version, the 32rmb Oreo Croissant, drenches the top in icing and crumbled Oreo cookies and floods the inside with cream. It's sweet. It's intense. Half is plenty. Not really sure we can recommend this Type-2 diabetes diagnosis wrapped in light flaky dough, though. Your personal trainer will not like and comment on this photo, so it gets a 6/10. Instead, try the 23rmb pretzel croissant. It's excellent. If it came with ham, cheese and a little mustard, it'd be one of the best croissants we've ever had. Duller than a soggy haybale in photos though. 0/10, not photoworthy.
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