Dessert Shop Hui Lau Shan Opens in Austin, Texas | Eater Austin
"A popular fast-casual mango-dessert chain from Hong Kong has opened a Crestview spot at 7020 Easy Wind Drive, Suite 150. The cafe specializes in Chinese-style mango desserts — highlighted by its signature mango chewy ball (pureed mango, mango ice cream, and mango tapioca balls) — and offers variations such as a jumbo size and combinations with black sticky rice or mango crystal jellies. The menu also includes mango sago (a mango-and-coconut tapioca pudding introduced by the chain in 1992), fresh fruit sweets, drinks, mochi, puddings, crisps, and pancakes, plus non-mango items like bird’s nests, radish cakes, and chicken wings. The brand traces its roots to an herbal-tea and jelly shop started by Hui Chi-Yuk in the 1960s and expanded into desserts in the 1970s before adding the mango sago in 1992; it now has locations across East and Southeast Asia, Europe, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. The Austin franchise is run by Jie Huang and Ricky Chen and sits next to Houston-import Chinese restaurant Bamboo House in a growing pan-Asian corridor, offering indoor dining and in-person takeout; it opened May 21 and planned a brief pause with a targeted reopening on May 23 from 4–9 p.m." - Nadia Chaudhury
