For those who love Yakitate Japan
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mayoraaseiYOU MUST TRY BREAD STORY, if you haven't already.
To be honest, even though I mouth-watered at all the bread in Yakitate, I've never really liked bread because all the ones I've eaten are hopelessly dry and tasteless and personality-less.
Went to Bread Story today, there's one near Chinatown where the old Chinese bread store used to be (opposite Morning Glory..on the street that branches off George and has both Morning Glory and Easy Way and Delifrance) It was like walking into...well, a not-quite-as-idyllic-Pantasia, probably because of the lack of personal baking spaces for each employee >_>
The plastic trays are lined with fluffy, fanciful breads of fanciful names such as "Red Chamber" (a long bread filled with red bean paste), "Anko Man" (a play on the Japanese red-bean paste bread "anko pan", it's man-face-shaped and filled with anko paste), "Snow White" (a mountainous looking bread with coconut "snow" on the "peaks"), "Staircase to Heaven" (a "lacerated"? long bread filled with custard and powdered with...well, whatever that white powder is, sugar?)...and many more that made my and my friend's eyes gleam...with the thought of "omg, there goes my weekly savings".
I only bought 3 breads on the pain of emptying my wallet. Some of them didn't have name tags, so wasn't sure what they were called.
The Anko-Man was sooooooooooooooooo nice *_______* If I was Kuroyanagi...
............
No, better not think about it.
The dough was so soft and fluffy and had that "melt-in-your-mouth" sensation that people keep talking about but I've never experienced until today. The paste was mildly sweetened, so it wasn't overbearing for people who have a low threshold for sweet pastries (like me), and it was lightly glazed in a way that made it look nice but didn't oversweeten it.
And then I had a bun that was filled with (very mildly sweetened) green tea paste, topped with cheese and pumpkin seeds. It was really nice too, but unfortunately I have an aversion to cheese, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have. The cheese and tea paste mix is ingenious, because it tasted like you were eating milk tea. And there was the pumpkin seeds, which gave it a really nice...nutty sort of taste.
Gah, mouth watering.
I left the third bun for my mum (was green bean paste made into a really fancy parcel-bun thing). She really liked it XD
The bread costs a bit more than the buns you would get at other Chinese bread stores. They range from about $1.50 to about $2.50 (some of them didn't have prize tags...) The plain white bread loaf was $4.00, which I think, probably suggests how nice and fluffy it would be *___*
...Do go try it!
To be honest, even though I mouth-watered at all the bread in Yakitate, I've never really liked bread because all the ones I've eaten are hopelessly dry and tasteless and personality-less.
Went to Bread Story today, there's one near Chinatown where the old Chinese bread store used to be (opposite Morning Glory..on the street that branches off George and has both Morning Glory and Easy Way and Delifrance) It was like walking into...well, a not-quite-as-idyllic-Pantasia, probably because of the lack of personal baking spaces for each employee >_>
The plastic trays are lined with fluffy, fanciful breads of fanciful names such as "Red Chamber" (a long bread filled with red bean paste), "Anko Man" (a play on the Japanese red-bean paste bread "anko pan", it's man-face-shaped and filled with anko paste), "Snow White" (a mountainous looking bread with coconut "snow" on the "peaks"), "Staircase to Heaven" (a "lacerated"? long bread filled with custard and powdered with...well, whatever that white powder is, sugar?)...and many more that made my and my friend's eyes gleam...with the thought of "omg, there goes my weekly savings".
I only bought 3 breads on the pain of emptying my wallet. Some of them didn't have name tags, so wasn't sure what they were called.
The Anko-Man was sooooooooooooooooo nice *_______* If I was Kuroyanagi...
............
No, better not think about it.
The dough was so soft and fluffy and had that "melt-in-your-mouth" sensation that people keep talking about but I've never experienced until today. The paste was mildly sweetened, so it wasn't overbearing for people who have a low threshold for sweet pastries (like me), and it was lightly glazed in a way that made it look nice but didn't oversweeten it.
And then I had a bun that was filled with (very mildly sweetened) green tea paste, topped with cheese and pumpkin seeds. It was really nice too, but unfortunately I have an aversion to cheese, so I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have. The cheese and tea paste mix is ingenious, because it tasted like you were eating milk tea. And there was the pumpkin seeds, which gave it a really nice...nutty sort of taste.
Gah, mouth watering.
I left the third bun for my mum (was green bean paste made into a really fancy parcel-bun thing). She really liked it XD
The bread costs a bit more than the buns you would get at other Chinese bread stores. They range from about $1.50 to about $2.50 (some of them didn't have prize tags...) The plain white bread loaf was $4.00, which I think, probably suggests how nice and fluffy it would be *___*
...Do go try it!
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Date: 2006-05-19 01:25 pm (UTC)*gasp* the only one I don't want to eat is the durian one (though my bf really likes that one too); yeah, they do a great job with those breads; I think if my parents ever tasted one, they'd understand what I keep ranting about :D