tiong bahru bakery

12.25pm


have you taken your lunch yet? had a brunch perhaps? they always say, start off your day with a healthy breakfast so that you'll have energy though out the day. i read somewhere that eating bread in the morning could make you bloat. i dont know where that came from. alot of people around the world have bread for breakfast. i love my breads!! i can do bread anytime, anywhere any day.

thats why i've got something to share with you today. i came across this hole in the wall bakery late last year. it was introduced to me by my cousin, who read about it somewhere. so we decided to try it out ourselves and see whats the big hoo haa. teaming up with the spa esprit group and french baker, gontran cherrier, they opened up a little shop called tiong bahru bakery, in you guessed it, tiong bahru neighborhood. my cousin mentioned that it was popular for the croissants.

price wise overall, well its a tad bit expensive. so just be prepared to pay. if i am not mistaken,for a croissant, it would cost you under $3.00 a piece (but dont quote me on this). they have differnt types of breads, pastries, tarts etc.  i saw that they even have set lunch which consists of soup and bread which cost under $10.00. there's  also a selection of sandwiches and prices are different, depending on what you choose.

the croissants were i think one of the best i've ever tasted anywhere in asia. but dont get me wrong, i kinda like the buttery and flaky croissants, which is normally how it should be. but this particular kind, i must say, is different from the rest. its not buttery at all, you dont see that it looks "oily". it nicely browned on the top, and once you take your first bite, its like nothing you've ever tasted before. the texture is soft and melts in your mouth. you just cant stop eating once you've started. trust me on this! im not kidding.

there you are. it doesnt look overly buttery now does it? i strongly i advise you to eat it fresh at the bakery itself. but if you must have it to go, then i suggest you put it in the fridge and then chuck it in the oven for a couple of minutes and have it with your butter and a cuppa tea or coffee. fantastic way to start your day! i rate this 8/10.



kouign amann  (pronounced as kween a-mon) is a breton cake. it is a round crusty cake, made with bread dough containing layers of butter and sugar folded in, similar in fashion to puff pastry albeit with fewer layers. the resulting cake is slowly baked until the butter puffs up the dough (resulting in the layered aspect of it) and the sugar caramelizes. the name derives from the breton words for cake ("kouign") and butter ("amann"). kouign-amann is a speciality of the town douarnenez in finistere, in the west of france, where it originated in around 1860.

this bread or pastry is delicious. its sweetness is just perfect and there's melted caramelized sugar glazed on top of it. reckon you can have it with butter. had mine just as it is. wonderful. im not so sure how much i bought it for, sorry.  but again,my advise is to eat have it then and there. my rating for this kouign amann would probably be 8/10.

well, i hope you would go and try and see for yourself. then you tell me. have a good weekend and god bless!


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