In the street…

This isn’t exactly new – there was another bakery there before but that had closed down and eventually, they opened this place…

I bought the garlic buns from there for our Christmas dinner at the end of last year…

*recycled pic*

…and I thought they were very good but the buns were a bit too big for one person and for a sit-down dinner, perhaps it would be better to cut them in thin slices and toast before serving.

Well, I dropped by again the other day and nothing much has changed. For one thing, the choices are pretty limited, just the usual stuff mostly, and there aren’t anything that would tickle my fancy. There are tables and chairs, not many, for people who would like to have their tea there and enjoy the buns, I guess, but so far I have not seen anyone doing that. I don’t know if there’s something that I do not know as there is a blackboard in front of the shop but everything is in Mandarin and as far as I am concerned, that’s Greek to me. I guess I could ask the people inside but so far, I never bothered.

I bought this to try…

– their chocolate cake, RM4.50 for a loaf but not a really big one at that. It was very nice and very moist, maybe a bit too sweet for me but it was quite all right. I can recall the chocolate brownies sold at another place with raisins and slices of cherries – I used to love those a lot but I don’t think I would enjoy them as much now. Somehow, probably due to old age, I seem to have gone off things that are a bit too sweet like these pineapple jam tarts from Singapore, for instance…

They’re SIN$15.00 a tub, don’t convert! LOL!!! I do not know how many there are exactly inside but I’m pretty sure they are more than 15, so I guess that works out to less than a dollar each. Hey! Wait a minute! The pineapple jam tarts that I used to make with my mum, my grandma and my aunts certainly did not look like that! To make these would be a whole lot easier – you just cut the base using a mold or a cookie cutter and you just stick the lump of pineapple jam on it and bake it in the oven.

But of course, as always, the test of the pudding is in the eating, so I tried a piece. The pastry was nice – I would have liked it a bit thicker so that there would be more of it, while the pineapple jam is soft and moist but it was so very sweet. You know how when things are too sweet, you feel a little sore in the throat when eating it? That’s how sweet it is.

Oops! Sorry, I digressed… LOL!!! But my point here is that I think I prefer things that are savoury a lot more these days as opposed to stuff that are sweet. What about you?