Nan Yick Bakery 南益饼家

I had been to Kluang but never visit any of the bakery as it seems not in my radar. Mooncake festival is coming soon and my friend shared with me the 2 famous mooncake pastries from Kluang. I then recalled I have a colleague from there and I suddenly have the craving(I am totally not a mooncake person). I asked my colleague to get for me. Any of the 2 famous so long as no queue.

Mooncake to me equal sweet so I seldom want to have it. I do like the teochew (or-ni aka yam) and shanghai version(only the skin, filling most is sweet) but not too much. My colleague got me Nan Yi which is not the 2 famous and I never heard of. I did a search online and found that it is also a famous and traditional bakery in Kluang. My colleague is local so I think what he recommended should be good.

The shape of this mooncake is different from traditional round or square. It like the long oval or local people call it Tikus (which means mouse). There are 3 flavours in the box - traditional lotus paste, pandan lotus paste and red bean paste. It costed me RM32 for single yolk version. I personally like the overall texture of pandan lotus paste. One of my housemate said compare to the other famous one she prefer that because of the rich milky taste in the skin but that filling is sweet. Good thing about Nan Yi is it is not that sweet. I do not try others so not sure how is the actual taste but I guess it does based on personal preference.

If you want to try this special mooncake and happen to pass by Kluang, do not miss it.

Nam Yick Food Trading 南益饼家

Address: No. 31, Jalan 10, Taman Sri Kluang, Kluang, Johor

Tel: +6012-7195969

Artisan Bolangerie Co (ABC)

I passed by this cafe and bakery at Great World City and saw their bakery looks good. When I was here, I was struggling whether to try their pastry or the egg benedicts as I saw good review. In the end, I got my Egg Benedict($19.5++). Compare with other cafe, this consider quite expensive to me. So it better to be good. You can find their other item from the MENU HERE.

I had flat white for my drink. The coffee here consider quite good for my preference.

Egg Benedicts is really good with the yolk flowing. However, I did find the standard is not the same. I can said I was lucky. The guy next to me ordered the same stuff and his version is the eggs were totally cooked. May be he requested for that.

Artisan Bolangerie Co (ABC)

Address: #01-02 Asia Square Tower 2, 12 Marina View, Singapore 018961

(Located in the lobby of Asia Square Tower 2)

Tel: +65 6844 9907

Operating Hours: Mon – Fri from 8 am to 10 pm

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Carpenter and Cook Jr

I wanted to visit carpenter and cook cafe at Lorong Kilat but location is quite far and not very accessible for me. Glad to learn about that there is this jr type open at Upper Thomson area.

This is not a cafe but more to take away bakery. It does have a small area which consists only 3 chairs at the counter for you to dine in. I did that after my walk at Mactrichie. Originally I wanted to pack back but we saw the seat and asked the lady if we could sit down to enjoy the coffee and pastries.

Since this is take away outlet, the coffee is served in paper cup and no latte art. The lady said she is working part time and cannot do the fancy type but she will try to. All the hot food and cakes are made in the shop except the croissant and some bread.

The bakery also have new creation - a love shaped Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting for National Day, available from 1st - 15th Aug 2014 only! I forget to take down the cute minicake but you can view on the Facebook page by the link above.

Flat White($5), Cappuccino($5) - the coffee here is no good to me, almost not much coffee taste and very milky. If you like milk based coffee, I think you will like it. My girl friend have the same comment as me.

Ham & Cheese Croissant($4.50) - the croissant is crispy and I like the way that the ham is toasted cripsy too. It might be slightly dry.

Mushroom & Roasted Pepper Quiche($6) - great combination for me. My friend like the cripsy skin and I felt slightly too thick for me.

Lemon Cream Tart($6.5) - the version here just nice, not the best I had but good to try out.

Carpenter and Cook Jr, Jasmine Road takeaway

Address: 17 Jasmine Road Singapore 576585

Tel: 6457 1510

Operating hours: 

Tuesdays - Sundays: 9am - 9pm

Closed on Mondays

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Duke Bakery 面包公爵

I went there to meet a friend for dinnner and atrracted by the large poster on the Duke Bakery. I tried to check up this bakery.  It was late at 9pm and I thought they have sold out all the items as I found the side tray nothing left. However,  I still went in to check out.

Great that I went in, the breads are all placed in the center.  They gave you free sampling for all their bread. One round of tasting I was full, the bread is so tasty to me. I like most of the flavour, but I had to say the price is quite high. The cheapest I saw is $6. The bread looks quite healthy and not oily

My friend recommended me the charcoal chocolate cream cheese($8) but I like raisin more so I got the Raisin with Cream cheese ($6.6). Once a while for this expensive treat,  I told myself.  Imagine I normally get a bread for $2 only. Lol

Yuen Long Hong Kong Pastry and Bun

I spotted this pastry shop when I went to Ang Mo Kio. It seems rather new to me but I did checked online and found it has quite a number of branch somewhere else. Yuen Long is a district in Hong Kong, 1st glance I am thinking is this Hang Heung - the one famous with its wife cake? I was a bit disappointed when I found it is not. However, I did try their pastries as it looks good.

I greedily bought the honey-roasted char siew pastry($1.2), wife cake($1.2) and golden salted egg yolk bun($1.3). I personally like all the choice that I chosen, the only thing was I actually ate it the next day. I think it will taste better if you eat it while warm.

Yuen Long Hong Kong Pastry and Bun

Address: Ang Mo Kio HDB street, near the 24 hours fair price

New Sungei Merah Bread House 新珠安面包西果屋

One of my favourite bakery shop because of its snail coconut bread.  That is still the best that I had in Sibu among most of the bakery I tried. It is so good that whenever I back home,  I will try to get it. This time I tried the butter and red bean bread too. I like the butter bread,  tasted quite special. Red bean tasted like usual. My 1st choice here always the coconut bread, only if this is not available I will go for other.

There are 2 types of coconut bread, one is the long shape which is packed as 10 long stick for RM3, another is the snail shape which is packed as 6 for RM6. I understand from the old aunty (think she is the owner) that the 2 different coconut breads use slightly different ingredients. However, I cannot taste much difference.

Kobo Bakery

Technically I did not ever try this bakery shop but I am going to when I go to KL again next time. It is a Japanese inspired bakery shop but I understand from its website the bakers all imported from Taiwan. When I was here, I really too full until I did not even have the urge to take away any bun as I was more interested with their cakes. My friend and her sisters highly recommended this bakery shop, so I think it must has have some interesting recipe.

Kobo Bakery

Address: No 2A, Level 1 & 3, Persiran Puteri 1, Bandar Puteri, Puchong 47100, Selangor D.E, Malaysia

Tel: +603 8061 4481

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Sun Moulin

This bakery shop tucked in the basement of Isetan Orchard, near Isetan supermarket.  It is Japanese Bakery, their cakes looks very tempted.  I tried their Azuki Matcha bread,  tasted good but the price slightly higher. 

DONQ Boulangerie

It is tucked inside the end of the basement 2 Takashimaya, you may easily missed it if you did not walk till the end. I happen to find this bakery when I had my shopping at Takashimaya and I noticed this bakery. I myself quite like the french pastry especially Japanese French type, it could be I always see all the tempted bun even I taste it. The presentations are really appealing. 

Finally, I decided to try this out. All the buns looks so nice, which one should I get, I walked at least 3 rounds inside the bakery shop. In the end, I decided to go to their best seller items and the rest I will leave to my next visit.

This bean bun have 4 types of bean - I know there are red bean and some not sure what is that. Tasted good but slightly sweet because of the sugar coating.

This is slightly hard for us, it has to go with some drink else a bit hard to swallow. It tasted average but healthy I think.

Cream cheese bun - the best seller no 1 and is my no 1 so far too for this bakery. The bun is soft and filling is just nice. Love this!

DONQ Boulangerie Bakery

Address: 391 Orchard Road, #B203, Singapore, Singapore 238873

Website: http://www.donq.co.jp/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donqbakery