It’s been a while since I last posted anything about Sandbox Bakery, but I’m still a huge fan. I just had their fried chicken rice burger. It’s a play off of Japan’s fast food chain, MOS Burger, but better. (Well, it better be if it’s gonna be $6, right?) I didn’t get it fresh out [...]
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I’ve been going to Patisserie Philippe for years now and it’s still one of my favorite places for French macarons. Every place makes it differently – texture, size, filling, sweetness – and here they’re made not too sweet, crispy outer layer, chewy inside, and filled with buttercream. I’m usually into non-fruit flavors like tea flavors [...]
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The most random thing happened to me today. While walking to Chinatown for lunch, I passed by a brand new cupcake window stand. It was really ghett-looking because it was tiny and still brand new, but the cupcakes weren’t ghetto at all. It was so new – just opened that day – that they didn’t [...]
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One of my favorite Hong Kong pastry is the wife cake (老婆餅), which is a winter melon paste wrapped with a flaky and thin skin. There hasn’t been any in San Francisco that has gotten me wanting more until I tried the ones from Fancy Wheat Field Bakery (小麥田西餅店), one of the newer Chinese bakeries [...]
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I just wanted to give a special shout out to one of the best cupcakes I’ve had, the “Lost in Paradise” cupcake from Cups and Cakes Bakery. It’s a banana cake topped with a strawberry butter cream. The cake was very moist and not too heavy, and the buttercream tasted fresh and fruity. It did [...]
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My favorite dessert bakery in the Bay Area is Satura Cakes. I usually go to their Palo Alto location since it’s closer to me. They bake European treats with a Japanese/Asian taste, which usually means less on the sugar overload and more on the flavors. Just about anytime I get something there, I’m never disappointed. [...]
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Jann and Steve came back from Las Vegas and brought be a nice little treat – French macarons from Payard Patisserie & Bistro in Las Vegas. I can’t say it’s the best, and I wasn’t too fond of their bright nuclear colors, but I did really like its texture. Hard, thin outside, soft, chewy inside [...]
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I haven’t had a slice of sacripantina cake from Stella Pastry & Cafe over at North Beach in a while. It somewhat reminds me of cakes in Chinatown, except this one is guaranteed light, moist, and not overly sweet. Plus, I’m a fan of zabaglione, which is the custard they use in this cake, and [...]
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I remember wanting to eat at Patisserie Boisserie Restaurant & Patisserie the last time I was at Carmel but I was too full. This time, I didn’t care – I had to go. I went in at full force, even though I had just finished eating at Carmel Belle. I was so stuffed after eating [...]
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I’ve mentioned the blueberry mousse served at my current favorite bakery in Chinatown, Yummy Bakery and Cafe, but now, I want to mention their milk egg tart (鮮奶蛋撻). Everyone is familiar with Chinese egg tarts (蛋撻), but a lot of people don’t know that they come in different variations. My favorite is actually the milk [...]
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