Thursday, 23 April 2009

Chinese Pastries in London

Yes, I am going to blog about Chinatown again and you are not going to stop me. I had the most amazing pastry at the Kowloon Cake Shop, Gerrard Street. It looked like a cream-filled doughnut, except the dough was much fluffier, almost like steamed and the cream was lighter and the surface of the bun was sprinkled with coconut. HEAVEN! And it only cost 80p, darlings.




If you want to be a little more adventurous, try something like a banana and red bean paste roll. I bought that in a shop on Macclesfield Street once, it was rather interesting. Definitely not a taste that the European palate is used to. Forgotten the name of the shop, though! Sorry.

Btw. The Singaporean in London wrote a post about the Golden Gate Dessert House not so long ago. Looks worth visiting too.

1 comments:

C K said...

Hey Lucie, thanks for the link! I used to frequent Kowloon Cake Shop until it closed for a period of time for refurbishment (hmm, not sure whether we are talking about the same shop now..) but after it reopened, I just didn't get a chance to visit it again.

Love the peanut swiss roll. Could finish a couple of that in one sitting. I blame my expanding waistline on them. Darn the swiss rolls!