la baguette et l'echalote, a little bit of paris in granville

Cronut = Croissant + Donut
Cronut = Sacrilege

stuart's bakery, sweet torture

It was torturous. It was painful. It was tempting.

pastel tutup malang

Pastel tutup, for all intents and purposes, is the indonesian version of a shepherd's pie. Like the english pie, pastel tutup is a meat pie with a potato crust topping. But that is where the similarities end. Unlike an english shepherd's pie, which can be heavy or even fatty depending on what type of meat mince used, pastel tutup's filling is light and a joy to eat.

roti tugu bakery klepon ijo

Jajanan pasar are a type of snack foods, traditionally made by small home businesses (usually one-woman operations) and sold in small shops in the market. These small shops would usually have the snack loosely plastic wrapped but unsealed, but sometimes the plastic may also be sealed crudely (candles are used to burn the plastic and plastic together), and other times they can also be unwrapped and simply stacked against each other in a large tray.

bread talk fire floss bread

You wouldn't associate Bali with good bread, would you? I wouldn't. But somehow I couldn't get enough of the bread from this bakery chain called Bread Talk. It is a chain, so it's not limited to just Bali.

millie's cookies

15-cookie treatbox - HK$99

I'm one of those people who buy souvenirs at the airport. I tend to not spend any time during my holiday looking for the dreaded souvenirs, it's a burden, I tell you. I just go through a mad rush in the airport instead.

I usually buy food as gifts. When I go through Singapore, my sister asked for the Famous Amos cookies. When in Melbourne, Krispy Kreme (it's quite sad that Perth does not have one yet). And so on, and so on.

boulangerie ravignan croissants

In Paris, it seems to me that there was at least one boulangerie (english: bakery) in every block of land. I really love that about Paris. I love that it's not Starbucks or McDonald's that are ubiquitous, it's the great old fashion bakeries. I just hope I won't be proven wrong in a few years time.

As you may have read from my previous posts, we stayed in Montmartre for our honeymoon, and our little apartment was near the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur. It would take about a 15-minute walk to get there from our apartment. One night, the weather was nice (not too cold and the sky was clear) that we decided to go there on the spur of the moment. We walked and we climbed the many steps and the hills.

View of the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur from Place du Tertre

glory box dark chocolate & pistachio scrummo

I have neglected my blogging duties, but I have allowed myself to have this as I have been quite busy with the commotion of my wedding. That's right folks, you are now reading the blog of a married woman!

Anyways, my sister and I found this quite accidentally. We drove along our usual neighbourhood road and noticed that our local town was having a cappuccino festival. Not sure what a cappucino festival is exactly, but it gave us a distraction to an otherwise quite a boring afternoon.

One of the stalls was this cake shop called the Glory Box. They had this small cylindrical tubes of cake, not unlike muffins, but more tall and thin. I found out that they also do this as a wedding cake, so instead of having one big cake, they'd do small portions of cake baked individually and then arrange them to shape like a cake. Pretty ingenious really, because the cake tasted better, the dark chocolate was so good and each individual cake was crusty on the outside just like it should if it was individually baked.

1. The band on the festival
2. The Glory Box stall
3. Dark chocolate & macadamia scrummos
4. Dark chocolate & pistachio scrummo

Kudos to the concept! Don't know why nobody thought about it before.

Glory Box
358 Charles St
North Perth WA
Open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 10am-3pm

kenny's chocolate croissant

The bakery opposite the hotel I was staying in looked so inviting, with orange/yellow coloured theme and friendly asian ladies (in their 20s and 30s) serving behind the counter. The bakery was clean, modern and well stocked. In the morning, when I was there, their service was quite prompt, if not a bit haphazard, like they couldn't quite cope with all the customers.

Chocolate croissant - $2.40

I went with two chocolate croissants. The pastry themselves were mildly sweet and appetising. But the chocolate I found a bit odd. Instead of swirls of chocolate meandering their way inside the pastry, I was greeted by a block of chocolate in the centre. It can almost be categorised as eating a croissant with a piece of chocolate on the side.


Kenny's Bakery Café
Shop 2, 190 Queen St
Melbourne VIC
Open weekdays 7am-4.30pm

lawley's apple blueberry crumble

On our occasional trip to the Subiaco Market, we were going to get some empanadas de banano but the store's deep fryer chose that day to stop working. We had to settle for the nearby bakery's apple blueberry crumble.

Apple blueberry crumble - $24.95

I've never had a truly satisfying crumble, this one was not an exception. Maybe I'm just not a crumble person. The bakery sold other baked goods as well, like danish, petit four and sour dough bread. They're probably good if you're on the go and would like to grab something quick. Just don't expect it to be extraordinary.


Lawley's Bakery Café
Stall 110a, Station Street Markets
57 - 60 Station St
Subiaco WA
Open all day Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Monday Public Holidays

sail café brekkie, margaret river bakery bread & berry farm boysenberry pie

Breakfast (brekkie) is the time of day I find hardest to get motivated for. I am not a morning person. My work colleagues can attest to that. So, if I have to go out for brekkie, I usually go to the first place I set my eyes on.

When I was in Margaret River, we went to the Sail Café for a bacon and egg wrap, and croissant with ham and cheese. It was pretty average to say the least. The only redeeming point about this all-day breakfast café was the fact that they gave us a complimentary cup of coffee with our meal. We were in the mood for some latte.

We had the Margaret River Bakery's "Big Bakery Brekkie", which was filling but was also quite average. While you are there, I would suggest you buy a loaf of the organic bread with sun dried tomato & herb ($5.35). I had this bread when I went canoeing with the BushTucker Tour, along with the Aussie bush food they dished out. I loved it and asked where to get them. The bread was great with slices of kangaroo and a spread of chutney.