How to get there: Tiong Bahru Mrt Station. It's near Tiong Bahru Market. Right next to Orange Thimble.
Opening Hours: 0800am - 2000pm Daily
Contact: 6220 3430
HELLO EVERBODAY~It's right smack at mid week today!!! Hopefully you peeps are surviving! Here's a new food post to make you drool and start making plans to visit Tiong Bahru Bakery during the weekends.
I'm sure many of you have heard of Tiong Bahru Bakery. Honestly, Tiong Bahru Bakery is an expensive affair, with a traditional name but a fusion of French, English and Western bakes and drinks. Nothing in there is priced below $3. I visited this bakery on Wednesday morning with a friend of mine thinking that there wouldn't be much of a crowd as people would have started working and school goers are well, still in school with an exception of me thanks to my timetable. But I was proven wrong. I reached there at about 10ish to find the bakery packed! Packed with people from all around the world! (I was trying to catch the accents, but I'm lousy with them so lets just say they were from all over the world.)
There's no menu and things do change a little from time to time again. These were what my friend and I bought: a Grapefruit Orange Juice ($7), a Cappuccino ($5.50), an Orange Croissant ($3.80), a Kouign Anan ($4) and a Brioche-Apple Raisin ($4.20). The bill totaled to about $24.50.
Cappuchino:
- The foam was not thick enough for my friend.
- The coffee's medium bodied, you can definitely taste the coffee beans
- As much as the foam wasn't well done, I gotta say that the coffee tasted good. (But my friend still felt that it could have been done better)
Grapefruit Orange Juice:
- $7 is a ridiculous sum to pay for a cup of juice this size anywhere unless you're in hotel's restaurant where they charge you unreasonably high prices for drinks. Had I known this was the price I'd be paying for, trust me, it would have not been bought. (Cognitive Dissonance at it's very best!)
- But let's be objective, I like the combination. It's not too sweet. It's the kind of healthy drink you wanna be getting in the morning to up your Vitamin C count.
- The juice was freshly squashed.
Orange Croissant:
- I am not a huge Croissant fan to start with. But yet, I tried it for I am told time and time again that the Croissant here is to die for. After trying it, I am here to tell you: Yes. Get. It.
- It was soft and fluffy but yet full of volume. You don't essentially feel like you are eating air when you are biting it. (Unlike some Croissants)
- It was also not as buttery as I expected. Which was good for me for I'm a fan of anything less buttery.
- It came with little bits of caramelized orange. It wasn't much to be honest, but it gave the flavour and additional sweetness to the Croissant.
- This was definitely worth every $3.80 we paid for.
Kouign Anan:
- This is definitely a sweet treat to go for if you feel like eating something uber sweet.
- It was glazed with melted brown sugar which gave it a unique bitter taste.
- Since it was glazed, it made the pastry rather hard and crunchy. It's almost like eating the hard caramel itself!
- It's a simple pastry but not something I'd be ordering again for I feel that it's not really worth the price tag of $4.
Brioche-Apple Raisin:
- The bread's soft, fluffy and full of volume! And the size of it is really huge ass!
- Personally, the crumble's really good!
- I really loved how the raisins and the apple tasted so good together. There was definitely apple at every bite!
- The apple was not too sweet as well which was good as the sweetness from the raisins was definitely enough!
- This was perhaps my favourite for the day!
Overall, I think Tiong Bahru Bakery is a go to when you wanna have a good pastry breakfast. As much as I feel that it's an expensive affair, I reminded myself that they are also selling a brand, an image and an ambiance. Although it was just 3 pastries, I have to say that my friend and I were soooooooooooo full after we were done with it! So maybe it's worth the dollars spent!
Till the next post!
<3 FJ
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