The biggest swiss rolls and the famous egg tarts

This place is famous for egg tarts but everytime I came past there was a queue.

 

But this time I came late at night and there was no queue and surprisingly the egg tarts were quite hot too.

As well as egg tarts they had a few items that were pandan flavoured which are my favourite.

The swiss rolls were HUGE! I have never seen swiss rolls as big as this, the diameter was at least 7inches by 5inches tall!

 

It is a pity you cant see how huge these swiss rolls are but in one of the reviews the slice is too big that you need to split it in half!!
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Egg tarts $5:

 

The egg tart was still hot when I ate it.
The pastry was quite thick but there was lots of flakey layers and air in between so it was quite light.
Luckily the buttery taste was light, and the egg filling tasted like custard which was good but I just didnt like it too sweet.
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Pandan cake $12:

 

Although the egg tart was too sweet, the sweetness of this was just right, and the pandan flavouring was nice and strong.
The cake was extremely soft too.
The size of the cake was quite big too, about 4 inches in diameter.
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Sit down roll up your sleeves and relax @ Roll

I love their rolls and now there is finally a place to sit down properly and enjoy them, so roll up your sleeves and enjoy!

Anyway there were a few new rolls and this yogurt bear which is just froyo sandwiched in between a macaron shaped chocolate bear.

The macaron was nice and chewy and the sweetness of it balanced with the tartness of the froyo.
I also had a caramel roll too which has caramel pudding in the middle, it was also sweet so it was really nice having the roll with the froyo.

Keep the rolls rolling! @ Roll

Cute shop located on Granville Road, came here especially to try their Swiss rolls.

Luckily they had mini sized rolls so I could try more flavours and eat there too, or I would be annoyed carrying them about in the shop till u drop area!

For Swiss rolls, they had the following flavours: vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, chocolate banana, maple syrup, green tea, earl grey, coffee, chestnut and a seasonal flavour.

I chose earl grey, maple syrup and chocolate banana as the rest were a bit common and you can guess roughly how it would taste like.

All the rolls were soft with fresh cream inside, proper fresh cream, not the fake butter salted cream in maxims.

Maple syrup: the maple syrup wasn’t that strong or too sweet.
Chocolate banana: slightly strong in cocoa taste with fresh pieces of banana.
Earl grey: this was the best, I was expecting the sponge to be earl grey flavoured, but the filling inside was earl grey, it was like a creme sauce, with fresh grassy taste to it.

Then I contemplated on whether I was going to try the Macarons or not, in the end I decided too.
My first macaron was from some shop at Harbour City, which was awfully sweet, and after that I assumed all macarons were like that.

Anyway, I decided to try the raspberry and lychee, raspberry being the traditional one, and lychee as its flavour is very delicate yet fragrant.
Both macarons had a very crumbly texture with an almost thick filling inside that adhered the marcaron together when you ate it. The macaron was very nutty with nutty pieces in it and not overly sweet that you’re screaming for water.
Overall Lychee was the best, as neither of its components overpowered each other.

Rocky Road Roll @ Saint honore

A dreamy swiss roll filled with chocolate cream, marshmallows, and crunchy chocolate balls.

The swiss roll is slightly bigger than the normal big swiss rolls priced at $38.
In terms of price, it is definately dearer than the local chinese bakery, however the quality is assured, at least there will not be eggshells in it.

Compared to the upper end swiss rolls, this would be classified as the economic version.

Anyway, the presentation of the swiss roll was nicely done, it was decorated with castor sugar patterns of leaves and flower shapes, almost like a Japanese sakura roll.

Taste:
The ends of the roll were slightly dry, but the centre was moist.
As with all St Honore bakeries, it has their standards, so it wouldnt taste bad, infact it tasted really good, especially the marshmallows, it melts in your mouth, and the marshmallow dosnt have a skin covering it.

 

Taro roll with egg pudding in the middle @ 新台場

I got this because taro and egg pudding were interesting, it was a swiss roll made of taro flavouring, filled with taro paste and in the centre there was egg pudding in the middle.

It looked quite interesting, yellow and purple, both colours that complement each other in the colourwheel.
These are frozen cakes, so need de-thawing.

Anyway, it had a nice sweet taro aroma, the texture of the pudding in the middle seemed tougher than I imagined.
The overall sweetness wasn’t that sweet which was good, I would have liked the texture of pudding to be like cream because it was like tough jelly which is a big contrast to soft cake.
It was so tough that you can push a fork into it, and there would be an imprint of the fork!!

Chinese Chocolate swiss roll @ Maxim's

The chocolate swiss roll at Maxim's has been jazzed up.

They never used to have icing sugar drizzled on top.

Anyway, it still tastes the same as the swiss rolls years ago, the roll is ok, but the cream inside is the nasty chinese salted buttercream.

Delicious swiss rolls @ Quezon Pinoy Food Express

As I ventured for more Filipino food, I discovered some items were very similar to Chinese food, and many other items were Spanish and Malaysian.

 

In the cabinet I saw these white buns looking like the Chinese steamed buns, it turns out they are the same called Siopao.
There are several fillings, Asado (Meatball), bola-bola (Pork), chicken, beef, shrimp or salted duck eggs.

Siopao wrapped up!

 

I prefer the presentation of the Filipino buns because they were hygienically wrapped in wrapping.

Anyway, the two items I had were taro Swiss roll and the chocolate Swiss roll.

Taro swiss roll

 

Taro Swiss roll:
Tasted nice.

 

 

Chocolate Swiss roll:
I do not think anyone could possibly not like it, the chocolate taste was so rich. The roll was soft and not moist.
The roll had chocolate sauce in it NOT chocolate cream! The sauce was just heaven, it was like liquid chocolate. The texture of the sauce in the roll and on top of the roll was gooey and viscous, a bit like liquid yolk.