Baked Sago and Taro Pudding @ 富臨酒家

Got the baked sago and taro pudding, it was presented in a tin foil cup, the appearance reminded me of a portugese tart, the golden yellow and oven crisp brown bits at the top.

The taro puree was a layer in between the sago custard.

The sago custard wasnt that sweet, but the taro was, and had a very velvety texture.

But overall if it wasnt that sweet, it would of tasted good.

Labelled Kaya bun, but tasted of custard @ Starbucks

This bun has the appearance of a milk bun with the crunchy milk topping, however it is labelled as a Kaya bun.

Usually Kaya is green, but the filling inside was custard colour, infact it tasted like a high class egg custard bun.

For $10 the price is reasonable for a top quality heated up custard bun, but as a Kaya bun it was not worth it.

 

Cute Japanese puddings @ Wasakuraya

Nearly missed this shop while I was walking down the street, anyway there was so much choice it was hard choosing which desserts to have.
The only dislikes were that it was take out only.

Luckily half the selection was Green tea, sesame, red beans etc, so that cut down my choice by half, in the end I picked the grapefruit jelly with pineapple stars, Premium custard pudding with vanilla seeds and the plain custard pudding with maple syrup.

Grapefruit jelly:
This was the best and most refreshing, not too sweet, and contained a lot of grapefruit pulp in it as well as real pressed out pineapple star shapes.
The jelly was sloppier than the usual firm jelly

Premium custard pudding:
Reminded me of Easter, probably because of the coloured pieces on the top.
Very smooth and creamy pudding with generous vanilla seeds in it.

Plain custard pudding with maple syrup:
Tasted similar to the premium pudding, however the syrup helped enhanced it by taking out the eggyness in taste.

As well as the taste, the packaging, box and bag were nice too.
Next time I will try the strawberry chocolate pudding.

 Lastly I really want to try the sweet potato pudding which was not available last time.

source of picture: 辣子's review http://www.openrice.com/restaurant/commentdetail.htm?commentid=2225300

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Taiwanese version of the obanyaki (Imagawayaki) @ 醬爆果子燒

This shop looked interesting, tiny but with all the intricate details of a Taiwanese stall.

 

 

 

 

The snacks look exactly like the Japanese obanyaki's which are filled with savoury or sweet fillings.
It is made of batter and heated in the waffle iron and the filled with fillings. The common fillings are custard, fruits, red beans, and other savoury items.

As well as round ones, they also have triangular ones!!
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However these are more artistic because the shell has a different coloured batter that creates a pattern as shown on their poster.
The slight difference is that the two halves are not completely sealed, so the fillings ooze out, so perhaps this is why they are called "jeung bau" but it makes it very messy to eat.

 

There were ten flavours to choose from, printed on their paper bags:
Cheese and onion with chicken
Black peppar, sweetcorn and tuna
Rich taro
Strawberry and cream
Peach and custard
Original custard
Green tea and red bean puree
Original red beans
Belgian chocolate and custard

They cost $10 each, or $27 for three, so I got three and tried the following flavours, 2 savoury and 1 sweet.
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Black pepper, sweetcorn and tuna
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Cheese, onion and chicken
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Peach and custard
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After paying, I was given a ticket, so I took a walk around the area, I managed to buy other snacks slowly and returned they were still not ready, but I could see that they were making one flavour at each time.

 

 

When they were done, they were presented in box, the halves were not really sealed, which is very messy to eat, so decided to eat them in halves.

The peach one was nice, the filling for the savoury alone were good, especially the pepper, because it was freshly grounded black pepper.
However for the savoury one, the batter was sweet, which didnt really go well together.
The batter could have been cooked more thoroughly because the outside was crispy, but the inside was still floury.

Not sure if they are meant to be like that, because for the Japanese version, the filling is totally encased inside the shell.