Blog Tag - Pastry

Stop Starch Shaming, Embrace These Savory Chinese Pastry For Your Next Brunch
Gym freak or not, you've probably heard that starch can raise your blood sugar and even contribute to those extra kilograms. Indeed, a diet packed...
Bread And Butter: Beijing Bakeries Worth Waking Up Early For!
Northern Chinese people are known for their fondness for flour, and Beijing residents have a particular affinity for the pastry. From traditional...
Théatre Tea, 2018 Best Value Afternoon Tea and Moreish Pastries in CBD
Following a positive showing via Dianping – and obviously not satiated by our recent forays into vegetarian afternoon tea and a RMB 1,000 afternoon...
Fuhuazhai Chinese Pastry Shop Brings us to Qing Dynasty with Traditional Royal Manchu Taste
Everyone likes pastries for their alchemy of fat, flour and air, no matter civilians or royalty. When we talk about Chinese pastries, one name stands...
Sanlitun Bakery Daily.Bak Provides Good Value Breads
Given that convenience store breads don't seem that appealing anymore, we have now set our eyes on Beijing's bakeries to do us right. It seems...
Street Eats: We Tried The Popular Chinese Pastries Baoshifu, And They Are…Meh
Since we were disappointed to find Daoxiangcun's cock-shaped pastry missing, we decided to head over to another popular Chinese pastry shop, Baoshifu...
We Put Beijing's Dunkin Donuts to the Test: Which of Their 18 Varieties is the Best?
[Update 2/24: DD's first shop, in Pinnacle Plaza in Shunyi, opens Feb 25] With Dunkin Donuts on the brink of making its triumphant return to Beijing...
There is a God: Dunkin' Donuts On Its Way Back to Beijing
[Update 2/24: DD's first shop, in Pinnacle Plaza in Shunyi, opens Feb 25] Oh thank the Lord! After a decade and a half of absence, American coffee-...
Afternoon Tea with Attitude: MasterChef Australia's Anna Polyviou Brings Fun Sweet Treats to China World Summit Wing Until Dec 11
It's not every day that an award-winning celebrity chefs come to Beijing, and especially not everyday that you can go and try their creations on the...
A Sweet Seminar: The Pastry Class at Migas
If Migas is known for one thing, it's their rooftop in the summertime (just opened this weekend), the parties that last until well into the morning...
The Pie Who Came In From The Cold: Soviet Snacking in Haidian
In this little bakery, a combination of factory and retail space, the air is almost saturated with the scent of butter. You almost sense yourself...
Sweet Tidings: Kempinski’s Executive Pastry Chef Jean-Luc Vasseur
Frenchman Jean-Luc Vasseur has nearly two decades of professional culinary experience under his belt, with the bulk of that time devoted to the...