Address: 1324 10 Ave SW, Calgary AB
Website: n/a
Style: Korean
Price: $$
It may have a rather uninventive name, but it is what it is: a classic Korean bakery located in the frustratingly busy (and impossible to park in -_-) Korean plaza downtown. Given its name, you'd think it's the city's only Korean bakery, but it's not; however, it really does have all the quintessential baked goods you expect and want: mostly sweet bread and buns with a variety of cream, nut and bean fillings and room for cakes, except when I was there it was pretty cleaned out - even the twist doughnut "pretzels" were gone. Noooo!
At least they had one of my favourite type of buns: the streusel bun with French cream ($2.69). I don't remember the exact wording on the label, so I hope that's right. Nonetheless, I really like "soboro" buns, but the streusel topping in this case didn't have the chunky, crusty texture that I love and was instead on the softer side, even a little mushy. The cream filling was pretty good, though, but unevenly distributed. It looked pretty with the cream piped along the opening, but once you went halfway into the bun, there wasn't all that much left, so in the end it was more plain, soft dough than anything else. Good, but not great.
Rating: **1/2
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