Bakaríið hjá Jórun [Mimi's World Tour]

Bakery: Bakaríið hjá Jórun
Address: Klingrugarður 6, Klaksvík
Website: n/a 
Style: Faroese, Scandinavian 
Price: $-$$  

A small tour of the town of Klaksvik

Arriving in Klaksvik, the second-largest town in the Faroe Islands after the capital, on a cold, rainy Sunday, I was rather... alarmed to find that everything, every sort of food source was closed except for the convenience store. With nothing better to do than to wander the abandoned streets, I encountered an Icelandic tour bus at the port and later found that same bus in the parking lot of this bakery/cafe. The bakery was open! This seems to be common knowledge, as the place was packed. Of course, due to a lack of any other food, they also serve hot meals (I saw one customer walking away with french fries so it goes beyond usual bakery/cafe fare). 

The Neo-Nordic church

Nevertheless, Hjá Jórun is the kind of bakery I hoped to encounter on my travels through the Faroes: display cases filled with Danish-dough pastries as well as elaborate marzipan creations, tortes and tarts, not to mention tables laid out with prepacked pancakes and what I would consider loaf cakes. Really, who cares about the french fries? :P Items are labelled (it does help if you're familiar with Danish or Icelandic baked goods as it'll make navigating through the Faroese a lot easier) and most are priced. At many places, I had a hard time choosing what to get, simply because there wasn't really any thing that stood out; here, it was quite the opposite. I wanted the whole darn store! ._. 

Flaky, creamy Danish-dough is back! ^^

After a few moments of glazed-eyed bakery shock, I noticed this gigantic piece of cream-filled "Vienna bread" (Danish dough) for 20kr. Actually, it was half a piece (the whole was 35kr if memory serves me correctly) and that half piece was huge. It was an absolute steal of a deal! I brought it back to my room, convinced that I could make two portions of it and imagine my delight when I took it out of the paper bag and discovered I could get three generously-sized slices from it (pictured). Given you won't pay less than 10kr for any sort of baked good, this was fantastic value. And it was good! 

In fact, I found it almost remarkable how this was almost identical to the 'strudels' I buy at the Danish bakery on Pape (in Toronto, Canada ^^), which I love but couldn't find anything similar in Denmark and thus deemed it "Canadianized". Biting into this thing, I was amazed. Delicious dough that's slightly flaky on the outside and soft on the inside. Tasty cream, though I found it a little watery and more reminiscent of apple sauce, piped down the middle with a generous (perhaps a tad too much) sprinkling of rock sugar and slivered almonds. This was so good (though the photo seems to reflect more the gloomy day than anything else) and, on top of that, I had three servings of it! This was probably the bakery highlight from the Faroe Islands -- yummy!     

PS. A friend said I should put more travel photos in my world tours to make it more of a tour, I suppose. Agree? Disagree? Well, I tried. ;) 

Rating: ***1/2