Along Bread [Mimi's World Tour]

Bakery: Along Bread (빵길따라)
Address: 227-2 Yeonnam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul
Website: n/a
Style: Korean
Price: $$

Is this it? Yes, my last bakery in the bakery-rich neighbourhood of Hongdae (more specifically, the areas encompassing Hongdae and Sinchon metro stations) is upon us and the honour belongs to Along Bread, a small bakery that was a nice change from the predominantly bread/savoury-focused bakeries I'd been visiting earlier. Along has a fairly good selection of pastries and sweet buns, with signature items appearing to be their loaded brownie-looking "cup" cakes and cream-stuffed buns. They do, however, get bonus points for the number of samples they offer.

 There really does come a limit to how much cream you can handle and so I stuck with a perennial favourite, the slightly healthier, heartier soboro bun (3000 won). Unlike some that have just a softer, doughy streusel topping, this one had almost like a granola top with so much texture and complexity: some chunkier dough clusters and big pieces of nuts atop a denser, mildly chewy bun. Good stuff.

Rating: ***