Bakery:
Cami Cake Shop (巧味餅舖)
Address:
No. 13, Taoyuan Street, Zhongzheng District, Taipei
Website:
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Style:
Chinese
Price:
$$
The title of "cake shop" can seem a bit deceiving, at least in English. Operating out of a small nook just south of busy Hengyang Rd., this stand actually sells different types of fried food, both sweet and savoury. This includes stuffed pastries, flat round 'cakes' and mountains of sugar-coated dough twists. In a sense, not quite a bakery and probably ambitious enough to be called a cake shop either.
Those candied dough twists (糖酥麻花捲) looked more appetizing than they usually do, so I couldn't resist. The label said they were $25, buy 10 get 1 free. I was pretty confused and a little concerned, secretly hoping that one $25 portion didn't mean just one dough twist. To my relief, a little plastic bag was produced and the twists were tossed inside a bit haphazardly. Suffice to say, the single portion wasn't 10 + 1 either, since I definitely didn't count even 10 going in. It was a little frustrating that there seemed to be a deliberate preference towards the smallest, most sugary dough bits too...Taste-wise, there was a lot more sugar pooling (i.e. big chunks of pure sugar stuck to the dough) than there first looked; it would have been better if it were more evenly distributed. The dough was nicely fried with an airy centre that got nice and chewy once it started absorbing liquid. Pieces were less of these clots of pure sugar were pretty tasty and surprisingly addictive, but in the end, I still wasn't sure what was going on with the pricing/portions and I never like that feeling.
Rating: **
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