九龍烘焙麵包坊 [Mimi's World Tour]

Bakery: 九龍烘焙麵包坊 (Kowloon Bakery)
Address: No. 193, Wufu 4th Road, Yancheng District, Kaohsiung
Website: n/a
Style: Chinese
Price: $$ 

Moving down to Kaohsiung, Yancheng District was my first stop for bakeries in the city. And what a bakery-heavy district this was! Even with two days of exploration, I had to turn some down... unbelievable. The first on that tour was Kowloon Bakery, a small, hole-in-the-wall business that may not have the selection of other bakeries, but sometimes it's nice popping into the more humble spots and they did have a couple of more unique bread varieties. Their doughnuts also looked pretty good, but I'd already taken care of that elsewhere that day. ;)

Instead, I took the walnut bread ($35). I didn't really appreciate the giant slash right through the middle of it that almost cut the bun in two - it ruined the picture. x_x Nonetheless, this was a semi-sweet bun with big chunks of walnut both sprinkled on top and embedded in the brown, slightly nutty dough. The bread was slightly more dense for a typical Chinese bun. I would have liked the bubbling crust on top to have had actual texture and not just make the top a bit soggy, but it was pretty good.

Rating: ***