咖啡麵包 [Mimi's World Tour]

Bakery: 咖啡麵包 (Coffee Bread)

Address: No. 778, Anping Road, Anping District, Tainan

Website: n/a

Style: Chinese 

Price: $$

Who needs a store name when you have a winning product? And that being the only thing you sell. This tiny shop (usually these one-product vendors have a street stall, so it's surprising this place actually has a storefront) sells coffee bread and nothing but coffee bread. $30 each for 4/$100. Just go up to the counter, say how many you want and you get them nice and hot. Bonus points for the smiling mascot!

I got mine and was initially hit with a smell similar to that of burnt toast; it was a bit concerning, but there was nothing burnt about the bun itself. Maybe a piece of charred dough had made it into the bag? Moving past the smell, I was pleasantly surprised by just how fresh this was. So fresh that the slightest impact made it smush, resulting in not the prettiest bun out there. Unlike your typical bakery, however, you could really enjoy the texture of that super fresh, fluffy dough underneath the thin cookie-like crust. It was fragrant and delicious - and beats a majority of full-scale bakeries.

Rating: ***1/2