鶯歌餅店 [Mimi's World Tour]

Bakery: 鶯歌餅店 (Yingge Cake Shop)

Address: No. 169-1, Guoqing Street, Yingge District, New Taipei City

Website: n/a

Style: Chinese

Price: $ 

Does the name say it all and this is your one-stop baked good destination for Yingge? Um, not exactly. Well, no matter what it is a no-frills, fully-stocked bakery that looks like they churn out a wide selection of cheap sweet and savoury bread throughout the day. Large posters and window decals on the outside and tables inside advertise their signature item: a sort of full-sized flat cake stuffed with a variety of sweet fillings that made me instantly think of a cross between a moon cake and Taiwanese pineapple cake, just flattened out into a giant cookie. Seeing as you can't get these in single-serve format, I decided to forego the flat cakes and went once again to that wall of bread. 

Of all those cheap varieties, the one that looked the best was what certainly looked like a typical coconut butterfly bun ($18); however, there wasn't that much of a coconut taste. It was definitely oily, which you sometimes see in a coconut bun with extra generous filling, but it had no real distinct taste. A little on the eggy side, yes, but beyond that I couldn't really say what it was supposed to be. Actually, the one saving grace for this bakery as the cheese bun ($25) which was better than the sweet bun, though I had better elsewhere. Cheap in both price and taste. 

Rating: **