Mita Bakery [Mimi's World Tour]

Bakery: Mita Bakery (米塔手感烘焙)

Address:  No. 24, Section 1, Nanjing East Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei 

Website: http://www.mitabakery.com.tw/

Style: Chinese

Price: $$ 

 

Mita as a brand is actually more prominent as a pasta/Italian restaurant chain with three locations scattered throughout the city. What Italian cuisine has to do with mostly standard Chinese baked goods is beyond me; suffice to say, Mita - the bakery - has only one location and is housed in a fairly large space with a seating area/cafe on one side and a good selection of classic Chinese bread, a few attempts at fancier pastries and cakes; labels are for the most part have English. They are aiming to be fancier than your average bakery, to be sure, but if they want that to happen then they should really work on their customer service. Stop chatting, start working, girls! x_x 

Taking full advantage of those more "fancier" selections, I wanted something I had yet to see elsewhere. That was the rather lovely, puck-shaped flavoured pineapple buns ($40), coming in a handful of different colours. I took the green matcha one. The label said matcha. The "crust" was certainly matcha, but inside, I was surprised to find it stuffed with red bean. It didn't say anything about red bean on the Chinese label! And I really didn't want a whole hollow space filled with chunky, skin-on beans. Maybe in this case it was a good thing that the bun was more air than anything else. Also, besides the crust, the dough underneath was just standard pineapple bun dough so given that the matcha was pretty much the accent, I couldn't help but feel that labelling it as such was deceiving. Disappointing. 

Rating: **