All the ching chong ching chong CNY music are more of a irritation (if they keep repeating and repeating) rather tham music to the ears. But one thing remains... I still love CNY goodies!Some of my favourites would be Bak Kwas, Pineapple Tarts, Almond cookies and Egg Rolls, and all sorts of nuts!!!
So last weekend, we went to the Chinese New Year fair at Takashimaya to get some CNY goodies! I realised that the fair at taka this year is different from last year. Sample sizes of all the cookies and tarts are sooo big! They used to give samples in pathetic pieces... but now they are so generous!
After a healthy lunch and dinner, I thought...wow.. I have a very clean diet today! Who knows when i got to takashimaya... In order to get the "besttt" pineapple tarts... I went from stall to stall to try out in search of the best. After a few stalls... i am really feeling the effects of how this tiny tarts are filling me up. So in the end, by visual inspection, I only try those which i deemed worth to give it a shot... skipping stalls like Lavendar... or blabla ulu name stall.
After sampling more than a dozen... I finally reached to a verdict that the BEST pineapple tarts in TAKA square is from AMETHYST!
Pineapple Tart Balls @ $18 for 20 pieces. Note that this balls are very small... so it is actually quite expensive. They have the cheese version, which is sold at $20 for 20 pieces. The cheese one smells nice, but when you eat it... It just taste not as nice as it smell. So in the end... I got home with 2 of these.
Egg roll from Hang Heung @ $13 a tin - The samples given was baked HOT and fresh! OH man... and its so flaky and buttery that upon biting it, it just melts... very nice! So we got a tin of this, and another tin of almond cookie which also cost $13, but i do have the picture as it is sitting at my gf's home! lol.2 more weeks to CNY! Cannot wait to open these tins up and eat them! haha. Better get in shape before CNY!!! Buffet coming up too... o_O
5 comments:
THanks for the report. Will visit taka soon.
The last time I heard, each tart has 150 calories.
Yikes!
I had some kuih makmur this morning and needless to say I am on a guilt trip right now.
Your tarts seem quite expensive. You should try the p/a tarts from Mirana cake house. The tarts cost $13/25pc and they're really nice.
I used to love the tarts....but grown out of it already. Prefer to eat simple nowadays.
LM - ya.. i think i read it somewhere b4... i think it was in the straitimes... horrible petite tarts...
GD - go work it out! :D
ice - ya... i do find it kinda ex... but i see no point in getting something not nice but large qty... and i dun think i will be getting anymore pa tarts le! thx anw for ur recommmendation! :)
harmony - what is simple to you?
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