Singapore Buy: Mini Toast House (小烘炉) Bakery @ Chinatown Complex
- Rick
- 2d
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Updated: 1d
Mini Toast House (小烘炉), located in Chinatown Complex Food Centre, is an affordable, traditional hawker-bakery known for its nostalgic, Hong Kong-style bakes. It is run by a baker who trained under Hong Kong and Taiwanese chefs for over 28 years. Aside from the stall in Chinatown Complex, there is another outlet in Toa Payoh Lorong 8 Market & Hawker Centre.
The mini-bakery specialises in a wide array of freshly-baked, generously filled buns and pastries that evoke a sense of nostalgia. Aside from traditional pastries and egg tarts, a number of bakes are unique and stylish. Most of the confections are offered at reasonable prices (under $2).
Top-left: The Char Siew Bun (叉烧面包) has sweet-savoury filling of char siew flavour in a soft bun. Eaten when freshly-baked or still-warm, it will have a thin crispy top.
Top-right: The Salted Egg Lava Bun (咸蛋流沙面包) is generously filled with sweet-savoury salted egg custard and topped with coarse sugar. It has well-balanced flavour and a satisfying creaminess of the filling — for the lava to flow, the bun will need to be heated up.
Bottom: The Banana Walnut Bun (香蕉核桃面包) is a surprise find and it is really unique. Covered with cheese and baked with walnuts, the bun is generously filled with banana flesh that gives the soft bun a rich banana flavour, not just aroma, with crunchy walnuts.
Mini Toast House has so many varieties for me to try few flavours a time whenever I visit Chinatown for food hunts.
Address:
Chinatown Complex, #02-105
335 Smith Street, Singapore 050335
Opening Hours:
7:30am to 8:30pm | Daily
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