Butter and Olive Pastry House @ Bukit Tinggi Klang

Originated from Taiwan, Butter and Olive opens its branch in Bukit Tinggi Klang recently. They have quite a number of outlets within Klang Valley and Penang with their headquarters located in Sri Petaling. Besides that, they also have their own bread academy which offers part time and full time baking course with a short course in Taiwan. Butter and Olive uses natural bread yeast, butter and fruits on its products.

Taste:8/10(Good. The bread were good and butter flavour. The cranberry bread with lots of cranberry and their spring onion bread with good aroma. Chicken floss bread and garlic bread were good as well).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. Their bread price average at range of MYR2.00 to MYR6.00 depending on the ingredient and size).


New bakery in Bukit Tinggi Klang.

Famous for their soft, not too sweet, light and tasty Hokkaido cake.

Delicious pastries from Gontran Cherrier Artisan Boulanger @ Shinjuku, Tokyo

Gontran Cherrier in Shinjuku located just opposite of south exit of the busy Shinjuku station. The double storey space at Southern Terrace were steps away from Shinjuku Lumine departmental store. I was attracted into this store as I saw many people were queueing to buy their pastries and bread. I thought to have a try since I was hungry at that time. From the display outside the shop, you can already see trays of beautifully made breads and pastries. I do noticed their pastries product were very creative as well with many unexpected varieties such curry baguette, green tea scone, squid ink baguette with cumin and miso cheese bread.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. Their butter croissant covered with milky crust is the best bakery item that I have tried so far. The taste were amazing and the croissant have much butter flavour. Aromatic, buttery fragrance, soft and fluffy. Their cheese baguette with cheese and olive also good as well with balance hint of saltiness. The green tea scone have full butter flavour however were a bit too sweet).
Price:5/10(Near expensive. The bread in Gontran Cherrier is not cheap. You get good quality pastries and bread from the price that you pay. The bread range from 200 Yen to 400 Yen per piece. The scone price at 230 Yen, butter croissant at 250 Yen and cheese baguette at 250 Yen).


Broccoli cheese pie.

Gartien Pineapple Cake from Penang and Mid Autumn Festival Promotion

Gartien is located just right opposite of Komtar and easily accessible via Jalan Burma. The new HQ is located next to Kek Seng Coffee Shop. What is so special about Gartien pineapple cake? Gartien version of pineapple cake is rolled up in a rectangular pillow of buttery pastry dough encasing pineapple filling. Everything here is natural and the filling in this pineapple cake is 100% freshly harvested pineapple that has been purposely cut into bite size chunks rather than machine mashed pineapple. At Gartien, the pineapples are hand cut into smaller pieces which is a time consuming process but needed to retain its distinctive texture and taste. They are cooked for 12 hours until they turn into luxurious golden brown. Then the shortbread pastry which is made from pure butter wrap over generous portion of the pineapple fillings and lastly baked to perfection. Who said we don't have great made in Malaysia pineapple cake? Now you can get it from Penang rather than from Taiwan. Do drop by their shop or you can even order it via their website at www.gartien.com.

Gartien only use all natural ingredients(flour, pure butter, egg, milk powder, raw sugar, honey and cooked fresh pineapple) and without preservative or artificial flavoring. Therefore the cake can only be kept for about 28 days in the packaging.

Taste:8/10(Good. The pineapple texture were good with chunky pineapple fillings and not too sweet. A healthy snack option as pineapple contains high minerals and fiber).
Price:6/10(Moderate. Each box have 10 individually packed cake priced at MYR45.00).


Nice Gartien pineapple cake packaging reached my door step. This is the exclusively packed Gartien Pineapple Cake. Suitable to be given as gift.

Cartoonish box which sure bring cheers to children during mid-autumn festival.

Nice and neat packaging. It comes in a box of 10 and each cake is individually packed.

Gartien, famous pineapple cake shop in Penang. Each pieces is wrapped with Japanese washi paper to preserve its freshness.

Penang is a bit far for me to travel to buy the Pineapple cake. Its great that they have fast delivery service within Peninsular Malaysia. You can order via phone or online.

Gartien pineapple cake were baked to golden brown colour with soft and buttery flavour.

Pineapple cake texture. Recommended to have this with tea or coffee. Because the ingredients are all natural, the filling is very fresh and you can really chew on the little chunks of pineapples.

The pineapple were cooked for 12 hours to give the perfect golden brown colour.

What's great about this pineapple cake is the taste is not overly sweet. Suitable as gift for the elderly too.

This year mid autumn festival packaging is using purple colour concept.

Do bring your parking ticket to the shop to entitle free parking.

TAKE NOTE ON THE PROMOTION FOR THE MID AUTUMN
1. Booking order BEFORE 4 AUGUST 2014 for 5 boxes and above will be entitled to A BOX FREE.
2. Booking order AFTER 4 AUGUST 2014 (upon availability) for 10 boxes and above will be entitled to A BOX FREE.
3. The selling price per box with 10 pieces of pineapple cakes is RM45 (self collect only). A fix courier charge of RM10 & RM40 will be applicable to all deliveries within Peninsular Malaysia & East Malaysia respectively.

GPS/Coordinate: 5.416298, 100.329380
Address: 380, Jalan Penang, 10000 Penang, Malaysia (next to Kek Seng Coffee Shop)
Contact: +604-229 0068
Website: www.gartien.com
Email: info@gartien.com
Facebook: www.fb.gartien.com/
Business Hours: 9.00am-6.00pm daily

Pasticceria Rocco @ New York

Rocco is a large bakery shop in Hell's Kitchen neighbourhood. You can dine here with a huge selection of cakes, cookies, tarts and drinks.

Taste:9/10(Delicious. I would like to comment on their cookies as that's the only item that I tried in this shop. Their chocolate cookies was amazing and nice).
Price:6/10(Moderate. At that time a piece of cookie cost USD1.50 which is reasonable).


Key lime tart looks amazing. A slice of lime on top of tart.

Many types of cookies to choose from.

More cookies.

Name your cookies. Maybe they have it!

Fruit tarts are available as well.

GPS/Coordinate: 40.730830, -74.002638
Address: 243 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10014
Public transport: W 4 St station on New York Subway via line A, B, C, D, E, F & M.