Update September 2011:
The charlotte was no where to be seen.
In her place is a Dracula hairsprayed short sourpuss and her tall Olive Oyl sidekick who are sadly afflicted with the just cannot smile disease.
Their foreign worker staff are much nicer in contrast to this duo.
You should know that this bakery is almost totally reliant on old repeat customers who have a greedy look etched on their tired faces as they clutch their purchases and hurriedly trot out to their illegally parked vehicles.
Every confection used here is STILL extremely sweet (such a contradiction to the supposed to be healthy breads they sell)and so is everything else on the gum rotting menu.....the secret that makes it such a hit with the islanders and our dental practitioners a very happy bunch indeed.
80 percent of the original restaurants of the failed f&b spurt in theNagore road vicinity have come to closure.
Fast forward to today,an exciting slew of newcomers that'll give them a run for their money are...
Looking forward to see this entire street transform into a bakers heaven.It'd be great won't it?No more having to come here,play by their rules and be forced to make our purchases before dusk.
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This is possibly the most expensive bakery in Penang.
Housed in a very retro blast from the 70s corner shoplot with minimal(read pathetic) seating space,they boast of good business where many have crumbled.
Their best seller is a sweet cinnamon roll that costs close to $1.50 for ONE 8cm x 8cm x 9cm bun which I find way too sweet.It's like a cross between a sugary raisin fruitcake and a soft layered sponge that Spidey could get entangled in.
Anyway,anything sold behind the glass counter costs a bomb (from pastas,soups,pizzas etc)compared to the breads on the open shelves.I figure it's mostly due to the local girl hooks an angmo trophy factor.
Yea,I know it's a no brainer but that's just what it is.Every time a local lady and her angmo hubby open a hawker stall/shop/restaurant,they think they have the right to overcharge us customers based on their union alone.In short this bakery became famous at a time when we Malaysians were still mired in the opinion that everything foreign meant high quality and great compared to little inferior us.That the 'farang' hubby would bake a bread that could fly us to europe in a bite.(upturned eyes)
Ladies do watch your men here as the shortest pretty lady at the cash register will shamelessly flirt with any(ugly or handsome) and every(black,yellow especially white) man wearing pants regardless of whether he's young or dying.
She'll blatantly ask them to take her out for a movie even if he looks like a toad.
I don't know how successful she is in getting a date,never cared to ask,never want to know except if my man was about to be seduced by this charlotte.
Even if I were to show her my fangs and claws I don't think she would back off.
That desperate she is.
The charlotte was no where to be seen.
In her place is a Dracula hairsprayed short sourpuss and her tall Olive Oyl sidekick who are sadly afflicted with the just cannot smile disease.
Their foreign worker staff are much nicer in contrast to this duo.
You should know that this bakery is almost totally reliant on old repeat customers who have a greedy look etched on their tired faces as they clutch their purchases and hurriedly trot out to their illegally parked vehicles.
Every confection used here is STILL extremely sweet (such a contradiction to the supposed to be healthy breads they sell)and so is everything else on the gum rotting menu.....the secret that makes it such a hit with the islanders and our dental practitioners a very happy bunch indeed.
80 percent of the original restaurants of the failed f&b spurt in theNagore road vicinity have come to closure.
Fast forward to today,an exciting slew of newcomers that'll give them a run for their money are...
- Ritz from Tanjong Tokong (can't see how they can unseat Continental since the name sounds classier than their cakes that taste of everything that was in the fridge),
- Si Tigun across the road directly opposite them(a no air cond pricier snack stop)
- and a handful of new snack cantinas popping up down the road where all the old businesses have miserably failed to attract diners.
Looking forward to see this entire street transform into a bakers heaven.It'd be great won't it?No more having to come here,play by their rules and be forced to make our purchases before dusk.
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This is possibly the most expensive bakery in Penang.
Housed in a very retro blast from the 70s corner shoplot with minimal(read pathetic) seating space,they boast of good business where many have crumbled.
Their best seller is a sweet cinnamon roll that costs close to $1.50 for ONE 8cm x 8cm x 9cm bun which I find way too sweet.It's like a cross between a sugary raisin fruitcake and a soft layered sponge that Spidey could get entangled in.
Anyway,anything sold behind the glass counter costs a bomb (from pastas,soups,pizzas etc)compared to the breads on the open shelves.I figure it's mostly due to the local girl hooks an angmo trophy factor.
Yea,I know it's a no brainer but that's just what it is.Every time a local lady and her angmo hubby open a hawker stall/shop/restaurant,they think they have the right to overcharge us customers based on their union alone.In short this bakery became famous at a time when we Malaysians were still mired in the opinion that everything foreign meant high quality and great compared to little inferior us.That the 'farang' hubby would bake a bread that could fly us to europe in a bite.(upturned eyes)
Ladies do watch your men here as the shortest pretty lady at the cash register will shamelessly flirt with any(ugly or handsome) and every(black,yellow especially white) man wearing pants regardless of whether he's young or dying.
She'll blatantly ask them to take her out for a movie even if he looks like a toad.
I don't know how successful she is in getting a date,never cared to ask,never want to know except if my man was about to be seduced by this charlotte.
Even if I were to show her my fangs and claws I don't think she would back off.
That desperate she is.
