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Sydney: Hontou Pancakes
posted on April 5th, 2007 by mellie in Uncategorized
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Over the road from the Sussex Centre, Sydney Chinatown
Okay, obviously I have a penchant for carbohydrate laden products (see Emperor’s puff). But how can one resist the aroma of pancakey goodness, especially when one is tempted by a range of fillings such as custard, chocolate, green tea or red bean. At $2 a pop (or 3 for $5), these puck sized obanyaki are absolutely delicious (and not too sweet either!).
The cooking station is set up along the front of the shop window - which is absolutely deadly for foodies like us. We watched (and we drooled) as the obanyaki were deftly filled and flipped. The obanyaki are individually decorated to hint at their filling - chocolate got swirls, and custard got squiggles.
The same place was also making takoyaki, small dumpling batter balls filled with diced octopus, green onion and other unnamed items. They are piled in a little container and drizzled with sweet okonomiyaki sauce and Japanese mayonnaise. As we had just consumed a big bowl of laksa and some obanyaki - well, we had to give this treat a miss…this time.
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Sydney: Emperor’s Puff
posted on April 5th, 2007 by mellie in Uncategorized
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Emperor’s Garden Cakes & Bakery
Dixon Street (near corner of Hay Street), Haymarket, Sydney
Phone: 02 9211 2135
A recent trip to Sydney led to all manner of culinary delights for EG and I (…this is the first post of many to come). One place we were smitten with was a hole-in-the-wall outfit that produced a naffy little product called Emperor’s Puffs. The long line of people snaking fifteen deep down Dixon Street in Chinatown first tipped us off to this delicacy.
And this is what everyone was waiting for. $1.00 gets you five puffs. Pretty cheap, eh? The contraption that makes these puffs was quite a feat of engineering ingenuity. It clanked and it shook as it spurted batter into the cast iron moulds, which then passed through a heating element on a conveyor system. One poor lass was responsible for removing the balls from the machine and pumping them full of sweet custard. If these balls are anyones puffs, they are this poor hardworking girls’!
This is a close up of the puff - a walnut sized doughball that is heat marked and crunchy like a waffle.
And this is what you find when you don’t heed the “warning - freshly baked and served hot” sign next to the hole-in-the-wall window. Scorching hot custard. Mmm…
You can read more appreciation of this yummy product here.
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Okay, obviously I have a penchant for carbohydrate laden products (see Emperor’s puff). But how can one resist the aroma of pancakey goodness, especially when one is tempted by a range of fillings such as custard, chocolate, green tea or red bean. At $2 a pop (or 3 for $5), these puck sized obanyaki are absolutely delicious (and not too sweet either!).
The cooking station is set up along the front of the shop window - which is absolutely deadly for foodies like us. We watched (and we drooled) as the obanyaki were deftly filled and flipped. The obanyaki are individually decorated to hint at their filling - chocolate got swirls, and custard got squiggles.
The same place was also making takoyaki, small dumpling batter balls filled with diced octopus, green onion and other unnamed items. They are piled in a little container and drizzled with sweet okonomiyaki sauce and Japanese mayonnaise. As we had just consumed a big bowl of laksa and some obanyaki - well, we had to give this treat a miss…this time.
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Sydney: Emperor’s Puff
posted on April 5th, 2007 by mellie in Uncategorized
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Emperor’s Garden Cakes & Bakery
Dixon Street (near corner of Hay Street), Haymarket, Sydney
Phone: 02 9211 2135
A recent trip to Sydney led to all manner of culinary delights for EG and I (…this is the first post of many to come). One place we were smitten with was a hole-in-the-wall outfit that produced a naffy little product called Emperor’s Puffs. The long line of people snaking fifteen deep down Dixon Street in Chinatown first tipped us off to this delicacy.
And this is what everyone was waiting for. $1.00 gets you five puffs. Pretty cheap, eh? The contraption that makes these puffs was quite a feat of engineering ingenuity. It clanked and it shook as it spurted batter into the cast iron moulds, which then passed through a heating element on a conveyor system. One poor lass was responsible for removing the balls from the machine and pumping them full of sweet custard. If these balls are anyones puffs, they are this poor hardworking girls’!
This is a close up of the puff - a walnut sized doughball that is heat marked and crunchy like a waffle.
And this is what you find when you don’t heed the “warning - freshly baked and served hot” sign next to the hole-in-the-wall window. Scorching hot custard. Mmm…
You can read more appreciation of this yummy product here.
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Dixon Street (near corner of Hay Street), Haymarket, Sydney
Phone: 02 9211 2135
A recent trip to Sydney led to all manner of culinary delights for EG and I (…this is the first post of many to come). One place we were smitten with was a hole-in-the-wall outfit that produced a naffy little product called Emperor’s Puffs. The long line of people snaking fifteen deep down Dixon Street in Chinatown first tipped us off to this delicacy.
And this is what everyone was waiting for. $1.00 gets you five puffs. Pretty cheap, eh? The contraption that makes these puffs was quite a feat of engineering ingenuity. It clanked and it shook as it spurted batter into the cast iron moulds, which then passed through a heating element on a conveyor system. One poor lass was responsible for removing the balls from the machine and pumping them full of sweet custard. If these balls are anyones puffs, they are this poor hardworking girls’!
This is a close up of the puff - a walnut sized doughball that is heat marked and crunchy like a waffle.
And this is what you find when you don’t heed the “warning - freshly baked and served hot” sign next to the hole-in-the-wall window. Scorching hot custard. Mmm…
You can read more appreciation of this yummy product here.
