28 Apr, 2011
Until today, it still brings about a prickly feeling, because all the baked products still look as ravishing, foreign and enchanting as before, laid out neatly on its shelves and counters. Together with some golden nostalgia, because we have just walked by Sun Moulin, Isetan too many times in our previous days.
The first few things which grappled us (Singapore) are the soft white breads- japan-formula, the daifuku, and the giant-fresh strawberry cakes. All these can be found at Sun Moulin. Maybe even before they got known. Another thing Sun Moulin passed to us is the steam cake. Maybe before they got noticed.
Strawberry Steam Cake (SGD 1.80)
Thanks to the work done by BreadTalk, we now see the steam cake. It is the lightest kind of cake around; healthier, and in the japanese version, frightfully plain, that is a cupcake liner with something far from a cake on top of it. The bread that is cakey. Or maybe its just BreadTalk's 'japanese' version, because we don't know any other steam cake/cake steamed than this.
And thanks to BreadTalk once more, we now notice the steam cake at Sun Moulin. Quite unexpectedly they also come in the same appearance, the same bald top with a pat of paper. And when you do notice them at Sun Moulin, you notice how pretty they look! In the two most conformable and delicious flavours; chocolate, and strawberry.
In such artful little pleats, steam cakes are no longer cheap as thought. And it is an all pink batter inside, discontinuing from the ripply strawberry ripply swirls. They are considered to be the ultimatum, like the ones at BreadTalk, because they are really upfront about being steamed themselves, not needing other ingredients like fruit or mochi for backing.
P.S. Having one at Sun Moulin, it transcends a whole memory of cakes, and also the whole line of a steam cake. It is if it is made by a totally different technology, the cake so tightly knitted, yet so light in texture, as if you are feeling the clouds. And with a very light strawberry flavour, appetizing like it is not artificial strawberry nor real strawberries and cream, you look at all this ethereality, and wonder how can it be weaved at the same time on a rare and extremely fine exterior. A real recommend for you to eat, if you want tochallenge yourself against the pits of technology- how such a thing can be created.
