I should post photos of the pastries next time before I eat them too quickly...
Anyway, we heard that Paris Baguette in Palo Alto started selling shaved ice, so we went to try it yesterday. It was rather... disappointing =/ My boyfriend described the experience quite aptly -- "This is what you get when a bakery tries to sell shaved ice." Indeed.
From the first look, it really looked promising. Lots of fruit, azuki on top, even mochi bits. Yummy, right?
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WRONG. Look at what's wrong in this picture. THE ICE IS WRONG. This is not the shaved ice I was expecting. I was hoping for shaved ice like the one you get from Taiwanese places, where you literally SHAVE snowflakes off the ice, not grind it up like ice-kacang or lame american snowballs =(
Or maybe I'm just pampered....
Ice aside, the strawberry sauce they poured over the ice was a little weird =/ And the melon didn't go well with the strawberry and kiwi, because the melon taste overwhelms the light kiwi taste!
There was a huge lump of vanilla ice-cream in the middle of the whole ice tower, which was a surprise. Pleasant for some, not so much for us I guess, because it made the whole thing taste pretty random, as if they couldn't decide which style to make it in...
Or maybe we were just affected by our disappointment with the ice =(
Back to eating pastries for us..
*There is another branch of this bakery in Sunnyvale. The Palo Alto branch is newer and bigger. This is also a Korean bakery that makes Japanese-style pastries, just putting it out there.
Paris Baguette (Palo Alto)
383 University Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
(650) 838-0404
The shave ice place in the korean food court next to Sunnyvale Paris baguette is much better! I also hate the snowball kind of 'shaved ice'. And also I don't like melon. haha
ReplyDeletei agree! Satura's shaved ice is much better. The best we've had so far was still at Golden Island Cafe in SF. I like melon on its own but it was just out of place on that huge iceberg =p
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