Saturday, January 20, 2007

donut Factory @ Raffles City Shopping Centre

We'd talked about going to check out donut Factory at Raffles City Shopping Centre for quite some time now, after reading about it in the papers and hearing about it. We finally made our way down to it on our way to check out the Asian Civilisation Museum.

We were expecting a queue, but gee what a queue it was! It started forming even before it opened for business, and we ended up queueing for close to an hour before we got to the front of the line. We'd actually intended to buy a box of 6, but after queueing for long, we decided to get a box of 12 assorted to make it worth the while. After all, I'd heard it was similar to Krispy Kreme, the donut haven I've yet to be able to try. And I wouldn't say we were disappointed. Not in the least :) They are $10 for a box of 12 glazed ones, and $11 for a box of 12 assorted ones.



Yummy doughy goodness! (from left to right, top to bottom: 4 spicy cheese, 2 white strawberry hearts, 2 double chocolate, blueberry glaze, orange white chocolate, peanut butter chocolate and apple cinnamon)




The spicy cheese was goooood! I loved that one.

Strawberry hearts were alright, nice but not fantastic.

Double chocolate was gooey and yummy. But messy! (We were eating it while walking, and a wind blew when Dearie was biting into his, and a glob of chocolate flew from his doughnut onto my T-shirt AND jeans! *sad*)

The blueberry glaze was a tad too sweet for my liking, the sugar glaze. The blueberry part tasted OK, sweet and tart.

Orange white chocolate and peanut butter chocolate wasn't that nice. I mean, doughnuts taste good no matter, but still some are much better than others! Haha.. Still, the peanut butter chocolate had an aroma of roasted peanuts that went better than had it been the cloying sweetness of peanut butter.

Apple cinnamon was great too. I just had to be careful when I was eating it - can't laugh or exhale through my nose or the powdered sugar would fly. And alot DID fly! Haha..

Verdict: This sounds like a very haphazard blog entry, because I'm not sure how to go about describing them well, but suffice to say that I certainly felt it was worth the wait. If you have the time, you should check it out. It's fried fresh and everything is done on the spot, so when you get your doughnuts, they're still nice and warm :):) In fact, you can even see the little doughnuts being fried on little rollers that flip them for an even golden finish, and watch the employees glaze and stuff them. Yum!