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Written by awm

Thursday, 24 May 2007

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Name (Chinese): 精点味道
Address (Chinese): 辽宁省大连市中山区大连商场北一楼
Address (Pinyin): 1F Dalian Store
District: Zhongshan
Directions: corner of the NewMart Store, Victory Square, ground floor
Telephone Number: 8282-5855
Webpage or Email Contact Details: http://www.tastydl.cn

This Western style bakery inside the NewMart Store has now been in operation for more than a year now.It provides a range of Western breads, cakes and pastries as well as the more esoteric Asian ones (e.g. sausauge in a donut!)

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Overall rating		7.3
Food		10.0
Ambience		2.0
Service		9.0
Cost		8.0

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Tasty bakery, Friday, 25 May 2007

Written by awm - View all my reviews - Top 50 Reviewer

About a year ago this Bakery came to Dalian. For many it has been the first experience of a Western style boulangerie and patisserie. I prevent myself visiting it too often as it is too fattening and "very, very delicious". The food is simpler and less variety than at Fauchon in Paris and it's Asian outpost in Busan in Korea. The nearest I have found here in Asian has been the OPS bakery, also in Busan.
Food: There is a range of breads including baguettes, cheese bread and panettone shaped bread
The small cakes and pastries are varied between "western" -sweet and Asian savoury (e.g. a hot-dog doughnut or vegetable eclair). Among the more recent offerings is a small dough cake containing pannecotta with fruit and the red beans (pannecotta is a cooked custard cream that blows crème brulee out the window). Around the corner are the "serious cakes"! There is a good selection of small and large cream cakes (Asian style) and also a good (non-gelatine) cheesecake (plain or topped with cherry or blackcurrant puree). The emphasis on the small cakes,however, is on chocolate, so if you are a chocoholic you will be in heaven!
Service: the downside! They have put this shop in a corner of the store and grossly underestimated it's popularity. It is too small. The operational logistics are a nightmare as the baking is just behind the customer area, and the area needs a total redesign/refit to separate the customers from the service side. You pick up tongs and a tray from a cabinet as you go round anticlockwise. The breads and cakes are in compartments with covers, which you have to lift to access your purchases. The passage is narrow - will only allow one person in line. But the staff have to replenish these compartments so they will push past with trays of new bakes clockwise. Once you reach the till the operation is swift and efficient. The packaging is modern and you get your goodies home safe and not squashed. THE MAJOR PROBLEM is the Chinese mentality of "I want it now - I won't queue - I won't wait in line to pay". So it is an "elbows and feet" job - stares and comments have no effect.
Prices: reasonable and competitive. My small cakes are 6-8 RMB, cheesecake is 10 RMB, the large loaves are up to 35 RMB and the very large cakes up to about 200 RMB

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