Saint-Germain French Patisserie

Randomly found this place, have heard about it from Sydney Foodie guide. The place is small, like you won't really know that it is there.

France - feeling interior

There are 2 display cabinets; one is cakes and one is savoury...The savoury looks so tempting while the cake side was filled about half, still too early maybe.

Mararons is everywhere I reckon.

We were not really hungry, I chose this interesting sugar puff, the real one was really big. And omg, it was so nice, flaky, sweet, buttery... just nice !

My friends ordered coffee and hot chocolate. They said it was just alright.

Cake and sweets.. pretty cheap.

I came back again in the week after, had the salmon crepe, quite nice. The pain au choclate was very good. But the coffee... ... I will come here only for baked stuff.

Saint-Germain French Patisserie
88 Rosehill St., Sydney NSW 2016
Tel : (02) 9319 7161

Taste Baguette

One day we finished working quite early, about 1.30 pm. Joyce and I went for late lunch at Taste Baguette in Myer. (Joyce is my new friend at Bacco... so happy to have her there, very helpful and nice mature girl)

There are a number of pastries there, tried only banana cake which was quite nice.

Joyce (or Juju called by Brandan and Danny :P)

We shared a Vietnamese Style Lemongrass Chicken:

Grilled Chicken marinated in lemongrass served with coral lettuce, tomato and rocket on wholemeal baguette.

I like the baguette, the chicken was a tad dry but nice flavour.

I like this lovely picture of her :D

Taste Baguette
the corner of George & Market Sts,
at the entrance of the City Myer Store

Luxe Espresso

New cafe opened in New town.. how can i miss it? The cafe is called "Luxe espresso"

I went there a bit early... about 4 tables at that time.

The tart looks like the one from Bourke street bakery, so I eagerly tried the rhubarb tart.

came with my skimmed cappuccino, not bad.

The tart was yummy, a bit flakier than Bourke street bakery's and the fangipane got some almond chunks in it. (I didn't mean which one is better, both are good in its own)

The menu.

The breakfast & lunch menu on the board looks interesting, wait to come again with more people.

It is the next door of Campos

Luxe Espresso

195 Missenden Rd.,

Newtown, 2042

Bourke Street Bakery & Spice I am

Another eating (and shopping) day ! P'Ta, Ping and I started our day at Bourke Street Bakery.

2 snails & pain au chocolate.

Mocha, hot chocolate and flatwhite. (also my fav carrot cake)

My mocha was lovely, strong and not so sweet as in other cafes.

Isn't it such a beautiful table?

hahaha... of course we love taking (ourselves) pictures.

After that we went for a biggggggg shopping for skincare at warehouse... spent lots of money T_T. After that, we had lunch at Spice I am in Surry Hills.

Not many people yet when we arrived but a few minutes after, packed !

Since we had a big dinner waiting for us, we ordered only 2 serves of rice.

Som Tam : Thai spicy papaya salad. Super hot !!! Taste was just like you eat it Thailand, confirmed by P'Ta & Ping (Som tam's fan)

Pad Prik Khing Gai : Stir fried chicken with long bean in chilli paste .. so tasty. They are famous for Pad Prik Khing Moo Krob (Stir fried crispy pork skin) which I have tried... sinfully delicious !

Red curry with roasted duck...

OMG, THIS IS THE BEST RED CURRY I HAD SO FAR !! Even better than in Thailand. I don't know how to say but we were still dreaming of this dish. It was really really tasty, spicy, aromatic and flavourful (made me almost cry when eating it..hahaha). Even it was spicy, I was almost drinking the curry.

So far, here was the best Thai food place I have tried (but some dishes were just normal also). If you want to try Authentic Thai food, please come here and try order those dishes we had (recommend Crispy pork skin for Pad Prik Khing).

Extremely happy !

Bourke Street Bakery

633 Bourke St., Surry Hills NSW

Tel : (02) 9699 1011

Spice I Am

90 Wentworth Ave., Surry Hills NSW 2010

Tel : (02) 9280 0928

Black Star Pastry

Since now it is my holiday, I got more time to blog.. You will see lots of coming places that I actually went there quite long time ago....since February ^ ^''. The Black Star Pastry made me very excited when first I knew about it cuz it is not far from my area, New town (but I still have to take bus, last time I walked there, it took about 40 mins). And this wonderful cafe is belong to Chef Christopher The’s

First I see the shop.. Wowwww....It has a simple yet rustic feeling. All those array of pastries are just perfect, the type that I like and want to have in my shop... In another word, it is exactly my dream shop. (ok, I admit I have so many types of shops that I want to have haha)

However, the place is very small, about 2 small tables inside and 2 tables outside.. so I was a bit disappointed when I planned to have coffee & read some books there and then found out the table is not designed for that. I went there twice in that week. (and after that I totally forgot about it cuz the seat is not comfortable...mm I think I will go again to try something new)

First time I took away the Ginger Ninjas, Lemon curd shortbread, and Strawberry crumble tart.


Having the lemon curd shortbread from black star pastry with the skinny cappuccino at Campos.. sounds so good, rite?

Second time for breakfast, Leek with goat cheese quiche... Mmmm, not bad but I prefer the one in Bourke Street Bakery.

Coffee was good, also I tried Rose and Lilac Macaron..

It was light and tasty but the short pastry wasn't so crispy.

Deletable !

Also.. the staffs there are very friendly ^ ^

Black Star Pastry

277 Australia St. Newtown 2042.
Tel : (02) 9557 8656

Good bye Bourke Street bakery on Boardway

Some of you may know that Bourke street bakery on Boardway is closed down on this weekend, 27th June. Hiah, it is the best bakery nearest my house. Sometimes if I have no idea about my breakfast, there is the first choice come up in my mind..

Spinach & goat cheese quiche.

Sourdough fruit toast with butter & jam and my skinny cappuccino.

Lemon curd tart

For me, Bourke Street Bakery makes the best short pastry!

The lemon curd is superb ! Anyone have this great recipe?

If I miss thier tarts, I have to go to Surry hills instead... hurr.. Even Central Baking Depot, a cousin store, I found the tarts there are different from here :'(

SWEETNESS The Patisserie

Time is flying.. As I started working as a volunteer for 1 month at SWEETNESS The Patisserie during 19 May - 19 June... now I have been completed.

I first know the shop at The Good Living Growers' Market. The shop gives us many samples of biscuits and loaves to try and they are so nice.. That was my first impression.


After that I have seen lots of information in the foodie blogs, esp from Helen. One day I sent an email to Gena (Owner and chef) that I am her fan and she replied me at that night :D

The next market, I went to talk to her then she told me about her shop just opened in Epping and offered me about get some experience working there. First I went to the shop.. Wow, there is a brand-new big and super clean open kitchen. The small section to show the product was decorated so pretty. I was really happy and excited.



Such a beautiful experience I have learned. Actually most of the things I did there were not the new things, there were things that I have baked at home or did in school before. However, I have learned more in term of business and bulk baking. For example, normally in the recipe always say that you should use egg in the room temperature. Here, we use the egg straight away from the fridge but still no big problem can be found. I asked chef, she said of course using egg in room temperature is much better as it saves time to whisk and maybe you can get more volumn but if we leave the eggs in room temperature for long time, it reduces shelf life.

Moreover, in the real world business, you have to concern about cost and time more than just like baking at home for your family and friends. Somethings I think I can do better but I was a bit nervous, they didn't turn out so well. sorry chef ^ ^''



Truly I wanted to take picture on the last day I worked there which was Friday but that day the shop was very busy preparing goods for the Saturday market.. So I went back on the next tuesday to return the uniforms and it was a great time to take some nice pictures to show you guys.

Strawberry marshmallow biscuit, the new item.. cute, isn't it?

with Camille (my favourite)

with Jodie (anoter my favourite)

with Esther ( I like her, she is a marshmallow expert)

Ciecilia ( not sure how to spell ur name ^ ^''), another student who is the next volunteer. She is nice friend !

English Toffee with Almond, lovely.

The trolley full of nice stuffs.

Let the photos show you how beautiful the shop!

and.....

Sincerely thanks, Chef Gena !

Oh, and if you are there and see Pumpkin & Ginger loaf, Cranberry orange muffin, Macademia shortbread and Florentine.. please don't miss it, my favourite !

SWEETNESS The Patisserie

38 Oxford St., Epping, NSW 2121

Tel : (02) 9869 3800

http://www.sweetness.com.au/