Sophie Bakery

Finished my yoga session in the mid noon heat on a Thursday, and had some time to explore Telok Ayer with it's lunchtime crowd and goodies. Just a couple of shops down, I chanced upon Sophie's Bakery.

Picture from Thursday. Maddeningly hot afternoon.

It was apparent on first sight this is not going to be your standard Singapore bread shop. The decor is so very quaint and europeanish. What lured me however was the crowd in and outside during Thursday lunch hour. The last time I 'd seen such a bread horde was probably during Breadtalk's $1 bread hour. Of course I have to join the crowd and find out!

 

Picture taken on a Saturday when
it's decidedly less crowded and I love the floor tiles!

I was surprised by  the single one item sold throughout the shop. I was pretty much surrounded by Chocolate Chip Buns - together with their cousins, White Chocolate Chip Buns. Seriously, chocolate chip buns are pretty much 80% of all the baking goods in the shop. I think there a couple of other minority breads like the baguette, and a few exotic macaroons in the cooler shelf. But most people exit with bags of chocolate chip buns. Compared to the usual bakery, this is a rarity. Most would produce at least 15 different types of various bake items in principle of chance. Higher the variety, the more likely the customer will find something to his or her liking. But usually I'd walk pass these, they're are dime a dozen such in bread crazed Singapore. So Sophie Bakery is interesting, a complete opposite of its industry norm.

 I had wanted to take more pictures - clearer ones, but I was deterred by the staff. So I put my phone away and took a tray instead.

And obviously I can't leave without one of these buns.

And the verdict; a really good tasting fresh bread evenly filled and covered with chocolate chips.

It tasted soft yet solid enough not to be fluffy. Not too moist that the flour clump together but not dry either.

It tasted of freshly leavened dough made with excellent butter and flour with a pinch of salt. Which is in short; excellent bread with bits of chocolate in every bite.


Don't be fooled by its look. It's seriously heavy on the stomach. I had one after a light lunch and it stuffed me for the next 3 hours.

A understated fact about cooking and life that Sophie's Bakery highlighted. You don't need to be Jack of all trade to succeed, you just need to be par excellent at one.






Sophie Bakery
http://www.sophiebakery.sg/

Telok Ayer Street 197 - 169 (diagonally opposite Amoy Food Centre)

Opening hours: Mon - Fri 8am - 7.30pm
                        Sat - 10am - 4pm