🍞 Black Sesame Bun
📍Dough Magic (@dough_magic_official)
📌 Chinatown
💰 $1.50

I would like to blame my trust issues on bakeries that make "black sesame" and "chicken floss" pastries that are mixed with other ingredients, with mung bean being the usual suspect.

When I first came across this bun at Dough Magic, I was super impressed at the display image showing a super thick and gao black sesame filling. Imagine my excitement to cut it open and see how generously stuffed it was.

But alas, upon tasting, I realised that once again, I had been TRICKED. CATFISHED. I felt like a naive old ah beh who got scammed by a sexy young lady on the internet once, swore that he would never fall for a scam again, then a few months later, getting his money SUCKED by another chiobu that slid into his DMs. YOU WANNA KNOW WHY??? THIS BLACK SESAME FILLING WAS MIXED WITH LOTUS PASTE!!!!!!! LEGIT!!!!! MIXED WITH LOTUS PASTE!!!!! IT AINT PURE BSSM LIKE I HAD HOPED!!!!!

Im still patiently waiting for the day that a bakery doesnt completely cheat my fillings by "diluting" their black sesame with some other weird ass ingredient. First it was green bean, now lotus paste. The lotus drowned out the black sesame taste a lot. I could still taste a faint nuttiness from the sesame, but majoroty of it was just sweet lotus.

For $1.50 this is still hella worth it as its generously stuffed and pretty hefty, just that you gotta be mentally prepared for the fact that its not pure black sesame. If you go into it with an expectation of lotus with a bit of bssm nuttiness, you'll probably enjoy this. This is a great bao minus the false advertising.

Anyways if anyone knows where to get real, catfish-less black sesame buns, pls hmu because everyday we stray further and further away from non-misleading marketing and it pains me to my black sesame loving soul.

⭐ Rating: 8/10 filet mignon adubidubiduba nyon
🤑 worth the price: yes
🦖 would I buy again: yes but not for the bssm element
💍 would I marry: we would get engaged but then we would break it off the moment I learn that when he said he was a millionaire, he meant that he had a million rupiah in the bank