Gokoku Japanese Bakery (Tampines Mall)

Couverture Custard ($2.00) (10 cents for byob)

so the couverture custard outer flake was really crispy and crunchy (as the outer flake keep dropping on the bag) but inner custard filling was being hardened and not that sweet but a bit of milky and creamy aftertaste.

May 2023 be filled with bread runs *cross fingers*
I try the cream pan from Gokuku for the first time and am in awe of the strong vanilla bean note in the cream filling. The saying “一分钱一分货” rings true for Gokuku as usual.
My go to chocolate items continue to please, for a sweet non-bread choice the crispy choco is amazing with a milk chocolate and apricot jam coat. The mochi couverture chocolate bun on the other hand is a chewy cocoa bun sweetened with chocolate chips, white chocolate and orange peels - flavour combinations that are faultless.

The last bread run of 2022 - and I am so grateful that Gokuku has an outlet in the east because the buns here haven’t failed.
Today I enjoyed a light fresh matcha and white chocolate bun, a denser chewy brown sugar bun and a butter sugar bun with raisins and walnuts. An after thought: Gokuku is great at making classic pairing work don’t they? Matcha and white chocolate, butter and sugar taken up a notch with raisin and walnuts.

Pro tip 1: if you can’t differentiate the flour variants the bakery use, just spot the description chewy if you’d like a dense chewy bun versus regular fresh fluffy buns, both are equally good and depends on the mood of the day.
Pro tip 2: bring your own bag to save the earth and get a 10cent discount 🙃

So cool.

Guess what it resembles?

visited the famous Gokuku bakery and tried the 𝗛𝗼𝗸𝗸𝗮𝗶𝗱𝗼 𝗣𝘂𝗺𝗽𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗻 ($2.30) this generously-filled bun was coated with a crunchy and sugary layer and stuffed with a smooth and thick pumpkin filling. this was personally my favourite!