Crazy about croissants

 

 

Seems Thais just can’t get enough of the French crescent-shaped pastry

 

Decades ago, if someone predicted that Thais would happily queue for hours to buy croissants just as they once did for Roti Boy breads or Krispy Kreme doughnuts, you would be forgiven for scratching your mind in disbelief.

 

Yet, against all odds, that’s what is happening right now. The current croissant mania is as amazing as it is real, and even more astonishing is that it started almost overnight. Today, Thai people stand in line at bakeries and wait for hours for freshly-baked goodies. Those savvy enough to pre-order the crescent-shaped pastries from their favourite bakers are sometimes forced to wait two to three months before they can sink their teeth into them.

 

Fortunately, with so many pastry lovers in search of genuine and “perfect” croissants, the delicious pastries have become easier to find throughout the country.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/crazy-about-croissants/

 

 

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Roti bread, Donut, Croissant... a veritable pastry fashion parade (replayed, with fatter people, obviously).

 

Who will Journey to the East, bringing the Word* of New York Pastry, a Cronut in one hand and a Cragel in the other?

 

*Slightly out of date, but apparently not past its sell-by date...

Another hub coming up, trust TAT are on the case promoting  Thailand as the world source and home of croissants -  can't allow anyone else to make this all important claim. 

 

 

Seems I am out of favor! ????

 

My wife has been buying one almost every morning, with ham and cheese, before she never eat bread or cheese

10 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

My wife has been buying one almost every morning, with ham and cheese, before she never eat bread or cheese

My gf doesn't like "normal" bread. But she definitely likes butter croissants with bacon and egg.

 

One challenge in Thailand is that there are by now a lot of bakeries (at least in Bangkok) but the taste of many products in those bakeries is far away from the way these items are supposed to taste.

I.e. TOPS supermarket. I tried a couple of their bakery items. Bad and very bad.

 

Foodland has tasty croissants - and is one of the few places with good tasting bread.

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Those savvy enough to pre-order the crescent-shaped pastries from their favourite bakers are sometimes forced to wait two to three months before they can sink their teeth into them.

 

 

They should find a new baker then. Or in other words... That statement is horse****, and neither do I believe that people are queuing for hours at a time.

I'm always surprised at how many Thais buy the bad tasting margarine croissants at Big C, and not just since recently but since years.

16 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

One challenge in Thailand is that there are by now a lot of bakeries (at least in Bangkok) but the taste of many products in those bakeries is far away from the way these items are supposed to taste.

I.e. TOPS supermarket. I tried a couple of their bakery items. Bad and very bad.

 

Foodland has tasty croissants - and is one of the few places with good tasting bread.

7/11's getting in on the act, One near me doing it's own bakery

I'm not sure it's still a croissant if you stuff a hotdog inside !....and please supermarkets....stop selling "Margerine" croissants....and labeling them as such...that went out with mullet haorcuts in the late 70s

1 hour ago, PatOngo said:

Seems I am out of favor! ????

 

Or is that out of flavour?

 

My opinion on the popularity of croissant is the sweetness of them. Anything sweet will appeal to the Thai palate.

 

Even the mass-produced sliced white bread is sweet compared to the western product. My wife will eat the white bread, but not the wholemeal version, because it's not sweet.

It's really disgusting, the margarine croissants.
It sticks to the palate and leaves you with a taste of lard.
As for the croissants "revisited" with sausage, ham, egg or almonds, they are "stale" croissants.
It is a way of avoiding waste.

13 minutes ago, sirocco said:

leaves you with a taste of lard

hydrogenated oil...butter is based on cream, hence the cost.......same as cheap creamer for coffee..is oil..read labels..not too good for your pipes either

 

margarine being oil based and butter cream based--explains the quality and cost..

"crescent shaped pastries" the article says.

 

Accompanied by a photograph of items that are not crescent shaped.

Chakakhan,

 

The butter is made from cream ????
I thought it came straight out of the udders of the cows.
I'm disappointed.
A few more years, and there is an inventor who will find the process to transform milk into butter, directly in the udders of cows.

2 minutes ago, In the jungle said:

"crescent shaped pastries" the article says.

Accompanied by a photograph of items that are not crescent shaped.

A good point.

I did an image search for croissants, the majority of them were shaped as the image article. Only a few were crescent shaped.

A sign of the times? I have no idea.

1 hour ago, jackdd said:

I'm always surprised at how many Thais buy the bad tasting margarine croissants at Big C, and not just since recently but since years.

With overdose of sugar.. too much sweet

1 minute ago, Tarteso said:

1 hour ago, jackdd said:

I'm always surprised at how many Thais buy the bad tasting margarine croissants at Big C, and not just since recently but since years.

With overdose of sugar.. too much sweet

Agreed. Psychologically the more sweet food you eat, the more you want it.

 

Sugar, Salt, Fat by Michael Moss highlights how the food giants know this, and add it to their products in order to sell more.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Those savvy enough to pre-order the crescent-shaped pastries from their favourite bakers are sometimes forced to wait two to three months before they can sink their teeth into them.

This is a ridiculous statement. Croissants have been available in Thailand for decades, being sold at almost every bake shop and even in supermarkets.

 

Unless everybody frequents the very same bake shop, there is no need to "wait for two to three months" for a few croissants.

 

What I strongly suspect is that there is ONE certain bakery franchise that somehow has suddenly become tremendously popular with "trendies" (or "sheepiots" as I like to call them) and everybody is flocking there.

 

It's probably the same phenomenon as with the Roti Boy and Krispy Kreme franchises mentioned in the OP. Their products weren't any better or worse than those from other shops. If anything, they were grossly overpriced. And maybe that's what appealed to the "sheepiots".

 

Personally, I would NEVER EVER cue several hours for a croissant. Nor a donut or roti, for that matter. I'm not insane. Nor do I follow every stupid trend that emerges out of nowhere. 

2 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Or is that out of flavour?

 

My opinion on the popularity of croissant is the sweetness of them. Anything sweet will appeal to the Thai palate.

 

Even the mass-produced sliced white bread is sweet compared to the western product. My wife will eat the white bread, but not the wholemeal version, because it's not sweet.

I hope your sweet to her! 

Finaly i see hope for Thailand !

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1 hour ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Only 100 years behind the Cambodians, who make excellent baguettes at the roadside in clay pots.

French influence makes all the difference.

best croissants I have had i Thailand were from a little bakery in the carpark of a hotel in Chumporn, they were made with butter and they were absolutely brilliant, great buttery taste and were great to eat hot or cold. We stayed in the hotel for a couple of nights while there to watch our daughter play in the thai tennis championships, we ordered 2 dozen the night before  so they could bake them for us for the morning we left

 

8 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

French influence makes all the difference.

Yes and the same go with Vietnam where you can find delicious bread and french pastery at every coner.

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Just now, Sheryl said:

Some off topic posts and a post with a racist comment have been removed.

Sheryl, how on earth can anybody bring a racist comment into a thread about croissants.

Seeing this thread i though oh i will try making some, not quite got it, passable just.

What the heck i just had 2 with some nice smoky bacon, delicious.

Just now, colinneil said:

Sheryl, how on earth can anybody bring a racist comment into a thread about croissants.

 

 

you'd be surprised....

 

Someone managed it.

12 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Sheryl, how on earth can anybody bring a racist comment into a thread about croissants.

Seeing this thread i though oh i will try making some, not quite got it, passable just.

What the heck i just had 2 with some nice smoky bacon, delicious.

Colin, on this forum there are posters capable of making a racial comment on almost any topic.