Puffy Pastry: Croissant

Carbohydrates is our basic nutrients need for human body. Besides rice and noodles, we may obtain it from bread. I am going to introduce Croissant, one of the pastries from Paris Baguette, a famous Korean bakery. Paris Baguette has two locations in the Bay Area. There is one in Santa Clara and I went to the Palo Alto downtown location. They offer indoor and outdoor seatings. This is outside of the bakery.  

A slightly sweetened top and strong butter flavor is what you may expect from Croissant. The history of this pastry is quite vague, but it is originated from Vienna instead of France. It started as a crescent shaped cookie and was named "kipferl" or "kipfel". Moreover, there are a few myths about how croissant came to the world and The Battle of Vienna is one of them. Europeans love to take one croissant and match with a cup of tea or coffee to form their continental breakfast.

This bakery's croissant seems to be more healthy to me. You would not find greasy stains left on your face after finish the whole thing.


Want to have the best taste out of a croissant? You may put it in a toaster oven for about forty five seconds to one minute to make the surface more crispy. Be sure not to over heat it. 

There are a handful of bread, cake and pastry selections in Paris Baguette. My personal favorites are custard bread, sweet potato bread and milk pudding.

                                                                                           















This is the storefront. They use blue and white as their store signature colors. Some of the stores offer indoor and outdoor seatings for customers to try the baking goods fresh right after their purchase. 









If you are interested to try croissant or other pastries, you may want to visit Paris Baguette!

Paris Baguette

Address: 383 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301

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