PrintSugar Rush: Sun Mary Bakery’s Steroidal Chocolate Cream Puff
On Sunday when I entered Flushing’s Sun Mary Bakery, with its vast array of outrageously cute cakes, buns, pastries, and other yummy whatnots, I could scarcely think of food.
This condition was the fault of my colleague Robyn Lee who kidnapped me and four other hapless victims for an epic food crawl, described further on Chowhound, left all of us feeling quite kuiadore—a wonderful Japanese term for eating to the point of collapse. OK, fine we weren’t kidnapped, but by the end of the afternoon it kinda felt like I’d been in the clutches of some diabolical master eater.
When it comes to Chinese bakeries I usually skip Western looking pastries and opt for a sugar-and-nut-laden moon cake or a pork bun. With my judgment impaired by three hours of eating, I became fascinated by the rows of these plastic-domed pastry orbs. They reminded me of the cryogenically preserved heads from Futurama. A girl behind the counter told me that they were filled with chocolate cream and I was sold.
I forgot all about my chocolate-filled orb until the next evening. I took it out of the fridge and half expected to hear an air-lock sound when I cracked the seal on the plastic dome. No such luck. It appeared to be merely a steroidal cream puff.
The pastry itself was pretty good and the filling was light and fluffy. Think cross between chocolate mousse and frosting, though less chocolaty and decidedly less sweet. Still, not a bad deal for $1.75.
Sun Mary Bakery
13357 41st Road, Flushing NY 11355 (map)
718-460-8800
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5 Comments:
Golly that is intense! I loved the look on your face when you spotted it at the Bakery and was like WHAT IS THAT??
Kathy YL Chan at 4:21PM on 03/10/09
The filling looks vaguely tuna mayo-ish, no?
Tokyorosa at 4:33PM on 03/10/09
The vanilla one is better.
frozencoke at 6:10PM on 03/10/09
@Kathy -- Yes, I've never been quite so eerily fascinated by a pastry
@Tokyorosa -- That, or chopped liverish, but in all fairness to Sun Mary, it may have degenerated after sitting for 24 hours in the fridge
Joe DiStefano at 6:17PM on 03/10/09
it looks like a choux! i bumped into the choux factory on 48th and 1st and i've been smitten by those cream filled pastries. though i have to admit the choux was stuffed with more custardy/pudding type fillings instead of the one here.
arathi at 3:22PM on 03/11/09