Pastry Run 3: Fantoast 枫多士 China

Are you a fan of toasts? If yes, then this is the perfect entry for you. If not, feast your eyes and enjoy wonderfully crafted bread toasts designed just for you and discover why it is almost irresistible to look away.

Mangoes and Peaches Prince

Originated in China, more specifically in Fujian region, Fantoast has established itself as a favorite place for socializing, romantic dates, or simply bonding with one’s friends and families. If you are a foreigner and looking for other places to hang out aside from your usual Starbucks, I highly suggest that you try this place. Do not worry if you cannot speak the language, their menus are littered with pictures so you just have to point and do hand signals with your hand as to how many you would like to order. They can understand basic English so ordering should not be a problem; unless, you are the type who has to modify your chosen dish because you are following a certain diet; that my friend, would be a problem. Since you are already here, I suggest to go with their design. It is not every day that you are here. Plus, their desserts and toasts are not sweet; their ice cream is also not sweet so less guilt for you, my friend. They are a nation who runs away from dishes that are overly sweet, so their desserts are usually light with high emphasis on cream as is also evidenced in the designs incorporated in their toasts.

A word of advice though, the place serves huge toasts that are good for sharing for at least 2 to 3 people so bring someone along with you; but if you are like me, who has quite an appetite for breads and pastries, then go on, INDULGE and I challenge you to finish one just like me.

So, what are these toasts that I am so proud of that I would even consider featuring them in a blog? It is not just one, two, three but many many more so to not overwhelm you, my dear readers, I will divide my Fantoast Experience into three parts. And since the designs are just breath taking, it would not do it justice to just label each part as Part 1, 2 and so on; rather, I will label it using geometrical shapes.

Part 1: The Box Series:

Mangoes and Peaches Prince

Banana Chocolate Fortress

Cookie Wafer Toast

A Bread box which contains square toasts inside, surrounded by cream around the corners then topped with ice cream and a flavor of your own choosing. Popular flavors in China usually are fruits (mangoes, peaches, strawberries), chocolates (not the pure chocolate praline like what we are used to, but limited to wafers and cookies), and coffee (their Starbucks, wow, brimming with people)

Part 2: The Triangle Series

Black Forest

Green Tea

Each toast is shaped like a triangle as they are mounted on top of each other with an entire expanse of cream covering it from head to toe. Cream is then sprinkled with a flavor of your own choosing like matcha (green tea), blueberry and black forest

Part 3: The Rectangle Series

Mushroom Truffle

Strawberry Toast

Though not exactly rectangular, the formula is quite similar with the first two wherein the top portion is covered with either cream or ice cream and with a flavor of your own choosing; however, unlike the box type, it does not contain toasts inside; the structure is the very bread itself.

So did this further excite you? Made your curious? Stay tune then for the next three entries as I tackle the three geometrical parts more specifically.

Pastry Run 4: Fantoast's 枫多士The “Box” Series

Pastry Run 5: Fantoast's 枫多士the "Triangle" Series
Pastry Run 6: Fantoast's 枫多士The “Rectangle” Series