I love lazy Sunday afternoons spent sipping coffee and eating the desserts, before heading out for a ride under deep blue skies. To kick off a day like this I recently chose Mont Banc Patisserie for its beautiful and delicately made cakes, which are as much art as food.
This patisserie is renowned for its Japanese inspired French style cakes. The word ‘patisserie’ is the French word for Pastry shop. Thais will often call a shop selling cakes and pastries a bakery, but a bakery is actually a specialist in bread. A patisserie on the other hand specializes in cakes, pastries and desserts.
Panit Palapong, the owner graduated from a French affiliated patisserie school in Japan. At Mont Blanc Patisserie she combines the art of French pastry making with Japanese ingredients and contemporary design. But, she stresses the importance of not only appearance, but the quality of the ingredients as well. Mont Blanc Patisserie uses only Californian almond power, Belgium chocolate, and fresh cream and butter from New Zealand.
It is the pastry chef’s job to create new items for the menu – creations which should not only taste good, but look good too.
By then we realized the sky had already turned from blur to reddish orange and dusk was falling.
Leaving the shop, I thought of how lucky I was to be a Chiang Mai citizen where art is everywhere, even in things we eat.
“Perhaps we are the happiest people on earth.”
This patisserie is renowned for its Japanese inspired French style cakes. The word ‘patisserie’ is the French word for Pastry shop. Thais will often call a shop selling cakes and pastries a bakery, but a bakery is actually a specialist in bread. A patisserie on the other hand specializes in cakes, pastries and desserts.
Panit Palapong, the owner graduated from a French affiliated patisserie school in Japan. At Mont Blanc Patisserie she combines the art of French pastry making with Japanese ingredients and contemporary design. But, she stresses the importance of not only appearance, but the quality of the ingredients as well. Mont Blanc Patisserie uses only Californian almond power, Belgium chocolate, and fresh cream and butter from New Zealand.
It is the pastry chef’s job to create new items for the menu – creations which should not only taste good, but look good too.
By then we realized the sky had already turned from blur to reddish orange and dusk was falling.
Leaving the shop, I thought of how lucky I was to be a Chiang Mai citizen where art is everywhere, even in things we eat.
“Perhaps we are the happiest people on earth.”
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Mont Blanc located on Nimmanhemin Road, Muang district, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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