RE: Singaporeans Are Doughnut Idiots!

First posted: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 @ 11.20pm. Edited and added more "rantings".

Warning/ Disclaimer: This post AGAIN would be offensive to some. If you are offended, I hereby apologise first. I mean no harm and I'm just a teeny weeny gal (I'm damn small built k?) who wana voice out her love for good doughnuts and hate for the inferior ones.

8Days hot on my heels! 8Days copied my article? Haha... Right after my post on Sunday regarding about doughnuts/ donuts, 8Days did their own review with this week's copy which went on sale on Monday. Talk about timing and coincidence sia… I didn't know about it till Daphne told me about it.
But, let me clarify matters first before I move on with what I have to say for the reply in regards to the donut post...
1) No lah, I don’t think 8Days copied me and I swear I did not know the editorial were coming up with this article...
2) I've been through a journalism module and I doubt that a magazine that publishes weekly comes up with deadlines for articles within a night.
Thus, it is a REAL coincidence.... Som-pah!!!

Here's a scan of the 1st 2 pages of the article, but please go buy the magazine if you are keen on reading the article k?

As you can see from the 1st 2 pages of the article, Pop Doh, the one I was talking about which is at B2 of Takashimaya has the highest score so far... I'm pleased and happy beacause they gave Pop Doh 4 "stars" out of 5 and thus admitting that whoever tried and tasted the doughnuts are not doughnut idiots because they know what a REAL doughnut taste like...
Though DD was given lesser than what Pop Doh has, follow nadnut's blog entry and all kinds of various rumors about the source of these donuts, and you can definately speculate why it did not receive as mush "stars" as it should.
One of them featured is new in town and if any follow all my previous entries, anyone will know I would not have the time to go try these donuts. Since they are given a score just as high as Pop Doh, maybe it's worth a try.
On the 3rd page, one was given the highest score. I kinda suspect those doughnuts avaliable in 7-11s are the same. Name same, logo same... Correct me if I'm wrong... If they are... Sigh... I shall not say more... Everyone's tastebuds are different and I don't wana risked getting flamed again just for speaking my tiny weeny 2 dollars worth...

Let me just say my point again, evaluating a doughnut is a 3-step process: icing and/or fillings only, doughnut only, and entire thing as a whole...
Was wondering how come they did not include the one at Clementi Central? Maybe it was opened after the article was set and sent to the printers...

Here's what I want to say with regards to the post on Sunday...
1) I've got a "fan"

Wat right do you have to call people idiots? It's definately up to individual tastes and preferences.Not everyone has the privilege to taste the different brands of donuts like you. But nothing gives you, you young punk to call people idiots. You are rude.

Clarifications about the post...
I did forewarn the post was offensive and I sincerely apologise to anyone who had taken offense. I had queued at these long lines and found that I had wasted time and money on doughnuts I feel inferior as they are not up to my expectations. I just wanted to voice out my thoughts about the whole doughnut madness which I think is going a bit out of hand. My stand is, for $1-$2 a piece, I would not spend on what I taste as bread on what it claims to be a doughnut.
This whole craze now is like the bubble tea, portugese egg tart, cinnamon bun, coffee bun, etc, thingy. The really good ones have been around for quite some time. Some others come in because they see that it is good business, it becomes a fad for no apparent reason and pop, the bubble burst. When the bubble burst, the good ones go as well because they are forced out of business by the huge majority of market share taken by the not so good ones as there were so blardi many of them in the market. I guess it's human nature, we all like fresh and new ideas and stuff... And businessmen are clever...
I'm not a young punk. A young punk would not even have a chance to eat DD locally when it was still at Far East Plaza. A young punk would not remember spending $6 on a cup of really good frothy bubble tea at Wisma Atria.

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110 pongs… I'm been blogging since 2001 and this is the first entry to bring me so much traffic. I have no idea why. But I'm glad I've found some DD and doughnut kakis along the way...