Food Picks: Swish Rolls’ new vegetable-shaped buns at Paragon on Oct 9
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A set of all seven buns is priced at $29.80.
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SINGAPORE – Home-grown bakery Swish Rolls has rolled out a range of limited-edition vegetable-shaped buns – complete with smiley faces – that are almost too cute to eat.
Swish Rolls is best known for its Swiss rolls (from $3 a slice) and croissant egg tarts ($2.50 each), and its viral croons (moon-shaped croissants) launched in 2022.
The new buns, reminiscent of the famed Jellycat plushies, are priced at $4.50 a piece or $29.80 for the full set of seven. They are available for pre-order online, and from Oct 9 to Nov 10 at the Swish Rolls’ kiosk at Paragon.
Three have savoury fillings, while the other three are sweet. The seventh bun is a shio pan (salted butter roll) that is best eaten toasted.
My favourite is the leek-shaped one, loaded with smooth onion cream cheese and confit garlic filling. The potato-shaped bun is filled with peppery mashed potato, chicken sausage and mozzarella, while the eggplant-shaped bun contains steamed honey sweet potatoes.
The leek-shaped bun with onion cream cheese and confit garlic filling.
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The sweet options are the carrot-shaped bun stuffed with orange-flavoured cream cheese, the tomato-shaped bun with a strawberry cream filling and the shiitake mushroom-shaped bun with a lush dark chocolate ganache.
Unlike the vegetable-shaped buns from Bakery 1946, a South Korean bakery at Suntec City, which have a chewy mochi-like texture, the Swish Rolls milk buns are soft and fluffy. Both textures are enjoyable, and I would happily eat these “veggies” any day.
Where: Swish Rolls, B1-K4 Paragon, 290 Orchard Road
MRT: Orchard/Somerset
When: Oct 9 to Nov 10, 9am to 8.45pm daily
Info: swishrolls.sg
