Sweets not too sweet

Amid the chic boutiques and restaurants at the popular Avenue Ratchayothin community mall, new bakery Custard No 4 catches the eye of every passer-by with its scrumptious Japanese-style pastries and desserts.  

Suwimon Thanyawong – who’s sold foreign eyewear, beauty accessories and kitchen products through her business Kamnuan Karn for more than a decade – turned her showroom into a bakery last October. It serves homemade pastries created by young chef Phuttipong Techamanachai, a graduate of the Oriental Thai Cooking School.

It’s a small shop in shades of green and brown, furnished with tables and chairs for 10 customers. Phuttipong’s recipes are adapted from Hokkaido-style desserts that have smooth layers and are just a little sweet.

The menu includes five choices of aromatic soft custards – honey, milk caramel, Thai tea, green tea and Earl Grey.   

“Our desserts aren’t too sweet, which is how the Japanese prefer them,” Phuttipong says. “We use quality ingredients like butter, flour and chocolate from France. The focus is on takeaway items, and we’ll be adding beverages soon.”

That French flour and butter makes his pies wonderfully moist. You can choose among five fillings – beef, ham & mushroom, spinach, chicken curry-ham-cheese, and creamy mushroom – with prices ranging from Bt40 to Bt65.

“Our ham-cheese pie is quite different in its texture,” Phuttipong adds. “It’s stuffed with a cheesy sauce and diced, sliced ham.”

Fans of sponge cake shouldn’t miss the Bt88 milk-chocolate mousse topped with thick, dark chocolate, or the strawberry mascarpone trifle made with Italian cream cheese, whipped cream and vanilla.

Other top sellers are the deliciously smooth choux cream vanilla for Bt65, and banoffee, bread sticks, cookies, brownies, croutons, butter rolls and sandwiches.

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<< Custard No 4 is on the ground floor of the Avenue Ratchayothin.
<< It’s open daily from noon to 10.30pm.
<< Find out more at (02) 512 4093 and the “custardN04” page on Facebook.