Monday, September 21, 2009

Sweet halos from America.

KL is going to be another donut city like Jakarta. It has 4 famous doughnut chains namely Dunkin' Donuts, Donut Empire, J. CO Donuts & finally Krispy Kreme!

Let me begin with Dunkin' donuts. It derived its name from the way the rednecks eat donuts where they will dunk/dip their donuts into hot coffee before crushing them between their molars. Dunkin' donuts is the largest donut chain in the world but in Malaysia, they are not favoured as their donuts were not made fresh unlike J. CO where they will serve you straight-from-oven halos.

Donut Empire only requires a bit of description here as it has only 2 stores around Malaysia and it is from the kiasu land. I have yet to try it. p/s: there is one in Sungei Wang Plaza.

As for J. Co which created a brouhaha few years back with its first store in Pavilion. The queues are still long and the quality is still superb. For your knowledge, this J. CO brand is from our neighbour, Indonesia.

Lastly on Krispy Kreme, it is said to be the almighty king of all donuts, another brainchild of the americans that had landed in KL in mid 2009 by opening 2 outlets, one in Berjaya Times Sq. & another in Midvalley. Americanization is ubiquitous and subsequently the mortality rates due to ischemic heart disease and diabetes mellitus are rising exponentially in Asia.

By the way, feel free to check out the donuts, flown all the way from KL to KT.









2 comments:

Superman said...

Wow, another choices for us to choose for donuts. I think I will still like to try it and see what is the different with Big Apple.

jingpengboy said...

Big Apple is a 'copy' of J.Co and you will find out that both have the same donuts in appearance but taste wise, I would prefer J.Co to Big Apple that purportedly claimed that it is from The States as Big Apple stands for New York.