Amongst the many pastries in french cuisine, cream puffs are certainly one of the most popular item. It's airy, it's light; it is almost like you are inhaling rather than munching and chewing. Choux Creme is one of the very few shops that specializes in making puffs; I first take notice of this shop back in my CUHK days in which I like to walk around the malls in Shatin and there's that delightful flash of red and which from the signboard right at the exit of the train station beckoning me to partake a morsel every time I walk pass it.
As a shop specialized in puffs, Choux creme offers a huge variety of different flavors; but i like to go back to the basics and have the original cream and the custard. Its relatively easy to distinguish good custard from the bad, bad one tend to have too much cream or too much starch such that the resulting mixture is either too cream-like or too thick. The custard of choux is right in between; the filling is velvety and smooth, you can even see vanilla seeds flecked in between the pale yellow mixture. Choux also has specialty puffs ever now and then, i remember once they had a pandan flavor cream puff which was rather special.
Priciness would be a major down side of this franchise; the original sells at $19 per puff which is quite expensive compared with other bakeries. A perfectly decent, even good puff sold in places like market place is only $13 yet the quality of choux is not significantly superior than the other bakeries...
So my advice would be, if you are looking for specialty puffs Choux Crème is a considerable place to go to, but for the originals, it is not your best buy, however, the quality of the goods is guaranteed. read more