NYC Tastes

I just love going into Panya. It’s so much different than your average dessert shop. I finally purchased one of their signature items the other day a Green Tea Tiramisu. Well for a signature item I was kind of disappointed. I love green tea desserts, I’ve even had the green tea macaroons here and thought they were great. However this just fell flat. The cake didn’t have much green tea flavor at all and for a tiramisu style cake it should have had more moisture. The top of the dessert definitely had green tea taste but the texture was so weird it seriously put me off. Remember the show Double Dare? All I could think about was that green slime. It was pretty similar. So Panya let me down a little bit with this one but I guess that’s okay. I’ll just stick to my current fav the berry berry mousse instead.

I stopped into Panya Sunday morning to pick up some breakfast bites for myself. I couldn’t decide if I wanted something savory or sweet so I got both! The first was their mini ham and cheese croissant. Wow! I was really surprised how good their croissant was! I wasn’t expecting much but it was a perfect flaky, golden and buttery delicious delight. It was stuffed with big pieces of salty ham and chunks of gooey American cheese. Now exactly a healthy start to my day but certainly a delicious one! The other croissant- the cookie croissant didn’t fare as well. I was intrigued because of the name but it didn’t really have much substance. It was a little bit dry and kind of devoid of any flavor, much less something sweet. Compared to the former it was certainly an inferior product. I’ll be sticking to the regular croissants from now on.