Lapisan Patisserie Puts Kaya, Rendang and Pandan Into French Pastry
Kaya toast, rendang and pandan are not flavours anyone expects to meet inside French pastry. Lapisan Patisserie has spent this Merdeka season putting them there anyway, and the results are more considered than the novelty suggests.
The Malaysian Favourites series went on sale on 20 August and runs through the Merdeka period at every Lapisan outlet, dine-in and takeaway. Three pastries, each taking a flavour most Malaysians can taste from memory and rebuilding it with laminated dough and proper creme work.
The three
The Chicken Rendang Mille Feuille (RM12.50) is the boldest of them and the one that justifies the whole exercise. Chicken rendang and pulut kuning are wrapped in a light, airy mille feuille, so the rice and the pastry are doing the same job from opposite directions. It is a savoury pastry in a case full of sweet ones, and it is the one to try first.
The Kaya Butter Crispy Toast (RM8.50) is the most familiar idea and the cheapest way in. A thick slab of butter and a generous layer of kaya sit between crisp, sugared pastry sheets rather than white bread. The proportions are the point: this is the breakfast most of us grew up with, rebuilt so the butter is the structure rather than a smear.
The Pandan Coconut Tart (RM16.00) is the dearest and the prettiest, a pineapple and coconut filling under piped pandan and coconut white chocolate creme. It is the one to bring to someone else's house.
The Merdeka deal, and it is one day only
On Merdeka Day itself, Monday 31 August, a second pastry costs RM6.90, a nod to 69 years of independence. It runs all day, applies to every flavour, and is good at all outlets for dine-in and takeaway while stocks last.
Business development manager Darren Sim said the collection reinterprets "beloved local flavours through the craft of modern patisserie".
Worth knowing if you are planning the long weekend: 31 August falls on a Monday this year, so the deal lands on the public holiday rather than mid-week.
