Jun
Francoise’s Pumpkin Bread
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Name: Pumpkin Bread
Purchased At: Francoise
Price: $1.00
Availability: Year Round
There’s a little deli near my work that sells really good sandwiches (although they are WAY over priced), frozen yogurt, and bakery items. I was waiting for my turkey and brie sandwich on some amazing walnut bread when I started looking at the shelves of bakery items. Here it is a warm June day and I can still find some things PUMPKIN!
As far as I can tell, Francois is a Korean Bakery with at least two locations in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. I was at the 3540 Wilshire Blvd. but there is also one near the intersection of Harvard and Olympic. Their baked goods include breads, rice cakes, cookies and some breakfast rolls similar to the pumpkin bread shown above.
This is probably the most beautiful pumpkin bread I’ve ever seen but would the taste live up to the appearance? Well it’s NOT your typical pumpkin bread: it’s not sweet; there’ve been no pumpkin related spices incorporated into the mixture; the “bread” is not pumpkin flavored; and it’s not even bread-like. It’s more like a jelly Danish but, the filling is anything but jelly like. A thin danish-like bread covers a large portion of pumpkin that’s similar in taste and texture to red bean (they even have these with red bean instead of pumpkin). The filling has got to be just straight-up 100% pure pumpkin that’s been boiled and then strained of most of its moisture.
There’s a LOT of this pumpkin filling and not much bread. Once I squished out some of the pumpkin, I enjoyed it much more. Like I said, it’s not your typical American pumpkin pie flavor but there’s lots of pumpkin. Mostly it’s just a nice breakfast treat to have with a cup of coffee that doesn’t cause you to go into an early morning sugar shock.
Rating: 6 out of 10
P.S. If you look at the photo in the larger size and notice some black specs on the surface….I purchased two and ate the first one right away but waited too long to take the picture of the other. Consequently, there was a little moldiness going on, OPPS!
