So which is worth the calories?
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With Chinese New Year bounding in like an enthusiastic puppy, it's time to splash your abode in shades of auspicious red with bulbous silk lanterns, blinking firecrackers, spring couplets, and of course, an array of red lid-touting containers filled with your favourite festive goodies. From perennial favourites of crunchy arrowhead chips and smoky bak kwa squares to trendy ones such as salted egg yolk chips and fried fish skin, these addictive snacks will leave the fingers all dusty and crusty with sugar and spice during this joyous occasion.
Out of the lot, we zeroed in on our personal favourite CNY goodie: The pineapple tart.
A delicious staple during the festive shenanigans, the pineapple tart is flaunted like a prized pig by bakeries from around the nation, each vying for your attention with promises that their buttery creation is the best.
We'll be the judge of that, after eating our way through 10 brands of pineapple tarts.
4. XO Golden Pillow Pineapple Tarts from Bakerzin, $32 for a box of 18
Get seriously boozed up with Bakerzin’s XO Golden Pillow Pineapple Tarts. Having ‘XO’ etched on its pastry pillowcase doesn’t do the tart justice of the amount of the liquor the filling is laced with. A loudhailer would be more fitting. The golden pillow truly throws a punch of XO with each bite, followed up with light brushes of pineapple flavours. Wolfberries are also added to the mix, we assumed for the sake of being on theme.
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