So which is worth the calories?
Photos: Weekender
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.
6. Prosperity Pineapple Nuggets from The Fullerton Hotels Singapore, $30 for a box of 9
If there’s an award for the cutest pineapple tart of 2018, The Fullerton Hotels’ offering would have won without a hitch. The hotel ushers in the Lunar New Year with its Prosperity Pineapple Nuggets that are shaped after a bulldog-terrier. Each dog is even given a chocolate patch eye. Stemming from an age-old recipe, steadfast fans of the hotel’s pineapple tarts will take delight in the same ole’ flavours; but for virgin tasters like us, we found the filling rather sharp in its tartness, leaving little room for the pineapple accents to come through. The tart’s dry pastry also indicates that butter isn’t used in copious amounts, perhaps as a compromise for the canine form to have better hold. So begs the questions: Aesthetics or substance? We’ll let you decide.
Available at The Fullerton Hotel Singapore & The Fullerton Bay Hotel Singapore
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