Bliss Haven Muffins

The best part of having muffins here is unfortunately not about the food but the the fun that you actually get out from the fortune cookie slips that are embedded between the muffin wraps.  These fortune cookie slips allow you to exchange for another muffin if you manage to answer the questions, mostly mathematical, correctly.

Some examples are:

Q: "What is the name of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan"

A: "Durand Line" - easily answered by google

Q: "If the value of my ten cent coins is twice as that of my twenty cent coins, and if I had 60 coins in total,  how many ten cent coins do I have?"

A: 48

Perhaps if you find such gimmicks refreshing, you might want to try the muffins here just for the heck of it.  There are many flavours ranging from durian, apple cinnamon, chocolote chip, oreo and many others.

Each muffin costs $1.20, and there is promotion - buy 5 get 1 free.  We actually managed to get 4 free muffins after answering the fortune questions and that brought the price down to about $0.60 cents per muffin, which is actually quite good value.

Great service.

FIFO.

But the muffins... meh....

When you see the stall, you might mistaken it for a tze char stall with the signboard showing dishes usually associated with one.

The brief story behind this muffin shop is that the son took over the original tze char stall in the hawker centre after a certain chain of events and converted it to specialize on muffins. Since then, there was no turning back.

I guess business is pretty good as I sometimes get an apology from the boss saying that he ran out of the popular flavors by lunchtime on a week day.

So it did take few occasions before I managed to try out a few of the flavors. Suffice to say, there was good reason for the muffins to sell out so quickly.

The banana walnut muffin was an absolute joy to sink your teeth into the fluffy texture similar to the fa-gao with slices of sweet banana laid on the crown and crunchy walnuts throughout. It was not overly sweet and you can taste the ingredient properly.

They also have flavors like oreo, orange peel, chocolate and a savory ham and cheese flavor.

The best part is that the muffins are pretty large, almost one's fist and yet priced really cheaply at $1.20 per piece.

And just before you leave the stall with your spoils, the boss will remind you that his is the first fortune muffin in the world, thanks to the little slip of paper placed between the base of two paper cups.