Review: Mata Mata Bakery

Three cheers for serendipity!  After taking the wrong bus to Mojito Mondays at Azul Tapas Lounge, we stumbled across this lovely little bakery.


Location:  Urumqi Lu, south of Anfu Lu  |  French Concession  |  Shanghai
Order:  Bread ends
Price:  5 rmb (US $0.74)


For the most part, this is like any other bakery in China:  rows and rows of pastries; however, this bakery has one key feature that most lack:  BREAD!  Not wanting to look like a crazy taking a whole baguette to the bar in a few minutes, I just grabbed a bag of bread ends (the end of the loaf being my favorite :-) ).  I didn't actually eat them until lunch the next day, and I have a feeling they were on sale (day-old), so it's not entirely fair to complain that they were stale.  Even still, this was the first bread (non-sweet, non-pastry) I'd had in nearly  month, so I was grateful.   My coworker also enjoyed her wheat rolls.


Overall:  B.  Maybe I should give it another try when the bread is fresh.  If I didn't subsequently find Bread Talk, the rating might have been higher.