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In this article, we reviewed a couple of artisan bread and cakes offered by one of the local food businesses located in Bulacan - Pandera Bakeshop.
Pandera offers an array of sumptuous bread, pastries, and cakes. What distinguishes it from the other local bakeshops, perhaps, is it always serves the bread fresh out of the oven. They do not stock bread it is always made and freshly baked upon order, this is why they require a lead time before pick-up or delivery.
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| One of Pandera’s Best Selling Bread is Ube Cheese Pan De Sal. |
Pandera Bakeshop takes pride in selling assorted Asian Breads, such as different flavored Pan De Sal, Pan De Ube, Pan De Coco, Cheese Rolls, and Ensaymada. Asian Bread is the owner’s favorite type of bread. “Not only do I find it softer than conventional bread, but I guess it’s also non-arguably tastier. And most of the bread that we make here in Pandera is healthier. Many of my customers find it less acidic and easier to digest, and that’s because we don’t use bread improvers in baking,” Pandera Owner Jennifer Villanueva says.
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| Part of Pandera’s ever-growing product line is this Moist Chocolate Dream cake. |
When asked what’s behind the name Pandera, it is short for panadera (baker). “Well, it so happened that I came up with the whole idea during the peak of the pandemic in 2020. We were running out of ways to find better and more accessible suppliers of fresh bread due to COVID restrictions. And back then we were too paranoid about getting the virus through delivery services. So I started baking artisan bread, and tried sending some of them as care packages to my family, they loved it!”
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| Pandera’s Box is composed of Pan De Ube, Pan De CoCo, Sausage Rolls and Ham & Cheese Rolls. |
Among those we’ve tried a box of assorted bread, they call Pandera’s Box. It is a bread box composed of 2 of each kind of Asian bread: Sausage Rolls, Ham & Cheese Rolls, Pan De Coco, and Pan De Ube. Pandera’s Box was coined from the fictional artifact Pandora’s Box in Greek mythology, an old story about curiosity leading to the opening of a prohibited box that released a curse to mankind. The story seemed in a way similar to what occurred when the pandemic happened, but it was during that dark times when the owner of Pandera has seen a silver lining and therefore wanted to shed a more positive light on the people around her, ergo the Pandera’s Box was born.
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| Alternately, the Pan De Ube in Pandera’s Box may be substituted with Spicy Pork Floss Bread. |
Since then they have sold thousands of bread, and as soon as the lockdown was lifted, small café and restos started ordering from them as well.
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