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White loaf
方包
The bread under every café toast: French toast, 奶油多, 奶醬多, kaya toast, the egg sandwich and the club sandwich. Hong Kong's 方包 is a white loaf baked in a square pullman tin (Garden's 生命麵包 at home), cut 2.5 to 3 cm thick for 厚多士. Australian sandwich slices are about 1 cm and toast slices about 1.5 cm (Tip Top, for example); for the café thickness buy an unsliced white block loaf from Bakers Delight or a supermarket in-store bakery and cut it at home, or buy the square loaf from a Hong Kong-style bakery (Breadtop, for example, or the independents in Chatswood, Box Hill and Sunnybank). Sourdough is wrong for everything in this volume.
Cautions: read first
- Contains wheat (gluten), and some loaves contain soy, milk or sesame, mandatory-declaration allergens in Australia; read the pack.
Preparation
Trim the crusts for French toast; toast a thick slice for 奶油多.
Availability in Australia
Easy to find
Australian name · white toast loaf; unsliced white block loaf; Hong Kong-style bakery square loaf
Where · Every supermarket (Tip Top, Wonder White, Helga's, house-brand toast slices); Bakers Delight and supermarket bakeries (unsliced block loaf); Hong Kong-style bakeries (Breadtop and the independents in Chatswood, Hurstville, Box Hill, Sunnybank)
What to ask for · For thick toast buy a white block loaf, unsliced, and cut it at home
If it is not there · A supermarket toast slice is the honest weeknight answer; sourdough is wrong
Where · Every supermarket (Tip Top, Wonder White, Helga's, house-brand toast slices); Bakers Delight and supermarket bakeries (unsliced block loaf); Hong Kong-style bakeries (Breadtop and the independents in Chatswood, Hurstville, Box Hill, Sunnybank)
What to ask for · For thick toast buy a white block loaf, unsliced, and cut it at home
If it is not there · A supermarket toast slice is the honest weeknight answer; sourdough is wrong
