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| - If you're a Korean living in Toronto, or simply just a person living in Toronto with an affinity for Korean foods/ products/ produce/ snacks/ and whatever else possible, you obviously know Galleria Supermarket. If you don't, I don't know which rock you live under, but I can beyond a shadow of a doubt guarantee you, neither does anybody else.
It's possibly the ONLY/ LARGEST grocery/supermarket in Toronto (H marts and tiny hole in the wall stores don't count). Anyways, now that we've clarified what Galleria is, meet Bakery Gateau; the bakery INSIDE the grocery store.
You know how Western groceries have a deli section, an artisan section, a cake and pastry section, and then grocery isles? Well ethnic grocery stores tend to have the same thing, be it an Italian, Persian, Greek supermarket, they differ scarcely, I mean really how differently can you establish your grocery store from one to the next?
Except ASIAN supermarkets. MOST, if not all Asian supermarkets I've noticed have their grocery stores...and then, outside the checkout isles, they have EXTRA STORES; similar to that of a Walmart (Ah, nowww you get it. lol). Usually, these stores are specialty stores, esp. ones that carry products from the country native to that grocery store that you wouldn't otherwise be able to find. So, they'll have pharmacies, holistic medicine stores, mattress/ bed sheet store (Asians are particular about what they sleep on and in, it's odd :S), beauty supply store, so on and so forth. This includes BAKERIES sometimes. The Galleria chain of supermarkets have this bakery called Bakery Gateau.
They produce pastries, desserts, and breads of great quality. (Asians don't really have bread loafs as do the Europeans, they have snacking bakes that are supposed to be able to play the efficient role of both a snack and a meal interchangeably, depending on the nature of your situation and appetite). So their breads are stuffed, filled, and/or topped with a myriad of ingredients, an amalgamation of flavours and nutrients (not always healthy, just delicious). Always fresh baked and PREPACKAGED for you to pick and choose, grab and check out (once again on that Asian efficiency bandwagon). Unlike western bakeries where you look through a damn glass display case and have to ask a million questions about what something is and then struggle communicating with the clerk trying to tell him/her what it is you want by pointing at it ("no, not that one, the one next to it, no no the other side, yeah, that."). The only thing in glass display cases are CAKES, full sized cakes.
Anyways, go to this bakery and indulge in a little bit of culture. It's well worth the experience. (ESP the self-serve glass case breads).
Even the coffee is self-serve (I don't think they're of the greatest quality though, I mean....Asia doesn't particularly specialize in espresso beans, they're no experts of coffee brews, maybe just latte art)
p.s. they have more than just what you can grab, they have iced desserts you have to order at the counter.
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