What UCF students and faculty have around them is the culinary wonder. Not many people walk through that T-shaped intersection where the university’s boulevard meets the Arafaya Trail (434), but some of them are as blessed as they are from the dorms when it comes to dining from the international food court, Campus, as they are in the dorm stage.
The Egyptian fetisher of the fabric show, now has an expanded dining room. Excellent circle of Kyuramen’s honeycomb hideaway. A truly sweet Lebanese from Beirut Grill & Deli. And now Texas Toast: Shokupan Bakehouse offers a light, sweet, cloudy Japanese predecessor.
Here, this thick slice of beautiful (and for a while, super social media trendy) milk pan is a bouncy, slight clicking slab packed with fluffy scrambled eggs along with other items, including cheese, avocado, charshu, and chicken cutlets, for a jaw splitting experience close to a dougwood level.
There I go again and the old man is saying things.
On my visit, the shoku bread itself, which is available most days, sold out. I’ve been wanting to wax poeticly about grilled cheese and French toast on my homespan, but when I see it, trust me. Either way, win.
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The fillings of each sandwich are layered. Eggs at the bottom are on the alternative protein, dealer choice, above. They make gorgeous photos – oh, see that cheeky, green onions-snatching beef bulgogi spilling! – However, for optimal consumption, it is recommended to use all of all bites and rebuild and rebuild to ensure distribution.
And if you’re good at going face first, or shaking each group, just like it!
Both the softshell crab and shrimp tempura options were cooked freshly with lightly sweet mayonnaise, lettuce, tomatoes and slices of American cheese that offer a variety of temperatures and textures. I enjoyed the latter with a croissant sandwich.
Among the crabs was a lot of its good, fresh, shifu fudai toes and a lovely panko crunch outside.
Croissants and milk bread are sisters to sandwiches at Chiffon Culture Bakery Cafe in Springs in the winter. The choice of pastries for Elder Bakehouse is broader, but in terms of quality, this is comparable to the other. A cooling rack offers a peek into their plot as a small cubes of croissants filled with chocolate-filled chokpan and biscoff await their turn in a packed case.
Fruity mousse cakes and delicious products such as garlic cream cheese bread (lightly sweet), pineapple bacon croissants and other impressive products round out a slightly different selection of everyday items.
What we sampled: creamy tarts, fry-away light melon bread, flake-like croissants, cookie tops, pistachio-filled merchandise, tarts (classic) and croissants (airy whipped cream, crispy almonds) were my favorites, but this is the theme game. Peruse the case, grab what you talk about, combine it with slippery things or fruit tea or coffee drinks to meet friends to catch up.
The space here is clean and bright, with counter staff answering questions and carefully packing your pastries in courteously.
Bao, Burritos and Boxed Offerings round out the menu. So there are less bread options and no-brae options (ramen was also a new addition on my visit), but when “Bakehouse” is in the name, I call it Carb Day and sample what the people in the Buck do best.
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If you’re going
Shokupan Bakehouse: 12140 Orlando University Method, 407-250-5129; instagram.com/shokupanbakehouse
