Choux Crème

You can literally SMELL the fresh puffs right when you step inside the Sha Tin Station. After getting teased by the heavenly aroma for days, I finally decided to try the Tiramisu Puff ($ 20HKD). Let’s just say they smell so much better than they taste.
Most disappointing thing was that the puff wasn’t crispy! It wasn’t «stale», but it didn’t have that airy crunch I was expecting. Also, the «tiramisu» flavoring was just simple cocoa powder/​coffee powder on top of the cream.
Definitely not worth $ 20 and probably won’t be getting it again. :(I’ll just continue to admire the smell from afar.

This place only gets two stars because the cream puffs were actually delicious.
Service, on the other hand, is crap. My sister and I visited this location during our trip and the five employees behind the small counter did not acknowledge us at all. Three of them were glued to their phones even while a line behind us were forming. Two of them were making the batter so I suppose you can say they were busy.
My sister finally got the attention of the girl standing in front of the cash register. The girl looked up from her phone and deadpanned a greeting, as if she was actually pissed that we were distracting her from her phone.
Well. Hello to you, too. If you hate your job, take it up with your boss, not me.

Choux Crème is recognizable from about a mile away from the red block letters that the words ‘choux crème’ are written in and the sweet, wafting smell. As its name suggests, Choux Crème sells cream puffs.
I always walk past it when I’m at the Sha Tin station, and it seems that there is permanently a line of people plus groups huddled over the displays and deciding which flavor to get. The temptation is hard to resist and I find myself gravitating towards the end of the line more often than I’d like to admit.
The cream puffs here come in a variety of flavors — there’s original, of course, and there’s Hokkaido milk, tiramisu and strawberry yogurt flavors, to name a few. In keeping up with the matcha trend, there’s an uji matcha green tea flavor too. My favorite of them all is the original — there’s just something refreshing about sticking with the classic that I really like. The cream is nice and cold, and the puff is a little crisp on the outside but soft on the inside. I’ve also tried the crispy chocolate cream puff, which I didn’t like as much because the chocolate taste was overwhelming and the puff was messy to eat. I had to go wash the chocolate sauce that had clung onto my hands afterwards! The matcha cream puff is not bad too though the matcha flavor is quite sweet.
I would definitely recommend giving Choux Crème a go. The puffs start at $ 16 which isn’t too expensive (they’ve increased in price though; last year I had an original and it was $ 15), but I would say that they are slightly smaller than the ones at Beard Papa.

Amongst the many pastries in french cuisine, cream puffs are certainly one of the most popular item. It’s airy, it’s light; it is almost like you are inhaling rather than munching and chewing. Choux Crème is one of the very few shops that specializes in making puffs; I first take notice of this shop back in my CUHK days in which I like to walk around the malls in Shatin and there’s that delightful flash of red and which from the signboard right at the exit of the train station beckoning me to partake a morsel every time I walk pass it.
As a shop specialized in puffs, Choux crème offers a huge variety of different flavors; but i like to go back to the basics and have the original cream and the custard. Its relatively easy to distinguish good custard from the bad, bad one tend to have too much cream or too much starch such that the resulting mixture is either too cream-​like or too thick. The custard of choux is right in between; the filling is velvety and smooth, you can even see vanilla seeds flecked in between the pale yellow mixture. Choux also has specialty puffs ever now and then, i remember once they had a pandan flavor cream puff which was rather special.
Priciness would be a major down side of this franchise; the original sells at $ 19 per puff which is quite expensive compared with other bakeries. A perfectly decent, even good puff sold in places like market place is only $ 13 yet the quality of choux is not significantly superior than the other bakeries…
So my advice would be, if you are looking for specialty puffs Choux Crème is a considerable place to go to, but for the originals, it is not your best buy, however, the quality of the goods is guaranteed.