Smoothie in Tous Le Jours: Too Expensive

After Koryodang in Koreantown is closed, Tous Le Jours, another Korean bakery with a French name quickly replaced the K-town hotspot.

The decor is very different than Paris Baguette. It gives off a traditional bakery feeling, where the theme color is brown. It's no different than the one in Edison, NJ, yet it's bigger, and the seating area is FREE OF CHARGE, unlike Koryodang before.

The baked goods and dessert are awfully similar to Paris Baguette, but slightly pricier though. The drinks are sort of different, where they are promoting a squash smoothie now. They also serve shaved ice (of course), in about 4 different flavors (around $12 also).

Low quality drinks cost so much?

I ordered Lemon Jelly Smoothie and Peach Mango Jelly Smoothie (20 oz). Don't be fooled, it's NOT A SMOOTHIE. I repeat, NOT A SMOOTHIE. It's basically...a slushie with flavored bubbles underneath. Here are the reasons why they are bad:

1. Trick customers with names

Jelly? It's actually flavored bubble pops. Smoothie? It's actually a slushie.

2. Regular flavors yet the drink is $6 after tax

I can get the same quality in a cheaper bakery. No joke.

3. No bubble straw to suck up the bubbles

They really expect people to suck up the bubble pops with a regular straw? I needed to get a spoon to scoop up the orange pops. But on Yelp I saw they offered the bubble straw...what happened?

The good:

The peach mango smoothie tasted very tropical, good combination with the gluey sweet bubbles. Lemon one is just lemonade to me.

I really wouldn't recommend ordering drinks here. Yet definitely try their baked goods, they're decent like Paris Baguette.

Location: 31 W 32nd St, New York, NY 10001
Rating: 3/5

Paris Baguette: One of the Best Asian Bakeries

Most people would think Paris Baguette is a French bakery at first, but haha they are fooled.

This Asian bakery is actually run by Koreans, with more than 20 stores opened in the United States. Don't get fooled by "Asian", the decor and bakery items are very modern and westernized. There is one in Koreantown (of course). Even though it's a tiny one, everyday the store is packed with customers with different ethnics, you see how popular they are.

On the left side you often see prepacked bakery items, like garlic pretzel, bread, bread loafs etc, then sticky rice doughnut and croquet. On the right hand side you would see a lot more baked goods: seasonal fruit pastries, tarts, cheese/sweet potato/pineapple/apple/pumpkin pastry, cheese dome, ...etc.

Then there are the cakes! All look so cute and fabulous...also expensive x.x ($20-$40). Tiny ones are $5-7

Paris Baguette also sell seasonal drinks. I had a tropical bubble slush one time and it was delicious; BUT DEFINITELY NOT THE PRICE! (~$5-6). The sesame latte was ripped off: it was like the sesame drink pack from supermarket mixed with milk---doesn't cost $5 at all, so skip it.

The trending summer treat is definitely the shaved ice. But it's just ice, doesn't need to cost $12. You could just make it at home.

Location: 6 W. 32nd St. New York, NY 10001
Rating: 4/5 for bakery goods, 2.5/5 for drinks