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Donuts. I don’t know about Auckland, but there are no donut places in Wellington. It’s possible to find donuts in grocery store bakeries, but there’s only one kind — a soft cakey kind with sugar & cinnamon on the outside. The “fried dough” position at carnivals and fairs is usually either filled by these — little cinammon mini-donuts that they fry up right there — or else Belgian waffles with ice cream on (yum).

Yesterday, though, the New World Metro (grocery store) on Willis street, to which I’d made a brief foraging expedition in search of herbal tea, had “American style” cake donuts with powdered sugar. A little like Entenmann’s, only a bit softer (possibly because they were fresher). Yum ! My co-workers were bemused (and a bit shocked when the powdered sugar inevitably exploded all over them).

You can get 20 different kinds of muffin (including “savory” muffins) in any given bakery/cafe, mind you.

[Oops -- this was Tam, not Stephen !]