Big Apple
Big Apple Donuts in City Mall is Kota Kinabalu’s (KK) first dedicated donut shop, and beyond the initial teething problems, it’s proving quite popular.
Called Big Apple Donuts & Coffee, Big Apple Donuts do more donuts than it does coffee, which isn’t surprising, as it’s wedged in between Starbucks Coffee and Old Town White Coffee on the mall-front of City Mall in Kota Kinabalu.
Big Apple Donuts started operations in KK late in 2007 to seemingly little fanfare, however, it proved popular virtually from the day it opened.
Its success bamboozled itself initially, as queues quickly developed with which it was unable to cope, often leaving too long lines and too few donuts.
Today, a month or two later, the queues seem to have quieten down. Whether this is due to better management, or whether already its popularity has waned, is difficult to tell.
What remains certain is that Big Apple Donuts at City Mall KK is doing brisk business and the punters love it.
The official website of Big Apple Donuts is very well hidden, or it doesn’t exist, which makes it more difficult to tell where Big Apple Donuts are from, or any Big Apple Donut history for that matter. Unlike J. Co Donuts, the more prominent and better marketed cousin, albeit only because they have a website, Big Apple Donuts are shrouded in a veil of mystery.
Nevertheless, Big Apple Donuts offers a simple menu of 24 different kinds of donuts, making it likely that at least one will suit every taste. Ranging from the vanilla of donuts, Glacier, which is just a plain glazed donut, to the more exotic Say Cheese and Spicy Flossy donuts, which feature cheese and flossed chicken respectively, Big Apple Donuts has a few offering worth exploring.
The dough is of the light and fluffy variety, which means, to me at least, that you can gorge on more donuts compared to their competitors in KL, J.Co, makers of a solid, heavy based donut.
The fillings are sweet and for the most part quite delicious, although I did
Called Big Apple Donuts & Coffee, Big Apple Donuts do more donuts than it does coffee, which isn’t surprising, as it’s wedged in between Starbucks Coffee and Old Town White Coffee on the mall-front of City Mall in Kota Kinabalu.
Big Apple Donuts started operations in KK late in 2007 to seemingly little fanfare, however, it proved popular virtually from the day it opened.
Its success bamboozled itself initially, as queues quickly developed with which it was unable to cope, often leaving too long lines and too few donuts.
Today, a month or two later, the queues seem to have quieten down. Whether this is due to better management, or whether already its popularity has waned, is difficult to tell.
What remains certain is that Big Apple Donuts at City Mall KK is doing brisk business and the punters love it.
The official website of Big Apple Donuts is very well hidden, or it doesn’t exist, which makes it more difficult to tell where Big Apple Donuts are from, or any Big Apple Donut history for that matter. Unlike J. Co Donuts, the more prominent and better marketed cousin, albeit only because they have a website, Big Apple Donuts are shrouded in a veil of mystery.
Nevertheless, Big Apple Donuts offers a simple menu of 24 different kinds of donuts, making it likely that at least one will suit every taste. Ranging from the vanilla of donuts, Glacier, which is just a plain glazed donut, to the more exotic Say Cheese and Spicy Flossy donuts, which feature cheese and flossed chicken respectively, Big Apple Donuts has a few offering worth exploring.
The dough is of the light and fluffy variety, which means, to me at least, that you can gorge on more donuts compared to their competitors in KL, J.Co, makers of a solid, heavy based donut.
The fillings are sweet and for the most part quite delicious, although I did