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We wind up our ultimate guide to the donuts menu of Big Apple Donuts & Coffee in Kota Kinabalu with a look at the last 4 donuts on the menu, plus a surprise addition we spotted recently, which is not featured on the standard menu yet.

Glacier

At first glance this looks like a standard issue donut. One donut, glaze it; Homer would be proud. However, amongst the veritable mine field of very sweet donuts, Glacier stands on its own as light and extremely easy to eat donut. It’s so good, in fact, that you can almost convince yourself that it’s healthy. The ideal donut to have with a cup of coffee or tea.

Californian Almond

This is the only donut on the entire Big Apple Donuts menu, which has constantly and annoyingly remained unavailable to try. Either they produce precious little of this gem of a donut, or it’s simply so popular that the moment they come of the production line, they are snapped up by eager punters standing in the queue, salivating in anticipation of it’s arrival. The review will be updated the moment we manage to snare this rare specimen.

Moonraker

Oddly derived names aside, Moonraker is one of our test panel’s favourite donuts. Smothered in chocolate and encrusted with Coco Pops, Big Apple Donuts have somehow managed to keep the Coco Pops crunchy, which results in delightfully chewy experience as you munch the crispy, chocolate donut. The delicate chocolate flavour of the Coco Pops provide the crunch, whilst the chocolate coating provides the flavour and together they produce a positively delicious donut.

Chococinno

Death by coffee-flavoured chocolate. This is likely the richest donut in the Big Apple Donuts line-up. A solid donut, meaning no hole in the centre, it’s smothered in a creamy, sweet chocolate on the outside and is stuffed with a creamy mixture of very rich, coffee-and-chocolate flavoured cream in the centre. Although it is still a very delicious donut, the sabahbah.com test panel were glad they could share one, but nevertheless felt their waste-lines increase by a few centimetres each.

Blue Lagoon

Named for it’s flavour, not it’s colour, Blue Lagoon is a fairly new addition to Big Apple Donuts’ line-up, as it doesn’t appear on the menu board yet. A sweet tasting donut, which has a distinct taste of artificial blue berry flavour to it, it should appeal to people who also like Cadbury’s blue-berry chocolate. Not entirely unpalatable, Blue Lagoon appears to be popular, as it’s tray has been either empty or near empty on a few occasions we happened to pass Big Apple Donuts.

And that wraps up sabahbah.com’s ultimate guide to the donuts on the menu of Big Apple Donuts. We endeavour to keep this guide up to date with any new donut developments at Big Apple Donuts and Coffee in KK, or until they get their own website up and running, which ever comes first.

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It’s on to the next six donuts on the menu as sabahbah.com is near completion of the most comprehensive guide of donuts available at Big Apple Donuts and Coffee in KK.

Whitnut

On the menu board they say “Peanut butter!! Why nut?”. Well, we’ll tell you why nut… because the peanut butter sticks to the roof or your mouth when inadvertently you bite into Whitnut and get peanut butter squirted all over the inside of your mouth. Our test panel agreed that even though we generally like peanut butter, Whitnut has a little too much crammed into that deceptively small looking donut. If you’re nuts about peanut butter, you’ll go ape for for this donut.

Snowy

Although Snowy is virginal in appearance, there is in fact nothing special about it. It’s a sub-Glacier coated with a very thin layer of powdered sugar that melts on your tongue and leaves behind no distinguishable taste. It’s another one of those donuts with which you should be cautious not to inhale while you have it near your mouth, lest you choke in the fine powdered sugar it’s coated with. Because it’s just another donut, we reckon there’s more interesting ones to try than this.

101 Dalmations

Full marks to 101 Dalmations for trying to be different and because of that, half of the sabahbah.com test panel thought this was a worthwhile donut. And the black sesame seeds atop a white chocolate covered donut is indeed something a little different. The taste sensation combined with a slight crunch between the teeth, makes 101 Dalmations a worthwhile try.

Choreo

The name is a combination of crushed and Oreo, hence Choreo. And that is indeed what is; a donut dipped and covered with crushed Oreo cookies. Reminiscent of other fast food outlets, which uses Oreo cookies to enhance their own products, Choreo does strike a cord amongst those who champion the cookies. A nice nibble donut, Choreo combined the decadence of a donut with the comfort of Oreo cookies.

Spicy Flossy

If you love chicken floss, you might just find your new favourite snack in the Spicy Flossy donut. It has long been known that sweet and savoury can compliment each other, and this donut is a prime example. Take the sweetness of a light donut and cover it with chicken floss. A work of art if you’re into that kind of thing. Sabahbah.com’s test panel was divided on this one, but it received a thumbs up with a 66% positive vote.

Mango Tango

Mango Tango consists of a donut ring dipped in mango-flavoured syrup, accompanied by a generous dollop of fresh cream in the hollowed-out centre. A little bit rich for the delicate palates of the sabahbah.com test panel, Mango Tango nevertheless proves popular amongst the general public, if the emptiness of the trays on the Big Apple Donut display line is anything to go by. If you’re a glutton for sweet sweet punishment with a creamy mango twist, then do give Mango Tango a whirl.

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Continuing our review of all the donuts on the menu at Big Apple Donuts in KK, we move on the next selection of six donuts.

Say Cheese

This donut features pure, unadulterated, grated cheese.”Yuck!” was a reaction heard amongst some of sabahbah.com’s test panel, from quarters that love their cheese no less, but couldn’t stomach it on a donut. However, another part of the panel, who incidentally also love chocolate chip cookies and cheese, thought that this was a truly unique donut. Fresh cheese atop a donut might seem a little weird, but one bite could just open a new world of flavour to you.

Go Nutz

Soaked in jam and covered with peanuts. Perhaps a variation of a peanut-butter-and-jam sandwich, but this was of the tastier donuts that our test panel tried. The sweet of the jam is well balanced with a tinge of savoury from the peanut bits and make for an overall delicious donut experience. The only caveat is the trail of peanut bits left between your teeth, so it’s best to save this donut for a night out with friends and not a love interest you’re trying to impress.

Bananarama

A creamy banana-flavoured filling in the donut centre, surrounded by a wall of sweet chocolate. Seduction for the banana lover is presented in this donut. If you like chocolate and you like banana, then you will quickly make friends with Bananarama. And it doesn’t taste as rich as it sounds either, which is thanks to the very light donut base. One of Big Apple Donuts’ masterpieces.

Green Teaser

The sabahbah.com test panel approached this green tea-flavoured donut with more than just a teaspoon of apprehension, as our previous encounters with green tea-flavoured products have left us scarred. From the taste of this donut, it has now been proven beyond any remaining doubt, that the only things that work with a green tea flavour is green tea itself, and, on occasion, ice cream. Anything else with a green tea flavour should be avoided, including this donut. Of course, if you drink sugar in your green tea, you might disagree with us.

Chocoholic

Chocolate on the outside, and even more chocolate on the inside. Sounds like an overdose of chocolate? It is, and isn’t it wonderful? A firm favourite, in fact, the favourite donut in Big Apple Donuts’ line-up, Chocoholic as a name is spot on. If you’re into your chocolate, you can’t miss this donut. And unlike what it sounds, the chocolate tastes pure. The outside is slightly creamy, complementing the inside, which is pure molten chocolate. Chocolate heaven can’t be much different.

Iceberg

Covered with a fine dust of sugar that melts in your mouth and leaves nothing but a slightly sweet tingle, the surprise is in the centre. Stuffed with a creamy, vanilla filling, what you see on the outside is merely the tip of the… Iceberg. A taste sensation, if a little on the sweet side, the donut appeals to fans of vanilla. A word of caution, don’t inhale while you’re biting this one.

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Big Apple Donuts now have two branches in KK, so trying their range of donuts seem virtually unavoidable.

But if you’re watching your diet and you want to choose from their menu of 22 donuts (plus some random ones not on the menu), the ones that you like best without having to mow through all 22, then do read on.

Sabahbah.com has done the dirty work for you and have tried virtually all the donut flavours at Big Apple Donuts, so we can give you the skinny on what’s what on the Big Apple Donuts menu.

It was an arduous task, but it just goes to show to what lengths we will go to bring you information on Kota Kinabalu that you can use.

Sabahbah.com is proud to present the biggest and most comprehensive guide on the Internet to Big Apple Donuts & Coffee’s donut flavours:

Big Apple Donuts, unlike their competitors, make a very light and fluffy donut ring. It’s both delicious and dangerous at the same time, because it’s very easy to gobble up a dozen donuts all by yourself in no time at all.

Hot Berry

Essentially it’s Semi Glazed with a strawberry-flavoured, jelly-filled centre as opposed to the usual hole. As is the other jellies in the series, the centre filling is overly sweet on purpose, so intended to compliment the subdued taste of the ring. Another remark of the concentrated fillings in the centre is that because they are concentrated, they tend to lean towards the artificial tasting side. But if you’re a child of the modern era, flavouring is nothing new to you, and if you’re a strawberry fan, the Hot Berry might be right up your alley.

Duren Duren

Flavoured for the King of Fruits, Duren Duren is a durian-flavoured donut. Durian is a spiky, foul-smelling fruit and is a much sought-after in South East Asia. To the palate of westerners, the fruit itself is sometimes too foreign to enjoy, but those who love durian, do so passionately, and in season, they disappear as quickly as this donut does.

Chocoring

Chocoring is a basic donut, smothered in chocolate, which is neither too rich or too sweet, and provides a very palatable taste. In a stable of donut toppings, which can be very rich and sweet, the Chocoring produces a taste that could easily complement a coffee or tea, or stand perfectly on it’s own as a sweet, but not overly so, midday treat.

Cool Blue

For our tastes, the blue berry jelly in the centre of this standard Cool Blue donut, is both a bit too sweet and bit too artificial. In general the jellies are meant to accompany the rather plain outside part of the donut, and as such tend to be a little more concentrated than the toppings which covers the entire donut. If, however, like us at sabahbah.com, you have a big mouth, you tend to get more than the intended amount of jelly per bite. Perhaps this is why the jelly tends to be overly sweet. If you’re a blueberry fan though, you might find solace in Cool Blue.

Kiwi Blitz

As the name suggests, this is a Kiwi-flavoured donut. The ring of the donut is covered with white icing and the donut hole is filled with a kiwi-flavoured jelly. The jelly is also quite sweet, so to get the best tasting donut, make sure a bit of jelly is included with every bite. The jelly features kiwi seeds, so at least a small percentage of real kiwi must have been used in the flavouring.

Semi Glacier

Unsurprisingly, Semi Glacier is a variation on Glacier. What makes this semi, are the thin drizzles of icing sugar atop a base of a standard Glacier donut. If your sweet tooth craves something a little more than the Glacier donut, but not quite as much as the donuts with the intense toppings, then Semi Glacier will hit the bull’s eye on your pallet.

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Big Apple Donuts in City Mall is Kota Kinabalu’s (KK) first donut shop of its type, and beyond the initial teething problems, it’s proving quite popular.

Called Big Apple Donuts & Coffee in full, 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 quickly queues developed with which it was unable to cope, often leaving 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 cousins, 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, likely at least one to 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.

Big Apple Donuts’ 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 choke somewhat on Spicy Flossy. In my opinion, chicken floss should be kept well away from donuts. Although I didn’t try Say Cheese, and I’m first to admit I love chocolate-chip-cookies-and-cheese, I also feel cheese and donuts might be a bit much.

Donuts prices are reasonable, although predictably more expensive then their KL counterparts. A single donut will set you back RM2.30, whilst a half-dozen box will cost RM12 and a dozen, as is standard in the industry, is most economical at RM22 per box (or a R5.60 saving compared to buying 12 single donuts).

For those who actually care about Big Apple Donuts’ beverage selection, and I doubt many do, the cheapest beverage on the list is RM2.50 for Skye Juice (mineral variety), RM4.50 for a variety of teas, RM5 for an Americano coffee, and at the top end, Latte’s and Flavoured Latte’s at RM7 and RM7.50 respectively. Their beverage selection has so far gone untried by this Blog.

To the question of background and history on this fine donut company, I guess we’ll have to approach the source for the answer: Big Apple Donuts & Coffee, City Mall, KK.