Review: Petite Île boulangerie
French viennoiserie meets Taiwanese memories and the black sesame pain au chocolat is a justifiable object of obsession.
In Paris’s Marais neighborhood, Chihya Wang and her husband Pohsuan Chuang, both from Taiwan, opened their bakery Petite Île (“Little Island,” after Taiwan) in March 2022. Tattooed and young, the duo are former designers and part of a generation changing the city. Theirs is a wild, unlikely origin story: enamored of motorcycles, the couple met a fellow …
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