Donut Factory Is It Really As Good As The Queue Looks?

By SG Beat on April 3rd, 2008

With Donut Factory, the donut craze in Singapore has been going on for awhile now and seems to be dying down again, naturally, and being one of the prime movers, there have been massive queues at Donut Factory which discouraged me from ever trying it out. Well, with the shorter lines forming nowadays, especially in […]

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With Donut Factory, the donut craze in Singapore has been going on for awhile now and seems to be dying down again, naturally, and being one of the prime movers, there have been massive queues at Donut Factory which discouraged me from ever trying it out. Well, with the shorter lines forming nowadays, especially in […]

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