Japan’s Pablo baked cheese tarts are here

Pablo's cheese tarts: freshly-baked cheese tart (left) and chocolate cheese tart. Photo: The Star/Ricky Lai

At 10am yesterday, 1 Utama was only beginning to stir. Shutters were being rolled up, sales people were readying themselves for the day ahead and a few early shoppers were taking slow strolls through the still-quiet mall.

But outside the Pablo outlet, on the second floor of the Old Wing, things were quite different. The famed Japanese cheese tart chain was opening its first outlet in Malaysia, and in anticipation of the traffic surge, barriers were set up to control the expected crowd.