There’s no way of sugar-coating this: Doughnuts – fried in oil and dripping with artery-clogging appeal – aren’t good for us. But, oh, do the best of them taste good: sweet and tender, cakey and crackly, begging to be dunked in coffee or milk. With that in mind, I toured South Sound’s independent doughnut shops looking for the best of what’s bad for us.
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Pao Lo grabs apple fritters from a tray at his Pao's Donut & Coffee Shop, a Sixth Avenue store that features some of the best-tasting - and best-looking - doughnuts in Tacoma.