Be careful about what you buy! The 5 star ratings are purchases of a few items or questionable reviews with no details or photos. The bakery is located in Good Fortune supermarket in Eden Center. This is a family owned Chinese bakery with pastries, bread, dim sum buns, tarts, and hand-held food items. My wife and I tried 7 items. Some were good, and some were bad.
1) Baked BBQ Pork Bun
The bun was soft, moist, and slightly sweet with a toasted flavor. The filling had chopped char siu pork in a slightly sweet red sauce. The pork was tender and moist with flavors of hoisin sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, and salt. It was missing rice wine flavor. This was one ingredient away from greatness.
2) Pork Floss cake
A fluffy pancake that was cut in half and made into a sandwich. The filling was a crepe like pancake with a spread made with sweetened condensed milk and mayonnaise. One edge of the sandwich had pork floss. The floss had flavors of salt, soy sauce, sugar, msg, and pork. The salt was dominant, and the rest were moderate. The pancakes were moist, soft, and mildly sweet. Overall, it was sweet because there wasn't much pork. This was interesting and strangely appealing.
FYI, pork floss is dry, thinly shredded pork with flavors that are sweet, salty, and savory. It is made by stewing pork in a sweet soy sauce based marinade. Then, it is finely shredded and baked until dry.
3) Egg Custard tart
It had egg custard in a laminated pastry shell. The shell was soft, flaky, and slightly oily with a hint of butter and sugar. The custard was light, soft, and moist with light flavors of egg, milk, sugar, and vanilla. This was good in a typical way and well-made. It was larger than the ones at dim sum.
4) Sesame Ball with Red Bean Paste
It was a deep-fried glutinous rice ball filled with red bean paste and covered with sesame seeds. The filling had mild flavors of sugar and red bean with a hint of salt. The glutinous rice was chewy and sweet with a toasted nut flavor from the sesame seeds. This was well-made with all the right flavors.
5) Cream Custard Bun
It had egg custard filling in a bun that was breadlike. The bun was fluffy, soft, and moist with a light sweetness. The custard was grainy with a mild egg yolk flavor and sweetness. Great bun and okay filling. The custard needs work on the texture and flavor intensity.
6) White Sugar Cake
It was two gooey steamed rice cakes made with rice flour, sugar, water, and yeast. They were quite sour and slightly sweet with a light alcohol smell. Once in a while, I'll get some that are slightly tangy, not sour. Nothing in the ingredients should make it sour. The sourness can come from germs that ferment the sugar. It might have been contaminated. I threw it away.
7) Oreo Cream Tart
I've never seen a pastry like this. It had an Oreo cookie on top of white whipped cream frosting and chocolate syrup drizzle in a laminated pastry shell. The shell tasted like the one in the egg custard tart. It was soft, flaky, and a bit oily. The whipped cream frosting was barely sweet, which made it bland. The Oreo cookie had little flavor and was soft due to humidity. This pastry was a unique disaster.
When we arrived at the bakery counter, an older woman who spoke limited English tried to help us. A young woman stepped in and helped us. She was patient and helpful. She was the owner's daughter. Her father lived in Hong Kong before coming to the USA. He was born in Guangdong province in China. If you have questions, speaking Cantonese would be useful. There were no tables or chairs for dining. The store was old and relatively clean. Parking is free, but the lot is usually crowded. We would be willing to come back for the BBQ Pork Bun, Egg Custard tart, and Sesame Ball. There were some pastries that looked interesting. So, we'll visit again and hope for the best. read more