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| - TLDR; Buns are subpar and too expensive for the quality. Specific criticisms below.
I recently came here and bought 7 different buns/baked goods to try this place out. I got a pineapple bun, pork sung bun, pork sung bun + green onion roll, flaky pork sung bun, hot dog + green onion bun, egg tart, and lotus + egg yolk moon cake. Overall, it wasn't actively *bad*, but I was not impressed for a few reasons:
(1) The buns were more expensive than I'm used to in other cities ($2-$2.25 instead of maybe $1.50 or so). This would be fine if they were amazing buns, but they really weren't.
(2) The pineapple bun had a roughly ping pong ball sized lump of pure butter and sugar in the middle (see photos). At first I wondered if it was some kind of creamy filling they intentionally put there so I tried biting into it, but it was absolutely disgusting so I think it was definitely because they failed to mix the dough well. Plus, the bun was awfully dry.
(3) Hot dog + green onion buns are my favorite kind of Asian bun, but the one I got here was so boring and plain. When I get them from other bakeries, the green onions are typically embedded in some kind of salty, flavorful, eggy mixture (it's hard to explain). However, at this place they just sprinkle the green onions directly on the dough without the eggy part, so you don't get that extra flavor boost or the contrasting textures.
(4) The pork sung buns had too much mayonnaise, to the point that you could visibly see globs of white and I just felt physically gross after eating them. To be fair, they are very generous with pork sung, so they probably need more mayonnaise to glue it on. Still, I think they could stand to use a little less.
Also (this isn't a critique, just a general comment): note that this place tends to sell the Taiwanese variations of things. So for instance, the egg tarts are not as gelatinous and eggy as the typical Hong Kong style egg tart you're probably accustomed to. Similarly, the moon cakes are these flaky balls instead of those ornate hockey puck shaped ones.
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