Hong Kong Bakery

In the back of the shopping center (sweet hut center) with the bakery sign and upon closer look has Hong Kong Bakery on the window. It’s a small mom and pop no frill bake shop. I arrived mid afternoon and the egg tarts were hot out of oven. They looked perfect and uniformed in size and consistency of the filling. The taste took me back to Hong Kong. I’m glad to have found my Hong Kong Bakery in Atlanta!

This bakery is located in the back of the Asian Square shopping center. At first glance, this place looked old school compared to the other many bakeries located on Buford Hwy. So I’ll have to be cliché and say don’t judge a book by its’ cover.
The gentlemen behind the counter spoke Cantonese and English. To order, grab what pastries you want with utensil provided and place on tray with parchment paper. When finished take it up to the counter for check out.
There were pineapple buns, pineapple buns with custard, sponge cakes, egg tarts, almond cookies, hot dog buns, Swiss roll cakes, etc.
Please try the iced milk tea! It was my favorite.

All the goods from here are delicious! The service is spectacular and very friendly. My favorites from here are the custard buns and the egg tarts. Must try!!!

Authentic Hong Kong style bakery. This is not a 5 star ambience, but the taste is great. It’s almost like a typical bakery in HK but a lot cleaner than most lol. I been coming here for over 20 years, still owned by the same family. Back in the day you could smell the cigarette and loud gossip in the air. It’s a smoke free place now which is awesome. I had 12 egg tarts, 12 pineapple buns, a couple custard buns and a coconut bun. The pineapple buns we’re bomb like HK, the egg tarts were great also. Don’t expect to complain much here lol it’s OG up in here.

It’s been about 10 years since I’d been back to this bakery. I used to enjoy their coconut filled bread with a cup of tea. They owners are very pleasant but don’t expect much in the way of food handling. Hands are used to pick up the pastry, and not always with gloves. Using tongs would be a huge improvement and would be more appealing to western sensibility. The wife cake was not that great. The pastry was very «doughy» and appeared as if they only used the water based dough alone to make it. It is usually made with both a water and an oil based pastry, made separately and then rolled out together to get the flaky dough.

One of the best bakeries I’ve been to. One of the first stops I make whenever I come to Atlanta. The owners are some of the friendliest people I’ve ever encountered and are extremely nice and helpful! Would definitely recommend the curry beef and peanut mochi

I really enjoyed their pastries here. I love supporting the smaller bakeries that make the «like-​your-​grandma-​made-​it» quality pastries. The egg tarts and pork buns are pretty good. Also, the owners are very friendly. A good place to buy pastries for a party/​gathering.

With all the new and nicely decorated bakeries popping up along Buford Highway, it’s easy to overlook this unassuming looking establishment. Its decoration is dated and the ambiance is not welcoming., but it’s been a staple for over 20 years.
After passing this place for 13 years, I finally gave it a try because I couldn’t find decent egg tarts at other bakeries. The owners bragged about having the best egg tart in town for decades… let me tell you, they are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. Everything, from texture, flavor, sweetness, color, presentation, is just perfect.
Another uniquely good item is the pandan flavor Swiss roll. As far as I know, this is the only place you can find pandan flavor Swiss roll. Pandan is fragrant leaves that originated from southeast Asia, kind of equivalent to vanilla in that part of the world. I highly recommend trying it out.
I also like other pastries like Lo Poh Bang (老婆饼), which translate to wife biscuit or sweetheart cake… don’t ask me why. It’s a flaky pastry filled with a mixture of mashed candies winter melon, coconut, and other goodies. It’s a little on the sweet side and some Asians avoid it. Also, the gooey, sticky texture of the filling may be a challenge for some people.
I’m stoked to have discovered this gem. Every weekend, I look for excuse to be in the area so that I can get some pastries here.

Hong Kong Bakery is pretty good. I got a wife cookie and a red bean paste bun. Both of the pastries I got were pretty good. The red bean paste bun was very soft and delicious. The wife cookie was tasty as well. The atmosphere here is very drab and it smells like someone has been smoking so I don’t think this is the best place to chill out. The lady at the counter was sweet. I definitely want to come back and try some more of their pastries.

I have been coming to this bakery with my mother for almost 15 years .They are a small family bakery with the best wife cookies and rice cakes!! I love this place!!!

I love this bakery and am rating it on its own merit, without comparing it to the countless other bakeries on Buford Hwy. or even the bubble tea shop/​bakery located on the same side of the very same shopping plaza.
There some similar items that you can get, such as the big fluffy cupcakes, egg tarts, and pineapple buns (which I think are superior to the ones from the Hut). I see that they also serve bubble tea, which I haven’t tried. But what gets me each time I come here are the flaky curry beef pastries. These are very similar to the ones I’d get on summer day-​trips to Boston’s Chinatown as a little girl and while I may not have visited too many bakeries to know if they exist elsewhere in metro Atlanta, so far these are the only ones that I have found. You can get decent fried sesame balls here.
Another awesome perk is that you can use your credit/​debit card here! $ 5 minimum, but this is a luxury compared to some other Asian businesses.
You definitely won’t come here for the atmosphere, but just stop by to pick up some awesome baked goods and find a park to enjoy a pollen-​full afternoon.

Not a bad place and the Napoleon cookie I got wasn’t bad either. Prices are a deal. However, the ambiance is just bad, to put mildly. The place looks very aged and run down. Selection is very small. Although I do appreciate the authenticity of it, I can’t give it more than 2 stars due to that reason.

If you don’t search for this place carefully, you may missed it. This store is tucked away in the corner of used-​to-​be crowded Asian Square. I am sad that they closed down 99 Ranch Market… but I’m happy at the same time because finding a parking space is so much easier now!!! =P
Almost every single time I come to ATL, I come here to get the Wife Cookies (coconut and winter melon inside) and a few other delicious pastry like Egg Custards and Chinese Sponge Cakes, which are rarely found in Tennessee. I never had a bad pastry here so I recommend to try one of each!
One good thing about this place is they take credit cards! (many Asian places don’t). Please check them out as well as Sweet Hut in the same plaza!
P.S They have Bubble Tea here!
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I went again just a few days ago, I adore their swiss cake in sweet theres a bit of saltiness. Their curry puff is good too if you want something that’s savory.

When you get thrown out of… er… politely asked to leave Sweet Hut for ogling the young girls… er… enjoying their décor and offerings for too long, take a walk over to HK Bakery. Before Sweet Hut came along, this was the place I’d go in Asian Square for sweet treats. These days, I still make it there every now and then when I feel like avoiding the bustle.
Smaller space.
More limited selection.
Fewer seats.
Grizzled Chinese dudes sitting around (often smoking, in the past, though they finally seem to have cut that out).
Hand-​written, construction-​paper menu on wall.
And, the pièce de résistance — gai zai bing (kai zhai peng)! Three for a dolla. Holla!
Find the usual Swiss rolls, egg tarts, baked (not steamed) char siu bao, pork sung buns, and other assorted pastries here, as well as cakes and Chinese-​style mille-​feuilles. And gai zai bing.
They also sell a small assortment of bubble teas, yuanyang, etc. Oh, and did I mention they have gai zai bing?
Unlike the more youth-​centered culture at the other end of this strip, you won’t likely come to HK Bakery to hang out, but the treats are comparable in value and quality to Sweet Hut (but not quite as good), though the variety here is tiny in comparison. But you won’t find gai zai bing at Sweet Hut. In fact, I’ve yet to see it anywhere other than here. I think they must prepare them in the morning, because they’re not as good when I buy them later in the day.
Overall, ⁶⁄₁₀.

So the idea of having a custard inside a bread roll doesn’t sound completely appetizing at first. But when urged by your friend from Beijing that you MUST try one as you two are sitting in class at GSU (and you are starving), you have to try it. Let me tell you it’s completely awesome.
Hong Kong Bakery is a little buried inside the many shopping strips on Buford Highway. Once inside you’ll be drooling over the many tasty treats. Everything is VERY inexpensive. To top it off, the cashier was very friendly.
We weren’t adventurous to try one of the treats with meat in them — it doesn’t sound appealing to me at all.
Definitely try this place out, especially if you are tired of the cupcake trend.

I visited Hong Kong Bakery in my quest to find non-​dim sum BBQ pork buns at the suggestion of Laura N. My friend and I ate at one of the 5 or so tables in the back of the bakery but most people were getting their items to go. This was my first visit to an Asian bakery so I don’t have anything to compare it to but I was satisfied with what we ate. The bread of each of the pastries was fresh and sweet. We tried:
* BBQ Pork Bun — The bbq pork inside is very sweet which I like. Next time I’m going to bring one home and throw it in the microwave for a few seconds. Yes please!
* Dried BBQ Pork Bun — This is a roll with dried bbq pork on top. The dried bbq pork tastes kinda like the beef jerky that comes in the chewing tobacco style can.
* Onion Bun — Very good. Has chunked ham in it and tastes like an omelet.
* Pineapple Bun — Very plain tasting. The sugary pineapple on the crust adds just a touch of flavor.
* Red Bean Paste Bun — Red bean paste inside a roll. Are you imagining what that would taste like? That’s exactly how it tastes.
* Sesame Seed Ball — Identical to the kind you get at dim sum.
The dried BBQ pork bun and the pineapple bun didn’t quite do it for me, but I’ll be back for the BBQ pork bun, onion bun, red bean paste bun, and sesame ball.

The bakery had decent selections of pastries. It reminds me of the run-​down bakeries back in California but that’s the charm of these places. The service here was really nice as they help you out with what pastries are good and which ones were more fresh than the others. They didn’t have to offer that kind of service as Asian owners typically don’t care.
I feel more nostalgic about places like these but I’ve definitely had better.

I think that I reviewed the bakery inside 99 ranch market, so I’m going to revise my review to the actual bakery that said «Hong Kong Bakery» which is a few stores down from 99 ranch market.
All of the «pastries» range from $ 1 to $ 1.20…with a credit card charge minimum of $ 5 which wasn’t difficult for me to add up to since there is a nice variety of goods.
I got the green onion bun (which is EXCELLENT for onion flavor lovers), 2 dried pork buns, 1 bbq pork bun, and 1 pineapple bun. The pineapple bun was sweet with that flaky crust on top that made it all the better (and where the flavor really took from). BBQ pork — meh, had better but still decent. It was a little TOO sweet and not salty enough for me. The dried pork buns were perfect. And the green onion bun had the perfect balance of herbs and yum yum ness.
I am going back every time I’m in the area! I don’t give it the full 5 stars because I want a place I can go for BBQ pork buns, but the rest were fantastic.

After our fool’s quest to eat at Ming’s but was actually BBQ Corner, II: Electric Buggaloo, we walked to the other end of Asian Square to Hong Kong Bakery. (Fortunate we did as this is when I finally spotted the aforementioned Ming’s.) It was afternoon, so much of the choices were, I’m sure, picked over, but there were still choices to be had.
The set up is as most ethnic bakeries. Grab what you need from plexiglass bins and queue up to the line. The three of us were all pretty full from lunch, but we couldn’t help but order some baked goods. I got the curried beef bun. I had no idea what to expect, but when I gnoshed on it a few hors later, I was pleasantly surprised. It tasted just like a delicious Chinese beef bun… only Indian! I know that that’s a less-​than-​poetic description, but I’m battling a cold and am losing. Bad. Any ability to write seems to have drained from my head along with every other fluid in my sinuses.
Based on this very brief visit, 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 for the HK Bakery. Or it could be the Sudafed talkin’ here.