Imperial Bakery

Strawberry Vanilla cake is excellent.

I’ve ordered custom company cookies and cupcakes from Imperial Bakery. Always tastes and looks great, reflects the design I submitted. Professional, on-​time service. Recommended highly! I’ve also taken a cupcake decorating class and learned some neat tricks. plus took home a dozen cupcakes that I decorated:)

Got their strawberry vanilla cake, and was really surprised! It sort of looks like a typical American cake – I expected it to be slaughtered with excessively sweet frosting (because that’s what it looks like). But no, it’s a really sponge-​y cake with whipped cream, and glazed strawberries sandwiched between the sponge layers – very Asian styled! I loved it.
The workers there are nice too – walked me through the different types of cakes, decorated the cake just like I asked, and helped me decide on candles. Now I’m curious to see what their pastries taste like!

I’ve been coming here for years. The Chinese owners are nice people and it’s a nice family owned businesses. Parking can sometimes be a hassle due to other businesses in the plaza.
* Central AC — keep the door closed
* Specialize in birthday cakes
* Ice cream by the cone & cake by the slice is available
* Cookies and other pastries are available
* Fair prices on all pastries
Overall a great little place to stop by for a small birthday cake. Check-​out their location in Huntington Park, CA.

BOMB strawberry vanilla cake!!! Light, fluffy, and packed with strawberries; their strawberry vanilla cake is the best! I also love their tres leches cake (1^st cake I got from here). I tried buying tres leches at some other places around me in SGV but none have been as good as theirs. I definitely recommend this place as they are cheaper than brand name bakeries. The owner is hilarious and genuine when you talk to her too! Super friendly staff and they get constant customers walking in (especially in the morning).

This is the hidden treasure around USC. I am not a big fan of sweets and cakes and cookies but this place blew my mind, and my taste buds. I don’t know why people travel to Cheesecake Factory for the overhyped cheesecakes. This place has the best original cheesecake, best chocolate sponge cake, vanilla sponge cake, butter cookies, and coffee cake. I got a chocolate cake with strawberries for a friend’s birthday and it was the first birthday cake ever to be finished in one go!!! Everyone was left wanting more. Guess Imperial Bakery should market themselves more! MUST TRY!
PS: Carry cash if you are planning to eat only a few slices as they charge a $ 1 fee for card payments less than $ 10 or $ 20, not sure. But carry cash!

Have been buying cakes for years and definitely they taste great. Their chocolate cakes are very moist.

Short Version: Nearly 50% price hike in ~1 year time and portions have become MUCH smaller than they were a year ago. Goodbye Imperial Bakery.
Long Version: I first started coming here about one year ago. I ordered a cake slice for $ 1.25 and it was good, and I thought it was also a good deal. There’s nothing phenomenal about the cakes, it’s just plain cake with cheap ingredients anyone can buy at the grocery store. But it was a good deal. I started trying other items like cookies, which were also $ 1.25 and I thought those were also good. So I started coming here regularly.
Then the price of everything changed to $ 1.50. I still thought it was an o.k. deal for some about-​average pastry items, so I continued to come here. I began to notice that some of the popular items, like vanilla cake slice, were smaller than they used to be. Though some of the other slices, like coffee slice, were larger. Not a big deal.
Then most recently I walked in and everything is now $ 1.75. That’s nearly a 50% price increase in less than one year. That’s pretty incredible. And every slice is MUCH smaller than before. They’ve just gone over what I’ll pay for their items, and now it makes more sense to go to a café or something to buy a pastry for just a little more.
Is $ 0.50 a big deal? Not really. But people like me don’t make the trip for just one item usually. I like to get 2 or 3 items to make it worth the trip. What was once $ 3.75 a year ago is now $ 5.25. And that price hike in about one year time (for the same, if not smaller, product) is why Imperial Bakery now deserves a one-​star review and has lost my business for good. They don’t know how to treat their customers right. Apparently they just see me as money (well, now they won’t see me at all).

My family has been buying cake from this location for as long as i can remember! Friendly service and delicious cake at a good price.

I came in for the first time to get my boyfriend a cheesecake for his bday. This was the only bakery around where I work so I gave it a go since it has 4 stars and I just wanted to buy something just so my boyfriend could actually feel like it’s his bday (we both work day and night and our schedules don’t meet.) When I walked in, the Asian lady wasn’t welcoming. There was just one customer ahead of me and even I could tell that he wasn’t feeling it either. Anyway, I was looking at the display and I asked if they sold a whole cheesecake but the lady said they only sell it by slice. So I said ok and told her to give me a 5″ TRES LECHES cake. When I got home, the cake was a regular vanilla cake. Wtf! The cake isn’t bad, dont get me wrong, but just the fact that she messed it up and wasn’t friendly made me not wanna go back again. If only I had time to make him a cake, I would have done it and it would’ve been better. (I bake a lot, took classes. I work 6 days a week) Oh well. I don’t know why everyone’s saying the customer service is great. I guess that was years ago. She looked pretty fed up or something. Idk. I pass! If you care about service, I wouldn’t recommend, but if you don’t, then go for it. Their pastries look really good.

I was exploring the local business and stepped in to this bakery. I regretted immediately that I did not came in sooner. I bought Walnut Napoleon, vanilla cake with strawberries in the middle (so fresh and tasty!), and a piece of chocolate cake (moist and delicious!). The walnuts tasted very fresh and not old at all! I then went through their cake category and found they make a variety of themed-​cakes here. You can find just about every animate theme here, Frozen, Little Mermaid, Despicable Me, Hello Kitty and so on. But they also take custom-​made cake order, at prices lower than the other bakeries. I was ordering a custom-​made cake earlier this week and had to go to Culver City to do that. None of the bakeries I talked to in K-​town or China Town would take a custom-​made cake order. I wish I knew this place earlier.

The cakes are amazing!
The vanilla cake with strawberry filling is like magic in your mouth. Cake and frosting are very light and fluffy.
We sneak out of lab to get a few slices, and by few I mean about three per person because they’re only $ 1.50 each!
I once bought a full sized cake, and the owner lady helped me load it into the crate on my bike.

I have been buying their cakes for years.
The owners and staff are great, very helpful, friendly and patient. The lady in front of my was very picky with her order. I was becoming inpatient since she was taking forever to decide on the size and color of her cake. I didn’t go in for a cake this time. I drove all the way from South Pasadena just for their ‘Coffee Cream Cake Roll’. Yes I’m crazy but their cakes are that good.
Would I recommend this place? ABSOLUTELY.
The cakes never disappoint, at least not for my family and I

Great customer service! Whenever I am visiting from Nor Cal I stop in for cheesecake. Not a huge selection of desserts but what they make is excellent!

Great cakes and pastries. The cake is sweet and fluffy and the frosting is sweet and creamy just about right not in a crappy supermarket over sugary cake way! Been coming here since I was a kid. So far no changes in the way they do things here. Not broken don’t fix it

They don’t get the full five stars from me ONLY because most of their cakes are just like the Phoenix Bakery. They are delish, but they don’t have the choice of buttery tasting cakes with the fondont or do (not sure on spelling) that other bakeries have. STILL… they do run a bit pricey. a three tier cake — and I mean 4″ top, 5″ middle and 7″ bottom ran me about 150! lol… Costo still has my 5 stars! :)

I agree, the chocolate cake is moist and delish. However, I was just a tad bit disappointed after reading a strawberry cake review when all they have, even if custom ordered is vanilla, chocolate or coffee. They do offer fresh strawberry center filling, but not cake :(

Imperial Bakery is an Asian bakery that has been at its location for a long time severing locals and USC student. In the same plaza as Imperial Bakery, there’s a Flame Broiler, a teriyaki joint, pizza, and Popeyes chicken. They take cash only. Tres Leches Cake is $ 1.50 and the Coffee Tres Leches Cake is $ 2.50 and I liked the latter the best. It’s a little lighter than most and it isn’t over-​soaked with milk. They have other cakes, but I’d go for the tres leches. They also have whole cakes that are reasonably priced. I tried their almond cookies (I think it was 5 for $ 1.50) and their butter cookies and they’re what I expected and weren’t too sweet. The extent of their pastry selection is just the Apple Turnover and it was just okay for $ 1.25. They have other stuff, too. They also serve ice cream. The women who work here are nice. I’d come back because I like to support local businesses and also because I enjoy their light and not-​too-​sweet desserts.

Probably 2.5 stars, but support local businesses. May be it should be called Imperial Cakery instead of bakery… ;)
Mainly a cake place with a few baked goods. The cakes looked fairly homemade. I came looking for a selection of pastries for breakfast as I knew the car place would have coffee and at best donuts. Urgh.
So, imagine my surprise to only find apple turnovers here. So that’s what I got — $ 1.25. And it was light, flakey and enjoyable. It was fresh from last night… no problem.

Cakes are the best! I’ve gotten their strawberry one, which was so phenomenal. Moist, perfect, and not too sweet. Their almond cookies are good too! I am a second generation customer since my mom has been coming here since the 80’s, and everyone is super sweet here.
The parking here is TOUGH and that’s a understatement. The people trying to find parking are frustrated, and every time I come here I see road rage (or parking rage?) at its worst. But is this bakery worth it? Absolutely!