Honey Bee Bakery

Very sad that they had to close down.
Honey Bee Bakery was my family’s go-​to place whenever we needed to buy a loaf of white bread. Will definitely miss their fresh white bread and their hot dog buns!

Eew… I passed by there one day coz i waited my frd in that plaza.
I saw there is a bakery so i decided to go in and get some buns.
the first feeling after i went in is DIRTY… the ladie-​cashier gave me bad attitude when i asked her question too. In the end, i bought hot dog bun and cheese cake. Bun tasted really hard, maybe they leave it there for few days already, (coz i didnt see any customers). cheesecake is ok. Never ll go back

Don’t be fooled by the small shop. I wanted to try something else than JJ bakery, because JJ bakery’s prices are way overrated and unreasonable. Tada! Honey Bee Bakery is a gem! I went in today to order a birthday cake and the lady was both gracious and kind and attentive to my order. For an 8 inch cake with fresh fruit, the total came out to be around 23 dollars. I also bought a custard bread to taste. It was wonderful! I like how the bread is not too sweet and the quality is good and you know that this is the bakery that truly bakes out asian bread and pastries. All I can say, they know what they are doing! I would say that even though their variety of breads is not as much as JJ bakery’s, the quality is the same, because unlike other close asian bakeries, you don’t consume air and nothingness in the bread…

Small store so a small selection to choose from. Prices is pretty good. Cash Only. LOVE THE PINEAPPLE BREAD. I think that their stuff is more on the sweet side, so if you are not that type of person, not for you. Compared to the other Asian bakeries, they do the pineapple bread right. I still remember the first time I had their pineapple bread 7 years ago because it’s that damn good. I was in high school waiting for my mom to pick me up from ACI and my friend let me try some of hers. I was like the Grinch whose heart grew 3 sizes.
I’ve tried some of the other stuff and it’s meh. But Pineapple Bread: A++++++

Bread quality wasn’t anything special. The bread was a bit tougher and the almond cookies I got had a slight burnt taste. The prices are the same as any other Asian bakery, but I would’ve paid the price to go to JJ Bakery or 85 C. It’s a small little bakery in the corner where the GTL Tutoring Center used to be, so it’s quite hidden. I wouldn’t come again too often. Cloverleaf Bakery is slightly better than this one haha.

I love their sponge cakes. The addition of honey to baked goods is simply delightful.

This place is decent and rather cheap for what you get. Sometimes my mom just comes here to get some of their pineapple bread rolls or something along the lines of that. It’s not bad actually, not too sweet =). Other than that, they sell Chinese newspapers here too.
Not much to say about this place, but it’s worth a try. It’s clean, comfortable and smells great =). (just like RIch G. said)

I really like their egg tarts. The egg custard is creamy and does not taste water down like most places. The pastry dough is not the traditional lard so it is not flaky. It is a tart dough made of butter so it is healthier I guess. I have to admit… they have the best egg tarts I’ve ever had. It doesn’t even compare to that one famous place in San Francisco. I bet if they made the portuguese kind it would taste just as awesome. The people are super nice too! One time I had to have 20 egg tarts at 8 in the morning and they were willing to accomodate.

Meh, didn’t find this bakery to be all that. The selection was a lot less impressive than Cathy’s bakery not too far down the road. The hotdog baby buns we bought from here weren’t as good either. The dogs were shriveled up and the buns weren’t as yummy.
They do have ‘man tou’ — buns here, but the whole wheat one was a rip off as it was just plain olé white flour with pieces of whole wheat pressed into the outside of the bun. *rolls eyes* I can get the ones made with real whole wheat at the Asian grocery store and steam ‘em up myself.
I guess if you’re living within walking distance it wouldn’t make sense to go to Cathy’s and this would suffice. This place also sells Chinese newspapers — 2 kinds.

Damn! I wanted to be first! Well I’m glad someone else agrees with me. I’m pro-​Honey Bee because they’re local, simple, and tasty. I think of it as my village baker, the Chinese one. This tiny little bakery makes all manner of breads filled with red bean, coconut, shredded beef, etc. They make cakes, rolls, bread and the egg custard from dim sum too. My favorite is the simple raisin roll, $ 1.10.
They put lots of raisins in it, not like other places! (I’ve stopped buying raisin rolls from Mitsuwa. Stingy bastards.) Yum the raisins are plentiful and tasty and the bread is nice and soft. Sometimes at home I even add more for extra raisiny goodness. That’s pretty much all I get nowadays, buying two or three at a time, and one to give to my mom. But I will eat hers if she doesn’t eat it soon enough. You snooze you lose :) What a bad son, huh?

Maybe I’m not fully qualified to review a bakery like this. After all, there are many asian bakeries in the neighborhood and I’ve only been to a few. But this one is our standby, and the kids love to walk in, browse around the pastries and pick one out.
I like it because it’s clean, it’s comfortable, it smells good, it’s close to home and I can buy everyone in the family their own little tasty treat for only a few dollars.
My favorite is the cream horn, mmmmmm.