Shan Shan Bakery — Restaurant in Edmonton

Got the egg tart and raisin danish. $1.40 for the egg tart; $3.50 for a 5 pack of day old danish. Overall, nice chill place to get some baked goods. Lots of items I will be coming back for in the future, like the century egg yolk bun.

Egg tart: 8.0

Filling: 7.5. Standard custard filling; just sweet and savoury enough, with a hint of egg.

Crust: 7.9. Good tart shell; decadent but not greasy.

Filling to crust ratio: 10

Raisin danish: 8.3

Dough: 8.1. Nicely moist with a rich, savoury taste; similar to a croissant-dinner roll hybrid.

Raisin to dough ratio: 8.6. Not overly packed with raisins; nicely balanced savouriness with bursts of raisin sweetness. Personally, I would like more raisins but I recognize that the current ratio is more accommodating for people who don’t have a...

Visited this bakery in Chinatown for the first time last week. The box of 9 bread and pastries came to a little less than $16. Most breads were around $1.40 and the most expensive pastries were around $2.50. All of the breads we tried had tons of filling. The quality is much better than any breads and pastries I've had from HK bakeries in Vancouver.

The highlights are:

1. BBQ pork pastry 叉燒酥: super flaky, tons of filling and tasted delicious warmed up in the toaster oven.
2. BBQ pork bun: the bun was pretty much stuffed full with BBQ pork. Bread itself is fluffy and chewy.
3. Wife cake: excellent slightly chewy filling. Hard to find wife cakes like this!
4. Egg tart: not too eggy, crust is flaky.
5. Taro pineapple bun: loved the taro filling which did fill up...

Bring cash. Shan Shan is my go to bakery for buns. Everything tastes so good. The BBQ pork buns here are a lot better then the other bakery's. I find the buns are generally filled with more then other places as well, the buns are soft and sweet just how they should be. Sometimes they run out of stuff but I'm ok with that, the pork/shrimp fried dumplings are usually the ones that I fidn someone else got to before I did. But everything else is great, so I don't mind.

I love that they have a discount section as well, good value better prices then...