Happy Bakery — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Due to the disrespect experienced here I threw the pineapple bun I had purchased at the associate and I’m known as someone who has A LOT of patience…

Being an ethnic woman in Hong Kong, in the last 2 years I have consistently experienced colorism, and during my last 3 days here I really wanted to change my attitude about HK but of course this incident had to happen.

I initially bought the pineapple bun because a colleague, who has even met the owner, had spoken highly of it. However, when I tried to happily communicate that to the associate, she dismissed me and proceeded to laugh condescendingly with an uncle behind me, implying "what does this foreign girl want".

It was disheartening to observe how they treat white people like my colleague and other Asian Americans with kindness while showing a different attitude towards me (a South Asian American).

Maybe being Canadian and having lived in Japan for many years, I have different standards for customer service. HK continues to obsess over Japan but can't even emulate 1% of Japanese service. Do not tell me lack of English because the Japanese also don't speak such good English but never treated...

This is one of those small well-established bakeries with its own regular customers; I have walked past it many times, but never really been attracted to it.

The shop has those signature old green tilings on the floor, blackened trays containing bakery.

They sell the traditional items that the local Chinese bakeries do such as donuts, chicken pies, paper wrapped cakes, cream filled hornets, chinese style cookies, pineapple buns and more.

Being an old bakery, I decided to get some paper wrapped cakes and egg tarts.

The egg tarts had a lumpy surface.

The paper-wrapped cakes looked how it was supposed to be.

All their cakes come wrapped in their own personalised wrapping.

I don’t usually get paper wrapped cakes, because you can get them in the UK, but the ones here were interesting and I can understand why they are called paper wrapped cakes, because they are literally wrapped in four separate square pieces of paper.

The only negative comment was that the ink came off the wrapping and on...

Shuttered in summer of 2022 but reopened in Wan Chai shortly thereafter Happy Cake Shop remains a local favorite for Cream Puff Pastries plus Hong Kong classics such as Egg Tarts and Pineapple Buns.

Now located at 68 Queen's Road East, staff still making Puff Pastry with Lard to create an extra crispy texture, owner Wong Siu-ping can frequently be found present from 06h30 or earlier until the small shop closes past 20h30.

Also selling savory Buns, one filled with BBQ Pork larger and more generously stuffed than most, fans of Red Bean will find a sticky Pancake stuffed with it while those fancying Egg Tarts will find the Macau-style ones decent but bested by high-walled Cookie Crust versions with 50%...