Paper Stone Bakery (富衛金融中心店) — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

Paper Stone Bakery is a franchise of western style bakery shops found around Hong Kong including this bakery at the corner of Morrison Street and Des Voeux Road Central in Sheung Wan. Opening hours are 7.30am to 8.30pm (Mon - Sat) and 9am to 7pm (Sundays).

Here you will find a fairly typical range of western style breads and other bakery products. There is an open glassed in bakery so you can watch them preparing and making bread products throughout the day. Breads are individually wrapped in plastic, a bit wasteful but necessary at the moment because of the pandemic.

I visited this Paper Stone Bakery recently and had a chocolate covered danish. It was very hard and chewy, difficult to bite through. After microwaving for 15 seconds, it softened and I was able to eat more leisurely. Otherwise, it tasted just fine.

They also have coffee drinks available at this Paper Stone Bakery. The espresso is fine, not up there with what is served at the serious coffee shops on nearby Jervois Street. However, like the danish, it tasted fine, more than acceptable for a bakery.

Note: This bakery offers delivery for those who prefer to not get out during the pandemic. They can send orders directly to you through deliveroo if you are staying...

The bakery doesn't captivate me at Paper Stone Bakery but then I was captivated by the angelic white dirty bun that has been trending since April.

The dirty bun or more commonly known as messy bun is a dusted with chocolate powder and there are layers and layers of chocolate ganache which ooze out when you eat hence the name dirty bun as it is very messy to eat.

The white dirty bun is a white chocolate version of the chocolate version.

I thought it was going to be dead sweet because of the white chocolate but it was light filled with sweet cream in the middle which tasted like condensed milk.

It was actually quite nice as the bun was soft and fluffy and the filling was more like cream instead of thick white chocolate paste.

Unfortunately, the quality varies at different branches as the one at Popcorn...

Fantastic pastries! Surprisingly, the chocolate bread can keep up with French pastries which is very difficult in my opinion. Usually, any pastries from East-Asia that are supposed to contain chocolate are very disappointing. But the chocolate bread here might be the only exception. Everything I’ve tried tasted very good and not too sweet. Even if looks weird (like the blueberry-walnut-lemon bread), it does not disappoint. Check it out if you’re...