This massive, factory-sized bakery provides every type of pastry, bread, and cake you’d want at extremely inexpensive prices. While not high-end, all the desserts we bought were delicious, and the bread was a rustic multigrain that went great with soup.

That said… this is not your normal bakery. Coming here in the afternoon will feel like a free-for-all. Maybe a hundred fellow shoppers running around collecting and paying. Tables stacked high with foods. It looks like pure chaos.

If you’ve never been before, the order of operations is to grab a large silver tray and your own tongs. Run around stacking all the baked goods you want.

Next, you go to the area where folks are packaging. You drop off your tray and get handed a ticket. They’ll package it and wrap it into either parchment paper or boxes.

With the ticket, you head over to pay. This is usually the longest lineup. Allegedly they take credit card, but I’ve never managed to get it to work and having cash is your best bet.

Finally, after paying, you’ll get a receipt and ticket. Take both back to the person who packed your baked goods. Congrats, you did it.

It’s a unique experience and once complete, you’ll be heading out with kilos of pastry. Amazing. Prices are about 10-20 pesos per pastry, and about 20 peso for a loaf of bread.

Oh yeah, no helpful English-speaking staff. They’ve got enough locals to process that there’s no time for us tourists. Hopefully my guide above is helpful.