Sunmerry Bakery — Restaurant in Arcadia

We stopped by the other day to grab a couple sweets and a drink. Since it's COVID times, the mall was relatively empty. It was probably also because it was a random Thursday afternoon.

There's no clear sign of where to go to line up. We had to ask someone if he was in line— he wasn't and said he and everyone else were just waiting, then pointed us to where to stand and wait to order. After we were done and waiting, a girl came up to us to ask us and the people around us the same, "Hi, sorry, are you in line?" Which means it wasn't just us.

The employees were unbearably sloooooooww... It wasn't overly busy when we had ordered. Only one person in line ahead of us but so many other groups standing around waiting for their order. We bought several cakes and ordered their one of their strawberry drinks. There was one cashier and one other person making the drinks and Hong Kong waffles.

The one making the drinks moved like molasses. Just. So. Slow. OMG, are you completely unaware of all the people waiting for their orders? It took us almost twenty minutes for our one drink. The cashier just stood around at the register, even when there was no one in line. So she could've easily helped out. The one making the drinks also wore a really long ponytail. That was not okay. If you're working in the food industry and your hair goes past your chin, it needs to be covered. I've had way too many experiences with finding LONG strands of hair in my food. I can't be having someone with a big, dangling chunk of hair with prepping or making my food. It's just not acceptable. Wrap it up...

I came out in here out from the rain on a Sunday afternoon trying to get in a little walk. Unexpectedly, there were a ton of people shopping and going about their business, but one place that caught my eye was a little café at the top of the stairs, Sunmerry Bakery. I noticed they had a good selection of drinks so I decided to have a Boba so since it’s been a while. I went for the honey tea since that’s what I usually like as a regular hot drink, but decided to go outside my comfort zone. Everyone was really friendly and there was no line.

There were plenty of pastries and delicious looking breads, but decided against it since I’ve been working out lately. I got my drink and she gave me that thick straw that punches through the plastic which I find so satisfying. Soon as I took a sip, there was a large back up at the bottom of the cup and couldn’t get anything. I blew out the straw and got a nice sip of that honey tea which is also delicious. Once I got my sea legs back, I was drinking up the Boba. It was so good. There’s definitely a process to this. I found them a little bit on the chewy side, but it just made them last longer. I’ll be definitely be coming back here more often for the friendly service and a little dry time if...

New bakery has just opened inside the Santa Anita mall. They have a few of my favorite things. The hottest pastry right now is the Korean cheese garlic bread. It’s trending on the internet right now. Everybody is talking about it. It’s indeed very good with cream cheese and garlic butter. We bought one to share among ourselves as the cream cheese was too rich for me to eat it alone.

Another popular item here is the boba tart. It seems like nowadays, everything is good with boba. The tart was not too bad and the bobas in it were very tender and chewy. I also bought a strawberry cupcake. The cupcake was very fluffy. It reminded me of the paper egg cupcake I had in other Chinese bakeries.

The bakery is also having a promotion going on for their boba milk tea, buy one and get one for free. I don’t know how good is their boba milk. Will try...