Yi Soon Bakery — Restaurant in Boston

Payment: There is a $10 MINIMUM for credit card or debit card payments.

Ordering: You browse and take most food items yourself. Some items are behind a display case.There are trays by the front to put items on if you're buying more than a handful. Everything is to go. There is no space to dine in.

Price: I don't know of any other places around the Allston and Brighton area for Chinese buns around the area without going further into Chinatown or other locations, so it's nice that this place fulfills that variety in the area. However, that also means there is no competition, so their prices are moderately high, for Chinese baked goods. We're paying for convenience more than quality in some cases, although they still have some good items.

Food: Almost everything is wrapped individually or in a container, which is nice. Many, but not all Chinese bakeries do that.

Their pineapple bun (bo lo bao) is not great. The top crust was very rough and dry. The bun itself was alright otherwise.

The Portuguese egg tart is good. It was sweet, with a fluffy crust and soft delicious custard. I haven't tried any other Portuguese egg tarts to be...

A neighborhood gem. First place I’ve ever been to that has chocolate croissants. Like. Full on, 100% chocolate croissants. 😱 SO good! Sometimes the dough tastes a bit more buttery than chocolatey. But they have never disappointed. If you warm them up in a toaster oven for 2-3 minutes, the chocolate filling melts, and it’s an experience.

Other treats are the milk bread, the taro bread, the matcha cookies, and the chocolate cookies. Soooo, so good! Have not had a single thing here that hasn’t been good. The matcha cookies have more of biscuit consistency. And the little chocolate cookies are a pop of cocoa in your mouth. Neither are overly sweet , but just right.

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Wanted to celebrate small business Saturday and was craving baked goods and thought this would be a great place to go!

I bought: 2 taro buns, coconut custard bun, 2 egg tarts, and a box of matcha cookies. Yi Soon also has other Chinese baked goods you'd find in Chinatown, like Chinese cupcakes, fruit cakes with whipped cream, different types of rolls, hot dog buns, etc.

I enjoyed everything that I bought! I spent about $12 so I was able to use my card. I was worried about parking but on a Saturday morning around 10:30, there was plenty of space...