Sunmerry Bakery — Restaurant in Monterey Park

So to start off we drove from Sacramento literally for this place alone I raved about the pudding brioche and brought my friend to try this there was only six available and when I asked Stephanie about there possibly being more the back I received a blatant and short “no.” When I asked if there was more in the middle of being made again I was met with the same response and did ask if there was a chance to possibly making more and AGAIN the blatant “no we don’t make more.” And walked away. Now I have had YEARS of experience in the food and customer service industry as a worker and manager. Let me explain I would absolutely NEVER allow an employee to talk to someone the way I was spoken to. It was rude and unprofessional at best. And this was my friend’s first experience here. She is a baker in the town she lives in and could not fathom her employees having such a short and annoyed tones with customers. Please to anyone that “manages” this establishment please reiterate a some sort of standard of customer service before allowing the doors to open in the morning. If zero stars was a possibility I would do this due to the lack of what they perceive to be customer service alone. Will be looking at the one in temple. Let’s hope the aren’t have a crap to...

I really like salted cheese foam in my tea drinks and I think Happy Lemon has the best. At other places, the cheese foam is bland and given in a small quantity; at Happy Lemon, it's rich and they give a good amount (around a 1" layer). If you've never had cheese foam, I recommend that you try it here. I think it balances floral teas well, like jasmine green tea. The salted cheese taste combined with the floral tea is absolutely delicious.

Happy Lemon also runs promos all of the time. I often get emails for 10% off, but they also have bogo deals every once in a while. They also have special drinks for different times of the year. For the summer, they're offering different strawberry drinks; I ordered the strawberry green tea with salted cheese and it was so good! It had a lot of strawberry chunks, which I liked, and the green tea was very floral.

Since this is a combined Sunmerry Bakery + Happy Lemon, I think it's only fair if I reviewed Sunmerry Bakery as well. The breads and pastries at Sunmerry are good, but nothing special in my opinion. Sometimes I've had a pastry that I thought was just ok, like this time I purchased a black sesame mochi pastry with barely any filling inside, so I guess that's why I'm reluctant to give this overall...

Covid update: As of 7/14/2020 Signs say 4/5 customers max inside the store but some customers disregard that. They’ve moved up their register so there’s less space but they still have a full menu of items for their Happy Lemon drinks & baked goods. (Idk about their cakes) You are asked to wait outside to wait for your drinks to be called. Don’t worry about not being to hear them- they have an automated speaker that will call out your order # and you can hear it clearly from outside the shop.

Happy lemon is still taking their stamp cards so make sure you get one if you come for their drinks often.

TIP: sign up for their rewards email! They let you know when they have specials going on! This week was BOGO Pineapple tea w/ lychee jelly!!

Convenient location. I love how they have a Happy Lemon inside! My go to drink is the Green tea with Cheese foam. 25% sweet is perfect!! I love how they have savory bread items with cheese. My favs are the chicken & cheddar, ham & cheese, & the hot dog bun one. They have a lot of options for sweet items too. Plenty of space and seating inside. Tip* They have a rewards program for the bakery and a stamp card for Happy Lemon!...