Yi Soon Bakery

Old-school Chinese bakery in Allston. Hard to find bakeries like this outside of Chinatown, so I stopped by to pick up a few pastries. Compared to the Chinatown spots, the selection was smaller, but I did like that everything was individually packed. I grabbed the pork sung cake, Black forest cake, and salted yolk cookies, but nothing really slapped. All pretty standard for an old-school Chinese bakery. The pork sung cake was a bit disappointing. The bread was a bit dense and dry, so it lost that fluffy, airy bite I usually look for. Still a decent option for classic Chinese pastries at affordable prices.

A lovely bakery with a large variety of baked goods. Everything is fresh and not overly sweet. I especially love the lotus seed mooncake, the filling is very creamy and delicious.

This is my go to bakery for picking up cakes for events. They manage to create pieces that seem to satisfy taste buds that range from around the globe hitting that not too sweet spot. I've never tried their pastries but they have a decent selection of more Asian focused items. The staff is also very nice and helpful.

Went here for last minute mooncakes on mid autumn festival. They had freshly baked mooncakes right out of the oven.

Update: This egg cake is better than all the ones I had in Hong Kong. Really really good!! The best paper wrapped egg cake (chinese sponge cake) that I have had in YEARS