An Asian and European bakery cafe where chewy buns, generous pastries, and a warm flat white wait for you.
Helen Zhao grew up around Chinese bakeries full of soft, creamy, savoury and sweet breads. She could not find them in Halifax, so she trained at NSCC, worked a big Chinese bakery, and opened her own.
Every bun starts with chewy egg-milk dough, filled with taro, red bean, mochi, custard or salted egg yolk. The European side brings croissants, macarons and cream puffs to the same case.
Helen ZhaoOwner and baker
The pistachio croissant gets the loudest praise, but the whole case is made fresh each morning.
Generous pistachio filling, chocolate-nut topping. Reviewers call it ten out of ten.
Chewy egg-milk dough filled with taro, red bean, mochi or custard.
Gallery-worthy macarons and pillowy cream puffs, almost too cute to eat.
Strawberry peach, matcha, chocolate. Name your cake, Helen makes it.
Bright floor-to-ceiling windows, soft seating, and a glass cake room. Walk in for a bun and a flat white, or call ahead for a custom cake.
Grab a pistachio croissant and a honeycomb latte to stay, or order ahead for pickup and custom cakes.