Texas Bakery

Cute little bakery with all the Chinese staples. Definitely check it out! We came from out of town but I loved getting my Chinese bread fix here!

Please go here if you want to be greeted by an extremely rude staff. What horrible service! This old guy yelled at my son and another lady passed rude remarks at us coz we accidentally opened the cake case. Wish I could give 0 stars.

We stopped there once only and got coconut bread, taro filled bread, egg tarts and trio sweet buns with fillings. The tart was the best, although tasting a bit too eggy for me. The taro and coconut filled sweet bread were OK, the dough is on the chewy side, seems under proofed and baked. The trio of buns has a label starting the three fillings but they don’t really match the actually fillings. Misleading and disappointing. Will not go back.

Best pastries in Austin. And amazing prices.
Don’t think, just go. Get one of everything.

I used to love Texas Bakery. However, recently I found that their bbq pork buns taste like it’s made with bbq sauce — as in American bbq sauce, not cha shao.
What is going on?!
That’s why the bad review, people. Their pastries used to be authentic, now they are not.

I like this bakery. It’s small and cute and I love getting freshly baked goods. If you go during the weekend, you’re more likely to get something really fresh. The prices are fairly decent. Fair warning though, despite this being a Chinese bakery, the BBQ pork buns are NOT the kind you’ll get at a Chinese restaurant. These are filled with pulled pork (think American style BBQ, not Chinese).

I dislike this place the most out off all the Asian bakeries I’ve visited in Austin. This is consistently the most disappointing. I’ve gone twice and am never impressed. The Hokkaido style bread was stale and flavorless. The raisin bread was bland stale. The sweet pastries were strangely moist and bland and over compensated by sweetness. The savory pastries were moist and gross from greasiness. Overall, its not worth recommending, if not only to deter people from visiting.

This place is a cute little bakery in the Chnese Market place up on North Lamar. Cute. that is the food. The store is just a store. They had breads in the shape of a pig face, an alligator and a crab. The are several types of breads and sweet things. The cakes are pretty as are the maccaroon (in the style of maccaroon perfectly shaped and colorful), and the egg tarts and coconut tarts are tasty! That’s what I got today!

I honestly do not understand the negative comments either! The smell alone drove me crazy. I bought a custard bun, BBQ pork and Coconut Cream. The Custard bun was like eating a marshmallow. It was so soft and delicious, the custard was perfect. The lady who helped me was so kind. I bought the Coconut Cream for my mother in law (who is a fantastic baker) and she was blown away by it. I haven’t tried the BBQ Pork bread but as of this morning it was still nice and soft. I almost over did myself buying all the bread they had available, but it was my cheat item so I only bought those. I will definitely go back when its cheat day again! Only negative is that there is a $ 15 min on cards and if your only buying small treats that cost $ 1.39 each, that’s a lot of treats!

I read some of these reviews and don’t understand the negative ones… Anyway, I decided to try out this place despite the comments and found it to be simply charming. They use fresh ingredients and went I went in first thing in the morning, all the flaky pastries were coming out and they were nice and hot. I also have a serious childhood addiction to hotdog buns that have continued on in my adult years and I am ashamed to say that I ate two before I even got to the car.
Things you got to try here —
1) Macarons… I’ve lived in France and these are pretty good for random stop in Austin, obvs not your usual fare of Asian bakeries but what the heck, with 9 flavours, I got a box to go.
2) OMG, get a cake. They are so reasonably priced and serious-​o, not overly sweet, which I like. I want to be able to taste the creaming-​ness and not just the sugar overload so many cakes have.
3) Rice dumplings, but you got to act fast. They are gone super early and once they are gone, they are gone!
4) Tiramisu! Who knew? (LOL). I love the giant sized lady fingers that are inside. So rich and decadent.
5) Their breads. So worth the extra dollar vs. a grocery store. They come uncut so ask them to slice it up for you before you go. That way, they are all uniform.
Well worth the drop in if you have a chance, especially to pick up some taro and coconut bread — amazing toasted! And all these comments about freshness, pi-​sha! When I’ve gone, they have always been coming out piping hot but I do go relatively early, I mean, it’s a bakery! Mornings are always best.
Only con is that not everyone speaks English but heck, that’s part of the experience. If I went into an Asian Bakery and everyone spoke fluent English, I’d question their authenticity but I’m pretentious like that.
So go out and get a firm grip on those buns!

Based on product, I’d give this place an «A-​OK». I don’t pay close enough attention to know if each piece is a dime or so more expensive than Lucky Bakery. But the texture of what I sampled was just not as good, nor was the taste as yummy.
I’ll compare it to when you need donuts for your kids scout meeting, but you get grocery store donuts because you forgot to grab some earlier in the day, and the good bakery you like is already closed or the wrong direction.
But, the reason I’m going to go with the «Meh» rating is the young lass working the counter.
Some of the items aren’t labelled with the product names/​ingredients. One of which last Sunday was a small box of cookies, sitting above the «Almond Cookies» sign. The sign said the ingredients of «Almond Cookies» were the same as the type of chewy (and yummy) almond cookie made of almond paste, and usually ground almonds instead of flour. Flour was not listed as an ingredient on the sign. Flour was an ingredient on the sign of all the other pastries that I would expect had flour. So, I grabbed one because my wife loves that type of almond cookies.
Then this happened —
Me: So, do these almond cookies really not contain flour?
Disinterested Gal At Counter: They contain flour.
Me: So, these aren’t almond cookies?
DGAC: –_​–
Me: They were right over here. And the sign says they don’t contain flour.
DGAC: Oh, those? Yeah, those aren’t almond cookies. The almond cookies are… bigger.
Me: You mean these dark brown cookies… That look like almond paste cookies, above the sign for your cookies with almond paste cookies ingredients, with an almond placed on top of each cookie… These aren’t almond cookies?
DGAC: Nope.
Me: o_​O
There’s no way those weren’t almond cookies. My shopping partner in crime completely agrees. I’m not even sure why I even asked. Only, for my wife’s health, I have to ask when it’s not properly labelled, because I have to be sure. And I ended up with attitude, and not cookies.
It makes me wonder if the people that like it only noticed it because of it’s location in the busy Chinatown center, and were not aware of other places. They’re probably on par with the trucked in pastries on the front tables at MT.
Oh well. At least there’s two other Asian bakeries within 10 minutes of here that I like better…
2.00 stars

Average Chinese bakery.
A few weeks ago, I went to MT market with my friend on our day trip to ATX. When we saw this Chinese bakery in the same strip mall, my friend screamed. She misses Chinese bakery and desperately needs an egg tart. So we stopped in. Unfortunately egg tarts were all sold out for the day. But they had other pretty decent selections. One passtashio cake looked delish and the sour cabbage bread seemed interesting too. I picked out two bread to take home: pork sung and hotdog & scallion.
I ate them next morning for breakfast but wasn’t impressed. They were pretty average so I might have to try the other Chinese bakery Lucky bakery next time I go to ATX.
Sigh, at least Austin has something like this. San Antonio is one of the lamest «big» cities in the US b/​c it doesn’t have much to offer, not even a Chinese bakery…

I give them 5 stars for staying authentic for the most part. In Taiwan, this store would be good as well. I have travelled enough to Asia and have friends who grew up where these baked goods come from to know the truth. There are a lot of missing items, but what they choose to offer here is mostly authentic. They do offer some european style and very sweet/​rich items to cater to American tastes. Funny that some of the negative reviews say these Americanized or non-​Chinese cookies and cakes were their favorites :) This is because they don’t know or want authentic things. To survive in USA almost all Asian foods become sweeter, saltier, richer, etc. Original and lighter flavors are prefered though. I hope they stay authentic :)

Texas Bakery is an asian bakery. I find most the baked goods dry and sometimes a bit old or stale.
The standouts are the macaroons (try the coffee flavor!) and the chocolate custard rolls.

Its sad how awful this place was. :-(
My wife and I were having lunch in the China town plaza and noticed this place. We stopped in to see what they had to offer.
It was a very small shop with a bunch of breads and other stuff I have never eaten. A lot of the items appeared well. The tasting later proved otherwise. I purchased a slice of strawberry sponge cake, egg custards, and a chocolate bun. It only costed 4 dollars and some change, which was nice. I saw some smaller than normal macaroons priced at 2 dollars each and had to pass with that price tag.
Later that evening we took a bite of each to try them. The custards were old and breaking down. The chocolate bun was filled with pudding. LOL I found this very strange. The sponge cake did not taste right. Oh well. At least we tried it and its out of our system. The bread shaped like a pigs face was really cute. The place seemed really clean.

My family & I love Chinese pastries! But we didn’t like anything here at Texas Bakery :(
We bought some custard filled buns. The bread were not soft and pillowy the way we expected it to be. They didn’t taste fresh (like the consistency of day old bread)…even though we grabbed the ones that were just brought out on a tray from the kitchen. We were assured that they were just made that morning. Really? :/​The filling was sparse (more of a smear than a filling) and had a weird (slightly sour?!) taste… gross!
I also bought some egg tarts… another major fail. The tart cup was dense and not flakey at all. The egg custard was also very dense and not creamy.
In my family, we usually don’t throw away food. But we had to ditch these pastries after one bite. Yes, they were THAT inedible.
I miss 85 Degrees Bakery in California :(
Just came back from there and was hoping to find something similar. Texas Bakery did not fit the bill. *sigh*…counting the days until we move back to SoCal…

Arriving to Austin, I was determined to find a decent Asian bakery! When I read the mix reviews after asking my brother about this place, he didn’t recommend it. However I decided to try it anyways.
I glad I did. I usually judge a bakery by the coconut cream filled bread they make. It’s one of the most simplest yet tasty breads that I have tried all over the state and during my visit to Taiwan.
I was not disappointed with this bread! It was not too sweet but sweet enough. The cream filled was delicious! Bread was soft!
Anyways, I do recommend this place if you want Chinese bread!

Stuffed in the corner of the Asian shopping center is this quaint bakery.
Walk in, grab a tray am some tongs and dig in. All of their breads are pre-​packaged with dates and ingredients on a sticker. Always reassuring. Store is very clean. I wouldn’t say the selection of breads is extensive but most certainly plentiful. Anywhere from cookies, meat breads, regular and sweet breads. My favorite was the bread shaped like a pig, simply because.
It was all yummy. The regular bread was moist an flaky and the pineapple pastry was quite unique. Very delicious. The meat bread… Meh. It didn’t taste bad it was just odd.
I’m not rarin’ to come back. I grew up eating homemade pan dulce from Abuela’s kitchen… So maybe my expectations of any other type of sweet bread is held a little high.

This place is just ok. I had a bo-​lo-​bao (direct translation = «pineapple bread” — it’s just bread with a sweet topping– no pineapple filling). The bo-​lo-​bao was warm to the touch and looked really fresh but instead of being soft and moist, it was extremely dry. I took one bite, and didn’t finish the rest. It tasted like stale old bread that had just been reheated. This was pretty disappointing since I went in the morning around 10:45am on a Saturday.
One bread that was excellent was the «tri-​flavored» bao. It had red bean, coconut, and custard filling in three different sections of the bao. That deserves 4 stars. The custard was so rich and creamy, red bean wasn’t too sweet, and the coconut reminded me of a «gai-​mai-​bao» (Cantonese breakfast bread filled with shredded coconut).
The third bao I tried was the «hot-​dog bread.» This was pretty good. I actually liked it a lot more than other places because it had very little mayonnaise topping. Other places use too much on top and it makes the bread very greasy/​heavy.

I stopped in just before closing time around 8:50 pm on a Saturday and was pleased to see lots of pastries of most types still available for sale. At some of the Houston Chinese bakeries, they run out by the end of the day.
I got two pastries: a pineapple bun and red bean bun. The pineapple bun was tasteless compared to those at Houston’s I-​Ping Bakery. The red bean bun was also pretty unmemorable. However, looking at the ingredients list, their buns are probably healthier than at typical Chinese bakeries.
The prices at around $ 1.29 per bun were cheap considering there are only three Asian bakeries in Austin and that a croissant at Mozart’s would cost $ 3+.
I liked how each pastry was individually-​wrapped.
Texas Bakery is located in the Chinatown shopping center at Kramer and North Lamar. It is the North neighbor of MT supermarket.
I would not come again.