Luisa & Son Bakeshop

Where do you get fresh Pan De Sal when in West Long Beach, you ask?!! Luisa & Sons is one of my go-​to Filipino bakery. Gemmae Bakery around the block is a good spot too!
They open at 8am and the breads are to die for! Jobell is always a sweetheart with a smile on her face every time I’m here. She carries great conversations and tells you all about their goodies. I’ve had the polvorons and empanadas from here as well. Try them!
Parking up front gets packed so I suggest to park behind Tambuli market. Aside from that, it’s very quick and convenient to make a stop here.

This is my go to place if I’m craving for pandesal. Even my white husband is hooked! Their cheese pemiento spread is also yum!
Also, this place doesn’t open til 8! I had to wait an hour until they open. And 8 in Filipino time means you know…

Their pandesal is so goood. Il choose it over Valerio’s bakeshop pandesal anytime.
It is so fluffy and crispy on the outside– that of course when you happen to get the freshly baked pandesal, which I believe every morning and at 3 in the afternoon.
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I have had some bomb ube bread from here.

I purchased Mochi Bread and Ube bread from here.
The bread is stale and not kept warm or probably left out for while, regardless, they were both stale. There were two different types of mochi in the mochi bread, a faint purple resembling bean paste the second I couldn’t Identify. The bean paste was excessively dry and the other was really stick and moist.
The ube bread resembled a cinnabon with ube swirled into the folds. There was little ube but enough to identify that it was ube. The two breads tasted the same and the only difference was that ube or mochi was put ino each bread.
The bread itself was dry, stale, and had the flavor of plain white bread. No sweetness or any flavor that would make it stand out.
I love ube bread and mochi bread, but I’ll pass getting any from here.

I have never really set foot in this bakery, but I keep getting baked goods and Filipino snacks/​food here from relatives, friends, neighbors when they visit me (I know I’m Filipino, but some other pasalabong would be great!.. hint hint… j/​k. No pasalabong needed, but if you insist). Anyway, the baked goods from this place are pretty good. It is very hard to find a good Filipino «non-​chain» bakery (aka Red Ribbon/Goldilocks…nothing wrong with them, just prefer the mom and pops bake shops).
I always get their empanadas and hopia. I love that they are appetizer size. Why? Because that means the caloric intake is not that big and they are great for parties and as a small snack! The only thing I ask is that when they box these treats, they should label what type of meat is in the empanadas. I usually have to guess when I get these pasalabongs. I’ll stop by some day and try other things…

Formerly a Seafood Market, this space has recently been converted into a bakery, but still bares the Manila Trading sign outside, very deceiving. Hopefully they will have a new sign up soon.
UPDATE:
I don’t know what it is with Filipino places (I can talk crap I’m Filipino). They start off really well and then start falling off the deep end. The cheese rolls are now smaller and the they are no longer kept warm. The empanadas are gross and they serve stale bread. I mean it’s a bakery! You don’t sell stuff that’s days old! HELLO we can tell! So, so, so disappointed!
Initial Review when it opened:
Good Morning Unilocalers! After a long hiatus I am back, compelled to write after indulging in what I have found to be THE BEST cheese roll ever invented. Move over Porto’s because this bad boy is taking over!
The first thing you will notice is the soft, airy, flaky crust with sugar crystals on top. After taking a bite, hidden in the center, is a smooth, sweet, cream cheese filling perfectly camouflaged. I can tell you that the experience will blow your mind. Being very selective with my pastries, I can tell you that extravagant looking $ 5 cupcakes and overrated luxe backed goods are nothing compared to the 3 for $ 2 steal you will get here. I feel almost guilty for purchasing these cheese rolls at this price.
The Filipino bakery is located on the Westside of Long Beach. You will find pandesal, leche flan, egg custard pies, and the many other goodies, which I haven’t had the pleasure of sampling yet. At the moment, I’ll stick to the cheese rolls.

My mom wanted me to do her a favor & buy her some «bread» at this place, I really didn’t know which place she was talking about but she said It’s the bakeshop right across of Tambuli Supermarket and So I ended up at this bakeshop. Which is pretty new here in the westside … I’m actually happy my mom told me to buy some bread for her because I wouldn’t have discovered this place if I didn’t do the favor for her.
So I finally discovered where my mom buys all the bread, snacks & other goodies that are at our house. I know I’m gonna be stopping by this place a lot now. So the «bread» she told me to buy was actually a vanilla roll, which like $ 5? they actually have it in individual pieces already but I thought the individual pieces were pretty pricey for 1 slice. They have other flavored rolls tooo which I’ll probally buy & try next thing.
They also sell different flavored ensaymadas, Ube is my favorite one. I love how the sweetness of it is just right. My mom usually buys a lot of ensaymada’s and take them home & those are usually what she brings to work to snack on & I would too.
Inside their glass displays I saw some meringues that were blue, it was $ 1.99 & it seemed like there was a decent amount in them. A little bit more than 10 pieces. So I decided to try buy it. I haven’t had those in yearssss so i felt like getting one, & it kinda took me back to my childhood days because I remember eating them when I was young. As im writing this review I’m actually eating them right now … hmmm. & its really good! but I don’t think I can be able to eat all of them because its reallly sweet.
They also sell POLVORONS? which is the reason why im gonna be at this time a lot. Because finally I don’t have to drive all the way to Cerritos Goldilock’s to buy some. They had different flavors but today I decided to get 2 OREO flavored polvorons because they were 50 cent each. I wish they were 25cents though because if they were I’d get A LOT MORE.
They have a lot of other bakery goodies in this store, Only if my mom gave me more money rather than just to buy the vanilla roll she was craving I would’ve gotten a lot more random stuff just to try.
They have this place over there in Cerritos? on South Street but that’s such a travel just to get over there. I’m glad this place is a westside local, so i dont have to travel far just to get a taste of some good bakery goods :)