HK Kawah Bakery

They have some really yummy mooncakes, but they cost quite a lot, from $ 6 to $ 12 a piece.
I bought and tried four October 3, 2015 (5 days after Moon Festival ended).
#3 Mixed Nuts with 2 yolks
#6 Lotus with 2 yolks
#10 Yellow Bean Paste with 1 yolk
#16 Coconut with 1 yolk
No post-​holiday sale. :[
My total bill was $ 31.00 for four. Prices were $ 6.50, $ 7, $ 8, and $ 9.50.
They had run out of all their taro and red bean (#18−23) as well as Yellow Bean with 2 yolk. My favorite was the lotus! The pork one with nuts tasted like baklava. It was a little overpoweringly sweet and sticky. It had nice texture though. Lotus was more balanced: sweet and salty. My second favorite was the yellow bean. This was less sweet but you got to enjoy the crust and the eggs!
The elderly lady who bakes is very patient. I changed my order a couple of times and had to visit an ATM for cash. I think she doesn’t speak English. Her husband speaks very little, but they have an English menu of their moon cakes.
By the way this is on EAST Garvey. If you try the address in Unilocal right now, you’ll find 315 jumps to 321 with no bakery to be found. This is because the address given directs you to West Garvey. This is in the Jade Plaza, a small cluster of businesses. The cross-​street is East Garvey and Nicholson.

My mom and I went to kawah bakery and I want to start by saying this bakery is disgusting and I have reasons for being this way! After only 1 week my moon cake all got molded with fungus and bacteria. Usually moon cake lasts over 1 months and this moon cake didn’t even last 1 weeks! My mom went to the bakery to let them know their product is really low quality and they mold fast. The employees at the bakery were extremely rude and ignorant and did not care to apologize and didn’t care about the mold when my mom showed the mold to them. They don’t care at all about customer service nor satisfaction. My mom was disrespected by this bakery and we are very upset because this bakery ripped us off and they charged over $ 36 which was not worth it! They ruined our moon festival!!!

3 star for the best moon cake but they start to charge $ 1 for just the label on the moon cake since there is only number on it. Thats is ridiculous. $ 36 (including ugly box) plus $ 1 just for label name of the moon cake.

Very rude. Feeling sorry for the owner. Cashier had a bad day? Been here for years but don’t take your frustration on us, just because whatever.

中秋節快樂！ came here for the moon cakes so my review will be based on that :). The rest of the goods here I haven’t tried yet but they look delicious. I even saw pretty wedding cakes on display. Anyway, this shop is tiny but cozy. A ma and pa shop atmosphere. The moon cakes have a variety of flavors like mixed nut, mixed fruit, coconut, taro, meng bean etc. I like that they give you a choice on if you want no egg, one or two. The red bags are nice and sturdy and the boxes are a not the tin ones but the card board ones with nice decorations. It’s decent priced, cash only though. A little pricey but worth it. The adorable pig and pig babies were $ 18. The service is friendly with smiles. And they tell you to refrigerate it which is kind. The moon cakes are handed to you freshly warm. First time I’ve ever seen mooncakes this fresh!

Best fresh homemade mooncake I have ever eaten! Available only once a year before the mooncake festival (usually a month ahead). This year it is September 7, and they already started baking them the beginning of August. I normally do not like the lotus seed mooncake but I like theirs because it wasn’t too sweet. They also have many specialty flavors such as taro, mixed nuts, durian, coconut, and more! You can also choose to have them with one, two, or no yolk.
Cash only, so don’t forget to bring lots of it! It’s a little pricy (about $ 8/​mooncake), but totally worth every penny!
The owners are very friendly. Because they don’t normally hire anyone during the busiest time of the year, be patient or call in for your order first if you know what you want.

I love this place!
My family has been coming here since I was a kid. It’s truly a genuine mom&pop bakery.
Honey butterflies and tea cakes are the BEST!!!

This bakery has been part of my family since i can remember. My family consists of 1son and 4daughters (me included) and and my mother somehow got a recommendation to this place about 26yrs ago!!! Yup!!! We are loyal customers!!! They did all of cakes for our bdays growing up and the tradition continues now with my sisters’ children and now even my own son will have his first cake from this bakery for his 1^st bday. :’) they make the most delicious cake ever!!! Not too sweet and not alot of frosting so its just perfect!!! Just want to thank them for being a special part of our family and our childhood and now our childrens childhood memories :)
From Dalila, Evelin, Eden, Gaby, Carolina :)

Old fashioned Chinese Vietnamese bakery.
I remember reading the review about sponge cake from this bakery. Sponge cake sounds good right now.
I drove extra miles to get my sponge cake from this cute little bakery. Parking is easy because the plaza is not crowded. I spotted banh tieu (hollow donut) and asked for one of them and 2 sponge cakes.
The lady was so nice and she said that she would give 3 pieces of banh tieu for $ 1.00.
I started taking pictures and the lady asked me what’s wrong.
Nothing is wrong. I am just taking pictures for Unilocal.
The lady smiled and thanked me many times when I showed her my pictures.
The banh tieu is not as dense as the one I usually get.
They also have birthday cakes with taro and durian filling.
3 stars!
Kawah Bakery is kinda yummylicious!

I second what Vinh T. said. That old guy in this store is not nice. Although I like to support small Asian businesses, this one is not one I would come back to support. Besides, they only speak in Cantonese, so there would be a communication barrier anyways. I only thought taking pictures of this bakery would help their business, not be reported to the cops. Besides, where is the «no trespassing» sign? I didn’t see one!

My fiancé & I were shopping for wedding cakes today. We actually on our way to another bakery, Kwan Lac Bakery, when we happen to see this one on the way. We saw a few displayed in their window so we decided to check it out.
An older gentlemen came out from the back & asked what we wanted in Cantonese. I told him we were interested in the wedding cakes. My fiancé was then about to take an iphone pic of a picture of cake on the wall & he abruptly covered the picture. He then said not to take any pictures in the bakery & I translated that to her and so she stopped. No big deal we thought.
We then continued our discussion on wedding cakes but he wasn’t very helpful. I asked him how much the wedding cakes were & he asked us for info like the wedding date & how many people would be at the wedding. I gave him the info & he told us to come back 2 weeks before the wedding to place the order. I asked him again, how much are the cakes. He then repeated to come back 2 weeks before the wedding that the person who handles the wedding cakes was on vacation today & he didn’t know how much it costs. I don’t understand why he even asked us all that info if he wasn’t he even able to help us since the «wedding cake» person was out.
Then the real kicker came when he reiterated not to take any more photos of the store or he’ll call the cops! wow, really? At that point I politely thanked him for his time, grabbed my fiancé & said «let’s get out of here.» We for sure are NOT getting our wedding cake here.
I’ve been patronizing small Asian businesses all my life & know not to expect western style customer service but come on! Threatening to call the cops for taking pics in the bakery even after we stopped? Not sure how this place got 4 five-​star reviews from other Unilocalers. I could only guess we caught that guy on a bad day, even though there were no other customers in the bakery at the time.

Woohoo! My 100^th review: P So what to do to commemorate the event? It needs to something epic, a gem that few know about, a true find in the the spirit of Unilocal.Which brings me to Kawah Bakery. I’m surprised how few reviews there are for this place.
Kawah is known as the go to place for MOON CAKES
. There are lines out the door and they sell out of the popular flavors if you don’t get there early.
While the lines speak for the Kawah’s moon cakes, I prefer to think of Kawah as just a great mom & pop bakery. Maybe it’s cause I’m always able to go in the morning but the items are just refreshing… fresh — and that makes all the difference.
Some of my favs include:
MUNG BEAN AND COCONUT ROLL
Ok, I don’t know the really name for this. I just point and grab when it’s available and cry when it’s not. Coconut and Mung bean wrapped in a pandan flavored mochi paper with crushed peanuts to dip it in. If I don’t keep any eye on these when I bring these home they disappear before I know it!
TARO PASTRY
The beauty of fresh ingredients is it’s able to make you like things you normally wouldn’t. While I’m not a huge fan of taro, I’ll drink the occasional taro milk shake but those tend to be too sweet. These pastry are nice a flaky and the taro is silky soft with just the right amount of sweetness.
MUNG BEAN SESAME BALL
So I’m not a big fan of red bean cause so many places make it dry. These bad boys are so good fresh in the morning, gooey crispy mochi balls fried with sesame and filled with a moist mung bean paste. Just don’t burn yourself eating them.
BAHN BAO
How do you make a chinese steamed bao better? Add sausage and hard boiled egg!!! These Vietnamese buns are my dad favorites and I can definitely see why.
EGG CUSTARD BUN
I’m a sucker for eggs, but I hate dim sum places that can’t make this well. You’d think if you steamed a bunt you’d be able to make it moist on the inside. I’m glad these taste great and I don’t have chase down a dim sum cart to satisfy my yolkly dessert cravings.
So many other things are good here as well like the COCONUT PASTRY, the MUNG BEAN PASTRY, or the BAHN TIEU (sweet chinese donut). Bahn Tieu is really just fried dough lightly sweetened and sprinkled with sesame seeds but it’s so simple and sophisticate in it’s well balanced taste. I honestly enjoy this place more and more each time I come. It’s places like this that remind me good food doesn’t need to be fancy, it just has to be done well.
The service is great and the prices are very reasonable.
One note is, like many many bakery’s I have shown up too early in the morning (depends on the day, I think things come out earlier on the weekend) and found the store a little barren but I guess that’s the price for freshness… you just have to come at the right time (as things start rolling out the oven!!) I guess I could always call to see if things are out but maybe I’m just lazy or like to be surprised: P.

I’ve gone to Kawah Bakery since I was a kid and I can’t compare other bakeries to this place. The prices are very reasonable and the service is fantastic! What I love most is that they are very kind and helpful people. I love their hot dog buns, pork pies, egg tarts, cakes, custard pastries and mayo/​pork bits/​corn/​green onion pastries! If you’re looking for a taste of your favorite pastries from your childhood, this is a great place to try out!

This place has the best cakes, goodies and mooncakes (mooncakes are only available during the mooncake festival) around! My husband hate sweets and never partakes of any… until I shoved of these kawah bakery’s mooncakes into his mouth and he was super surprised and how good it was. They’re all moist and delicious… not too sweet at all!!! Slurp!

So we bought a box of supposedly «freshly» baked moon cakes from this bakery to give out to relatives and when we went to pack the box that evening along with some other items we saw that the cakes were all moldy. So we went to return or exchange the box the next day and the owners wouldn’t do it. They tried to say we must have bought that box weeks ago and that we were trying to hassle them because they were just a poor little bakery and that it was our fault the cakes had mold.
Hello … it’s the Harvest (Moon Cake) Festival — that’s why we spent $ 30 on a box to give out. Why on earth would anyone buy a box and hold on to it for weeks before the festival??? And they may be small but I doubt they’re poor if that one box of 4 moon cakes was $ 30 and it wasn’t even the most expensive box they had for sale.
So after half an hour of arguing with them they finally gave us a refund and only because the other customers that came in started to pay attention to what the complaint was about.
Lesson learned — stay away from this bakery unless you like bad customer service and moldy baked goods.

This tiny little place has the best pork buns ever, as commented by the other reviewer. When I got them they were only a dollar each, and as mentioned, have pork meat, egg, and sausage with a beguiling white pepper seasoning. Get them early in the morning for the best taste, and wash it down with one of the bottled drinks (also only a dollar for soy milk or herbal teas.)