In fact, their coffee tends to get good review, too. You’ll find all the Chinese standards at this Chinatown bakery and dim sum spot. In addition to mooncakes, this Chinatown bakery’s pork buns get a lot of praise, as do their dim sum options. Stop in this month to find mooncakes, too. This modern Chinatown bakery is loved for its tasty cake flavors, notably the green tea-mango. Serving up homemade Asian buns and pastries since 2012, this family-owned Chinatown bakery rolls out mooncakes each season. This Cantonese-style bakery in Chinatown is famous for its egg tarts, but around this time of year, you can also find mooncakes in store.
While you’re there, pick up some Hopia Black Bean Cakes, the rare treat for which they’re famous. This small Chinatown bakery sells mooncakes in lots of fun flavors like melon, pineapple, black sesame, coconut, and chestnut. The pork bun and egg tart are very popular but don’t miss out on the mooncakes. With locations in Chinatown and Flushing, this Chinese bakery is known for its single-serving, super-fresh, not-too-sweet pastries. You can buy these in the stores, or Fay Da is shipping boxes of them nationwide. They also offer a special “Lava Collection of colorful mooncakes with custard, matcha, durian, and orange fillings. For the Mid-Autumn Festival, their mooncakes are available in the following flavors: twin yolk white lotus mixed nuts and egg yolk Jujube and walnut and red bean and egg yolk. They’re known for selling affordable, delicious Chinese staples like roast pork buns and egg tarts. Today, they have two Manhattan locations (Mott Street and 6th Avenue in the Village), 10 in Queens, and one in Connecticut.
What is arguably Chinatown’s most iconic bakery is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
Flavors are Snow Skin with coconut mochi butter cake, peanuts, and crispy chicken skin Traditional baked mooncake with fig and marzipan and Snow Skin with mascarpone cream and strawberry. Orders for pickup can be placed by emailing The mooncakes are available at their sister restaurant in Long Island City, Lotus + Cleaver, too. Kimika, the Japanese-Italian restaurant in Nolita, is offering an exclusive, limited selection of mooncakes from pastry chef Clarice Lam from September 21 through 26, available for in-house dining and takeout.