Picture Perfect Baked Pork Buns

These are simply the best anywhere. I have had them all over the world. Jersey City New Jersey, San Francisco California, Hong Kong, Saigon, Hanoi, Singapore, Thailand, and in at least a dozen places in NYC. The flavors of the meat mixture in the middle are truly to be savored. I let half just melt in my mouth. The bun not only looks perfect, it tastes perfect. These are lightly moist but not damp. For beginners look out before you bite into it, there is a paper wrapper on the bottom like we have on cupcakes. Just pull it off like it’s a cupcake and feast.

Fresh Baked Bread

Comes in many sizes and flavors here at the Century Cafe and Bakery. This is the most popular. It is a tin of dinner rolls. See the steam trapped in the plastic bag? This bread is about 390 minutes old. Almost all the bread is sold within an hour of being baked. This bread is soft, moist, and buttery tasting. It is a perfect compliment to any meal or just by itself.

Chinese Donuts

I have no idea if there is a traditional american styled donuts in China. But there is one at the Chinese Bakery Century Cafe. This one is a little like a granulated sugar coated Dunkin Donut. The kids love them but the problem is that they love about 30 things here and you can only eat so much in one meal.

Picture Menus

Click every Cake Picture on this site 3 times for HUGE PHOTOS. You have permission to use them for FREE desktop wallpaper. There are several picture menus at the Century Bakery. But basically you can order anything in 5 languages when the owner Tom Lau is there… which is most of the time. You can read menus in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and you can order in Thai and Vietnamese as well. This is the main picture menu in the background and I’ll show it to you in much better detail later. And by all means talk by pointing and using hand and body language… it’s very acceptable here.
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The Middle Counter

At the middle counter you can buy all the baked items in the store, along with cookies, sandwiches, and drinks. Keep an eye out for specials… here is how that works. In many Asian stores if you see it you can buy it. You can always ask to see when something is going to be available. The fresh bread tins go fast. But they are replenished fast. When locals buy fresh bread they want it to be minutes old. Literally. So when you see the fresh bread at the middle counter it is steaming hot and chances are – right out of the oven.

Menu Board

You will see prices in Chinese and American English for everything in the Cafe. Here is the drink menu board. Notice they generally have 3 sizes. Regular or small is 12 ounces. Large is 16 ounces. And Ice Coffee or Ice Tea.

Starting a cake diet today? Me Too!

When I saw these cakes I jumped off and went onto the Century Cafe and Bakery Cake Diet. You just have to eat some of this cake at least once a week. And you have to eat a different variety of cake every week for the entire year. You can do that soooo nicely at Century.

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