Unique Vietnamese bakeshop w/ creative fusion pastries & cakes. Must-try: pork floss buns, pandan croissants, & Longan Jasmine Tea series.
This East Village gem offers a delightful fusion of Asian and Vietnamese flavors, specializing in creative pastries and cakes. Customers rave about their soft, flaky, and perfectly balanced sweet treats, with particular highlights like the pork floss buns and pandan croissants. Don't miss their unique Longan Jasmine Tea series for a refreshing and enchanting experience.
This bakery excels in modern Vietnamese pastries and cakes, with a strong emphasis on fusion flavors. Highly recommended items include the pork floss buns, pandan croissants, taro & condensed milk rolls, and the Longan Jasmine Tea series (cakes and iced tea). While most feedback is positive, one reviewer found the pork floss sausage roll disappointing, describing it as dry, hard, and overly sweet, unlike traditional versions.
"Highly recommended are the pork floss buns, pandan croissants, taro & condensed milk rolls, and the Longan Jasmine Tea series (cakes and iced tea). The salted egg and pork floss cake and pandan sticky rice cake are also noted as unique and popular choices."
Customers overwhelmingly praise the bakery for its consistently delicious, well-balanced sweet treats and creative flavor combinations, often describing the pastries as soft, flaky, and not overly sweet.
Important Note
One reviewer found the pork floss sausage roll to be disappointing, describing it as dry, hard, and overly sweet.
"La La Bakeshop in the East Village offers a pandan coconut sticky rice cake that is good, though not inexpensive."
Positive"The reviewer found the matcha lava cake to be visually appealing with a moist dough and strongly flavored matcha cream. However, the pork floss sausage roll was very disappointing, dry, hard, and overly sweet, unlike expected Chinese bakery versions."
Neutral"This commenter noted that La La Bakeshop offers a variety of durian items, including durian vietnamese iced coffee, cakes, and croissants."
Neutral"La La Bakeshop is mentioned as a recommended bakery for cakes."
Positive"The user provided a list of bakery recommendations, including La La Bakeshop."
Neutral"The user prefers La La Bakeshop's pandan sticky rice cake, especially recommending it for those unfamiliar with pork floss cake."
Positive"La La Bakeshop is recommended for its pork floss cake, suggested as a unique sweet treat for visitors to NYC."
Positive"This user recommends LÀ LÁ Bakeshop."
Positive"This user recommends LÀ LÁ Bakeshop."
Positive"The commenter recommended Lala Bakeshop in the East Village for unique cakes, specifically highlighting their 'salted egg and pork floss cake' and 'pandan sticky rice cake' as noteworthy."
Positive"The commenter reaffirmed Lala Bakeshop as a suitable option for a birthday cake, referencing it along with other previously mentioned bakeries."
Positive"The commenter included Lala Bakeshop in a list of bakeries recommended for someone seeking a unique and delicious birthday cake in NYC."
Positive"Praises La La Bake Shop for its creative pastries, highlighting the salted egg and pork floss chiffon cake."
Positive"Recommended checking out La La Bake Shop in the East Village."
Positive"User mentions they have Durian mini cake and Durian Supreme cake"
Neutral"What’s considered unusual to you? For example, what about salted egg yolk and pork floss cake from La La Bakeshop? Not unusual to some but maybe to you?"
Neutral"Suggest to ask if they have or make banh chuoi."
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