Sunlight Cafe

I want to eat where the locals eat and it looks like I found it! I had to ask for a menu in English. Great small bakery and huge selection of made to order foods. I was a little adventurous and ordered shrimp kow sum fun. Not knowing what it was I ate every last bit. It was fresh and cooked perfect.
It has a great neighborhood feel as the locals come in and out. Not many tourists as it can be a little intimidating with the menu and advertisements being in Chinese but all you have to do is ask. I feel I scored a hidden treasure not many have attempted.

We happened to be in Chinatown on a very busy day. Most of the restaurants were crowded. Strolling past Sunlight Café, we noticed that it had only a few customers. We had two very nice Chow fan dishes for $ 4.50 each. Try the vegetable dish-​great. Too much to eat so we have enough for another meal at home. For desert, the Red Bean Bun was delicious. Also try the sponge cake. No frills here and the TV program is in Chinese. The mango drink with beans was wonderful. Nice folks own and run the place.

I first started coming here a few years ago because it seemed like the pork buns were getting too grizzly and saucy at the other Chinatown bakeries, while Sunlight’s have lots of nonfatty pork; the consistency is just right. For the past several months, I’ve made this a regular haunt of mine, due in part to its being on the way during my commute.
Recently, a friend came to visit and said he had a favorite bakery to go to when he was in Chinatown, so I followed along, figuring maybe he knew something I didn’t. Alas, we went to one of the other bakeries I knew and I was nonplussed with every item I got there.
This is my favorite Chinatown bakery, by far! My favorites are the onion buns and ham and egg buns.

It used to be one of the inexpensive chinese bakery’s but they’re prices have steadily increased in the last couple years. At least, they don’t skimp on the filling of the buns. The custard egg tarrts taste are par. Nothing spectacular. Very small bakery and kinda hidden since it’s not in the Chinatown Sq and not on the main Wentworth street. Still go there for my bakery needs since I’m not picky about it.
Oh yea, if you go after 5pm (like close to 6pm) you’ll can get bakery goods for about half off since they don’t want to keep it over night and will bake a fresh batch in the morning. So instead of throwing it away, thye will sell it at a discount.

The onion bun was good. The pork sung roll wasn’t– pork sung was only on the ends and not throughout the bun.

I first came to this place because they had a special kind of bun that no one else made (so I thought), dried shredded pork bun. They also really stuff their coconut buns full of coconut filling. Yum & addicting.