Merryland Bakery

Nice little bakery that makes delicious breads and pastries that are cheap. I love the raisin bread and red bean buns. They have a variety to choose from. This is a place worth stopping by!

You know the rolls your grandmother used to make? Small, a little sweet, super-​soft and yeasty? You can get those here! They also sell them inside the HEB store on Mason Road in Katy, on a little table toward the back of the store (not in the bakery area, and not in the bread aisle). Best rolls in Houston. At HEB, a bag of 9 rolls is only $ 1.50, which is amazing.

There are several hidden gems mom n pop shops in this plaza, and this little Taiwanese bakery shop is one of them.
The variety of bread is not huge, but enough to cover the Taiwanese essentials such as Taro bread, dry shredded pork bread, fresh pineapple cake, green tea red bean bread, pineapple bread with sweet custard, coconut Danish pastries… etc. Quality is comparable to the little local bakery store on the home street corner back in Taiwan. Nothing fancy or corporate, but they hit the spot.
People are warm, welcoming and very friendly here. Most items cost a buck each. I will stop by again.

Even though you can find most of their breads and buns sold at stores in the Bellaire area like Viet Hoa, it is still fun to visit the actual bakery and get first and fresh dibs on everything they have to offer!
The dinner rolls are cheap and delicious, with that hint of sweetness to it. Their buns are full of filling inside, not skimpy like dim sum buns. For example, the red bean bun is cheap and you get red bean paste in every bite! I also recommend the green tea bun, taro bun, and custard bun. Just walk in, grab a tray, and start piling it on! They also sell those little pineapple cakes that remind me of Fig Newtons by the counter. Those seem to be popular, not my fave, but pointing it out cause I know alot of folks that like it.
Very cheap and good Chinese bakery to visit!

Delicious Chinese bakery offering cakes and breads at a reasonable price. I’ve had their roll/​log cake, their birthday cakes and various stuffed breads. Everything is tasty and fresh. Their cakes are light and fluffy, not too dense or sugary.

Went for the raisin bread one time and it won’t be my last visit!

Dinner rolls!!!
If you’re a fan of Hawaiian dinner rolls, Merryland has your substitute and at a far cheaper price. I originally found Merryland rolls at an HEB and I’ve been a fan ever since. Their rolls are even bigger than the King’s Hawaiian rolls. I needed about 500 rolls and if I had bought the King’s from Sam’s Club, it would’ve cost me about $ 180. Here, it cost me about $ 67. So, Merryland is my go-​to bakery for dinner rolls.
The pastries aren’t so bad either — I had their red bean and butter cream rolls and they were pretty tasty and many for less than a $ 1.
The interior isn’t all that grand, but you’re just picking up bread, so who cares?

Bread/​Pasterries:
+ Convenient. Been going here to buy 5 – 6 bread/​pasterries on weekend so I could just grab one for breakfast on the weekday as I run out the door.
+ Cheap. A bread (most at $.085) and a cup of hot tea or coffee would be my ideal and filling breakfast. Hubby would eat them as snack.
+ Good variety
+ Fresh
Cakes Good:
+ spongy and light cake, not heavy and dense like the American version.
+ they have a few smaller size ones that you can walk-​in and grab for last minute party.
Cakes Bad:
+ Filling choice is very limited. Taro and jelly is the best but anything else is so-​so.

If you are a fan of the bread at Tim’s oriental Market in San Antonio, this is the source. We were in Houston so we stopped by to pick up some delicious bread. Not disappointed. If you like Asian bread, this is the place to go. Do not judge this book by its cover because if you think it’s too sketchy looking outside, you’ll miss the great bread inside.

I recently got a chance to taste their birthday cake. It was very fluffy and filled with fresh fruit along with some jelly? It’s what you would expect from an Asian bakery, including the price tag.

Merryland Bakery has a very distinctive, but misleading name. I would typically say that Asian bakeries need to have extremely generic names to simply be understood to be bread-​making machines from the Far East. Ex. Baking House, Baking and Bread, ABC Bread.
Anyway, with my keen Asian sense, I just knew that Merryland boasted that generic, highly processed-​ingredient oily bread that is so loved by my family, which happens to hail from the land o’ Taiwan. What is so good about these goods that even advertise their (nearly) disgusting ingredients?
Price. 3 pieces of bread. $ 2.65. Wowzers. At more than 300 calories a piece, you could eat a whole days calories for something like… $ 4.50. And it would all be sweet, oily, and starchy. Welcome to the world of Chinese-​style bakeries. Fresh? Yes. Particularly good for you? Definitely not.

Really good and fresh bread. It’s in the old plaza across from Kim Son buffet and Yogurt Spot. The location looks nasty but go in, try the bread! They have all the things you would probably want: sponge cakes, cakes, dinner rolls, bread loaves, bread with red bean, green bean, mung bean, butter cream, raisin, corn and ham, hot dog, taro, green onion, «pineapple», coconut cream, etc. Most breads are $ 0.85 each, which I think is cheaper than many other fancy bakeries in Chinatown.