Huge Tree Pastry

Remember the «Chinese Food Made Easy» episode where Ching He Huang tours LA’s Chinese restaurants? Aired on Food Network & Cooking Channel. This is one of the places! I recognized the waitress who helped prepare the bowl of hot soy milk and Chinese donut to dunk.
Yummy Taiwanese breakfast items: hot soy milk, donut, etc. Plus, bowls of noodle soup & xiao long bao. Can’t forget to mention the fan tuan (Chinese burrito). I had the purple rice wrapped with egg, shredded pork, & pickled veg surrounding the Chinese donut. Oh My Gosh! REALLY good. Glad it was a weekday mid-​morning. I’ve heard it’s crazy busy on weekends. Now I know why…

First review of 2016 has to be something close to my heart… YES taiwanese breakfast. This place is one of my favorite Taiwanese breakfast place!
So whats good? Pretty much everything is on point. My fav is their «fan tuan» is the sticky rice roll/​burrito, which has the purple rice and original white rice version. Their salty hot soy milk is pretty good as well, but beware it is an acquire taste. The egg pancake is always a crowd pleaser!
They do get very busy here, so get ready to wait.
Cash only. what asian place isn’t? lol.
Extremely small parking lot, so definitely park on the other side of the the plaza and just walk through the market.

Wow! What a meal! We ordered the buns with meat, egg pancake, radish cake, sweet and salty soybean milk, rice burrito (sweet & salty), sesame pocket and Chinese donuts… everything was tasty!
My only bummers were its cash only and the salty soy milk had shredded pork rather than shrimp bits… the shrimp is what keeps you coming back for more… the pork gives your salty a bit of sweet/​salty flavor. Otherwise the food hit home…

not sure why this place got such a high rating… i was really disappointed.
the beef roll was really bland. the rice roll was unusually oily, and what a mistake of trying it with purple rice. the radish cake was so smushy, i felt like it wasn’t even cooked. the Chinese donut was… blah. nothing sat well at all for me that day!
there are so many other Taiwanese breakfast place around… please skip this place.

This place is great. Came here with my wife and baby on a Sunday at 11AM. Line for a table was about 10 minutes. We split:
A sweet soy tofu — excellent palete cleanser with a subtle sweet flavor with peanuts.
A Taiwanese donut — fried to perfection, enough said.
A salty fan tuan with pickles and eggs — unique combination of flavors and textures = excellent addition to the meal
A sweet fan tuan — meh, it was tasty and sweet, but nothing compared to the other
A pork and veggie bun and a pork and mushroom bun — the mushroom was far tastier, but both were solid
A curry pork pastry and a ham/​radish pastry — I preferred the ham/​radish, but the curry was tasty too. Both were soft and chewy in a that chinese pancake way.
The price was great, parking convenient, staff was courteous and efficient.
We will be back… many times.

My New FAVORITE joint to get Taiwanese breakfast (i used to always go to Yi Mei)! the menu on the wall is all in chinese BUT DONT FRET, you can ask for an english menu and YES you can order breakfast all day
the woman was nice enough to let us dine in even though they were closing soon since we said we wouldn’t linger too long
–fan tuan: the BEST i’ve had in the states. you can order white or black rice, the black rice was an awesome choice, i liked the chewy texture it added! love the less rice to filling ratio on their fan tuans and that you can add egg PLUS pickled veggies (really adds something different)
–radish cake with added egg: also tasty, never had it with egg
–green onion pancake: your standard oily pancake, the texture was good
–sweetened cold soy milk: my must order drink when at taiwanese breakfast
they have soy sauce and oil at every table BUT if you are looking for the sambal chili paste, you’ll have to hunt for it, i saw it at only 1 table!
NOTE: CASH ONLY, even though there are no signs posted

Pretty crazy busy if you come after 11 or arrive around 12ish. My friend and I arrived at 1030 and we were seated right away with one or two other tables taken.
After a while the place filled up. Didn’t notice because my friend and I were busy catching up, but started to notice when the waitress kept coming back and asking what we wanted after we asked for a few more minutes.
Waitresses were telling out the orders to the kitchen staff which I thought was something new… no paper orders being passed down to kitchen… just a whole lot of yelling lol.
I ordered the hot sweet soy milk and a fan tang with jasmine purple rice. It was yummy. My friend ordered the Chinese donut and egg pancake.
It was so good that we dilecuded to order to go. This place made me feel like I was in HK and eating breakfast. It was a good throwback.
They don’t make their buns on the spot though. One less star for them spraying water onto the buns and popping them into the microwave.

I’m kind of obsessed with this restaurant right now. I love hot sweet soy milk with youtiao (aka Taiwanese/​Chinese donut). They make both of them great here. I also like the seasoning of their chaye dan (tea eggs). Everything is inexpensive. Their service is efficient. I notice that their bread products could be a bit on the dry side but hey, that’s what the soy milk is for.
My grandma loves their pork and leek dumplings. They sell several of their dumpling/​pastry varieties frozen in bags with large quantities for you to prepare at home.
No matter what hour I show up, there’s ALWAYS a wait as they only have about 10 tables inside, some of which only seat 2 – 4. I see a lot of folks get takeout. They move people through quickly though so don’t give up (and this is coming from someone who hardly goes anywhere where there’s a wait :-P).

Good food, but the lack of service is ridiculous.
I would recommend the leek pie, green onion pancake, radish cake, yo tiao and sweet tofu. These are your must-​gets.
I’d pass on the minced pork with rice (way too saucy). The sweet soy milk has no flavor so you’ll need to add a ton of sugar in there to get it to your liking.
If you want water, you’ll have to ask for it. Good luck flagging someone down. Also, plates and bowls need to be requested as well.
Ample parking in the lot so that’s a plus.
CASH ONLY. Make sure you bring $$$$.
Overall, this place would be so much better if the service wasn’t non-​existent.

Huge Tree is one of my favorite places to get Taiwanese breakfast in the SGV. It’s pretty legit here, tastes like the mother island. Bring cash (are you surprised?), easy private lot parking.
Oh yeah, their soy sauce roasted eggs are pretty freaking delicious too.

Huge Tree Pastry is hard to figure out the cuisine type by its name but thanks to Unilocal is a clear go to place for Taiwanese breakfast.
The unassuming spot with only 4 – 6 tables is everything I’d want of a Taiwanese breakfast place in the Bay Area, but that just doesn’t exist: quick, cheap, delicious and uncrowded.
On a lazy Sunday morning, we easily arrived here and didn’t have to rush in. Although the place was full and you put your name down, waits are reasonable and the food comes out lightning fast. Menus have English translations as well. Our order:
Salty Soy Bean Milk — $ 3.50. Large. Premixed with pickled vegetables, you tiao, vinegar and soy sauce. I like they don’t make it too salty and you can customize to preference with the table condiments.
Sweet Soy Milk — $ 1.70. Small. Almost as large as the large. Not too sweet but easily add sugar to preference.
You Tiao — $ 1.75. Two large pieces, freshly fried and without the heavy vinegar smell that stands out at inferior places.
Pan Fried Radish Cake w/​Egg — $ 4.50. Delicious radish cake with scrambled egg topping. Delicious and more protein.
Pan Fried Egg Omelet — $ 3.50. Nice omelet crêpe was warm and hit the spot.
Salty Fan Tuan with Eggs and Pickle — $ 4.50. Got the combo with everything and it’s a meal. Great preparation and great ingredients.
Steamed Pork Dumplings — $ 6.75. Not their specialty and a thicker dumpling skin that I’ve seen at a few Shanghai places. Some soup, but could have skipped this.
Overall, Huge Tree Pastry satisfied all my Taiwanese Breakfast cravings. Most items were great and compared well to Yi Mei Deli that I also like. I think the fan tuan and salty soy bean milk may have been better here but it’s been a few years so I can’t quite remember.
Huge Tree Pastry accepts cash only.