# Tao Yuen Pastry

- URL: https://vilf.org/places/tao-yuen-pastry/
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Address: 816 Franklin St, Downtown Oakland, Oakland
- Taste: Good
- Value: Phenomenal
- Booze: Nah
- Last visited: 5th September 2022
- Verdict: Good taste, Phenomenal value, no booze.

This place has an enormous selection of baked chinese goods, dim sum, and take-away dishes for cheap. I came here at a suggestion of a coworker I asked if they had anything vegan and they said "everything has meat". It was true, even the seemingly vegetarian dishes in the window had pork bits or something. 

But then I went back and asked about the **sesame ball** and she conceded it was vegetarian and said it didn't have milk or egg. It's a fried sticky rice ball filled with sweet black bean paste. Extremely tasty and like one dollar and some change.

UPDATE: found the other vegan item, the fried tofu. It is so moreish and salty, with fried bits of jalapeno as well. About $5 for a (very large) small size, great value and I think about it a lot.