Tao Yuen Pastry
816 Franklin St, Downtown Oakland
Taste: Good
Value: Phenomenal
Booze: Nah
Remarks
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.
Last sampled 5th September 2022.
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