Chinese cakes are different from your standard cakes back home in a couple of ways. First the inside of the cake is usually a spongy, light cake like Angel’s food cake. Usually this part of the cake is not flavored, but there might be a layer of cream in the middle and sometimes fruit. Second, they use a very light whipped frosting and decorate with fruit and delicate flower shapes or fanciful animals. A lovely change from the heavy butter frostings and marzipan they use to decorate in the West. Here are the three most popular bakeries in Chongqing, each has dozens of locations throughout the city.
Huasheng Garden Bakery – Hua Sheng Yuan 华生园
• The cheapest of the three bakeries. Cakes here range from 38-100 RMB
Qinyuan Bakery – Qin Yuan Bing Wu 沁园饼屋
• At about 48-120 RMB/cake, Qinyuan is slightly more expensive than Huasheng Garden, but you can certainly taste the difference. The cake is more moist and flavorful, and almost all their cakes have a layer of fruit in the center.
Ganso Bakery – Yuan Zu 元祖
• A chain from Taiwan, this is the only bakery of the three that features mousse cakes and Western varieties like Black Forest Cherry. Cakes range from 68-200 RMB. If you can’t afford to buy an entire cake, but want to have a taste of what they have to offer, consider some of their heavenly a la carte pastries and desserts.
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